Mental Fitness

Mental Fitness is the capacity to handle life’s situations with a positive, healthy, growth mindset rather than a negative, fixed mindset. The brain’s built-in negativity bias can easily put you in a downward spiral of judging yourself, others, and your circumstances with sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that dramatically limit your potential and that of the team’s potential.

“Recognizing my self-worth was the biggest difference this program made. I’m not the only one going through stressors at work.” -Mental Fitness Client

DRW’s Mental Fitness program is based on the Positive Intelligence™ (PQ) framework, synthesizing recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science. A root cause analysis has found 10 Saboteurs responsible for negative mental patterns (self-sabotage) and 5 positive mental patterns that help shift to the Sage brain (PQ Brain), your true self, that leads to the highest level of success and sustained happiness.

Take the Saboteur Assessment

At a recent Harvard Business Club of Chicago  presentation on, Mental Fitness (PQ) is the X-Factor, attendees learned the key to Mental Fitness (PQ) is to turn down the volume of your dominant left brain and turn up the volume of your right brain – your “wiser self.” Strong PQ weakens the internal Saboteurs who generate “negativity” in how they respond to challenges.

• Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness.
• Your “Sage” lives in your right brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, gratitude, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action.
• Your Sage enables you to perform better and feel happier.

DRW’s Mental Fitness Group Coaching Program – Move from Self-Sabotage to Self-Mastery

Our 8-week PQ Coaching Program is designed as a mental fitness boot camp for small cohorts of 5-7 people. We begin with:

• A Program Kick-off includes an overview of the research, distribution of online assessments for Saboteurs and PQ Score, and preparation for the online program.
• Weekly one-hour video lessons taught by Shirzah Charmin and weekly one-hour group coaching sessions with Linda Roszak Burton.
• Final week wrap-up with action items and next steps.

An exclusive PQ app guides your daily practice, gives access to an interactive gym, lets you check your daily progress, and connects with members of the PQ community. The app provides motivation and structured practice for 15 minutes per day for the 8 weeks. This gamification app offering is so important to your mental fitness you have access to the app for an entire year.  The app also includes a copy of the eBook, Positive Intelligence

Practicing Mental Fitness helps you rewire your brain for peak performance, team effectiveness, and improved relationships. We can train and enable you and your team to maximize performance, relationships, and well-being simultaneously by focusing on the root-level mental muscles for maximum impact.

How is this program different? Most training programs result in short-lived improvements. For sustained results, we focus on building neural pathways that form lasting new habits. That’s why we call this “mental fitness.”

Still not sure? Call 401-707-3118 or email lburton@drwcoaching.com for a free consult and I’ll send you a short self-assessment to gauge your readiness.