You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 124.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Hello, hello my friends. How are you guys? How's your summer? How are you doing?

Did you guys like the last episode? We rocked it out with all the basic tools. Now we're going to go advanced on you.

I've actually spent the past two weeks like really doing some deep thought work, some real uninterrupted, thoughtful, committed work on how to teach this.

I am starting on, I think it is Monday going to be teaching these concepts live to a group of about 55 people.

And I want to make sure that I can teach it in a way that really resonates with my students and also is quickly applicable.

And I think a lot of these concepts because they're advanced are kind of mind-bending. And so it's really important to have the basics established ahead of time.

And because I have my own basics and I practice them and I do have some mastery with them, I want to make sure that I'm bridging the gap between my students that may not have quite as much mastery as I do.

So I'm going to go ahead and dive in. I want to start by saying that last week I introduced you to the tools and the way that I described it was that I give you all of these tools.

I teach you how to use the tools, right? So you know how to use a hammer. You know how to use a screwdriver. You know how to use a drill, right?

You're wrenched, right? All of these different tools. You know how to use them now. But you aren't good at them yet.

You know you have the general idea of how to use them, but you aren't good at them because you haven't practiced them.

And I think one of the biggest mistakes that my students make is expecting to have the skill of a master just because they've learned the tool.

Okay, and this is like an old school lesson that I feel like I have to teach pretty regularly.

That in the beginning, you you're going to hit your thumb with that hammer.

In the beginning, you're going to be slow and you're going to make lots of mistakes.

And if you try and rush through it, you're going to create really sloppy work.

And the slower you are and the more deliberate you are in the beginning and the more you practice, the better and more effortless, it will be at the end.

If you watch a master contractor working with a hammer, they aren't thinking at all about that hammer.

Right? It's just second-rated nature nature with a coach.

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