Jatkoblogi: 10 työkalua henkiseen harjoitteluun loukkaantuneena (osa 2/2)

Kirjoitin jokin aikaa sitten ensimmäisen osan blogista, miten urheilija voi hyödyntää henkistä harjoittelua loukkaantuneena. Silloin olin juuri itse päässyt ylös kotisohvalta ja eroon kipsinomaisesta tukikengästä nilkan revenneitä nivelsiteitä voivotellen. Nyt aikaa on kulunut muutamia kuukausia, joiden aikana olen saanut hyödyntää henkisen harjoittelun koko aarreaittaa sieluni kyllyydestä.  Tässä blogissa jatkan työkalujen ja suhtautumistapojen esittelyä, joita voit...

10 työkalua henkiseen harjoitteluun loukkaantuneena (osa ½)

Loukkaantuneena oleminen urheilijana on syvältä. Turha sitä on kaunistella. Vaikka omat kilpaurheilijan ajat ovatkin kaukana takana, se tuntuu silti turhauttavalta. Onnistuin telomaan nilkkani futiskentällä harrastepelissä jo toistamiseen kuukauden sisällä - tuloksena repeytyneet nivelsiteet ja pakkolepo. Nyt olen juuri päässyt siirtymään eteenpäin passiivisesta sohvaperuna-vaiheesta: eroon kyynärsauvoista ja ympärivuorokautisesta tukikengästä, joka näyttää - ja tuntuu – laskettelumonolta,...

Mastering your Inner Story

When I was 15, my dad told me I should be playing for the girl’s national team. “You are definitely good enough.” I objected fiercely: “Are you kidding? Those girls are awesome. I don’t belong in that league!” Just playing my beloved football was enough for me, so I thought. We debated back and forth,...

Planting Winning Habits

As a coach and trainer, it’s great to be able to help people out. So nice, in fact, that sometimes it acts as a perfect distraction for myself not to put those same tools to use in my own life which I so frequently share with my clients. Like building new habits. One of the...

Empowering your Inner Champion

There are days when I feel like a champion – it can be on whatever arena. Closing a long-desired business deal, scoring a goal in football (yes, even at my age), helping someone to help themselves over a challenge, or finishing a long-due blog post. And I LOVE that feeling! I don’t know about you,...

Any Ants to Conquer when Presenting?

A few years ago, I was asked to share my thoughts about the then upcoming World Cup in Football on a morning program on TV.  The TV crew had chosen a nice, wooden pavilion as the setting, and for once the Finnish June morning sun was providing some warmth in the early hours of the...

Like a Mental Candy Bag

For ages, we Finns have prided ourselves in having low self-esteem. It’s been one of the rock-sound beliefs that is the foundation of a nation’s identity and backbone. Not easily toyed with, I might add. However, during the last few decades, we‘ve had to deal with many incidents which have tried to put holes into...

Mastering mistakes – Part 2

Picking up on where I left off in my last blog about Mastering mistakes - Part 1, there is a bit more to explore about this subject. To be honest, you could write a whole book about this topic, but for the purpose of keeping it a bit shorter, I’ve selected six points to further...

Mastering mistakes – Part 1

I once made a mistake which cost Nokia many, many thousands of euros. Ok, they were at their peak at that time, so maybe that wasn’t what brought them down. However, my face still turns bright red, my chest feels like someone parked a bulldozer on it, and my heart starts pounding like a raged...

Finding Your Voice – Women and Leadership

I have a confession to make: I’ve never cared very much about women quotas or found representing the minority as a woman in any kind of team or group, whether at work or on the football pitch, anything odd. I guess it has to do with the attitudes I have been brought up with, such...