You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 184.

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.

Hey friends, how are you today?

I'm amazing.

It's such a great day. I'm so excited in scholars this month.

We are working on organization and how important it is to keep an organized mind so you can have an organized life.

I just recently talked to one of my coaches about this.

She came to me and was scattered in terms of her thinking, in terms of her life, her organization, and everything.

And she's a very seasoned coach, and yet one of the things she thought was happening was that her life was too busy to be organized.

And what I told her is that her mind wasn't organized enough for her life to be organized.

And if you can think about organization in that way, you will be way ahead of most people, because if you can look at an organized mind always creates an organized life, an internal organization always creates an external organization, you are going to be blown away at how simple things can be.

Now, I talk a lot in self-coaching scholars about planning.

And the reason why planning is so important for productivity and pro-activation and really living your life at the highest level is because planning is one of those activities that comes from that higher part of your brain.

It's one of the activities that is pretty exclusive to humans that isn't instinctual, right?

Animals do a lot of instinctual planning, but there's not a lot of thought about different specific plans and different options.

And that's something that we have available to us as humans that a lot of us don't use.

And the way that I like to think about it is have you ever like gone through your phone and you like find an app and you're like, what?

I didn't even know this app was in here and someone's like, oh my gosh, I use that app all the time. It's amazing. Here's what it does and you're like, stop it.

This has been on my phone this whole time and I've never used it and I didn't even know how amazing it was.

I feel this way about Instacart. You guys know about Instacart, right? Someone told me about Instacart. My whole life changed.

If you don't know about Instacart, you have to find out about it immediately. It's amazing. But anyway, I feel like a lot of us don't use that really important aspect of our brain that is the planning part of our brain that keeps us completely organized and keeps us being able to produce and contribute in a way that is extremely satisfying in a life that is purposeful and conscious.

...