You're listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Kistio episode number 479.

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 Kistio.

Hey beautiful friends. I am so happy to talk to you today. As we speak, it is a beautiful morning for me in Bora Bora and French Polynesia.

And it has been a dream of mine to come here for years. I have wanted to come and get one of these little huts and sit on the ocean and be in a plunge pool

and look at the view for literally as long as I can remember. I'm like really such a treat to be here.

And I came here to work and be inspired by all of the beauty. And it's been amazing because I have like this little area where I can set up my computer and work on my business and work on content and do recordings and also have a gorgeous view.

And enjoy being able to have a job where I can literally work from anywhere. It's so exciting.

So today I want to talk to you about opportunities. I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about opportunities that I've had in my own life.

And also thinking about opportunities that my clients have and the opportunities that I have created for people and for myself.

And I hadn't ever really thought about opportunity in quite this way. And it was interesting because we took a boat to this restaurant.

And while I was on the boat, I'm getting podcast ideas, which is super fun and inspiring. And I got this podcast idea when we were on a boat on a way to a restaurant called Bloody Mary's, which was around the island.

And one of the coolest places I've ever been. It was just like a really funky island restaurant where you basically saw all your food that they had just caught that day on plates before they were going to cook it.

And you just picked what you wanted them to cook. And it was fantastic. So this is the Bloody Mary inspired podcast on opportunities.

So when I think about all the opportunities that I've had in my own life and all the opportunities that I've helped create for other people and all the opportunities that I have yet to take advantage of or utilize in my own life, I get excited.

I get excited when I think about the abundance of what is available to me. And many of you have heard me talk many times before about how I feel like so many of the opportunities that have been created for me in my life are created and have been created by the people that went before me, especially women who have created the rights and opportunities that I have as a woman to be living in the way that I am living.

And so I looked up the definition of opportunity and kitchen I love going to the Googles and seeing what they say.

And it basically said an occasion or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. And you know, I can't help but think it's more than that.

It's a set of opportunities and circumstances and thought patterns that make it possible to do something. And there are a lot of people with some extraordinary circumstances and extraordinary occasions that do not make them into opportunities because of the way that they think about those circumstances and occasions.

And so I think we have to add that thought piece in order for something to become a true opportunity for us.

And I broke opportunities down into three possible categories and hopefully this will help you think about your own opportunities maybe in a new way.

So the first one is presented opportunities so opportunities that are presented to us by other people.

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