You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 138.

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.

Well, hello, hello, hello, my friends.

Hi, my friends. I'm so happy to be speaking with you.

I have a good episode for you this time.

And I want to tell you where this episode came from.

I had a retreat last week where we did an exercise.

One of the students in the retreat actually took us through a writing exercise.

And it's something that I have a very similar exercise in my first book.

If I'm so smart, why can I lose weight?

And it's basically accessing your future self and using your future self for wisdom.

And one of the things that I did is project to my future self five years from now.

And one of the things that I imagined myself saying five years from now is how much easier it is for me to teach some of these concepts.

I have been practicing them and teaching them for five more years.

So I imagine myself saying, remember five years ago when we had to learn it this way?

Now I have an easier way.

And while and we were journaling about that.

And while I was journaling about what my future self would be saying,

this concept came up in my mind.

And this is a concept that I've kind of had in the back of my mind,

but I hadn't had it really solidified until I sat down to outline this podcast.

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