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

episode number 381.

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, my beautiful friends.

I have an important topic for you today,

and this is one that I need you to pay attention to.

I need you to hear me out on, I think it's one of the most important things

that we can all know. And it's something that I see in so many of my students

and so many of my clients as a space of denial.

And it's basically knowing what you want. And this is very different

than knowing what you think you can have. And this is very different than not having, or having.

A lot of times what we want is what we have. And a lot of times what we want is not what we have.

And we spend a lot of time lying to ourselves and justifying our lives that are creations of things

that we don't want. So I want to start with talking about the idea of wanting and desire.

And it's really important that we differentiate between false desires and false wants and immediate fixes

and genuine wants that come from a deep part and a consistent part of our psyche or soul or heart.

I have seen so many people hide their truest desires from themselves.

I've heard them say to me, well, I don't know what I want.

And then when I ask them, but if you did know or if I ask them,

well, tell me what you really want. I just rephrase the question.

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