A lot of people  - and we are talking very, very 'super successful' people - tell us that they suffer from imposter syndrome

Famously, even the multi award winning actress Meryl Streep is quoted as saying,

“You think, why would anyone want to see me again in a movie? And I don’t know how to act anyway, so why am I doing this?”

What is fascinating is that these ‘super successful’ people are often falling for the myth that everyone else surrounding them is way more confident and composed than they themselves are. The Meryl Streep sentiment is playing on repeat in their mind

It's fascinating because we often don't realise that the reason you can’t hear other people’s inner monologues of self-doubt isn’t that they don’t have them. It’s because you only have access to your own mind, your own imposter syndrome playing repeat, minute by minute, hour by hour

As the UK organisation Action for Happiness points out, one of the biggest reasons many of us feel miserable is because we constantl...

For a lot of us today, one of the most exciting and aspirational ideas is to imagine a world in which we can swap the now often normal feeling of overwhelm for a feeling that we can show up and thrive, no matter what our day brings

So many of us are fed up of feeling overwhelmed. We are bored with our own catastrophising. We are drained by the lack of hope and optimism. We want to swap this feeling so often labelled as 'overwhelm' for a feeling that we can face any challenge that comes our way head on, roll with the punches and enjoy - even relish - the ride!

The truth is, for a lot of us, we can improve our lives dramatically by letting go of the rubbish that a lot of us carry around in our heads today about how life should be, without challenges or difficulties, and start to Show Up, roll with the punches and actually enjoy the ride of this wild thing we call life

We spend our entire lives in our minds, yet very few of us ensure they are a great place to be by carrying out a regul...

There's this boy ... 

A 15 year old GCSE student on his way to one of our best Universities. He is smart, sociable and spirited, excelling at everything he puts his hand to, from sport, to his grades, to fronting the school band. Looking in from the outside it seems that his life is stretching before him full of hope and opportunity 

And yet. He is crippled by anxiety and shame. Anxiety and shame driven by perfectionism. Permanently on a high wire, of perfectionism. Desperately driven by an anxiety thinking that if he falls off, there is no world to welcome him. He does his schoolwork, he does his pull-ups, he does his push-ups, he checks his phone, hour by hour, minute by minute, ever fearful of the shame of not hitting his high performing, perfectionist targets

How can I explain to this smart, sociable and spirited 15 year old that striving for excellence is one thing. Striving to excel in his unique way, using his own combination of brilliant brain, inate sociability and fierce d...

In truth, when most of us spend our time overworking, overstressing, feeling overwhelmed, being playful is the new aspirational

Guess this is why that of the 5 Progressfull Principles, the one which people often find the most appealing, is Being Playful. The very idea that being playful is something which successful, evolved, high performers incorporate into their life is refreshingly new and a real relief, a lot of our clients tell us

As the philosopher Elbert Hubbard once said,

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive” 

This is because in today’s world of constant change, hyper-visibility and endless choices, many of us end up agonizing over even the tiniest decisions. We can spend hours re-writing emails, overthinking comments, ruminating on conversations - believing that the endless hard work of perfecting every detail of every aspect of our lives is the route to success and therefore the good life

Hubbard reminds us that time is a precious gift we can’t get...

The lionesses were 90 minutes away from immortality. Then Olga Carmona worked her magic and Spain pipped them to the post in the FIFA Women's World Cup™ final

Back in Madrid the streets started to fill with joyful celebrations

Talk about bouncing back - over the course of the month-long world cup event, Spain played through the shock of last year’s player rebellion and the recovery from injury of two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas

“We fought hard, that’s the truth, until we felt like we had nothing left. But when we go to the airport and see a girl with a football or with a football jersey and the desire to play it fills us with energy again and makes us keep fighting for what we’re still missing,” Putellas said

The 19 year old superstar Salma Paralluelo exclaimed, “You have to dream big to achieve things and, when the opportunity arrives, take advantage of it” 

Wow was it tense - a single goal separated the two sides as Spain made history and lifted their first-ever trop...

I don’t know about you, but don’t you find yourself getting so bogged down in how ‘stressed’ or ‘busy’ you are?

For most of us, the last thing on our minds is thinking about how we can be playful!

The thing is, what if we are missing out on one of the most important secrets to living a long and happy life? Being Playful is about building your ability to enjoy life, and its adventures. It’s about regaining a childlike curiosity, determination and wonder at what is possible, together with a belief in your ability to thrive and bounce back from adversity

Being Playful equips us to understand how we can build our hope and openness to future possibilities - and doing all of this with a genuine, relaxed smile

Being Playful means, we are more resilient, able to adapt to change more quickly, and create a more holistic sense of who we are ...

At home, at work, in our whole life - as a partner, a parent, a team-player, a friend, a leader, an enthusiast for a particular sport or hobby. Loo...