Mental Fitness

Your capacity to respond to life’s challenges with a positive rather than a negative mindset.

Overwhelm, burnout, stress, unproductive conflict, blaming, shaming, bullying and lack of accountability. 

​These are all hallmark signs of a team and organization with low mental fitness. 

The solution: build personal, team and organizational mental fitness. 

Measuring Mental Fitness

​Mental fitness is a measure of the strength of  positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur). 
 
This measure of Mental Fitness is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient). 

​80% of people, teams and organizations score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance and happiness. 

If you’re physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress.

If you’re mentally fit, you can handle life’s great challenges without​ mental stress, overwhelm, anxiety, frustration or unhappiness. You can help others out of their mental stress. 

Your exercise to get mentally fit.
​​But what do you do to get mentally fit...?

Building Mental Fitness: Understanding Self-Sabotage

The key to Mental Fitness is to weaken the internal Saboteurs who generate all “negativity” in the way they respond to challenges. Saboteurs cause anger, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, shame, blame and unhappiness. They drive conflict avoidance, abrasiveness, micromanaging, bullying, people pleasing and lack of accountability. 

​“Sage” lives in an entirely different region of the brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action. 
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​All positive and healthy interpersonal skills and behaviours come from the Sage brain. 

I have a better ability to block outside distractions when I need to take a second to reset myself. I’ve also developed the habit of resetting whenever I can feel my anxiety levels rising.  I’ve began taking on more challenges that I would have avoided previously out of fear of embarrassment if I didn’t do well. Overall, my stress level has steadily decreased as I’ve worked through the program even though the workload increased.
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The PQ Program: Upgrading The Mental Operating System

Active listening. Empathy. Emotional Intelligence. Conflict management. The amount of training that is thrown at interpersonal problems is amazing. 

But most of these training efforts fail. Within six months participants can barely recount what they learned or point to was has changed. 

And those who most need the training don't believe they do. So they take little to nothing in. Or, worse yet, now use active listening and empathy skills to persecute targets even more. 

Lasting, positive change requires 20% insight and 80% mental muscle. Most trainings provide insight only; without muscle, the learnings wane. 

And most tackle symptoms not causes: the mindsets driving the behaviour in the first place. 

People can do all the 'right things" interpersonally. And still be seen as abrasive, difficult, demanding and bullying. Because their internal saboteur-driven mental operating system is still negative, not positive. 

The PQ Program installs a new, sage-driven mental operating system. It builds real mental muscle - that can be seen in MRI imaging in 8 weeks.  

High performing teams, healthy conflict, emotional intelligence, effective feedback. accountability: all run on positive, sage-driven mental operating system.

​Installing this takes longer in the short term, but is more durable in the long term. It boots root-level mental fitness, and creates lasting, positive change.

Research Foundation

This work is a synthesis of the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

The research is the basis of Shirzad Chamine’s New York Times bestselling book Positive Intelligence, and Stanford lectures.

Research includes results from 500,000 participants across the globe, and across organizational roles and functions. 

Breakthrough Results of Boosting PQ

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