You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo, number 374.

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 there. How are you?

How are all the things? All the things are good here.

I'm going to talk to you today about board choices, about the choices that you make when you're bored.

And this is inspired by a conversation that I had with my son, Christian,

and advice that I gave him unsolicited, of course, about his life and what he should be doing with it.

Because that's what I tend to do. Is his mother is tell him how he should live his life up to my expectations.

And we laugh about it.

I kid. We had a great conversation about it. And afterwards I was thinking a lot about it.

And we came to this conclusion that I think is really interesting.

But it's the idea that if you ask someone what they do when they're bored,

the answer to that question will be very telling about the contribution and the creation they make in their life.

So most of us, when we are bored, we consume. We escape.

Right? That's how most of us deal with it.

And even Christian was saying, you know, the day goes by so slow when I'm not partying.

And when I party, the day goes by so fast, right?

And I said, well, because you're not actually present for it.

And I think for me, what I've always done when I was bored was a combination of things.

I always would either escape, which was through overeating and over drinking and over dating and over anxiety.

I would say escaping from those things.

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