#49 | A strong I and a strong we

"Overthinking is underfeeling."

Many of us are familiar with it: we wake up and the alarm clock reads 2:36 am. Then the frustration is great and the thoughts are loud: "I have to go back to sleep quickly, I have an important project tomorrow!" And the more we brood over the fact that we urgently need sleep, the less we find our way back to it. Goodbye work-life balance!

"We need a strong 'I' - but also a strong 'we'."

Our guest in the latest SMP LeaderTalk knows that we don't brood for no reason. Nora Dietrich is certain that thinking too much often leads to feeling too little. Whether in bed at night or at work during the day. Dietrich is a psychological psychotherapist and mental health expert. Her work focuses on feelings - the ones we feel in relation to our work. Her mission: to create workplaces that promote our work-life balance instead of demanding it. On the one hand, this requires us as employees to become aware of our limits. But managers and organizations also need to join in and create conditions that support the mental health of their employees.

"Ask yourself today: Who do I want to be at the end of my life?"

Nora Dietrich talks to Georgiy Michailov about what the framework conditions for a good work-life balance can look like in concrete terms. The two discuss how important it is for our success to be grateful for the little things. That self-esteem should not be confused with a sense of external value. And that future-oriented self-reflection means asking yourself who you want to be at the end of your life.

*Video only in German