Andrew Warner - Life Coach
  • Home
  • About Me
  • About You
  • Breakthrough Blog
  • Contact / Book
  • Services
  • F.A.Q.
  • Your Life Survey
  • Testimonials
  • Secular or Catholic Coaching

"The Great Resignation" is a Chance to Evaluate Your Blueprint

10/29/2021

1 Comment

 
Picture
Perhaps it's time to take a long look at your life blueprint.
In the business world there is a lot of discussion of “The Great Resignation” or alternatively “the great reshuffle.” If you run a business, then you’re definitely re-evaluating what you need to do to attract and keep talent. However, more importantly, what this means for us as individuals and as a society is that we are rethinking the blueprint for life that was handed down to us – something we always work through in the coaching process.

As you think about your life, it’s important to understand your blueprint. Your blueprint is your collection of beliefs, values, thoughts, and expectations that shape all the decisions in your life and ultimately how you feel about your life. Unhappiness is when your life conditions don’t match your life blueprint and if you want more happiness and more fulfillment you must shift either your blueprint or your conditions.
​
As we witness “the Great Resignation” -  a re-evaluation of our values is exactly what we are seeing. Several generations of people are taking a look at their blueprint for the first time and realizing that the blueprint they have isn’t really working for them. 

Read More
1 Comment

The Lukewarm Will Be Spit Out

4/2/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
If you find yourself middling, uninspired, or lukewarm then it's time to make a change.
​One of my favorite Bible verses comes from the Book of Revelations:
 
“16 [a]So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
 
Now from a Christian perspective, this is of course a very potent and necessary warning about the idea of not being “all-in” when it comes to one’s faith in God. The imagery of this is frightening and motivating to get your life in order.
 
However, like many pieces of wisdom in the Bible, this has application to even the most non-believing atheist. Because in this world, if you are lukewarm the world will certainly spit you out of its mouth even if you have no concern for the afterlife.
 
The one thing I see time and time from new clients who aren’t getting to where they want to be is a lack of resolve, commitment, or fire that drives them. They’ve spent their whole lives with a case of Niagara syndrome (letting the current move them to wherever it desires) and are just starting to contemplate the idea that action is needed.

Read More
0 Comments

How to Thrive in Uncertain Times

3/18/2020

3 Comments

 
Picture
​A global pandemic has broken out and it’s changing all our lives – maybe forever.

Not only are many getting sick and fighting for their lives, the rest of us are living in isolation while the stock market crashes and some of us aren’t sure if our jobs will still be our jobs in a week or a month.

This type of drastic, rapid change is unsettling to say the least.

Difficult times are one of life’s guarantees. For some, it will create despair and helplessness. For others, it’s a time to invest in themselves, their families, and their relationships to come out of the dark time a great deal stronger than they were when it started.
​
Here are 4 tips on what you can do to thrive during uncertain times:

Read More
3 Comments

Personality Tests Hurt as Much as they Help

10/8/2019

1 Comment

 
Picture
Labels can help you understand and connect, but they can also lock you in a box and limit your potential.
There's a fine line between knowing yourself and creating limiting identities or beliefs. 

In the coaching world and the corporate HR world there is a lot of hype around personality types, enneagrams, introversion/extroversion, and other tools used to put people in neatly ordered boxes. 

These tests can be useful for us individuals because it helps us feel understood, can point us in the right direction for our current skill set, and even point out our weaknesses and limitations so we can improve.

Managers and executives like these tests because they help them put people into boxes and order us appropriately so that we flourish under their leadership. 

So on the surface everyone wins with these tools. 

Like everything, there is a downside and these tests often become a problem for people. It becomes a problem because when you put people into behavioral boxes, they tend to accept their new confines and their growth becomes stifled.

​

Read More
1 Comment

Why Adam Vinatieri Can't Make a Kick - How to Fix Slumps

9/18/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Without the proper tools, slumps can drag on for far longer than they have to.
For those that don’t watch sports, Adam Vinatieri is a 46 year old kicker in the NFL who is widely regarded as the greatest kicker to ever play the game. Much to my town of Indianapolis’ chagrin, the last two games he has missed a career worst number of kicks. Out of 8 kicks, most of them being routine kicks, he has only made 3. That would be bad for a struggling high school kicker, let alone the best to ever play the game. 

Most people think that Vinatieri hit some age wall where he suddenly can’t make a routine chip shot - as if his leg deteriorated to the point of being inaccurate from short distances overnight. As such, many think it’s time for him to retire. 

In reality, if you go grab Vinatieri when he is 60, I bet he’ll be able to kick 10 extra points in a row without the kind of problems he is having now. It’s not his age. It’s just a typical slump. Slumps happen to everyone, but when you are a baseball player or a kicker in the NFL, your slumps are obvious, measurable and compounding. 

The real question is - why do slumps happen and how on Earth do we make them stop?

​



Read More
0 Comments

Planning for People Who Don't Like Planning

8/22/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Having a clear vision for your life and a plan to get there are essential for the life of your dreams. After all, it’s really difficult to hit the target if you don’t know where or what the target is and you’re blindfolded. 

That being said, some people love planning and others don’t. So while there are tons of commerical planners and planning systems on the market that will help you detail every moment of your day in support of your larger goals, there’s not a lot for people who value variety and uncertainty highly in their lives. 

Something I like to do for people who are scared of intense structure is to create a much looser, free-flowing structure that STILL supports what you want in the bigger picture - a planning system for people who are excited by the prospect of uncertainty and variety - people who genuinely don’t want to know what tomorrow may bring. 

It’s super simple and it will help move your life forward while also keeping your days fresh and filled with enough variety so that you don’t get bored.

Read More
0 Comments

How to better handle stress in your life

7/17/2019

1 Comment

 
What is the role of stress in your life? Do you have too much of it? Do you manage it well? Do you avoid it all together?

Stress, left unmanaged and misunderstood,  is both a silent killer of the body and the spirit. Stress, in the proper amounts and combined with the appropriate rest, is also the source of all your mental and physical growth. 

Spending time with my 3 month old baby Francis is like getting to a watch a growth machine. A baby’s life is rapid growth and a constant cycle of physical and mental stress and rest leading to extreme amounts of growth from a blob to a functioning human being. 

Watching him struggle with basic tasks like raising his head and rolling over and even just moving his arms and legs reminds me that stress isn’t something to be avoided, but something to embrace. 

Master stress in your life by doing two things.

  1. Build rest in to your stressful life. Stress + rest = progress. Stress on it’s own equals burnout and breakdown. 
  2. Make your stress, and the stress of those you manage (either personally or professionally) just outside of their comfort zone. Too much stress at one time leads to broken down bodies or morale. Just the right amount of stress keeps you growing and progressing in your personal and professional life. If you or someone under you is faltering or withdrawing from life or their work, you’re probably not giving them the appropriate challenges. ​
1 Comment

"Who Am I?" - 3 steps to answer this with clarity

7/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Taking the time to assess your goals and values and put them on paper will make you happier.
There’s a scene in the classic comedy Zoolander where the main character’s life has fallen apart. He has had a singular focus his entire life - on his modeling career - and he feels that modeling career slipping away from him. He then sees his reflection and in a puddle and contemplates out loud “Who am I?” As a kid I watched this movie a ton with my friends and my brothers and now this question has become a jokingly serious mantra around my house. 

Something I am constantly doing in my own life, and encouraging my clients to do, is evaluating and re-evaluating my values and goals. This is doubly true when I am at a crossroads or transition in your life as the lack of clarity will cause you much more stress in your moments of decision.

​

Read More
0 Comments

how to handle a difficult boss or co-worker

6/24/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
A strained relationship at work can ruin 8 or more hours a day for you. You can change the dynamic when you follow these steps.
Almost everyone at some point in their life had a co-worker or a boss who was difficult to get along with (or just downright hateable). At its core, a professional relationship between two people isn’t really different than a friendship or a romantic relationship with someone - other than the fact that it feels forced because you both need to be there for other reasons like having to pay your bills. And when we recognize this, we have tremendous opportunity to grow in our professional lives by treating these office problems as the interpersonal problems they truly are.

Read More
0 Comments

    Andrew Warner

    Your life coach. 

    The Andrew Warner Podcast:

    Picture

    Archives

    November 2021
    October 2021
    July 2021
    April 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018

    Categories

    All
    Activities
    Blueprint
    Business Coaching
    Career Coaching
    Catholic
    Executive Coaching
    Family Coaching
    Health And Wellness
    Life Coaching
    Motivation
    NLP
    Parents
    Peak Performance
    Planning
    Rapport
    Relationship
    State
    Strategic Intervention
    Time
    Video Blogs

    RSS Feed

    Tweets by AndrewWarnerLC

Company

Life coach based out of Indianapolis, IN but helping people everywhere. 

Contact

(p)317.283.9690
e-mail: andrew@andrewwarner.org
© COPYRIGHT 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • About Me
  • About You
  • Breakthrough Blog
  • Contact / Book
  • Services
  • F.A.Q.
  • Your Life Survey
  • Testimonials
  • Secular or Catholic Coaching