Mental Fitness

Learn how to control your most powerful asset –your mind

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are” - Talmudic text

What is mental fitness?

Mental fitness is the ability to understand how your mind conditions your experience of reality, and to shape that process more intentionally in order to achieve positive outcomes. In other words, controlling your mind is a meta skill that can have a positive impact on your wellbeing and on everything you do.

What is the goal of mental fitness coaching?

The main goal of mental fitness coaching is to improve your mental clarity, and help you break free from patterns of thinking and behavior that prevent you from learning, growing, and living a more intentional and fulfilling life.

How does this coaching work?

The foundation of mental fitness coaching is improving your ability to notice what is going on in the present moment (that's called mindfulness), and your self-regulation skills. Depending on your needs, self-regulation skills may include controlling mental rumination, emotional reactivity, and stress; examining and correcting assumptions and distorted beliefs; cognitive reframing; improving mental clarity, focus, and tranquility; strengthening reasoning and critical thinking; overcoming unhelpful attachments, aversions, or habits; improving cognitive agility and adaptive capacity; and practicing qualities and values such as equanimity, gratitude, kindness, and compassion.

How do I succeed?

You will learn simple and empirically verifiable principles and techniques that will allow you to experience remarkable results very quickly. Obviously, your success depends a great deal on how well and often you practice. Part of my role as your coach is to act as your accountability partner, helping you manage any challenges you encounter.

Ultimately, mental fitness is best approached as a transformational journey of continuous improvement. All you need to get started is curiosity, and a desire to learn and grow. You will also need dedication and commitment because the forces that work against any of us being mindful, reflective, and caring –our habitual unawareness, automaticity, and behavioral inertia – are very tenacious.

Additional development goals that can be added to your coaching

• communicate more effectively, manage difficult conversations and conflict

• explore your values, and issues of purpose and meaning

• work through a difficult decision using your coach as a sounding board

• improve your work-life integration