178 How Positive Intelligence Builds Resilience From the Inside Out

What if you could train your brain to spend more time supporting you—and less time sabotaging you?

With the Positive Intelligence app, daily guided practices (available on your phone or computer) help you build mental fitness by strengthening your Sage mindset.

Over time, you’ll find yourself spending more time in calm, clear, creative thought—and less time reacting to stress, self-doubt, or overwhelm.

 This shift is measurable through your Positive Intelligence Quotient (PQ)—and it starts with one small step at a time.

 Curious how it works?  It's all in this episode and welcome back to season 6 of Connect Inspire Create.

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Hello from your host, Carol Clegg. A coach for coaches! I work with women coaches to find balance with ease and flow, manage stress, cultivate self-empathy, and set meaningful goals that resonate with their individual coaching practices.

My clients often have too many ideas and struggle to decide which one to focus on first, leading to a HUGE BLOCK in just getting started. I love to help simplify the process, explore what is getting in the way and guide you to choose the next project, enjoy the journey, and celebrate progress while taking small, meaningful steps.

If you would like to take the complimentary Saboteur assessment to discover what gets in your way and then follow up with a complimentary coaching session to explore your results. Take your assessment here or visit carolclegg.com

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Well, hello, hello, and welcome. Welcome back to Connect, Inspire, Create. And I can hardly believe that this is actually the sixth season for the podcast. And we have been through so many variations and changes, and I am just really excited to be back with you. So my last episode, episode 177, go back and Have a listen to it. It's actually quite fun. The title of it is Crafting Your Unique Life Journey. And I actually just listened to it again before stepping in to record this as I come back from a wonderful travel break that had me in Portugal for a And interestingly enough, found this time around working as a coach on the road, coach on a boat, working from different destinations, a little challenging. And it led me to actually create a Trello board to help me stay on task and stay focused. But that is not the main topic of what I want to share with you today. My last episode spoke about the joy and setting goals and what those look like and the importance of the journey of creating them. And I've realized that I've missed that. Actually recording my show. I have missed the wonderful people that I meet along the way. And I was just motivated today to try something a little different. And that is to record my latest blog post, which is basically just covering what I do as a positive intelligence coach and how I use the Positive Intelligence Foundation. I help women coaches and small teams explore what is draining their energy and just sharing these wonderful tools for mental fitness that just helps you create new habits and learn really simple ways to shift, to create a shift and to get into alignment with your day with ease and flow. And if you follow me at all on my newsletter, which you are welcome to subscribe to, or any of my posts on LinkedIn, which is perhaps my favorite place to hang out, you will often hear me talk about ease and flow. But in this blog post that I wrote about how positive intelligence builds resilience from the inside out, one of the things I just wanted to highlight was the fact that this is an introduction to a daily practice and a really powerful Short exercise, building neural pathways, switching and changing. But the repetition over time is what's going to allow you to hear your own sage voice, which the winning formula or the winning solution out of that is the cultivation of a positive, resilient mindset. And I certainly believe that that is something that that can serve all of us, whether that be in relationships, in your coaching career. As coaches, we so often pour out into others and sometimes neglect to take care of ourselves. So what is positive intelligence and how can it shift your mindset? So as I mentioned, as a positive intelligence coach, I often find that the simplicity and And the power of this framework becomes even clearer the more I use it myself. There are always waves and seasons when one loves whatever app it might be that you're using or method that you're using, but it's not always consistent. And that's okay. I use other tools for my self-care journey in the morning. I love Insight Timer and Headspace. And I complement... My time where I spend within the Positive Intelligence app with those two and just find the combination of the trio certainly does a lot to help create resilience and a positive day. But at its core, Positive Intelligence is about building your mental fitness and it's giving you that ability to handle life's challenges with what we mentioned, greater resilience, clarity and ease and flow. So positive intelligence in a nutshell. The program was developed by Shehzad Shemain and positive intelligence helps you identify and quieten your inner saboteurs. That's the terminology that you'll hear us talking about. And those are those habitual negative thought patterns that have been with us forever. And we've given them names. There's 10 of them. And those could be the judge saboteur, perhaps the controller or the pleaser, the victim. And when you hear the names, you could sort of hear the resonate where that might be, I recognize that. But these come into play and often generate stress, fear, guilt, or perhaps just self-doubt. And they hijack our minds and push us into reaction rather than reflection. So is there an antidote? Yep. That's what we love to offer through this program as PQ Coaches. It's cultivating your sage perspective. And what is that? The wiser, calmer part of your mind characterized by empathy, creativity, curiosity, and then being able to take clear-headed action. So a lot of this is the right brain, left brain, and we want you to switch from that analytical left brain mindset over to the right brain and see what ease and flow, what peace that can bring into challenging situations. So the sage powers that we talk about and the PQ system itself operates from a belief that every challenge contains a hidden opportunity or a gift. And sometimes that can be a challenge to say, well, where is the gift in this? But if it's not a gift, we teach you how to work with acceptance, for the moment, and then to search for the hidden opportunity because behind everything, along with all your life experiences and everything that you put together, there is learning, there's gifts, and that's made you who you are today. So in this practice that we do, this means that when something goes wrong, you want to notice that your hand, we like to use this analogy, your hand on the hot stove. So instead of spiraling into judgment or fear, you pause. And you center yourself and you'll hear us talking about PQ reps, which is to ground yourself. And then you can ask, how can this setback be a gift or an opportunity? So when you hear me talking about PQ reps, I want you to think of it like training your mental muscles and just like building physical strength. Developing mental fitness requires regular practice. And that's why this is a daily application. And in PQ, we use these short, mindful-based exercises called PQ reps. And these help and work together to strengthen your brain's sage muscles. In the app, there's a variety of them. And then, of course, you can always include your own mindfulness and meditation exercises. and breath work. Breathing is such an easy go-to if you feel yourself escalating and overwhelmed and need to settle down and not react and not respond. But these reps, these PQ reps that we share in our coaching foundation models, build your capacity just to stay present, help you manage the stress and then return to trying to find the ease and flow and get clarity. So when I talk about these app-based tools from PQ, they are actually available both on your computer and for your phone, Android and iPhone. And it makes it super easy to build your daily practice. There are a whole lot of additional weekly and daily focus items. There's a lot of different learning, but there's an area within where you are building your sage steps daily and you have the opportunity to do different PQ reps with different times. There's a two minute one and there's a five minute one and there's a 12 minute one. So there's different ways that you can bring this into your day. And this is just one small step at a time. And as my clients build the skill, they do, they really gradually find themselves, oh, I'm spending more time in sage mode and less time caught up in saboteur thinking. And there's a measurement, there is a quiz or an assessment that you can take online with positive intelligence. And we call it measuring your positive intelligence quotient. And this is the percentage of time that your mind is serving you rather than sabotaging you. And we recommend taking this, you know, a couple of times during the year just to see where you're at and how you are doing with your building up this resilient, positive mindset. So the payoff, presence, perspective, and purpose. So lots of research and real-world results show that having a higher PQ correlates with improved performance, better relationships, and greater well-being. So you can certainly see how even if you take on learning this method It's going to serve you in so many places. So as a coach, it's going to help take care of you and your performance in your coaching business. It's going to help you have better relationships with the people around you and then overall greater well-being for yourself. So you, beyond the stats, this is the internal shift that really matters. You help you to move from emotional reactivity into a grounded state. resourceful state and to give you these tools to help you reframe challenges and just approach your life with more ease and flow and focus and beginning to see these little setbacks not as threats but as an invitation to grow because that is a journey that we're all on improving and increasing our mental fitness and our mindset there's never an end we just keep like going to the gym. We keep building on this muscle. So if you are curious on how you can strengthen your mental fitness and how positive intelligence and myself as a coach can support you on your personal or your professional journey, I invite you to book a complimentary discovery call. And let's just explore how you too can increase the time you spend in positive states and learn to manage your perceptions with more clarity and ease and confidence. And if you're looking for where to book that discovery call, depending on where you're listening to this, but do head over to my website, which is carol.com. So I am happy to be back. This is jumping into season six of Connect Inspire Create. I have a wonderful list of very patient guests. So I thank you for those that have been communicating with me and waiting until I have felt ready to be able to be back. in a good space to record, in a good space emotionally and mentally. And we are ready to roll for the new season on Connect Inspire Create. Take care and have a beautiful day.