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...

Isn’t it ironic that so many of us have a fear of missing out, yet how often do we stop to think if we even want the thing we are missing out on in the first place? 

We are so used to society, social media, friends, family telling us what we should be doing, eating, wearing – we often lose sight of our own view of who we want to be and how we want to live our lives 

The thing is – it’s actually quite easy to be swept along with the rest of the world – when we haven’t ever really stopped to think about who we really, truly want to be and how we want to live our own life. Even the big choices we make in life, like if and what to study, where to live, and what job to do, are often more influences of those around us, than our own true choices  

So that’s why, even if you think it might sound a bit like naval gazing, in truth – working out how to live life on your own terms might be almost as important as learning how to read and write 

Socrates summed this up when he said, 

 “The unco...

At a time when we are faced with political and economic turmoil, rising prices and ongoing climate challenges, play may well be the last thing on our list of priorities...

It’s true that we’re living in a world that’s more conducive to anxiety than playfulness. In the endless to-do list of being an adult, play really does feel like a waste of time. We burn ourselves out with anxieties, worries and tasks we should or have to do, rarely believing we have time or energy for activities we actually want to do 

The thing is, we know it’s important for kids to play, but it is actually even more important for adults. This is because, often one of the reasons we are so anxious and wound up in the first place, is because we struggle to adapt to all the change around us, 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 way...