Emotional Response-Ability: A Breakthrough in Emotional Mastery - Fulfillment Focus

Emotional Response-Ability: A Breakthrough in Emotional Mastery

Fulfillment Focus for May, 2025

by Maurice Thibodeau
🕒 6-minute read

Over the years, I’ve trained with—and learned from—some of the most brilliant minds in emotional development. But recently, I experienced something that felt like a breakthrough.

I completed a training called Coaching Leaders with Emotional Response-Ability, created by behavioral scientist Charles Jones, founder of The Institute for Adaptive Mastery.

In this post, I’ll share my honest review of the training, break down the key principles you can start using right away, and explain why I believe this body of work is a game-changer in emotional regulation and personal growth.

And if this resonates with you—even a little—make sure to read to the end, where I’ll invite you to a free live workshop with Charles himself happening Tuesday, May 27 at 3:00 p.m. Central Time. Trust me, you’ll want to be there.

How I Discovered This W

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The 4 Saboteurs in the KNOWING-DOING GAP

These 4 saboteurs account for 90% of the reason why we don’t do what’s best for us, the first two are external, the last two are internal, and they are all interrelated:

Saboteur #1. Information Overload & The Paradox Of Choice: we are living in an era of abundant information, ask Siri or Alexa, type in where you want to go or what you want to know, and pages of answers magically appear. Information comes from everywhere at an alarming rate.

For example, according to an article written in Forbes in 2018, “over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.” It went on to say that “2.5 quintillion bytes of data” were being created each day.

We also enjoy the freedom of abundant choice. We, for the most part, are the designers of our life, from who we hang out with, what we eat, wear, live, and believe in. We have choices to make in every direction.

When you add these two enormous forces together, infinite information + copious choic...