Amanda J Wozny

It’s January 3rd of a fresh new year. I just wrapped up a weekend of self growth with a group of incredible, brave, and beautiful humans. We laughed, we cried, we dug deep and did the work necessary to move forward in our journeys, our healing, our relationships, our goals, and ultimately our lives.

I had two big realizations this weekend.

One: I always thought I was scared of failing. And this weekend I realized I am actually on the other end and I am scared s**tless of success. And I think the reason why is that I am scared of realizing I spent 35 years playing small because I never believed I could do what I wanted. I’m scared if I do the thing NOW, I’ll know that I could have done it all along and it was really ME in my OWN fu***ng way.

Move out the way, bish (I said to myself...) this girls got s**t to do and I’m gonna burn this m***a down until I get there!

Two: I have two actions in life that set my soul on fire and make me feel truly alive. One is the photo above: intense, hard, gritty, sweaty, bloody, racing, almost-pukey workouts. There’s something about killing myself on the floor with a hard fu***ng workout that simultaneously feels like death and ultimate skin tingling alive-ness. I wish I had found this out 20 years ago but here we are!

And the second part of number two is serving other humans to learn these things about themselves. Learn how to love themselves, how to open up, how to be the brave and incredible humans they truly are, how to find their passion and purpose and live an authentic life chasing the big audacious dreams so many of us were told to quit chasing. I love working with people on their journey toward their best selves, because sometimes we just need someone else to look at us with that twinkle of belief in their eye, that glimmer of hope that someone sees our potential and then we can too.

If that’s you, I see you. I feel you. And when you’re ready, I’ll stand with you and believe in you until you’re ready to hold onto that yourself, in your own heart, and do big things. Because we are all destined for greatness in our own imperfect and beautiful ways. 💜

Hey friends!!

I am hosting a Goal Setting & Vision Board Workshop in Grande Prairie on August 14th and would love you to join me! We will spend some time on finding a big goal to focus on, developing a tactical plan to achieve that goal, and then get creative and put some goals to paper with a vision board!

ALL levels of vision board-ers and goal setters are welcome!

And if you’d be so amazing as to share this post and even tag friends who may be interested it would be much appreciated!

I’ll post the link to get tickets below:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/goal-setting-vision-board-workshop-tickets-113897616838?utm_campaign=post_old_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=fullLinkOldEmail

I haven’t posted much, not because I have stopped, but because what I’ve been doing really isn’t that exciting or fun to watch.

Just quietly over here trying to heal a 3 month long injury (and counting...) and still get in my fitness. It’s been a big change from where my training was headed 3 months ago to where it sits now.

Luckily I am nearing the end of this injury, and I am super grateful to be getting tidbits of the stuff I love to do sprinkled in with the work I need to do.

I recently revamped my goal list for 2020 fitness wise and I am looking forward to tackling them. So much work to do still!

What goals are you tackling this year? Have they changed since the world stopped turning in March?

How often do we let things that are out of our control sway us off the path of our goals?

How often when we strive for change and growth does an obstacle plant itself firmly in our path and instead of finding a way over, under, around or through, we stop in our tracks and consider retreating back to where things were safer and easier?

We all have obstacles. There’s no point in life where you’ve “made it” and s**t just gets easy. As you grow and change, you develop new dreams and therefore new obstacles come up.

Don’t quit because of an obstacle. Don’t stay where it’s safe and you have full control. Don’t be scared of even starting because you know obstacles will come up.

Choose growth. Learn to find the lesson in the obstacle, and realize that once you find your way past it, you’ll both be proud of your accomplishments and looking forward to the next challenge, fully knowing that no matter what comes your way, you’ll figure out the path forward.

I’m committed to doing a workout outside every day, and we all know that Noah’s Ark is about to show up. There was no path that was free of water. I had 2 choices: go home where it’s dry and abandon my word to myself, abandon my goal, OR... walk straight through the water and let my inner child smile for a little bit stomping through puddles.

So next time you face an obstacle I challenge you to stomp your way through and show it you are in control of your life and your goals are stronger than anything trying to take you out of the game.

What’s your definition of what gratitude means?

How does gratitude make you feel?

Some days you feel like a freaking rockstar, you can go hard at life, it flows easily, and you enjoy every second. Those days where you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Your hair goes effortlessly into a messy bun. Your eyeliner flows perfectly. Your kids don’t fight. Your husband gives you flowers and tells you you’re always right (too far? Ya ok... you get me though 😉)

And then some days are like today, where you’re sluggish, you don’t enjoy any part of the process, you don’t want to do it. It sucks. It feels hard. You wanna get back in bed and sleep until your motivation comes back.

The lesson isn’t in the change of motivation, the lesson is teaching you to show up even when it sucks. Even when you don’t want to, or it gets hard, or you’re tired, or whatever your excuse is to insert here. I am here as your sign that the tough days are a test and every time you flex your willpower muscle and make the choice that sends you further down the path to your goals, those willpower muscles grow and things that once felt hard get so much easier.

When you set big scary audacious goals (which you should be and if you aren’t we need to talk, I can help!) the FIRST thing that’s going to happen, and will keep happening until you rise up and slay the beast is that the universe is going to TEST THE S**T OUT OF YOU. You want to write a book? You’ll turn illiterate and forget how to spell they’re there and their... You want to workout? You’ll loathe the gym. You want to sell your house and move to Panama? You’ll have your house sit on the market for ages. And it’s not because you’re doomed to fail, it’s because when you want big things from life, it wants the same from you. See it as a lesson and learn to level up. Play full out. Live with integrity. Learn how to summon resiliency and grit like the worlds never seen. Get big and scary right back in its face and show it who is boss.

And trust me, I am far from perfect, there’s days I skip, days I don’t do what needs to be done, days I self sabotage... But I can tell you that as I keep focused and in alignment with my goals, those days become fewer and further apart. And it becomes easier to show up and put in the work when those days do come. It becomes one foot off the path instead of landing in the middle of the forest and being unable to find my way back. I might fall off the proverbial wagon but you can bet your ass I’m hanging onto the bumper for dear life dragging along until I can muster the energy to climb my ass back up.

Don’t ever let one moment, one minute, one hour, one day derail you from your best life. You can ALWAYS reset and refocus, no matter how much time has elapsed. But I’m here to remind you to not put off until tomorrow what you can accomplish today, no matter how much you don’t want to. You’ll thank yourself for doing the thing, over and over, when you wake up one day and realize what you’ve accomplished over time. Your goals can be yours if you’re willing to show up, no matter what, and work.

If you could flip a switch today and have any one thing in your life change, what would that thing be and why?

Death by today. 30 minute air bike test on the menu. I had a self imposed number I wanted to hit and I came up shy. However, I’ve only had my bike a couple weeks, and before that I had almost 6 weeks with little to no conditioning so I am totally okay with where I ended up.

Things lately have been... rough. Not terrible, but not where I hoped to be. Between injury and home workouts, more baking than I’ve ever done (which turns into more eating than I need to be doing), and lacking schedule, life has just been at a standstill. And for someone of my nature, competition and growth and self development is my life line. When I don’t have that, my whole world is off balance. My sleep sucks, I’m lethargic, short tempered, always hungry, can’t focus, forgetful, everything slides downhill. When I’m on track and stay disciplined, I just get in a flow and life just feels fun and effortless. I’m happier, my relationships thrive, I eat better, I drink more water, I sleep better, I parent better, I push myself harder in my workouts, money flowers better even. I’m just a better human when I’m disciplined and focused and obsessed with being better than the woman I was yesterday.

Just remember, no matter where you are or what’s dragging you backwards, you have a choice in any moment to choose to stay there, or to hit reset and push forward...

Make your actions match your goals,
and oh the places you will go.

@ VO2MAX HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE