Andy Petranek on Radical Self Acceptance The Coach's Playground

Has your memory of things past and the negativity that stuck with it failed you? Does it seem like nothing is making traction, and you are all the more stuck where you are?
You may be allowing past failures to define you, and it has limited you to a certain extent to discourage you from taking the next step to reach your goal.
Have you taken a look at what you do to yourself when things don't go well midstream when reaching for those goals? 
How do you make yourself be pulled towards your vision and goal consistently?
Andy Petranek is a professional life, leadership, and performance coach who's been helping people create greater levels of confidence, joy, fulfillment, and success in their lives for over 25 years. 
He is 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.
Also, he is 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
He was an early adopter of CrossFit starting one of the first and most successful affiliate gyms in the world in 2004, CrossFit Los Angeles. 
He launched a successful consulting business and taught hundreds of other CrossFit Affiliate gym owners his gym management success strategies and systems.
He also 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.
He holds a master's degree in spiritual psychology. He has been the beneficiary of decades of personal self-exploration, discovery, and expansion through his work with coaches, healers, guides, and teachers.
In this episode, Andy shares how to live your life free from your very own critic, forgiving and loving yourself, becoming more self-aware of who you are so you move past whatever is hindering you from getting success.
He also talks about starting from a clean slate free from your judgments of the past, so you reach your highest potential and serve your client better on a deeper level.
He doubles down the importance of the language you use as words have a substantial impact on projecting how things should happen. And it's best to avoid words that create pressure and anxiety. Make things free-flowing, making them become just a way of life.
"If you could just separate from all the stuff that has gotten in your way -- the belief systems, the structures, the cultural ways of being you've learned from your family, from your community, from your friends, and step into the version of you that you want to step into, based on what you want to create as a possibility, that's powerful. Because you're operating from a blank slate." - Andy Petranek
What you will learn from this episode:
03:15 - His takeaways from his Marine Corp stint
10:15 - Stepping into a new operating system without fully taking out one's uniqueness
13:46 - How it's important to create a vision of how you want to be and seeing it demonstrated in real life
16:10 - Allowing yourself the flexibility to change gears midstream
18:18 - What do you do to yourself when you don't hit the goal?
21:37 - The full acceptance of yourself not worrying about whether you falter or not
26:16 - Self-acceptance as a ticket to personal freedom
34:12 - What's with the words 'have to' and 'want to'
36:49 - The behavior of a 'have to' person
38:53 - Important thoughts on 'choices'
44:05 - How important is self-awareness in starting your journey to self-acceptance
46:20 - The goal is not to get rid of your weaknesses but to see it, accept, and to master it
49:46 - Connecting with your clients on a much deeper level
56:02 - What happens when you operate in guilt, shame, and scarcity
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