What we control only ends up making us stuck. When we let fear overpower us, that's when we mess around.
Yes, the future is not promised. Anything can happen. The outcome may or may not be in our favor. And there is uncertainty ahead.
But regardless, it's only when we learn to let go that we open ourselves to the possibility of greater transformation, personally and professionally.
George Kalantzis knows life transitions. From a decade in the Marines, coaching thousands of hours on the gym floor, divorce, single parenting, and overcoming a suicide attempt, he understands the unique challenges we all face in the fast past society of the modern world.
George is the author of Nowhere To Go, a podcast host, a decorative combat veteran, and a personal coach at the Art of Tough Transitions.
With nearly twenty years of encounters with tough transitions, George empowers men and women to live life authentically by giving them the courage to find their voice and unlock their potential. He has the unique ability to speak to people in ways that make them feel seen and heard through a combination of prose, poetry, coaching, and experience that can only be found in the school of heart knocks.
In this episode, George shares how you can own your life, take responsibility for and not just run away from it. For many of us, we get scared of facing the hurdles that would bring us to becoming bigger, and that's where we fail to recognize the beauty in difficulties that we don't wait for them to clear up.
We'd rather wallow in self-pity and depression rather than be brave enough to do something about it.
He beautifully says in his words that the future never promises. But, every day is about ensuring that we're carving to the strength of the stone the way that we want to view the world and show up to the world, not as someone else wants us to.
"There's beauty hidden in our layers of life. We all have decades and layers of repressed hurts through things we've gone through. And so if we find strength and courage, we can crack into the unknown, even though there's a chance that it could break at any time, but it's a chance that we have to take because that's the point of life." - George Kalantzis
What you will learn from this episode:
01:32 - That feeling of being a child again
03:44 - Significant lesson his daughter teaches him
05:12 - What it means to slow down in life
06:39 - Learnings from fatherhood
08:19 - Why all the rush?
11:32 - Taking the chance to crack up the beauty hidden in the layers of life
13:38 - One reason why you can't live an authentic life
15:15 - Embracing your current pain and what it teaches you
16:19 - Continuing to carve the stone in 2022 - steps you can do for empowerment and encourage that childlike curiosity
17:29 - What he means with 'words saved my life'
18:52 - How his book helps a reader and what is it all about: Nowhere To Go by George Kalantzis
20:23 - One very significant reason for writing the book 'Nowhere To Go.'
22:49 - Coaching about fitness and getting better at writing
26:13 - The first time may not turn out good but gives reason to continue
28:27 - Going in-depth into this verse, 'You're entitled to the fruits of labor, but not the fruits itself.'
31:55 - Things we can learn from these two: control and letting go
33:42 - Comparing life to dance and the lessons gleaned from it
37:03 - Accepting your life for what it is and not what it was
40:45 - What could his life have been having not experienced the greatest pain
45:54 - The one thing that will make people thrive as fitness coaches in the coming years
49:39 - Invest in the best asset – You
Book resource:
- Get your copy now. Click here: Nowhere To Go by George Kalantzis
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- theartoftoughtransitions.com
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