Are You Frustrated That You Can’t Bridge The Gap Between What You Want... and What You Actually Do?
The First Book That Turn's Mental Health into Mental Fitness
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"One of the most important books I’ve read on mental well-being."
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What Makes This Book Different — and Why It Matters
A New Way to See Yourself – shift from fixing what’s wrong to training what’s strong..
Your own 7 Pillars Diagnostic Tool
So you know exactly where you stand and what to train.
Sharper Focus & Real Accomplishment
Move beyond distraction and actually finish what matters.
A New Way to See Yourself
Shift from fixing what’s wrong to training what’s strong.
7 Pillars of Mental Fitness
The Seven Pillars
It’s a training system — one that strengthens clarity, composure, and emotional stability under pressure.
1. Vision
The ability to orient life toward a clear sense of purpose and direction.
91% had a clearly articulated internal mission — not just career goals
58% used some form of visualization or future-mapping weekly
2. Attitude
The barometer of our inner state; the stance we bring to life’s pressures.
92% of top performers had a clear internal script for reframing setbacks (i.e., “this is feedback, not failure”)
78% described daily rituals for resetting their emotional tone before engaging in work
3. Awareness
The skill of noticing what is happening within and around us, without denial or distortion.
86% practiced some form of daily mental check-in, whether meditation, journaling, or self-audit
67% could accurately describe their energetic or emotional state without prompting
4. Adaptability
The capacity to adjust, pivot, and respond to changing circumstances with flexibility.
82% reported they intentionally rehearse plan B or C scenarios—not just to avoid failure, but to reduce anxiety
71% had a “structured pivot protocol” for switching tasks or roles under pressure
5. Grit
The endurance to keep going when things get hard, fueled by discipline and resilience.
74% said “finishing what I start” was a bigger point of pride than how fast or perfectly they did it
69% admitted that they’ve quit projects that no longer aligned — to preserve long-term stamina
6. Recovery
The ability to rest, reset, and replenish — not as a luxury, but as a discipline.
79% maintained regular contact with at least one mentor, coach, or support peer
64% described their success as “relational” driven by trust, co-regulation, or family
7. Connectivity
Deepen your relationships and networks so you’re never doing it alone.
88% had non-negotiable boundaries around rest and downtime
62% used movement-based or somatic recovery (e.g., walking, BBM, sauna, breathwork) over passive rest alone
Train Like The 1%
It’s Built on Over 3,000 Real Lives, Not Just Theory
This framework emerged from eight years of studying high performers across continents and disciplines—entrepreneurs, athletes, soldiers, artists, and clinicians. It reflects what actually works in the real world.
It Moves Beyond Mindset into Trainable Mental Fitness
This isn’t a self-help hack or a mindset shift—it’s a full system for building clarity, resilience, and emotional strength you can return to for life..
It Bridges Neuroscience, Psychology, and Lived Experience
Grounded in science, enriched by story, and designed to be applied. The 7 Pillars don’t just explain mental fitness—they give you the tools to build it.
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TESTIMONIALS
What the experts are saying
“A groundbreaking book—where neuroscience meets heart. A powerful roadmap to a productive, connected, and heart-centered life and mind.”
Dr. Elia Gourgouris
Author of 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness
“Strikes a rare balance between emotional depth, scientific rigor, and real-world application. One of the most important books I’ve read on mental well-being.”
Dr. Frank Forgnoni
Author of VISION for All Ages
“The 7 Pillars framework shifts us away from symptom-based diagnosis and toward a neurobiological, network-level understanding of the mind. This is the direction mental healthcare needs to go.”
Dr. Adrian Hodyard
MD, ScM
Aram Cargill
Researcher, Family Councilor, Author, and Father of nine.
Published in the International Journal of Family Medicine & Healthcare, the American Journal of Neurology Research, and the International Journal of Psychiatry Research, his work combines data from more than 3,000 individuals with lived experience — raising nine children, supporting neurodivergent development, and losing his father to suicide. This fusion of research and reality led to the 7 Pillars of Mental Fitness.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does mental fitness increase intelligence?
It doesn’t raise IQ scores overnight — but it does strengthen the foundations of intelligence that most of us overlook. Intelligence isn’t just raw brainpower; it depends on how well you can focus, adapt, recover, regulate stress, and connect with others. These are trainable capacities. The 7 Pillars of Mental Fitness build those capacities systematically.
When you recover faster, you can think clearer. When your awareness sharpens, your problem-solving improves. When your attitude and grit align, you persevere where others stall. So while mental fitness won’t change the number on an IQ test, it will unlock the intelligence you already have — helping you access deeper clarity, creativity, and effectiveness under pressure. In today’s world, that’s what “smarter” really means.
Is this a mental health model or a performance model?
Is this a mental health model or a performance model? It’s both—and neither, in the way they’re commonly defined. Mental Fitness lives between the binaries. It’s not just for healing. It’s not just for optimizing. It’s for building capacity—across thresholds, across seasons, across demands. Whether you’re navigating trauma recovery, parenting in chaos, leading in complexity, or rebuilding after burnout, this framework gives you something to build on.
Is this based on evidence or original theory?
Both. Each pillar is grounded in decades of interdisciplinary research—cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology, somatic regulation, resilience theory. But the structure of the model—the way the pillars integrate, the way they stack, the way they build the “metaphysical body”—is original. It didn’t emerge from theory alone. It was forged in lived pressure. Refined in practice. And tested across hundreds of lives and contexts.
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