Mental Fitness

What is Mental Fitness?

 

Mental fitness is being able to have and maintain a state of well-being, while cultivating an awareness of how we think, behave, and feel and its impact on others. Mental dexterity determines how we handle stress, respond to setbacks, relate to others, and make choices.  It’s the combination of strengthening emotional intelligence and the durability to call upon it even under stress.  

Ultimately mental fitness impacts our performance as well as our relationships.

 

Why build Mental Fitness? 

 

The biggest challenges leaders face today are not physical or a lack of resources, technology, and information. The challenges that hold us back from reaching our greatest success are personal and interpersonal. They are challenges of communication, connection, collaboration, and our own resiliency.  

 

Rising to these challenges requires a different set of skills. They require perspective, emotional intelligence, empathy, curiosity, and bold action. The good news is that just as we can exercise to improve our physical fitness, we can exercise to build our mental fitness too. 

 

How can Mental Fitness Coaching Benefit You?

 

Proactively building mental fitness enables you to turn the corner; gain buy-in, build a strong team, establish partnerships, handle conflict, navigate relationships, and drive to scale, all while staving off burnout and without straining relationships along the way. 

 

How Mental Fitness Coaching Works?

 

1. Gain Insight. You’re smart, capable and remarkable!  But don’t be fooled.  The same strengths that helped you achieve successful, can quickly turn into your biggest self-saboteurs and prevent you from achieving your greatest goals. Identify and anticipate blind spots.

2. Set Goals & Take Action. Insights alone don’t get you to change behavior.  After all, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things.  Transform insights into actions. 

3. Grow.  A coaching relationship provides the space, support, and accountability to keep your goals and values at the forefront, even when challenges threaten to derail your long-term vision. Through exploration, discovery, and learning, you can develop the skills to handle today’s challenges and navigate those in the future. 

 

Could Coaching Could Be Right For You?  Do you:

• Feel “it’s all on me” and struggle to delegate or give up control.

• Get distracted by short-term wins or small roadblocks- losing sight of the forest through the trees.

• Get frustrated by the pace of progress, or struggle to build coalitions or negotiate.

• Feel irritated when others don’t get on board with what you know is best.

• Spend more time than you’d like turning over decisions in your head.

• Feel like your life outside work is paying the price – skipping workouts, losing sleep.