On the Path with Andy Petranek

What you can measure, you can manage.

What are you willing to measure today?

What area of your life would you like to make progress in? Pick something in that area… and measure it. TODAY.

I know it takes courage and boldness. But just do it… find out where you are… today. Thank me later!

✨🌟Let us know in comments what YOU are going to measure.

Life. Death. And getting to choose how you're going to be alive.

Do you let life dictate the rules?

Do you let your fear of dying rob you of your aliveness, joy, love?

Life is a mystery... you don’t know how it’s going to play out or end... and to think you do is crazy. The mystery of it IS the special sauce!

✨🌟 Has Covid robbed you of your life? If you’re reading this, YOURE NOT DEAD YET. But if you’re living as if you are and want to get your LIFE back... hit me back with a DM so we can schedule some time to talk.

Does work really have to be hard for it to "count"?

Up until now, I’ve operated with the belief that work is the only thing that really counts. By work, I mean work itself, but I also mean the difficulty of what I’m doing in something like reading, working out, a sport (mtb, ski, climb, run, kayak, etc).

If it’s not work in the traditional sense - in the office, on the computer, making a phone call, talking to clients, then I’m just wasting my time, fucking off, and it doesn’t and won’t really matter or make a difference. I’m just slacking.

And if a sport, workout, book, etc. hasn’t been hard enough, hasn’t caused me to stretch and to grow, to think, then the way my ego/brain/protector controller interprets it is that it wasn’t something that measured up and was a waste of time.

I’m just starting to realize that this way of thinking has been robbing me of my aliveness, my ability to love and appreciate time spent doing things that are not work, and are not hard. I can’t ever fully love or appreciate time off when I put all “time off time” in the category of “you could have been working…”

✅ Can you relate? Post in comments.

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Slowing down to the speed of thanks and love

Be thankful on Thanksgiving!

But when it REALLY counts is when you get triggered. How quickly can you pull yourself back into your beautiful place? 

Can you slow yourself down to the speed of thanks, of love, of gratitude for all the blessings in your life. Truly. For the sake of your family... For the sake of the world... and For the sake of YOU!

Disconnected? Then connect!

Are you someone that says, “I really need to connect more deeply with my family, my kids, my friends.”

Or are you someones that knows the above to be true, though you don’t say it?

In either case, every Friday afternoon you have a great opportunity to create some space in your weekend to do it.

* Pick up the phone and call an old friend.
* Shut the TV off during dinner and have a conversation with you family.
* Go for a walk with you partner…NO PHONES.
* If someone you know is having a birthday, instead of posting on their Facebook feed, give them a surprise phone call.

EVERYONE benefits from heart-felt connection - both the initiator and the receiver. Give it a shot… no text, no email… real connection this weekend.

👉Let me know below in comments what you’re going to do, or what you did.

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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 live meditation.

Whether you join us or not, do yourself a favor and give it a shot. It might just change your life!

👉Tag someone who you think would benefit from this

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 it below in comments

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👇

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 to SEE CLEARLY how YOU are responsible for your problem. Open your eyes as wide as you can. See it from all perspectives. Magnify it, slow it down, study it. You know how it affects you… but have you seen and felt how it affects others in THEIR life? Look at that too.

Oh… and FEEL it… let it seep into your heart - your second brain. Experience the pain from all perspectives. Let it fill you… so that you REALLY get it. Feel all the emotions that go along with the problem.

Yes… I know… it’s tough… it’s the hardest step.

And it’s the most important.

This is the step that Scrooge HAD TO go through first… BEFORE he figured out how to fix his problem. He had to own it fully… see it clearly at the beginning, middle, and end.

Don’t believe me? No worries… skip it… and see what happens. My bet is you’ll be living in some version of “Groundhog Day” until you go back to this step. It’s where all the juice is and the real transformation lies.

So, let me ask you… where are you looking for the fix, and skipping this first step? Want to talk about it? Click the link in my bio to schedule a call.

Oughta Coulda Woulda Shoulda

“I oughta have, do, or be…”

Really?

If you oughta, you woulda. 

But you don’ta, so whatcha talkin’ about?

Ha! I had a good time writing that... 

We all have a part of us that thinks we deserve more than what we have.

We don’t.

We have exactly what we’re committed to.

And the sooner you stop living in that fantasyland and start telling yourself the truth, the sooner you get unstuck… 

… And the sooner you can get on with creating the version of you that you’ve always dreamed of!