Shut your laptop, sigh a deep sigh of relief – time to unplug 

Time to plunge into a pool, walk barefoot, read that best seller, discover new places & experiences and quite simply refresh and recharge with a well-deserved break 

Then, once we have snoozed, slept, gazed at the pool, danced, swum, read, trekked ….we often start to plan… 

A lot of us use our vacation time to not only refresh and recharge but also gain new perspectives on our lives – we lie back on our sun loungers, or sip our morning coffee, gazing at a new vista - and we start to plan our next steps … 

We create private, internal visons for who we want to be, how we want to live and what we want to achieve – at work, at home, in our whole life

The thing is, whilst we create these visions and make our plans, we often miss adding in a magic ingredient ...

One of, if not the most important, keys to create our futures, achieve our goals, unlock our potential in any area of our lives – is feedback. Yet we often miss out...

I love this phrase – when things don’t go right, turn left

We often think that turning right is the only way to turn, because everyone else is turning that way. The thing is, sometimes when things don’t go right, it’s because they don’t feel right and actually, the reason they don’t feel right is because deep down, we don’t really want to do them because these are actions which are not in line with our own personal values

Very sadly – a lot of us are living lives that other people have designed ...

Our friends and family, our school teachers, even podcasters and influencers on social media. How sad is that? In truth, quite a lot of us are sleepwalking through our own lives, being someone other people want us to be

I don’t know about you, but I am over being told how to live my life – look around and there is plenty of evidence that a lot of people are making poor life decisions right now – and yet the advice just keeps coming doesn’t it?

What this means is that we often feel buffe...

As adults we can get so bogged down in how ‘stressed about doing things perfectly’ or ‘busy’ we are - for most of us, the last thing on our minds is thinking about how we can do things differently!

The thing is, we know it’s important for kids to try different things – different toys, different activities, different foods, but it is actually even more important for adults to try different approaches. This is because, often one of the reasons we may be so anxious and wound up in the first place, is because we get stuck in our ways - as George Bernard Shaw famously said, 

"We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing"

While our current beliefs, behaviours and mind-sets may be useful in some ways, they are certainly comforting and familiar - they often stop us from growing, adapting and unlocking our potential. Sadly, they can be the main cause of a lot of our anxiety, lack of energy and our feeling of being stuck and wonky

An often unknown solution f...

With 2 Number 1 albums, 7 Grammys and 104m followers on Instagram it’s clear that Billie Eilish is smashing it – wouldn’t it feel great to be as confident as she must feel as she headlined Glastonbury 2022 alongside Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar?

The thing is, in an interview with NME magazine, just 2 days before her iconic Glastonbury performance, Billie said:

“I often feel like I don’t deserve to be here right now, doing this show on this stage” … she continues…"I have to convince myself that I am not a huge loser and accidentally there… I find it very hard to process this life sometimes"

And yet…Billie owned that electrifying, unique headline performance. With a beaming smile throughout, her stunning iconic set on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury made her the festival’s youngest ever solo headliner

How incredible that this hugely brave and talented young woman reveals so openly that she suffers from impostor syndrome

Impostor syndrome is a fear that our capabilities will be...

Why do so very many of us, at some point in our lives, suffer from a feeling of wonkiness, a fear of note being good enough, the fear of not being perfect?  Which means, we don’t start, we don’t try, we don’t finish, we give up. We don’t Show Up

For some of us, this so-called normal feeling of not perfect only hits us on certain days, when nothing we do feels good enough. We kind of hate ourselves for a bit, pour ourselves a glass of wine, or take it out on our loved ones, go to bed angry and wake up kind of ready for a new start the next day 

For those people this feeling of ‘not good enough-ness’ seems to pass and doesn’t visibly impact their daily lives. Here’s the thing though - honestly, most of us struggle with this feeling, for a bit longer than a moment  

This feeling of 'not good enough-ness' does seriously impact how we Show Up and what we achieve in our lives

For some of us we fight the feeling of not being good enough by going into workaholic, overachieve mode. Others o...

As he walked back into the kitchen, a maths book flew across the room, straight out of the open window, landing with a thwack on the patio outside, startling the blissfully stretched out dog, enjoying the evening sunshine

His 12 year-old son blinked at him through tears, “I don’t want to grow up, I don’t want all this rubbish adults have, I just want to keep being a kid!”. The Communications Director leaned against the side board and took a deep breath

The thing is, that day at work, he had been leading a team of 27 managers through a new systems change – one where they would need to collaborate much more with the technical team, rather than continue with their silo’d ways of working – which were frankly costing them millions, if not the actual future of the company itself. Whilst no books had been thrown, they might as well have been

His own boss had briefed him on the Friday, so his Sunday had been spent swapping a trip with his son to the skate park with preparing for the meeting...

A cool, crisp cocktail, a beautiful hotel with a private beach, and a modern house style home makeover, are definitely soothing and calming...

An antidote to feeling stressed and overwhelmed in our daily life. Yet in reality there is often a hangover, a post holiday 'meh' feeling when we return to reality on Monday. The escape lasts until it ends and reality, especially a lot of so called succesful people’s reality, which let’s face it can often feel pretty overwhelming – kicks in

Isn’t it tragic that most of our lives are spent waiting to escape from work we have often fought so hard for?

Wouldn’t it be great to ditch feeling stressed and overwhelmed by our work - for feeling as excited and curious about our work as we used to feel, when we were dreaming about ‘what we would be’ when we started out 

If you face a lot of change, a lot of pressure, a long to do list, and ever challenging post pandemic people situations at work, at home, in your whole life – there is a way back to a...

Never would Nathan Apodaca have imagined that…

After being inspired by his daughter to try making a TikTok video, a video of him skateboarding while lip-synching Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ would mean he ended up launching a merchandise line, starring in commercials with Snoop Dogg, buying a house, and even appearing in President Joe Biden's virtual inauguration parade

Never would the iconic 1970s band Fleetwood Mac which extols the virtues of shaking off the past in it’s iconic song, ‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’ have imagined that...

Their fiftieth-anniversary album ‘Don’t Stop’ and the incredible ‘Rumours’ would be the third most-streamed album and third highest-selling vinyl of 2021, respectively

The thing is, we never do know what tomorrow will bring - but what is definitely true is that if we don’t take some risks, if we don’t challenge ourselves and re-imagine ourselves - life is still going to happen, even if we are standing still, the meter is still ticking, life is st...

Honestly, this is one of the trickiest things really – increasingly we are realising the importance of social connections – having strong relationships with people both at work and at home is a bigger indicator of overall health than any other factor

In fact, social connection can lower anxiety and depression, help us regulate our emotions, lead to higher self-esteem and empathy, and actually improve our immune systems. Studies show that the positive influence of social relationships on the risk of death are comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality such as smoking or alcohol consumption and exceed the influence of other risk factors,such as physical inactivity and even obesity (Holt-Lunstad, Smith, & Layton, 2010)

So, if we put as much effort into building strong connections with people as the effort we put into our diet and exercise (the gyms, the equipment, the outfits, the diets, the vitamin supplements, the list goes on …) we may actually live longer. How sh...

Progressfull Mind-set Morning routine – how to 'sort yourself out' and 'set yourself up' for a fulfilling day

What exactly is a great morning routine and why is a morning routine even important?

There is a lot of chat about morning routines and we at Progressfull have something to share with you on this topic

First things first, why is it even important to have a morning routine?

Well, to be honest with you, often the very first thing our high performing clients say, from 16 year old students, to artisan bakers, to assistant directors in the film and tv industry, through to CEOs of conglomerates or start-ups – is that they are on the edge of burn-out. Overwhelmed by pressure – both from others and also from our own high standards - most of us have too much to do in too little time.

"The last thing I have time for, is time to spend on myself. I certainly don’t have time for self-care, let alone self-development – it’s more about self-survival!"

At Progressfull, our response to th...