toolkit
Our toolkit is a curated directory where you’ll find inspiration and guidance to empower your daily progress. Sharing our top resources and startup tools, we invite you to work on self development and personal growth – to create resilience, unleash productivity, challenge your mind and develop new perspectives.
watch: three reasons you’re not making progress – and how to break the plateau
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.
watch: how to stop languishing and start finding flow
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.
watch: how the editor of Vogue used imposter syndrome to his advantage
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.
watch: what's Nonviolent Communication?
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.
live panel: rediscovering yourself
watch: get over the fear of being judged.
live panel: stepping into fear
live panel: finding purpose.
Deep dive with our coaches Lyn Ray, Kelby L. Kupersmid, MS, PCC and Nikki Trott exploring some of the big questions we ask ourselves: “What is purpose and how do I find mine?”, “Are we wasting time running around trying to catch our ‘true calling’ or identifying our big ‘why’"?, “Is finding our purpose crucial to a happy life?”
live panel: is goal-setting outdated?
For years, there's been a hyper-focus on goal-setting to achieve personal and professional development – but are goals actually serving us?
How do we motivate ourselves to grow and move forward? Where do we find the balance between setting goals and building habits, while enjoying the ride?
Tune in to the conversation with our coaches Rachel, Adrian and Louise.
uncovering your values with Adrian.
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.
geometric growth in action.
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.
