Mental Fitness foundations

Why can’t I just let go of trying to make it perfect?

Why can’t I just stop procrastinating and get on with what I need to do?

Why can’t I just stick with what I’ve started?

Why can’t I just ‘live a little’?

If one or more of these are well-worn frustrations, I greet you. Perfectionism, avoidance, restlessness and overachieving are common among academics. They are part of a suite of automatic habits of mind humans develop to cope with stressful situations.

If left unchecked they can be a big drain of energy, compromising your health and well-being, productivity and effectiveness, and happiness. And expectations that these habits are easy to break – just let go! just do it! just stick it out! just give yourself a break! – add shame to what is already hurting you. 

A powerful way out of this spiral is to learn to work skillfully with your most self-sabotage patterns: noticing them, intercepting them, and switching to a more resourceful, expansive, choiceful state of being.

This will allow you to face messy circumstances more readily, and be more okay with finding yourself off balance. It will lessen feelings of
fraudulence and imposter syndrome. It will increase your ability to bounce back from mistakes, failure or rejection.

Six weeks of intensive practice through the app-based program from Positive Intelligence, combined with three coaching sessions with me, will set you up to engage recurrent challenges and pitfalls with greater self-leadership and less stress. With noticeable impact and results.