Week Three Required Post

 Optimism and Reality

Expedition Log

Q: How do you typically react when faced with adversity or potential setback? What do you say to yourself- what goes on in your inner dialogue?

 When I faced with adversity, I typically say to myself," Whether should I deal with this adversity by myself or with someone?" I know from my life experience that most of adversity require people to cope with others, and by getting helps from others the burden of it become lighter.

Q: Are there changes that you can make to this "self-talk" that will create a more optimistic view and enable you to bounce back more quickly?

  I think I can share the adversity with those who are close to me if it is possible. I could get some useful advice or optimistic view from them.

Q: Think about a current business challenge you are facing. What are you doing to instill optimism in your team or organization? Does your language communicate  confidence and hope? Have you been able to reframe this situation in a convincing way?

  The current challenge that I am facing is the communication problem between Japanese students and International students in soccer club. In the soccer club, most of communication are conveyed in Japanese, therefore International students often misunderstand it. 

 What I am doing to instill optimism in soccer club is to teach the International students some Japanese language which Japanese students usually use in playing soccer and to communicate in English with the International students as many as possible. This could reframe this difficult situation and it creates good atmosphere in soccer club that lead us to a success.