Ep #501: How to Take an L
The Life Coach School Podcast
Brooke Castillo
4.8 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Are you making your Ls, or losses, mean that you should give up?
Are you making them mean that you’re a loser?
I get it. I lose a lot. But I also win a lot - because I stay in the game.
Today, I'm sharing how to take a loss and use it to make yourself even better than had you not lost at all. The bigger your dreams are, the more opportunities you will have to practice these steps. Let’s go.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo episode number 501. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching. |
| 0:15.0 | And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brooke Kistio. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey beautiful friends, How's everyone doing? Some of you not doing so good. Well, I have got |
| 0:29.1 | the podcast for you today. The podcast today is called How to Take an L. Now everybody knows |
| 0:38.5 | that an L is a loss right? So I raise two boys who are always handing me eels. They put their |
| 0:48.8 | fingers, like their thumb and their pointy finger into an L and they like hand me L's all the time like here's your L mom and so I adopted that and now I do that back to them. It's very fun. |
| 1:01.2 | Speaking of fun my son Connor we just moved him into his very first home. |
| 1:07.0 | He's so excited. That's a W for him, for sure. And we're actually, me and the kids are actually going to the F1 races |
| 1:16.1 | in Vegas this weekend. |
| 1:18.1 | So I'm very excited to hang out with them |
| 1:21.0 | and do crazy things in Las Vegas with my adult children. |
| 1:25.8 | How exciting is that? |
| 1:27.6 | But today on the podcast we're going to talk about losing and we're going to talk about |
| 1:31.6 | failing and we're going to talk about how to do it and how to do it well and how to sign up for it, raise your hand for it. |
| 1:40.0 | I have talked about this a lot throughout the podcast, a lot of how important it is to know how to fail, |
| 1:47.0 | important how to anticipate failure, to plan on it, to be willing to process your emotions around it. |
| 1:55.0 | But I don't know what is happening right now, |
| 1:59.0 | but it seems like almost everyone I am talking to is taken else in some area of their life and |
| 2:08.7 | they are having trouble dealing with it, having trouble managing And one of the things that I have seen pretty |
| 2:17.0 | consistently is trying to change the circumstance to undo the L, to like rewind it, to prevent it from happening again, to hide from it. |
| 2:30.6 | And what I want to talk about on this podcast is embracing your else and opening up to them and not hiding from them and not pretending like they didn't happen and not blaming, but just really being present with |
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