You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 496.

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.

Hi beautiful friends. How's everyone doing?

I am a little overstimulated right now. It is 5.03 a.m. in the morning. It's pitch black outside, and I have just been laying in bed thinking about this podcast.

I had already recorded the entire thing, and now I have so many more ideas that I want to include in it, so I'm re-recording it.

I was going to go back to sleep and then wake up and do it, but I couldn't. So that's what's up with me.

I am excited, I guess, about this podcast today, and the ideas that I have in it.

One of, I think, main sources of inspiration and kind of thought fodder is you all.

All of my students, all of my clients, who want to achieve big things in their life, who want to explore their own capacity and see what they can create, what kind of treasures they have inside of them.

And I've been coaching a lot lately and get coached, and there's a theme for some people that comes up that's around goals, and it's around whether I should keep going after a goal, or should I give up on this goal?

This goal isn't working for me. I don't think I can achieve this goal. I think the cost of this goal is too high, basically.

And it's got me really thinking about how I can best help everyone achieve what they want.

And I'm trying to model off my own goals that I have achieved, because I've achieved some pretty amazing goals for myself, and I've overcome a lot of the obstacles in the way.

And I really want to get better and more professional and more amazing, even though I think I'm pretty good so far, I want to even get even better at helping other people blow their own minds with their own achievements and dream realization.

But I think in order to do that, I need to make sure that the philosophy and the thought process around goal setting and goal achieving is set up in the right way.

And sometimes when I talk to and coach my students, I realize that the way they're thinking about their goals is really hurting them in some ways, and not physically hurting them obviously, but hurting them in achieving them as quickly as they possibly could.

And so I kind of wanted to come on here and review some ideas on goals and goal cultivation and possibility.

And I wanted to talk about a concept called goal cost, and it's basically the costs that we need to pay in order to achieve our goals and the types of costs that we're willing to pay and the type of cost we shouldn't be willing to pay.

And I think when we approach a setting goals, if we do the cost analysis before we start, we're not going to be surprised when that bill comes due and we're going to anticipate it.

And I wonder if too many of us spend too much time on thinking about the benefits of the goal and the benefits of achieving the goal and don't necessarily focus on the costs of achieving the goal.

But also the benefit of the effort to achieve the goal.

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