Hi, this is Brooke Castillo, and you are listening to the Life Coach School podcast episode number three

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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 Brooke Castillo

Hi everybody, thanks for joining me today. I am super stoked you're here today. I'm going to be talking to you about goals and goals setting and

I know that this topic seems to be one of those topics that is like eyes glaze over

I have already learned this before whenever it comes to anyone who's had experience in the self-help industry and

working with

Any kind of you know self-help coaching or life coaching. There's always some kind of goal setting and I

I'm kind of frustrated by this because I feel like there is this kind of glossing over of actually writing out goals in some of these

deeper spiritual

mental type of approaches as if the striving and the wanting to

grow and achieve things is somehow not aligned with what we're doing as coaches and I really want to turn that around

I think that goal setting is the most spiritual practice. I think it is the most

compassionate wonderful thing we can do for ourselves and

Let me just speak to that for a minute because when I get pushed back from clients or from my students about goal setting

And they come to me and they're like, hey, you know, I've been working my whole life

I've you know, it was a workaholic. I was striving striving striving always just pushing pushing through my emotions and never really focusing

on what I was feeling or connecting with myself or being in the present moment. I was always setting goals and now I feel like

I've finally found a way to be present in the moment and I

And to accept that there is really no future and no past there's just this present moment that I have and now you're asking me to

Consider going into my future and thinking about goals and I feel like that takes me out of the present moment and pulls me into more of an

Unacceptance of where I am now and my answer to that is always listen. I am always

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