Welcome to episode 346 of Live Happy Now. It's the start of a brand new year, and many of us use this time to set new goals. But this year, what if you use neuroscience to change your approach to those goals? I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Joseph O'Connor,

co-founder of the international coaching community and author of 19 books on coaching, training, and neuroscience.

His newest book, Coaching the Brain, offers insights into how to use brain coaching techniques and emotional intelligence to create a happier, more fulfilling life.

He's here today to tell us more.

Joseph, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thanks, Paula.

I'm very happy to be on this show.

You are a perfect person to have on for the first show of 2022 because a lot of people are trying to make changes in their life and you can't really make

changes in your life without changing the way you think about what you're doing. And you are

so big on coaching. And to start this, what do you think we all can benefit from by getting

coaching? How long have we got? A couple of days. This is a series now. It just turned into a series.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, coaching is not therapy. It doesn't try and fix you. It's not training.

It doesn't try to teach you anything. It's not advice or consultancy. It doesn't try to change the

business that you're in. And the coaching is basically someone who will help you to reflect by asking very good questions

on what you want, why you want it in the sense of not having to justify it, but what's

important to you about that?

Because heaven knows there's many more possibilities

than we could possibly do in this amazing world. So we have to make some priorities. This is based

on what's important to us and what we feel emotionally about. And then, of course, that would be

straightforward enough if it wasn't for the kinds of ideas that we have about the limitations

of ourselves or others. So coaches will often address that. So, you know, to make it really simple,

coaching answers three questions. What do you want? No, rather, where are you now? Because you need

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