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Time for a Change.
Coaching is a journey that exists through both conversation and action.
It usually beings at the point and time in your life that you see or experience something that:
- Isn’t working
- Is working, but could be better
- Has worked up until now to get you where you are now, but won’t get you where you want to go
- Is working for someone else, in their life... and you’ve experienced it such that you are touched, moved, or inspired, and compelled to take action toward having something similar in your life.
While change IS possible on your own, I invite you to consider a few things:
- Your view of your life, and hence your ability to change it, is based on your experience of the world. This has been formulated over all the years and decades of your life, and shaped by the choices you’ve made. If you could have done it any better up until now, you would have, right?
- All of the actions you’ve taken up until now have created a certain momentum in your life. You’re on a certain trajectory. And there is a very good chance that you’ll continue on that trajectory, unless you make a strong, conscious effort, serious commitment and investment in changing it.
- You can’t observe yourself living your life while you’re living it. While you might be able to tell something is off or not right, you can’t live it while also being the impartial observer, or know what’s needed to change it. It’s why professional athletes work with coaches, and why clients hire me.
- There is a massive difference between being interested and being committed. While you might see things around you that aren’t working so well, change won’t happen with a casual interest or awareness. That’s why New Year’s resolutions fail before the end of January each year.
- There are things that you’ve probably tried to change repeatedly in your life. You think to yourself each time that you should be able to change them. You’ve even committed to doing it… and yet, decades, disappointments, and dollars later, you’re still stuck with the same problem.
Do any of these resonate with you? If so, you may want to consider coaching.
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ABOUT
About Andy.
Andy Petranek is a professional life coach, specializing in relationships, career, and personal leadership. He's been helping people create greater levels of confidence, joy, fulfillment, and success in their lives for over 25 years.
- He hired his first life coach 26 years ago, in 1995, before life coaching was even "a thing". Since then he has been a student of self-discovery and exploration, working with coaches, coaching programs, and attending seminars, in a quest to understand life more deeply, heal himself more fully, and love himself and others more abundantly.
- In 2013, he graduated from the University of Santa Monica with a master's degree in spiritual psychology and continues to this day to journey deeper into the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual realms of consciousness and self-awareness.
- He co-founded the Whole Life Challenge, a global, online health and wellness game that has had over 200,000 people participate over its 9-year history.
- In 2004, he founded one of the first and most successful CrossFit affiliate gyms in the world, CrossFit Los Angeles
- Using the business systems and strategies he developed at CrossFit LA, he launched a gym-system consulting business and taught hundreds of other CrossFit Affiliate gym owners how to succeed.
- A Red Bull sponsored athlete in the sport of adventure racing, he captained teams and navigated courses all over the world in races like the Eco-Challenge and Raid Gauloises; in 2009 he became the oldest competitor to qualify for and compete in the CrossFit Games.
- A veteran of multiple overseas deployments including Operation Desert Storm, Andy is a former United States Marine who served for four years as a combat engineer and small unit commander.
For years, Andy’s been a trendsetter and influencer in the transformational coaching and health and fitness world. His infectious laugh, ability to bring joy to even the most difficult situations, his willingness to have hard conversations, and his capacity to help others find the courage to tackle their fears have made him a community magnet for the thousands of people who have been influenced directly through his coaching.
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Finding Freedom
Before I tell you more about coaching with me, let me tell you what it isn't. It's not a pre-designed course, nor is it a program that I teach you. There is no set curriculum, process to undertake, or steps to follow. There is no pre-defined reading list, nor is there a set of assignments to follow or complete.
Your curriculum is your life. You bring that with you to every session we have together. Whatever area we're working on - relationships, family, career, job, health, mental/emotional state - my program is based on helping you unlock those areas in which you feel trapped, stuck, or anything less than free. You are an integral part of that process, you, as the leader of your own life.
We meet together for calls every other week for a couple of hours, and between these sessions you will be “doing the work”... living your life, increasing your awareness, implementing habits, doing applicable “homework” that will help you progress forward.
Our time together starts with a minimum commitment of 6 months, but most of my clients work with me far longer. Why so long? This work isn’t easy and it takes time to see the things you need to see, do the things you need to do, to have what you really want. There are no shortcuts.
And why hire me? Why do all this work when it takes time, effort, and investment?
Because coaching with me offers you the possibility of FREEDOM.
- Freedom from the limitations and beliefs that have you stuck where you are today.
- Freedom from the self-imposed prison created by measuring, competing, and judging self & others.
- Freedom from the fear, anxiety, worry, doubt, and frustration that comes from living in the future and past, rather than the present.
- Freedom to live in possibility, to experience knowing that you are enough exactly as you are.
- Freedom to have the life you’ve always wanted, always dreamed of, and to be the person you’ve always known that you could be!
If any of this resonates, click the red “Let’s Go” button below, and take the next step toward scheduling a meeting with me.
Resources
ON THE PATH.
ANDY PETRANEK’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, WRITTEN WITH JOY, FOR THE CURIOUS, ADVENTUROUS, AND MODERN-DAY ACTION-TAKERS OF THE WORLD.
Like it or not, we’re all on a journey through life that is anything but linear. Often, its boundaries are defined by the accidents, mistakes, missteps, and wrong turns we make along the way. Though it’s not a journey we can opt out from, the choice we all get to make is,”How?”
For me, that answer has always been to experiment around the boundaries for each of the five realms (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial) - to play with, explore, test, question, and disrupt the status quo. To always be growing.
On & Off Switch versus a Dimmer Switch
Have you failed in your attempts to start a new habit or quit one that no longer serves you? Perhaps it’s because you took the dimmer switch approach, rather than using an on/off switch. Here’s what I mean. When rules for your new habit are simple, clear, easy to follow, and black and white, in spite of it seeming like it would be harder, it’s actually easier for you to manage the change in your life. This can apply to anything – alcohol, food, sleep, bedtime, wake up time, meditation, exercise, Netflix, porn, social media, etc. Anything that you want…
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A short and simple mobility sequence to get unstuck in your body
Many of the people I work with don’t have a problem getting themselves to work out. Not so when it comes to stretching or mobility. And yet when it comes to being stuck in your body… lack of mobility is one of the biggest culprits. One of the best ways to shift this is to have a short mobility sequence or flow that you can go through once or twice a day. This is a video showing one of my favorite sequences! Let me know what you think when you give it a try! 👇👇
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Don’t look to fix. Look FIRST to see and feel.
If you’ve got a problem in your life – a REAL problem – with a relationship, job, family member, your bank account, or even with your body… … And you’re asking yourself, “How do I fix this? What are the steps? What is the solution?” You’re starting out by asking the WRONG QUESTIONS. Have you ever noticed that you’ve been asking these questions forever, and they never lead to you getting your problem fixed? There’s a reason for that… You skipped the first step… Because it’s the hardest one… the one that makes ALL the difference. The first step is…
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Fit and Healthy people are harder to kill
Fit and healthy people are harder to kill. Do you agree? When in modern history has that statement been more relevant than today? In what ways could you make yourself harder to kill? Nothing comes without a cost… what will you have to be willing to give up to make yourself more kill-proof? (Netflix? Sleeping in? Sugar, bread, pasta? Late night work/emailing?) What is your lack of fitness or health currently costing you? Ponder it… and post a comment below👇
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On doing what REALLY matters to you
Are you stuck on the treadmill of life? You CAN get off. But it won’t happen by itself, on its own. You’ve got to ask yourself questions. 👉What truly matters to me? 👉What do I REALLY want? 👉What am I doing that 👉DOESN’T make me happy? 👉What’s distracting me from my life’s mission? And then you’ve got to take action. Because a good idea without action is just mental wheel-spinning. What treadmill are you on that you’d like to get off? What tricks you by sucking you into something that won’t truly make your life better? 👊 tell me about…
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On quieting your mind
Want to start to declutter your mind? Meditate… even if it’s just for 5 breaths. The impact on your mind and your mental / emotional state over time will be immeasurable. Sometimes starting a practice like this is hard on your own… it was for me, anyway. The only reason I succeeded about 20 years ago was because I was doing it live, with a group of people at the then Santa Monica Zen Center. If you’d like a group to do it with, live in Facebook? Join my group at facebook.com/groups/vitalizeforfreedom We meet weekdays at 7:45am Pacific for a…
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On having the courage to feel and accept ALL of your thoughts and feelings.
No one WANTS to reveal that they have ugly thoughts and feelings – those of anger, rage, repulsion, judgment, egotistical, arrogance, ungratefulness. And yet you have them. No one wants to reveal feelings of weakness… sadness, hurt, pain, despair, loneliness, apathy. And yet you have them. Feelings like these are part of what it means to be human. They’re real as real gets. And to deny their existence by squashing them, pretending they’re not there, or rising above them in what’s usually called ‘spiritual bypass’, makes it very difficult for others to feel like they can deeply know you and…
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Want the truth on your side, or would you rather hide behind falsehoods?
This conversation started for me inside of an interview I watched – Tucker Carlson interviewing Jordan Peterson. It made me start thinking about all the layers of the truth. Where does it start, and where does it end? Are you in the habit of telling the truth – about everything? It can be a bit like ripping off the band-aid, and dealing directly with what’s underneath, rather than leaving the band-aid in place, covering up what’s there, and letting the wound underneath fester (I love that word, “fester”!) 🙃🙃 What has been an unintended consequence of not telling the truth…
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What’s your level of willingness to be wrong?
The universe has a way of telling you when you might be wrong. When it lines things up time and time again that feel like they are punching you in the face… perhaps it’s time to consider that the way YOU are being is at cause. You don’t have to do that. You can keep on fighting, arguing, being in againstness, but it does get tiring… eventually. And at some point, you realize that it is easier, even empowering, to give someone else what they want, and to drop the againstness. Aka. admit you were wrong. Change course. Move the…
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Start first with “Be…”, the “How…” comes later.
Most of us look around at our life, see things that are not working, and immediately jump to answer the question, “How do I get that?” We want the checklist, the to-do list to give us the answer to what is missing. When you’re asking How? first, it’s a sign that you’ve missed a step. The how changes depending on who you’re being… which is what’s at the root, core, base level. Who would you have to be to have the result you desire show up the way you want it to in your life? That answer will inform your…
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“I’ll see you down the road.”
Saying goodbye can be tough. For me, i’s got such a definitive endpoint to it. Like, this is it. And when I really think about it, it’s also saying something to the effect of, “I might not ever see you again.” But in watching the movie Nomadland, I was left with another possibility. What if when leaving your presence, there were a knowing that I will see you again… I simply don’t know when. Whether it’s in a day, week, month, year, or in the next lifetime… there really is no such thing as an endpoint, a goodbye. Perhaps instead…
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To ice or not to ice? That is not the only question.
I’ve been talking about this for MANY years. Does ice work for injuries? These are the cases where it does: a severed limb, a temporary reduction in pain (from numbing), a reduction in inflammation to reduce pain. Where does it not work? EVERYWHERE ELSE for EVERYTHING ELSE. Yes, you should stop using ice for all your little aches and pains, and for speeding up healing… it doesn’t do this, in fact, it slows it down. Watch the video for more details. And don’t take my word for it. Try it out… see what works for you. As with just about…
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You are exactly where you’re supposed to be (and so am I).
No matter where you are, there is no question that you are right where you’re supposed to be.
Now… it may not feel that way. It certainly didn’t for me for a very loooooong time.
Things swirled. I was riddled with fear, worry, panic, and anxiety… for almost an entire year.
And even after that year, I’d get regular “visits” from that uninvited guest.
But with regular, daily self-nurturing practices like meditation, journaling, exercise, affirmations, diet, gratitude, I’ve been able to pull myself (with spirit’s help, of course) into a place that is way beyond where I was before my “emotional meltdown” (aka spiritual awakening) occurred.
Another big piece for me was my willingness to lean on others – friends, community, family, even people I didn’t know that well. They helped me like structural scaffolding as I did the work to put things back together.
And as a result, now I’m able to say with full conviction, that I am, and have always been, right where I am supposed to be. And as hard as it might be to see, you are too.If you’re struggling, as I was, I suggest adopting a regular self-nurturing practice as well. As well as leaning on your friends and community. Perhaps even working with a therapist or a coach. Moving down this path is hard to do on your own, even perhaps impossible.
And don’t stop believing. If I can do it… I know you can too!