Have you ever had that stagnant feeling that nothing is changing? Like you're stuck in the mud.

Feeling stuck and making progress are not interdependant.

You can only be in one state at any given moment.

That feeling of progress stops as soon as we feel stuck. Happiness thrives on progress, so it's natural to want to get out of the mud as quickly as possible.

How do we get out? Here are Tony Robbins' three potential reasons why you might be stuck and how you can turn it around.

Does positive thinking actually make us feel better?

Recent research published by NIH found that the best predictor of wellbeing was not optimism, but how often we get into the flow state. How do we know when we're in flow?

Coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow is the feeling of total absorption in an activity.

Watch for science author and Professor Adam Grant's 3-point theory of peak flow. He also shares a personal example of a way to get into flow with your friends and family, and tips on how to optimise your schedule to include it.

Is there an advantage to having imposter syndrome?

Even at 51 and with an incredible career at Vogue, ID and W Magazine, Editor of Vogue Edward Enninful still experienes imposter syndrome and cites that it propels him.

That said, the traits that led to his imposter syndrome, also led him to experience burnout and he regrets focusing so heavily on work during his 20s and 30s.

Here’s a clip from his powerful interview with Stephen Bartlett for Diary of a CEO.

Marshall Rosenberg, PhD developed NVC in the early 60s as a process for supporting collaboration and resolving conflict within people, in relationships, in society and at work. Watch and put it into practice.

In our last LinkedIn live talk – 'Is goal-setting outdated?' – our mindhacker coach Adrian stressed the importance of building our goals from our values. Are you clear on your values? In this short video, Adrian talks you through a short activity to discover your intrinsic values so that you can be more in tune with what you truly need and want when setting goals and making decisions.

In last month's live talk on goal setting, our coach and mindhacker Adrian said we should ask ourselves 'what's the one thing that I can do right now, that will make everything else easier or even redundant?' He explained how, by trying to control every step, we let the saboteur in. We actually only need to see the next single step, and every step then compounds.

As a visual demonstration of this, he shared with us the domino chain reaction – where every domino can topple a domino that is 1.5x bigger. So if you start with a domino that's 5mm high, in just 30 steps you topple a domino the size of the Empire State building! See the compound effect in action in this video.