The key to positive intelligence is the 5 Sage Powers. The concept of positive intelligence helps us measure our PQ or level of happiness and success. You can take the assessment to learn yours. Positive Intelligence is based on the best-selling book by Shirzad Chamine. His book discusses why only 20% of teams and individuals achieve their true potential.

As a traditional Naturopath, I understand the correlation between emotional stress and disease or imbalances in our health. Your sage represents the deeper and wiser part of you. The essence of who God created you to be. The sage perspective is finding the gift or opportunity in any challenge. It has access to five great powers of your mind and you can tap into these powers to meet any challenge.

1. Empathy – showing appreciation, compassion, and forgiveness. Having empathy for oneself is our biggest challenge thanks to your judge.

2. Explore – Looking at issues with curiosity, openness, wonder, and fascination. This helps with problem-solving. Most of us start trying to solve a problem before exploring it, which is typically premature. Your judge, stickler, hyper-achiever, or controller will always try to step in.  Exploring is critical for learning from past failures.

3. Innovate – Always ask…”What’s a whole new way to do this?” Look for a job, lose weight, and get healthy. Thinking “I’ve tried everything” is not the truth. The judge will start evaluating before you have fully brainstormed. No evaluation should occur during this phase.  Write out all the ideas, no matter how crazy, and end with the power game called Yes, And.  After each idea, you say, “Yes, and what I love about that idea is…”

4. Navigate – when you need to choose between multiple options, connect them with your values, purpose, or meaning. Take time now if you have not identified your values. It’s the compass for how you live daily.

5. Activate – move into pure, laser-focused, action, not distracted by saboteurs. When you know it’s time to take action, do not allow procrastination, distraction, or interference with saboteurs.

Here are some examples of what or who gets in our way.

1. The Judge wastes time by causing fear, stress, anger, disappointment or shame while you are taking action.
2. Avoider & Restless – avoid dealing with painful situations
3. Controller & Stickler – cause actions to be rigid, limiting your contribution to others
4. Hyper Achiever feels action is only focused on achievement-oriented objective
5. Hyper Rational has you miss the emotional signals from your self and others. So analytical to your demise.
6. The Victim convinces you to remain inactive to ensure you will become a victim and prove it right.
7. The Pleaser is focused on making others happy, which may have nothing to do with the goal.
8. Hyper Vigilant wastes enormous amounts of time and energy worrying about contingencies and creating anxiety from unwarranted risks

For other resources on reducing stress and mental fitness visit my Resource page or you can take the assessment to learn more about your mental fitness.

Join my private FB group where I shared a 5 Day series on PQ.   Or if you’d like to learn more about your assessment reach out and schedule a time to talk.