 Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and decision making. This is module number 260 and our topic of concern is get in the mood using emotions. When we talk about moods, emotions and feelings, the only one thing which is common in all these three is the time frame. Now, remember that based upon our moods and emotions, we have to be careful that what is our decision making and how we interact with our stakeholders. To elaborate it further, there are different concerns when we talk about relationship of emotions, moods and feelings and those associations are discussed as the time. The time is the main phenomena, the main aspect which is creating a difference between emotions, feelings and moods. For example, when we talk about emotions, emotions come first, after that our feelings develop, feeling comes afterwards as the emotions, chemicals go to work in our bodies. Then mood, it would be evolved and it would be developed from a combination of feelings and feelings are often fueled by a mix of emotions and last for longer than emotions. So we have to be careful that these three things are associated or linked and the difference that comes before us is based upon the time frame. Now when we talk about emotions, feelings and mood, there is another expression which is known as affect. Affect is a broad range of emotions that people experience. Of course, broad range of experience when we talk about emotions, it is said that these are intense feelings that are directed at someone or something. If we talk about mood, it is said that feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that lack of contextual stimulus is basically there. Now it is important for us to understand the contextual stimulus, what are our trigger points and what are the trigger points that demonstrate our certain moods. When we talk about the lack of emotion which is going to limit our thinking, there are certain aspects that we have to bear in mind that sometimes if you are skillful, our context would be different and sometimes if we are not skillful, our context would be different. For example, if we are skillful in dealing with emotions and thinking patterns, we are creative thinkers, we inspire people, we focus on what is important when emotions are strong, emotions improve thinking, can feel what others are feeling and feelings help to inform and change belief and opinions. Whereas, if we are not skillful in dealing with emotions, so there would be only practical and concrete perspectives prevalent, there would be less motivational perspectives, gets what is important when upset, feelings are flat or distracting, emotions are self-absorbed and not influenced by others' feelings and beliefs and opinions are unchanged by emotions. So these are the drawbacks if we are not skillful to deal with emotions when we have to involve our self in certain deep thinking and mind thinking. So when there is a lack of emotional context in our thinking, it is said that perhaps not every manager needs to be a creative genius, that is a very important thing to understand, but most managers at some point have to think differently. So we have to understand this fact, that every person cannot think the same way, every person cannot think the best at all times, every person's emotions, feelings, emotions are present, every person can make a mistake, but we also have to see that if we can create this emotional control, self-awareness, then we can think differently from that which will be a more creative perspective for us. So we have to create limits for our emotions, we have to control them because in emotional intelligence as well, where we need self-awareness, we need emotional control, we need self-control. No doubt, we will bring empathy with us, we will learn to motivate ourselves, we will motivate others and then our social intelligence would be there to demonstrate our true relationship between our followers and the leader perspective. Dear students, we can conclude it in a way that emotions can always contribute in our thinking processes or our positive thinking be our positive emotions associated and supposedly if we are having negative feelings and emotions, so they are going to affect us negatively. We have to be careful and we have to be mindful in these things. Thank you.