Is your mind running in overdrive, constantly switching from task to task and finding it difficult to concentrate on any of them?
Are you putting on a brave face, trying to keep everyone happy but aware that inside, you don't feel as confident as people think you are?
Does your critical inner voice nag that you've got to work harder/faster/longer or you won't succeed?
This was definitely me! I'd often find myself lying awake at 3am with my thoughts whirling. But then I discovered
Positive Intelligence® and the concept of mental fitness and things changed for the better.
These days my mind is calmer. I worry less, especially about what others think. I've quietened my biggest critic (me). I better understand what sabotages my happiness and ability to achieve (like perfection, pleasing people and over-control) and crucially, I've got a way to do something about it.
The result? I'm taking action where I might have hesitated, I'm channelling my energy into doing stuff rather than ruminating on it, and in doing so, my confidence has soared. My focus has improved so much, I'm even back to reading novels!
Mental fitness is your ability to handle life's challenges through positive emotions like empathy, curiosity, creativity and clear-headed action without negative emotions like anger, guilt or worry getting in the way.
It's at the root of great performance, healthy relationships and ongoing wellness.
If you’re not physically fit, you'd feel physical stress as you climb a steep hill. To prevent this happening you build exercise into your life like walking, Pilates or going to the gym.
If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration or unhappiness, as you handle challenges at work and home. In fact 80% of people score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance and happiness. But is it possible to do the equivalent of physical exercise to build your mental fitness?
Yes! With recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology, you can now improve your mental fitness significantly within 6 weeks of practice.
The results? Dramatically improved performance and productivity and a calm, clear and happier mind.
1. Saboteur Interceptor Muscle
Your saboteurs generate all your negative emotions, including stress, anxiety, self-doubt, anger, avoidance, procrastination, insensitivity or discontent. Mental fitness develops your ability to intercept and limit the saboteurs' influence.
2. Sage Muscle
Your sage muscle is the one that handles challenges with a clear and calm mind, and positive emotions. It has access to your 5 sage powers: empathize, explore, innovate, navigate, and activate. For peak performance, you learn how to boost all 5 powers and when to use them.
3. Self-Command Muscle
Self-command gives you mastery of your mind enabling you to switch rapidly from negative to positive thinking and recover faster from setbacks and saboteur take-overs. Simple 10-second exercises build up this crucial self-command muscle in the brain.
Saboteurs were useful to us as children, protecting us from real and imagined threats. As adults we no longer need them, but the saboteurs’ patterns of thinking, feeling, and reacting are so ingrained, we tend to repeat them automatically. Getting to know your saboteurs means you can spot them more easily and choose a more sage response.
Attend my free mental fitness introductory workshop to meet the 10 sabotuers that hijack us and try some of the exercises you can do to combat them.
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology mean you can now improve your mental fitness significantly within 6 weeks of practice.
The groundbreaking
Positive Intelligence® programme combines weekly video lessons, online group sessions run by me and daily app-guided practice to give you the insight, motivation and structure to practise 15 minutes per day for 6 weeks, boosting your 3 core mental fitness muscles.
Changing your life for the better takes insight and sustained effort. It's easy to slip back into old ways because our internal enemies - our saboteurs - want to hold us back to keep us 'safe'.
Coaching provides accountability to help you maintain change until it becomes your default behaviour. Integrating daily mental fitness practice into your coaching makes change easier because it strengthens your ability to intercept your saboteurs and access your sage instead.
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