Enhance Your Emotional Wellbeing with Ahead: An Award-Winning App
What to do when anger, anxiety, or procrastination strike!
Discover effective techniques to manage emotions like anger, anxiety, and procrastination with the help of the Apple Design Award finalist app, Ahead.
Ahead, an innovative app developed by coworkers Kai Koch and John Roggan, aims to help you improve your closest relationships by delving into emotions, reactions, and triggers that may be holding you back. This app has been recognized with an Apple Design Award for its unique approach to emotional self-improvement.
What's Great About Ahead? The app breaks down complicated feelings into actionable steps, empowering users to work on specific emotional challenges. For example, the "Emotion Management 101" feature allows you to explore real-life scenarios, such as frustrating interactions at work or disagreements with your partner, and provides over 30 science-backed techniques to help you manage anger. Anger is just one of six journeys you can embark on, with the app also offering guidance for procrastination, anxiety, confidence, positivity, and heartbreak.
Quick Tip: Take advantage of Ahead's "Reflection" feature, which allows you to log your emotional experiences, physical reactions, and thought patterns. This tool helps build your emotional intelligence by identifying patterns and learning from them over time.
Meet the Creators: Kai Koch and John Roggan, colleagues, developed Ahead during the COVID-19 pandemic when many were working remotely and struggling to connect. "Everybody struggles emotionally from time to time," Koch says. "You don't change how you think and act by reading about it, just like you don't learn to ride a bike that way. You learn it by actually doing it—and doing it consistently."