David Gustafson, Mental Fitness Coach

Founder of Lion Heart Coaching

Build powerful habits with Mental Fitness Coaching

Positive Intelligence®

Most attempts at positive change fail because we stop at insight and don’t build habits. Sustained change towards a more positive mind requires laying down neural pathways to form new habits through consistent daily practice. And that’s what our PQ® Program empowers you to do.

Lasting positive change requires intense initial practice

Most people aren’t able to maintain the level of consistent practice necessary to fully install these new changes. Most of us need support and guidance. The PQ® Program is a simple, practical, and robust program that was designed specifically to provide that support and guidance.

Lion Heart Coaching offers the PQ® Program, group facilitation, 1:1 coaching sessions over 12 weeks.

how it works

daily practice

15 minutes/day of app-guided practice enables you to establish mental muscles (neural pathways). These exercises are bite-sized to fit your busy schedule and customized based on how you self-sabotage.

Weekly Focus

Weekly hour-long video delivers deep experiential exploration of the week’s focus. You’ll feel inspired and energized to practice during the week in order to sustain the benefits experienced during the video sessions.

Measurable Progress

You’ll feel motivated through instant feedback on exactly how much progress you’re making towards building the 3 core muscles of mental fitness. Brain rewiring may be visible in MRI imaging within 8 weeks.

Community Support

Lion Heart Coaching will establish a support and accountability group (a “Pod”) with other program participants for you. Research has shown this to be a critical success factor for establishing lasting new positive habits of the mind. Alternatively - you can go through the course individually. In either case, your coach, David Gustafson, will meet with you weekly in your Pod meeting.

1:1 Coaching

After the 6-week course of the PQ® Program, you will have 6 one-on-one coaching sessions with Coach David. In these sessions Coach David will help you to specifically apply your new Positive Intelligence muscles to the areas that matter most to you in your life.

6-Week Foundation

You get to build a foundation of mental fitness by strengthening three critical mental muscles to shift the balance of power from your inner Saboteurs (your negative self) to your inner Sage (your positive self).

  • Through a breakthrough process called PQ® Reps, you get to boost your Self-Command muscle. Each PQ® Rep only takes 10 seconds and can be done with eyes open or closed. With each PQ® Rep, you develop greater mastery over your own mind, quiet the negative, and activate the positive region of your brain.

  • You get to intercept your top Saboteurs the moment they try to hijack your thoughts, feelings, and actions. In preparation for this practice, you get to expose the lies, limiting beliefs and damage of your Saboteurs, so they can no longer fool you into thinking they are helpful to you.

  • You get to practice the Sage Perspective that every problem or challenge can be converted into a gift and opportunity. And you get to generate the gift through the 5 Sage Powers of Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate.

What makes the Positive Intelligence® program different

Focus on Habit Formation

Most trainings result in short-lived improvements. For sustained results, we focus on building neural pathways that form lasting new habits. That’s why we call this “mental fitness”.

Treat Root Cause, not Symptoms

Positive Intelligence’s factor analysis research has revealed the foundational root-level enablers and disablers of optimal performance and wellbeing. We rewire the brain at the root cause level.

Develop all 3 Core Muscles

Mental fitness requires 3 core muscles. Saboteur Interceptor, Self-Command, and Sage. Meditation only focuses on Self-Command, which is why it is not sustained by most.

Enroll today

Imagine yourself able to remain calm, clear headed, stress-free, and positive even in the midst of handling work and life’s greatest challenges. What becomes possible for you, in achievement, in peace of mind and wellness, and in your relationships?

Make a commitment now to boost your mental fitness.

Congratulations on starting your journey to transform your life! The 12-Week app-guided course with coach and pod support, including 6 one-on-one coaching sessions with Coach David.

Most of the descriptions and images on this page are from PositiveIntelligence.com. David Gustafson is licensed to teach and display this program material but gratefully acknowledges that this material was created by Shirzad Chamine and the incredible Positive Intelligence organization.