023: High Performance Habits, Big Achievements & An Incredible Story: Corporate Success, Start-Ups, Coaching, Martial Arts, AcuEnergetics, Meditation, Publishing & Dr. Suess with John Peitzman

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I first had the pleasure of meeting John Peitzman, also known as JP a couple of months ago through a friend of mine. I left our first conversation thinking wow this guy really knows his stuff. Check out this for a list of credentials and experience:

As a youngster, JP played the lead role in The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins which was the first release of an authorised show from Dr Suess, which for JP grew into other performing opportunities including other musicals, television and radio.

JP then owned and operated martial arts schools (he is a fifth degree black belt head instructor) and ran a record label, writing and releasing songs as a singer songwriter.

He was a facilitator for Eckhart Tolle, he is a book publisher, an AcuEnergetics® practitioner and teacher, and was a founding member of a start-up, then after several acquisitions and demonstrated high performance, found himself as an executive at Hewlett Packard.

In 2015 JP left the corporate world to focus on helping others through becoming one of only 200 Certified High Performance Coaches through Brendan Burchard’s High Performance Institute, teaches meditation retreats and with his wife Marliesa launched In Balance with Life which offers all the different areas of coaching and related products and services that they have.

Plus JP is about to release a book which ties together all of his experience and teachings titled The Build Framework™.

We cover a lot including how it all began, a discussion about meditation, what people can do if they’re feeling stuck or are feeling down plus the importance of being held accountable. JP coaches me through a High Performance Coaching exercise as well as through his Build Framework.

This guy is amazing so get the pen and paper or digital pen and paper ready!

Also, JP is offering our listeners a very generous discount on his group coaching! (See below for more information!)

Without further ado, please enjoy this conversation with John Peitzman.

 

My Biggest Take-Aways

• JP has an extraordinary self-belief. Most of us tend to hold ourselves back, however I can see that JP embraces the challenge and really backs himself and continues to achieve wherever he focuses
• As a coach, he has walked the walk and continues to walk the walk with both performance and vulnerability
• By blaming others, we take away our power. When you point a finger there are 3 fingers pointing back at you. When you take responsibility and accountability, it changes everything
• ‘Accept the present moment as if you had chosen it to be exactly as it is’
• If you’re going to argue with the present moment, guess what? You’re going to lose. Because you can argue all you want, it is what it is.
• Where you live is not your physical location, it’s actually between your ears
• Most of us get taught to think, we don’t get taught to feel
• You have to build relationships before you can affectively understand the business
• We become what we think and we think what we practice
• Get in the game with some sort of program that resonates with you that can make the difference in a positive way
• We need to ask ouselves, who is pushing me? So one day we don’t look back and think ‘What if?’
• When we are feeling down, the best thing that we can do is focus on helping others. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we’re showing up to be there for other people
• By living from the heart and connecting with people you don’t have the time to go up into the brain to think about your ‘problems’ too much
• If you are looking to have an engaged life and feel better, the answer is to be of service to others, because it then comes back to you in a magnified way
• When you tap into the power of now, energy is never an issue because life is the energy
• With true meditation, you learn it in stillness but practice in movement
• The mouse runs around the cage looking for an escape, the lion bursts the cage asunder – Rumi
  (When you go into feeling from the heart, there is no cage because you’re not in the prison of your mind anymore)
• Sometimes less is more for what you put out there and what you ask for from the universe
• Don’t hold onto things that bring you down. Negative thoughts can become a self-fulfilling prophecy

 

THE BUILD FRAMEWORK
Build Relationships
Understand the business
Implement Strategies
Lead & Inspire
Deliver Excellence

 

Show Notes

3:25 An overview of JP’s business
5:20 JP’s journey from the beginning to now
12:20 The Wake of Ambition – JP’s journey
16:40 The significance of the present moment
21:20 The Build Framework™
29:50 An example of The Build Framework™
35:30 What is the first step that one can take if they feel that they’ve fallen by the wayside or running on autopilot?
37:10 JP performs a Clarity exercise on me
43:15 The importance of having someone to push us
46:30 What do you do if you’re stuck in a rut or feeling down?
49:40 The importance of focussing on others
51:00 Have you always had this energy and this drive?
57:35 How did you start meditating? Plus what it means to JP
103:35 How can meditation benefit one focussing on their business and career?

 

1:07:05 The Big 5

Build Relationships – JP had his start in business through building relationships and continued to do so all the way through

Understand the Business – JP was looking to be beneficial to the company and work himself out of a job

Implement Strategies – Finding the perfect mate. JP put ‘Divine Love’ out to the universe. Shortly after when he met his now wife Marliesa, she revealed she had an Arabic tattoo on her wrist that said ‘Divine Love’

Lead & Inspire – Taking on that first lead role in Bartholomew Cubbins. Being identified as a childhood prodigy gave him the tools, techniques and education – skills that JP still uses every day

Deliver Excellence – Delivery of both his children. It’s life changing when you see life come into this world

 

1:14:55 What is your favourite quote?
‘Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘In the perfect warrior the enemy has no place to pitch his sword’

1:16:40 What are the best books you’ve read and/or resources that you’ve got the most from?
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
High Performance Habits by Brendan Burchard

1:17:40 On being a facilitator for Eckhart Tolle

1:18:20 Best Movies, TV Shows & Documentaries?
The Power of the Heart

1:20:40 What are your predictions for your industry in the next 5 to 10 years?
Coaching is becoming more mainstream and leaving the boardrooms and coming to the house as everyone wants high performance. This will be more fully embraced. Technology will play a role, but people will need to get back to basics and focus on things that are more meaningful from the heart than chasing for the next piece of technology that can make people more disconnected than connected

1:24:20 Did you achieve your goals that you set yourself over the last 12 months?
Exceeded them dramatically. You want to measure what matters most. As far as specific tasks, yes they were lined up and knocked down.

1:25:20 What goals have you set yourself over the next 12 months? Are there any that you’re willing share with us that we could help by keeping you accountable?
Writing the book – Launching January 2019 and featuring a course. Plus speaking and corporate engagements as well an all of the opportunities that will come with the book launch.

1:26:40 Who are you looking to connect with?
Anyone who has an excitement about JP’s vision and mission as it relates to The Build Framework™.
People who are interested in Ongoing Momentum – JP’s group coaching program.

 

 

Links

3:25 JP High Performance Coach
3:25 In Balance With Life
4:15 AcuEnergetics®
4:15 Kevin Niv Farrow
04:40 The Build Framework™
6:15 Minneapolis Children’s Theatre School
6:25 Fame
7:00 The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins
7:05 Dr. Seuss
8:50 The Sabre Group
8:55 American Airlines
8:55 Electronic Data Systems
9:10 Hewlett Packard
12:25 The Wake Of Ambition
16:40 Alain De Botton
16:40 Seneca
16:50 Eckhart Tolle
17:00 Stillness Speaks
22:30 Certified High Performance Coach™
36:05 The High Performance Institute
36:05 Brendan Burchard
53:20 The Power Of Now
1:05:10 Rumi
1:19:35 Invisibilia

 

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