Mental Fitness is the Answer!
Now, what's the question?
Mental Fitness is having the ability to deal with everyday life challenges with resilience, creativity and emotional fortitude.
Your level of Mental Fitness or your PQ (Positive Intelligence) affects all areas of your personal and professional life.
It impacts your performance, relationships, peace of mind and your overall well-being.
Extensive research shows that boosting your Mental Fitness improves your:Building the thrive part of your brain gives you the ability to move towards a life filled with confidence, purpose and fulfilment and away from a life of fear, anxiety, and self-doubt.
Performance:
You perform better while working less hard—similar to athletes "in the zone".
Happiness:
You feel less stressed, more at peace, and consistent happiness, even in tough times.
Relationships:
You improve relationships, are able to handle conflicts in ways that deepen trust and harmony.
The Positive Intelligence Mental Fitness (PQ) program is a synthesis of neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.
In-depth research shows that Mental Fitness is the best predictor of how happy you'll be, and performance science proves that your levels of happiness are directly linked to your levels of success.
"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 or other negative emotions.
You'll be happier and perform better."
If you're mentally fit, you can handle life's great challenges without mental stress or other negative emotions.
You'll be happier and perform better."
Shizard Chamine
Author of Positive Intelligence
Mental Fitness examines the strength of your positive mental muscles (your Sage) versus your negative mental muscles (your Saboteurs).
Your Saboteurs respond to challenges and create negative emotions like stress, anxiety, guilt, anger, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, or worry.
Your Sage handles challenges through positive emotions like empathy, creativity, self-confidence, curiosity, and calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action
The key to Mental Fitness is to weaken your internal Saboteurs.
There are only 10. They are the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Victim, Stickler, Pleaser, Hyper-Achiever, Hyper-Vigilant, Hyper-Rational and Restless.
Most people only have to examine their top two or three.
Saboteur Interceptor Muscle
Your Saboteurs are your voices creating your inner dialogue of judgment, self-doubt or anger. They beat you up over the smallest mistake creating doubt, avoidance and procrastination. They push you through fear of failure, guilt or recrimination.
Mental Fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the Saboteurs.
Sage Muscle
Your Sage lives in an entirely different region of your brain and handles challenges with positive emotions allowing you a clear and calm mind. It is your inner strength that guides you with empathy, curiosity, creativity, and laser-focused action.
Your Sage allows you to perform better and feel happier.
Self Command Muscle
You do not have command of your mind. If you did, would you choose to feel like an imposter at work, feel stress and anxiety over things that are out of your control or have feelings of self-doubt, shame, anger or blame?
Building your self command muscles is a way to rewire and increase the grey matter of the Sage part of your brain.
Using bite-sized, do-anywhere exercises know as PQ Reps, you learn to be in charge of your brain and not get 'hijacked' by the Saboteurs that have control right now.
Mental Fitness Kick-Start Intensive (Bootcamp)
Building true Mental Fitness requires more than just insight; it requires muscle-building. These powerful new muscles allow you to declare war on your Saboteurs, leading to life-changing, lasting transformation.
The Positive Intelligence program integrates the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.
The Mental Fitness Intensive Combines:
Training Videos:
Exclusive App:
Personalised Support:
The Mental Fitness 12-Week Intensive includes;
Seven Video Sessions
In these highly engaging, bite-sized sessions, you will be guided through experiential exercises that deepen and personalise your understanding of the mental fitness tools. You leave inspired and energised for the week's daily practices.
Exclusive App Guiding Your Daily Practice
Each day a different focus is assigned through a personalised companion app available exclusively to program participants.
Daily practice builds one small muscle at a time, laying down new neural pathways to form lasting positive habits of your mind. The cumulative impact by the program's end is substantial.
Interactive PQ Gym
Innovative 10-second PQ Reps build up your Self-Command muscle. You learn to be clear-headed and calm even in the midst of great challenges, able to command your mind to shift from Saboteur to Sage response.
Daily Progress Tracking
The App tracks your daily progress against minimum targets associated with the new neural pathway (muscle) formation. Daily coaching tips continue to both encourage and challenge you to keep motivated.
Weekly Coaching Call~Where the Magic happens
Research shows that having personal support or accountability peers will increase your chances of success by 500%. .
I will coach you throughout the 12 weeks to achieve the deepest insights, the greatest benefits and create the life-changing results you deserve.
Your future self says thank you.
Online Cohort Community
The App includes access to the Positive Intelligence global community, offering you a wide selection of perspectives, experiences and support.
You will also have access to a private forum accessible only to your Pod.
Participants report the online cohort community to be one of the key aspects of sustaining their daily practice enthusiasm.
Need a little extra help?
One-on-one coaching allows you to explore and understand your specific Saboteurs at a deeper level.
Top up private sessions can be scheduled at any time during the intensive. These can be especially helpful when trying to understand how your top Saboteur impacts your professional and personal life.
One-on-one coaching can also be added at the end of the intensive to ensure you stay motivated.
Group support really works.
Working with others who are experiencing the same, often life-changing, practices increases your chances of success by 500%.
Some people prefer to create their own groups made up of friends, family or co-workers. Completing this work together gives you a shared vocabulary, allowing you to bond and connect at a deeper level, feeling more connected with the important people in your life.
Others prefer the idea of anonymity and trust Eloise to build a safe and supportive space.
Want to fly solo?
Group coaching, even in small groups, isn't for everyone; I get that.
That is why I offer the Enhanced Mental Fitness Intensive.
This program included personalised one-on-one coaching.
"What I like most about Eloise's coaching is her empathy, dedication and ability to distill what she has heard into valuable insights."
Charmaine Ho
Mental Fitness Kick-Start Intensive Schedule
Week 1:
During the first week, you learn innovative 10-second PQ Reps that boost your self-command. This enables you to run your brain rather than being run by your Saboteur-hijacked brain. Self-command is key to intercepting unhelpful mental habits and rewiring your brain to respond more effectively.
Boost Your Self-Command Muscle
Week 2:
For this entire week, you'll intercept and weaken the most damaging Saboteur, the Judge. You discover how judging yourself, others, and circumstances is a key source of your stress and quite damaging to your performance. Most participants discover their Judge to be far more prevalent and damaging than they suspected.
Intercept the Judge Saboteur
Week 3:
This week you intercept and weaken your top Saboteur as identified through the Saboteur Assessment.
The Saboteurs are;
Avoider, Controller, Hyper-Achiever, Hyper-Rational, Hyper-Vigilant, Pleaser, Restless, Stickler, Victim.
Intercept your Accomplice Saboteurs
Week 4:
After weakening your Saboteurs, it is now time to strengthen your Sage, the counterpart to your Saboteurs. Your Sage lives in an entirely different part of your brain and generates all your positive emotions, allowing you to achieve peak performance through a calm and clear mind.
Shift From Saboteur to Sage
Week 5:
The Sage region of the brain enables 5 primary powers.
Like the 3 primary colours, these 5 powers recombine to form all of the emotional intelligence competencies considered crucial to professional success.
Boost the Sage Powers
Week 6:
In our final week, you use your Sage's Navigate and Activate powers to take clear-headed, laser-focused, decisive action
Take Clear-Headed, Laser-Focused Action
Week 7:
In this session, you will discover how to continue using your PQ tools for a variety of work and life applications.
These areas include;
Stress, Work/life balance, parenting, leadership, conflict and personal relationships
Sustain the Momentum
Week 8-12:
This is where you bring everything you have learnt into the real world. Your mental muscles are new and need to be nurtured so they continue to grow. You will gain a deeper understanding of how to bring this into your everyday life.
Mental Fitness for Life
PQ Program vs Traditional Training
Traditional training most often has very short-lived results. This happens for 3 reasons:
1. Traditional training focuses on insight rather than muscle. The insight that feeling like an imposter won't automatically lead you to feel more confident. A shift like that requires new mental muscles to alter your brain activation.
2. Traditional training treats the symptoms rather than the cause. For example, teaching you active listening techniques to improve your EQ will only have a temporary result if your deeply-seated Judge Saboteur is not exposed and intercepted.
3. Traditional training has no common operating system. Since each training you attend uses a different framework—the 7 steps of managing conflict, the 5 secrets of managing time, etc.--the frameworks compete against each other for your awareness, so eventually all fade away.
The PQ operating system addresses all forms of personal and professional development. Whether learning to manage conflicts, manage time, or perform better under pressure, you apply the exact same operating system:
● Intercept Saboteurs
● Initiate Self-Command (through 10-second PQ Reps)
● Apply your Sage Powers (Empathise, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, Activate)
One simple framework covers a variety of applications, simplifying personal and professional development.
Impact on Emotional Intelligence
The PQ Program automatically boosts the root-level building blocks for all 18 Emotional Intelligence competencies.
Mental Fitness for Dancers and Athletes
Strong emotional resiliency allows you to perform at your best
The life of a athlete is unlike most other profession because it is so physically and emotionally demanding.
High levels of Mental Fitness allows you to;
• Engage in deeper emotional self-awareness and confidence.
• Achieve peak performance even under the pressure of performance.
• Feel more resilient, less stressed and in emotional control.
• Give the ability to embrace uncertainty and vulnerability with purpose, vision and peace of mind.
Mental fitness is the antidote to self-doubt after years of pushing your spirit to its limits.
Mental Fitness for Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Great leadership is a mindset, not a role
Great leadership is a mindset, not a role
Mental Fitness gives you laser focus, clarity of vision and the ability to identify your weaknesses. This is the secret sauce behind every great leader.
Leaders come in many different shapes and sizes. In one form or another, we are all leaders: Leaders in a company, leaders in the home, leaders in our own lives.
• A leader never loses sight of their vision.
• A leader knows how to inspire.
• A leader is patient and understanding.
• A leader encourages their team to be self-sufficient.
All of these traits apply to both themselves and others. Growing your Sage powers opens a world of possibilities making you the sort of leader that people want to follow.
Mental Fitness for Teams
There have been some exciting results when company leaders have offered the Mental Fitness Intensive to their teams.
These are some of the direct impacts reported from completing this program.
• Dramatically improved team dynamics
• Increased sales
• Enhanced levels of creativity
• Increased company morale
• More inclusive company culture
• Better interdepartmental communications
• Dialogue flows without disputes or fear of retribution
All the above leads to a better working environment and lower turnover of employees leading to a more profitable bottom line.
Mental Fitness for Families
There's nothing like family. The people we're related to by blood or marriage can be our closest allies, our greatest sources of love and support.
They can also drive us nuts!
This is why Mental Fitness training is vital if you want to create a cohesive family unit.
Understanding your loved ones' Saboteurs and having the same language to talk about them is an incredibly powerful and positive way to create peace and harmony in your home.
In effect, you can banish the Saboteurs that lead to arguments and upset and have new conversations through your sage brain allowing you to know and accept each other lovingly, with emotional honesty and openness.
Yes, even with teenagers!
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Mental Fitness for you
Mental Fitness is for you if you want
1. Better Sleep
2. Less stress
3. Better efficiency at work
4. Fulfilling relationships
5. Work and home life improved
6. Calmer, happier, higher energy
7. Enjoying every day, not just the final accomplishments
8. Profound growth experience.
9. Remain calm during challenging times
Stanford lecturer and New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individual Achieve Their True Potential, Shirzad Chamine is the creator of the Positive Intelligence, Mental Fitness Program.
Shirzad presents the weekly videos and inspires you throughout the daily apps.
As the former CEO of the world’s largest coach training organisation, Shirzad had coached hundreds of CEO’s, teams and individuals.
I have been personally trained by Shirzad and am amongst the first to be a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach.
Shirzad continues to be my mentor to this day.
I follow Shirzad’s footsteps and share his vision to change the world by helping people build their mental fitness and live happier, more fulfilling, and productive lives.
I am proud to be one of the first coaches to have been trained and certified by Shirzad Chamine, the Positive Intelligence Program creator.
I continue to be mentored by him to this day.
I am also a Certified Leadership and Personal Development Coach (CCA) specialising in confidence, self-esteem and resilience coaching.
When should I start?
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is now."
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FAQ's
This program is right for you if you a) have had any stress, negative thoughts or feelings about yourself. B) wish to improve your performance and productivity whilst dramatically reducing your anxiety, c) are ready to make a dramatic and positive change that lasts a lifetime.
It is a common misconception that negative emotions are helpful. No pain no gain is a well known saying.
Many believe that stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement.
Feeling pain when your hand touches a hot stove is essential, but only for a split second. Your Saboteurs do the equivalent of keeping your hand on the hot stove, for days, weeks or even years. These negative emotions then harm both performance and happiness.
In this program teaches you to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, and then quickly shift to the positive region of the brain that has the calm clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.
The program requires watching a weekly 1-hour video that is broken up into smaller bite-sized units to make it easier to fit with a busy life.
The app guided, mental muscle building exercises are also short and easy to manage totalling only 15 minutes of your day.
In reality this accounts for less than 2% of your day. Right now your Saboteurs are costing you far more than 2% of your time, effort, energy, and productivity. Consider how much more than 2% of time and productivity this seven-week investment will save for years to come.
At the heart of this program is individual development, yet completing it with family, friends or teams has been described as best team building and unifying experience they have ever had.
Going through this program together significantly deepens trust, address small or large conflicts without shame or blame and offers a common framework for helping each other grow.
Yes, if you would like to participate in the Positive Intelligence program with any group of 8 people and above, please contact me for more information.
