Sometimes we have to force ourselves into doing something, even if we don't want to. It is Saturday afternoon, I am holding my surfboard and standing on the other side of the planet in Brazil. A typical picture for a Czech girl, haha. I am looking at the waves. They aren't so good today. I do [...]
"I'm feeling frustrated." Many clients come to me feeling frustrated. So let's look at what frustration is and how to deal with it. WHAT IS FRUSTRATION? Frustration is the emotion we feel when we fail to achieve our goal. We feel frustrated when something is not as we would like it to be. The more important [...]
"Don't worry so much..." Has anyone ever told you that? But how can you not worry about the future, when it is one of the most natural and important functions of the brain? If prehistoric men hadn’t worried, we wouldn't be here now. The ice age would have come, and he would have frozen Of course [...]
Mindfulness is a state of consciousness when we concentrate on awareness of the present moment. We are attentive to our thoughts and emotions without any judgment we acknowledge and accept them. Mindfulness meditation originates in Buddhist vipassanā meditation, which teaches people to be mindful. This meditation might have several forms, however, the basis is the same: [...]
Inspirational thoughts from a man who is going to row across the Atlantic Ocean As a part of our study, I did a pre-interview with Milan about his trip and I will share with you some parts of this interview as an inspiration. You can read about his trip here. When you hear about a journey [...]
I am happy that Leader Decision can be part of Milan’s journey. Milan is a Czech guy, currently living in the US, who is going to attempt to be the first-person rowing from New York to St. Mary’s Harbor, Isles of Scilly in UK. There have only been 16 solo rows completed across North Atlantic from [...]
Life isn’t perfect and we need to be resilient to handle all the hurricanes that it brings. However, what is psychological resilience? There are many definitions of resilience in psychology. I put together some of them and this is the definition that I like the most: Psychological resilience is an ability to remain calm during the [...]
We are going through difficult times because of coronavirus restrictions, quarantine, lockdown... We often need to find new ways and reinvent our businesses. We are forced to work from home, use technology that we have never used before, teach online, use platforms such as google class, record videos, write articles. We need to change our leadership [...]
We are all facing difficulties, some of us are sick, some have lost their loved ones, their jobs, don’t have any income, can’t see their families, feel lonely, scared, anxious, uncertain about their future. What we all need is to stay psychologically strong. We need to be resilient. Here are some tips that can help you to [...]
“For the next five minutes, please try not to think about white bears.” In 1985, Daniel Wegner, currently a psychology professor at Harvard University, started his first experiment about thought suppression with the sentence above. Paradoxically, the participants could not stop thinking about white bears! Wegner called this effect ironic rebound. The more we [...]