Mental Strength is the new Zeitgeist - do you have the practical tools to mentally thrive?

Mental Strength is the new Zeitgeist – do you have the practical tools to mentally thrive? 

Success is rarely instant - from Simone Biles to leading edge scientists, from Tom Daley to tech founders we are increasingly aware that mental strength is the real secret sauce of success

In fact, in all walks of life - from start-up founders to chefs to musicians - when we look at successful people, we are fascinated to learn how they do what they do - what their secret for success is

Talent, skill and knowledge? We are increasingly recognising the much more important ingredient: mental strength

Being an Olympian not only requires immense physical talent but also an incredible amount of psychological control - resilience and determination help them bounce back from defeat and keep on keeping on. From Tom Daley - the British diver who competed in three prior Olympic games and only recently won his first ever Olympic gold medal in Tokyo, to Andrew Hoy - the Australian equestrian eventer who won both silver and bronze medals at the age of 62 and Kokona Hiraki who at 12, won a silver medal in skateboarding for Japan - their outstanding results speak to awesome mental strength

With some of the most decorated sports people in history having the courage to share their vulnerability, even sometimes opting out to protect themselves and limit the impact of extreme pressure - from Simone Biles to Michael Phelps to Naomi Osaka - we are also seeing that mental strength has many sides

What these top performers learn is to effectively regulate their emotions and attention to ensure best performance - because if they don’t keep their emotions in check - they compromise their performance under pressure. This goes for all high performers and all high performance – in fact, in a world where so many of us feel stress and pressure - this applies to all of us, when we want to win in the game we call life

As Dr Sanjay Gupta - CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent tells us:

“Never forget that the brain is exceptionally plastic,” says Dr Gupta. “It can rewire and reshape itself through your experiences and habits, and a lot of this remoulding can be achieved in a mere twelve weeks. “It’s like building any other muscle.”

Whether you want to accelerate your productivity at work, smash more goals, exercise more, reduce your alcohol intake – or train for the 2024 Paris Olympics, adopting some of the psychological skills used by Olympians to build your mental muscles and increase your mental strength will help us all win the game of life

So how do we do this? How do we build mental strength to mentally thrive and win the game of life?

From the latest findings in neuroscience and sports psychology – today there are some fantastic resources now available to us to help grow our mental strength – brilliant books, podcasts, blogs and courses - yet if you are anything like us - when we are ambitious and determined to learn and grow, we can waste hours listening, reading and watching yet never applying, never actually doing what it takes to put in the work and build our mental strength

To help you actually apply the insight and increase your performance...

- our co-founder Jo has used her 20+ years working with over 14,000 global high performers as a CEO level Executive Coach and Learning Architect - to create a blended learning solution which can help you build your mental strength

Our Upskill - Mental muscles - focusses on mental strength and balance - building your ability to learn on the fly, master ambiguity, bouncing back from adversity, reinvigorating, rebalancing and reinventing

This Upskill (our word for a course or masterclass) includes pre-recorded video content – like a pod-cast with pictures - divided into easy to listen to or watch, bite-sized chunks – so you can listen on the way to work, when you go for a run or even whilst walking the dog

There are 8-10 hours of content made up of sparky deep insights, simple practical frameworks and handy transforming tools designed to help you build your mental strength

To support and inspire you - after you have completed the Upskill - you get to experience a personal follow up 121 Mentor call with a Progressfull™ Mentor (a Zoom or audio call of your choosing) to crystallise actions and insights

To really help you build your mental strength, understand yourself more and privately unlock your own personal insights we provide you with purposeful self-reflection exercises for you to apply - at home, at work, in your whole life

These purposeful self-reflection exercises are in a beautiful 50+ page printed Upskill Journal, as well as a downloadable Upskill Journal – designed for you to note your thoughts and insights, actions and achievements

Because we know that real change happens over time, with small steps, taken consistently and regularly - all the material in the Upskill has been designed for you to come back to, in future hours, days, weeks, months and even years – this is incredibly powerful and what we do

This focussed time to continually, purposefully self-reflect is a fundamental part of what it is to have a progressfull mind-set. You will learn that being progressfull is key to building mental strength – and we encourage you to do this in just 10 minutes – yes 10 minutes! Because small steps can make a big difference!

Mental muscles gives you the practical tools and insights to build your mental strength so you can choose to put in the work, mentally thrive and build your mental strength

Be a champion in your own right and set the example for new generations that mental strength is an Olympic gold we can all strive for!

You can explore the Mental muscles Upskill HERE