We help you recharge, refocus, and get stronger so that you can Lead your Team with Ease & Flow
We’ve been there – We get IT – We’ve got your back, even when others don’t.
We stand by you when things get tough when your goals seem out of reach when you need someone to talk to so that you can stand tall, calm, balanced, clear-headed, and confident in your power – in any leadership role & situation.
Founded by Ali Farahani, a former CIO/CTO & Leadership Coach, and Lucie Tesarova, a PQ Mental Fitness Trainer, our mission is to create a fun, affordable, science-based & technology-backed Mental Fitness Gym for IT leaders & their teams so that they can improve their performance, wellbeing, and relationship with ease & flow.
Victorious warriors win first in their minds, and then go to war. Defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu, Author of the Art of War (544 BCE - 496 BCE)
If you are
… then join us!
Allow yourself to be supported so that you can support and lead powerfully your teams and organization.
With us, you can become victorious. And turn the war into a play.
Start with your inner game first.
So then you can go, and lead powerfully from within – no matter in what environment you happen to be.
With us, you are not in the fight alone.
We have your back.
And we make you win and transform not just your inner game, but also the cultural game in your company.
Ready for your inner game training to begin?
You’ve Upgraded Your Systems, Now it’s Time to Upgrade Your Brain with PQ™ Operating System
As an IT Professional, your biggest asset is your brain and your true performance and success is a direct result of how effectively you use your brain to create, communicate and influence.
If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration, anger, disappointment, or unhappiness, as you handle work and relationship challenges.
It is estimated that, we’ve access to just 10% of our brain’s capacity. Think about iT: do you really use 100% of that 10% or even less? Does your brain works for you or against you?
If you were truly in control of your brain, would you let events, situations, peers, managers, customers, and others make you angry, frustrated, depressed, demotivated, anxious or burned out?
If you were in truly and fully in-command of your brain would you choose happiness for yourself or misery?
This is a sample chart showing one person’s most common ways of self-sabotage.
Fear is sabotaging you
Positive Intelligence (PQ) is a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.
Mental Fitness is a measure of your positive mental muscles(Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur).
Saboteurs react to challenges in ways that generate negative emotions such as stress, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, anger, shame, guilt, or worry.
Your Sage handles challenges through positive emotions like empathy, gratitude, curiosity, creativity, self-confidence, and calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action.
The relative strength of your positive Sage versus negative Saboteurs is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient).
PQ is a measure of mental fitness. It’s a predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.
Research shows that PQ significantly increases with practice and habits.
If you’re not physically fit, you’d feel physical stress as you climb a steep hill.
If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration, anger, disappointment, or unhappiness, as you handle work and relationship challenges.
80% of people score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance and happiness.
The great news? 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.
Research shows that ONLY when you’re positive you can use 100% of your brain power; it’s possible when you’re mentally fit.
This research was summarized in Shirzad Chamine’s book Positive Intelligence, a New York Times bestseller, translated into 20 languages.
Its effectiveness has been validated by:
The research reveals that:
Take this 2-minute Assessment to measure the strength of your Sage Powers.
If your answer to any of the above question is YES or SOMETIMES, then there is a pretty good chance that your work is sabotaging your performance, happiness and relationship.
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.
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.
This week you intercept and weaken the top accomplice to your Judge Saboteur, identified through the Saboteur Assessment from the following: Avoider, Controller, Hyper-Achiever, Hyper-Rational, Hyper-Vigilant, Pleaser, Restless, Stickler, Victim.
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, generates all your positive emotions, and achieves peak performance through a calm and clear mind.
The Sage region of the brain enables 5 primary powers. Analogous to the 3 primary colors, these 5 powers recombine to form all of the emotional intelligence competencies considered crucial to professional success.
In our final week, you use your Sage’s Navigate and Activate powers to take clear-headed, laser-focused, decisive action.
In this final session, you discover how to continue using your PQ tools for a variety of work and life applications.
This is the right program for you if you are a) committed to improving your performance and effectiveness dramatically while reducing stress, b) looking for a science-based and trusted system to make it stick, and c) willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don’t serve you.
Some people believe that negative emotions are helpful. For example, they think stress gives them their performance edge, or beating themselves or others up is helpful for continual improvement.
Feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm both performance and happiness.
In this program we learn 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.
Shirzad Chamine will personally conduct each of the weekly video sessions. Shirzad will also participate daily in the exclusive online community of the program participants to answer questions, provide coaching, and cheer you on.
Shirzad is the New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence, translated into 20 languages. He has been CEO of the largest coach training organization in the world and has trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools.
Shirzad lectures on Positive Intelligence at Stanford University and works with Stanford’s NCAA athletes. A preeminent C-suite advisor, Shirzad has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. His background includes graduate level studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.
You’d be committing to watching a 1-hour video once per week and doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program.
This might sound like a lot of time. In fact, cumulatively, it constitutes less than 2% of your awake time for the duration of the program. Please consider that 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 six-weeks investment will save for years to come.
You’d never learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it. You’ll be asked to read the first 8 chapters of the book while participating in the program. The book provides the research foundation and introduces the tools. The video session guides you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs. And the app coaches you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges.
Even though the focus of the program is individual development, team leaders often call this experience the best team building experience they have ever had. Going through this program together significantly deepens trust, helps clear the air related to recurrent team member conflicts since they’re mostly generated by Saboteurs, and gives the entire team a common framework for helping each other grow, making decisions, responding to setbacks, and managing conflicting styles and agendas.
Yes, if you would like to purchase the Positive Intelligence program for your employees, or any group of 8 people and above, please contact alfa@mindfittery.com for more information.
Contact/Questions?
For any questions, please contact support@mindfittery.com.
Copyright Positive Intelligence©. No reproduction, in any form, printed or electronic, is permitted without prior written permission from Positive Intelligence. www.positiveintelligence.com