We’ve all worked with people who would fall into this category. People who are consistently doing more than is expected, in amazing quality, work longer hours without being asked and in the end come across as incredibly humble folks. In some cases that insecurity will be overcompensated by false confidence or bravado. However the rootContinue reading “Leading insecure overarchievers”
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Find a ladder and keep climbing…
If you would be in a basement that would be on fire and only way out would be scolding hot metal ladder, would you climb it? What if you wouldn’t see any fire, but only a smoke? Or you wouldn’t really notice any fire, but your family from upstairs would shout at you that youContinue reading “Find a ladder and keep climbing…”
You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself
We are all on our journey through this life. We are just in different places at different times. It doesn’t mean that we will forever drift apart if we are not met as deeply as we would want. People have their own pace. There will be times when you will feel misunderstood and that’s ok.Continue reading “You can meet people only as deeply as you met yourself”
What if I was on your side all along…
Anxiety, obsessive thoughts, fears, nightmares, aches, mild panic attacks, sudden jumps in heart rate… When I was a kid, I had nightmares. A lot of nightmares. That kind of that goes deep into your bone and through your whole body. The one where you wake up petrified, where you can’t move and your body canContinue reading “What if I was on your side all along…”
What would I have to hear to change my opinion?
Next time, when you get stuck in your head, repeating the same problem over and over again. In a moment of awareness or through some reminder like a post-it note on a screen, ask yourself “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”. And then watch the mess. Your ego will start toContinue reading “What would I have to hear to change my opinion?”
Why do we have a stigma around trauma?
#notADoctor We do have a stigma around trauma. We don’t talk about our experiences with our friends, we don’t ask for help and most of us either won’t or are not able to speak to a therapist. So why is that? There are several things in play. First of all, we don’t have the languageContinue reading “Why do we have a stigma around trauma?”
Impostor syndrome. We have knees?!
Imagine yourself living in a world where you don’t see anyone’s legs and no one talks about them. Everyone goes around their life as normal, you just don’t have awareness of people’s legs. There is a twist though. You don’t know that you have knees, you basically, can’t bend your legs in a middle. SoContinue reading “Impostor syndrome. We have knees?!”
The third conditional
If I studied harder, I would have known the grammar of the third conditional. I always struggled with English grammar. Especially, I could never learn that darn third conditional. I always learned it for an exam and then forgot it immediately. It was a big deal though because I’ve heard third conditional in Czech almostContinue reading “The third conditional”
Just above average 