self-development – WICKED AND CLEVER

The Evolution of the Woman in Me

For my entire life, I was so proud to call myself a feminist. I understood this term mostly intuitively and the meaning of it was changing for me as I was evolving.

The Art of Resurrection

Systematic, regular and consistent work seems to be the only key to being successful, whether we are trying to learn a new language, clean more or loose some weight. We know it yet we keep failing. Why?

The Unescapable February Days

I don’t know if you are familiar with this feeling, but February days are for me, in general, very gloomy. And even the fact that it’s sunny outside usually isn’t helping. It is freezing, literally, for several weeks, the spring is within the reach of our arms, yet it feels so distant, after all those…

Meditation: The Spring Is in the Air

No, I haven’t got crazy. It’s about 30 centimeters of snow outside and I am daydreaming about the spring? That is right. And I can tell you why!

Kindness Is the Key

I used to be ashamed of my kindness and compassion. How silly, right? I know. But in a world of opportunists and capitalists, how could be kindness and compassion seen as a virtue? For a long time, I saw it as a flaw, thinking – maybe if I wouldn’t be that kind to everyone, I would have got myself further. Now I know that the life without kindness is no life at all. And we, who are kind to others, to the living world around us and to ourselves, we must cherish this quality of ours as a golden treasure.

Positive Diary #29 – This healthy body of mine

Today, in that long second of my fall, when my whole life flashed before my eyes, I realized how fragile and resilient at the same time this body is. And that I cannot take it as granted anymore.

Positive Diary #27 – The Leap of Faith

As we are returning from our daytrip to Krkonoše and I stare outside the window of our car, I cannot help myself but smiling.

Positive Diary #24 – Seemingly intact nature’s cycles

When the winter came, I was carefully optimistic. After such a year of brilliant cyclic beauty of Mother Nature’s gifts, is it, maybe, possible we will get to see some snow in the winter again?

3 Tips on How to Finally Start Losing Weight

Your national Christmas sport doesn’t have to be overeating (but let’s face it, it probably is) to feel little bit out of the shape after the year of lazy contemplating and emotional eating. Let me introduce you to my 3 tips on how to put those kilos down again.

Positive Diary #19 – Rain

31st May – I know, it might seem pretty basic. Rain, water, breeze, we tend to take all of these things as granted, although our ability to take advantage of them can change pretty rapidly. I can see it in the long-term change of weather, or maybe let’s say climate itself, in Czech Republic. I vividly…