Building Mental Fitness · 02 Read · FOUNDATION
Five steps. About twenty minutes. One clear next action at each.
Sign up once, take the two licensed instruments, transfer your results, receive the Building Mental Fitness Report, and schedule a Mental Fitness Discovery conversation with Steve Kopecky. Both instruments are authored and hosted by Positive Intelligence; Compass sees only what you transfer here.
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Sign up
Register with Compass
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Take the two assessments
Open the Saboteur Assessment, then the PQ® Score
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Transfer your results
Enter your PQ® Score and top three Saboteurs
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Receive your Building Mental Fitness Report
Download your report
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Schedule your Mental Fitness Discovery
Schedule a Mental Fitness Discovery conversation
Your path · five steps
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01 · Now
Sign up
02 · Next
Take the two assessments
03 · Next
Transfer your results
04 · Next
Receive your Building Mental Fitness Report
05 · Next
Schedule your Mental Fitness Discovery
Step 01 · Sign up
Register with Compass
Name, work email, organization and role — the minimum to create your record and send your instructions. You are never asked again.
Register with Compass →The Mental Fitness Read · Steps 01 and 02
Sign up once. Then take the two assessments.
Who is behind this?Steve Kopecky · Compass Performance, Inc.
Compass is an enterprise operating architecture firm. We design the system that makes organizations more capable — and leave the capability in your hands.
FIRST™ values
- Face Reality with Faith. Face the current reality honestly, focus on what matters most, and hold conviction in the path forward.
- Integrity & Intent. Align words, actions, decisions, and purpose.
- Responsibility & Results. Own outcomes and follow through on commitments.
- Simplicity & Respect. Remove unnecessary complexity and respect people's time and capacity.
- Trust & Ownership. Build trust through transparency, accountability, and ownership.
Your assessment data is yours. Compass does not sell or share it, and we treat confidentiality as part of the architecture. Read the privacy standard.
Building Mental Fitness Report
Enter your score and top three saboteurs.
When the saboteurs run the day, the bill arrives later — opportunities not taken, conversations avoided, regrets that compound quietly. Compass builds the branded report: your range read, what each pattern is costing in decisions and relationships, and the one move to train first.
Time = Life. Use it well.
Your submission is recorded with Compass so Steve Kopecky can read it with you, and you download your own copy here — under the Compass standard, nothing is emailed on your behalf.
Step 3 · Enter your results
Your PQ score and your ranked Saboteurs
You already have your own report from Positive Intelligence. This step creates the additional Compass read — an interpretation of the results you enter, which Compass does not administer or own. Nothing is recorded until you give consent.
The daily drill the report prescribes
Ninety seconds in, ten seconds out, repeated daily.
A guided tactile, sound and breathing sequence you can run anywhere. That is how the score moves — over weeks, not days.
Daily practice
The assessment names the pattern. Two to three minutes a day, three to four times a day, changes it.
Mental fitness moves the same way physical fitness does — short reps, done daily. Run the guided drill, then keep the day honest with the checklist.
Why this 90 seconds matters
The cost of skipping it
Every leader already has saboteurs — the Judge, the Controller, the Hyper-Achiever. They cost you one thing that compounds: the quality of the decision in front of you right now. A single reactive email, a rushed hire, a deferred hard conversation — each is a saboteur tax on the next curve.
How it fits the day
Three reps before your first meeting calibrate the day. Name the saboteur once when it shows up, pause ten seconds before one hard response, and close the day with one honest read on what drove you. Ninety seconds in, ten seconds out, repeat. It is the smallest rep that changes how you architect the system around you.
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No reps logged yet. Ninety seconds today starts the streak.
Guided drill · three reps
Rep 01 · Touch
Rub two fingertips together slowly. Give it your full attention — feel the ridges, the warmth, the friction.
Rep 02 · Breath
Follow one breath the whole way in and the whole way out. When attention drifts, bring it back without judgment.
Rep 03 · Sound
Pick the farthest sound you can hear and hold it. Let the nearer sounds fall into the background.
Drill idle
Today’s checklist · 0/4
Resets each day · stored on this device
Positive Intelligence®, the PQ® Score, and the Saboteur model are trademarks and the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass Performance, Inc. does not own them and claims no rights in them; Compass is an independent user of these licensed instruments. The Compass service is Mental Fitness™, and the reading, interpretation and commentary here are Compass's own.
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Compass FOUNDATION
Where mental fitness sits in the operating system.
Mental fitness is not a wellbeing program. It is measured interference in executive judgment. Compass Mental Fitness is a capability inside FOUNDATION — one layer of the architecture Compass installs, held to the same evidence standard as every other layer.
Where it sits
FOUNDATION · Face Reality · self-leadership. FOUNDATION is the first element of the Compass core architecture, and Face Reality begins with the leader's own judgment. Mental fitness is one capability inside that discipline — never a program running alongside the operating system.
What it changes
A reading is evidence, not an intervention. Every engagement ships a system change with the practice — decision rights, standards, cadence or role clarity — so the insight lands in how the enterprise operates.
Where Positive Intelligence® appears
In exactly one layer: the two instruments and the practice app are licensed from Positive Intelligence, LLC and credited as theirs. The diagnostic reading, the enterprise interpretation and the system change are Compass.
Why it comes first
Mental fitness underwrites the whole architecture. Every discipline — SIMPLIFY, LEAD, GROW, ARC™ — is executed by leaders under pressure, so the quality of judgment at FOUNDATION sets the ceiling on everything built above it.
Catch the saboteur — the Judge first — then move forward with curiosity and empathy rather than the reaction that arrived first.
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Empathize
Hold the standard and the person at the same time. No lowered bar, no blame read.
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Explore
Get the facts of the condition before the opinion of it — evidence, not narrative.
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Innovate
Generate real alternatives instead of defending the first design that comes to mind.
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Navigate
Choose against declared priorities and True North, not against the loudest pressure.
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Activate
Commit to one specific, dated action with an owner — recorded where the work is run.
The Judge, the Saboteur and Sage models and the five Sage powers are the work and trademarks of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass is an independent licensed user; the enterprise application above is Compass’s.
Who Compass is
Compass is an enterprise operating architecture firm. We exist because most organizations are not broken — they have outgrown the design that made them successful. The work is architect-led, integrated, evidence-based, and built to transfer. Compass leaves business architects, not dependency.
About Compass
One firm, one engagement, one operating system — architected with you and left in your hands.
The whole architecture is on the FOUNDATION discipline page.
Step 05 · Mental Fitness Discovery
A reading is evidence. Twenty minutes turns it into a decision.
Bring your Building Mental Fitness Report. Steve Kopecky reads the pattern with you and you decide together what, if anything, is worth doing about it. No obligation.
Where the conversation points that way, The Mental Fitness Lab is the deeper facilitated cohort program that can follow. It is never a requirement for the assessments or the report. How the Lab runs
Not sure where to start?
Three questions, and we point you to the right instrument.
Under a minute. From this page, most leaders begin with The organization.