Starting a New Chapter? Whether You’re Launching, Pivoting, or Scaling as an Innovator, Creative, or Entrepreneur, Mental Fitness Can Help You Thrive
All it takes is 15 minutes a day to boost your mental fitness and elevate your Positive Intelligence®
- Master Emotions: Stay calm under pressure and improve relationships.
- Unlock Focus and Creativity: Find innovative solutions fast.
- Achieve Peak Performance: Get more done with enhanced well-being.
- Navigate Change with Confidence: Handle transitions with resilience.
Thriving in Change with Positive Intelligence®, Resilience and Creativity
When challenges arise, your mind can be your greatest ally or your biggest obstacle. All your negative emotions, including stress, are caused by your saboteurs.
Imagine being able to create and innovate with ease and flow, rather than being plagued by anxiety, procrastination, and perfectionism. (These are all symptoms of fear caused by your inner judge, especially during times of change and uncertainty.) While IQ and EQ are important, it’s your Positive Intelligence® Quotient (PQ®) that determines how much of your potential you actually achieve.
What Is Mental Fitness and How Can It Transform You?
Mental Fitness is your capacity to respond to life’s challenges with a positive, rather than negative, mindset. Your PQ® is the percentage of time your mind works for you instead of against you. Like physical fitness, it can be strengthened through practice.
Most attempts at positive change fail because we stop at insight and don’t build habits. Sustained change towards a more positive mind requires laying down neural pathways to form new habits through consistent daily practice. And that’s what our pro-gram empowers you to do.
What makes this program unique?
- The focus is on habit formation. This program provides structure and accountability through an app and with community support.
- PQ® training rewires the brain at the root cause level. (It’s like upgrading your operating system.)
- Develop the three core mental muscles: Saboteur Interceptor, Self-Command, and Sage
Features of the Seven Week Program
- Weekly video lessons by Shirzad Chamine that combine neuroscience, positive psychology, and Positive Intelligence® with practical application
- Weekly coaching calls with Linda Naiman
- Two online assessments to identify your mental saboteurs and strengths
- One-year PQ® App access with personalized exercises. Track your individual (or team) progress and set goals along the way.
- Daily 15-minute PQ® reps (mental fitness exercises) to build lasting positive change
- PDF of the first eight chapters of “Positive Intelligence,” by Shirzad Chamine
- Community Support for establishing lasting new positive habits of the mind.
Build your foundation of mental fitness through daily practice
Discover what’s holding you back. Saboteurs are the inner voices that generate stress and negative emotions, sabotaging your potential for happiness and performance. The PQ® Program helps decrease these negative thoughts and increase positive ones from your Sage.
Week 1: Build Your Self-Command Muscle
Through a breakthrough process called PQ® Reps, you can boost your Self-Command muscle. Each PQ® Rep only takes 10 seconds and with each Rep, you develop greater mastery over your own mind by quieting the negative, and activating the positive regions of your brain.
Weeks 2-3: Build Your Saboteur Interceptor Muscle
We all have these Saboteurs (though some may lie dormant): Judge, Avoider, Controller, Hyper-Achiever, Hyper-Rational, Hyper-Vigilant, Pleaser, Restless, Stickler, and Victim. Learn how to intercept your top Saboteurs the moment they try to hijack your thoughts, feelings, or actions, and overcome the limiting beliefs and damage they cause.
Weeks 4-6: Build Your Sage Muscle
Cultivate the Sage Perspective: every problem or challenge can be converted into a gift and opportunity. And generate the gift through the five Sage Powers of Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate.
Week 7: Sustain Your Growth
Build lasting habits that foster ongoing development and success across all areas of your life.
Long-Term Applications for Work and Life
- Increase happiness, and wellbeing.
- Master Emotions: Remain calm and even when things are not going according to plan.
- Develop Self-Awareness: Identify and overcome limiting beliefs.
- Unlock Creativity: See opportunities in challenges Uncover new creative ideas, innovative solutions or paths forward when feeling stuck
- Improved Decision-Making from a Sage perspective. Be more decisive by aligning decisions to values and purpose.
- Navigate Change: Overcome anxiety and handle transitions with confidence and resilience.
- Grow healthy relationships by developing empathy and compassion with people you find challenging.
- Conflict Management tools
- Cultivate the mental fitness of top performers in just minutes a day
Curious about the science behind PQ?
Research in neuroscience, organizational science, and positive psychology shows that higher PQ leads to greater success in work, health, and relationships. An analysis of more than two hundred scientific studies, involving over 275,000 people, concluded that higher PQ leads to higher salaries and greater success in work, marriage, health, sociability, friendship, and creativity.
- Salespeople with higher PQ sell 37% more than their lower-PQ counterparts.
- Higher-PQ CEOs are more likely to lead happy teams who report a conducive work climate for high performance.
- Project teams with higher-PQ managers perform 31% better on average when other factors are equal.
*Source: Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours, by Shirzad Chamine. 2012
Success Story
I have many businesses. But the issue is that I’m not feeling happy with what I’ve achieved, and I have had a complicated life. When I started to do the PQ® reps (building mental fitness muscles), I thought, ‘Oh, this is different. I love the prompts every morning because they are like a gym. Even if it’s just a few minutes a day, the most important thing is that it can be just two minutes.
Every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is my PQ® reps. It’s super amazing. This PQ® program along with Linda’s coaching has been really good for me. Now in my business dealings, I have more patience with my partners and employees. If there’s a delay or setback, instead of getting angry I do my PQ® reps, and l look for the gift or opportunity in the situation.
— Edgar Martinez, Investor and Executive, on completing the 7-week foundational program
Linda Naiman Founder, Creativity at Work
I’ve personally experienced the incredible impact of mental fitness, which I wrote about in my confessional recently. It has helped me overcome procrastination, conquer anxiety, and even alleviate insomnia. It’s also empowered my coaching. I’ve witnessed my coaching clients shifting from tears of frustration as they go through transitions, to smiles of clarity and hope within minutes.
The power of this coaching is truly awe-inspiring. I have been trained in PQ® Mental Fitness coaching by Shirzad Chamine, neuroscientist, CEO of Positive Intelligence, and author of the book by the same name. I am excited to introduce this program to you.
Disclaimer
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