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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is episode 81, talking about life coaching.
What is it and how can it be apart of your life?
What's going on?
Everybody?
It is Eric here, one of thehosts of Taiwanica Podcast,
coming back to you once again tointroduce one of my favorite
(00:21):
subjects and actually one of myprofessions.
One of my favorite subjects andactually one of my professions
and just so excited to be backhere after a little break from
Taiwanica podcast For all of youwho follow us on a regular
basis.
Thank you so much for yourpatience and, for those who are
new, welcome.
Today I am going to beintroducing something that some
(00:42):
of you may already know, thatI'm a part of, and some of you
might not even know what it is.
That's life coaching.
Why are we talking about thistoday?
Well, one of the things thatTaiwanica podcast is all about
is spreading awareness, and thethings that we want to share
with you today are all relatedto the things that we're
passionate about today, are allrelated to the things that we're
(01:06):
passionate about, and so lifecoaching is something that both
Anita and I like to do, andwe're actually just about to
start doing it as a part of ourprofessional career.
That's right, anita and I arelife coaches, so if you are
interested in learning moreabout that, tune into today's
episode, because we're going todeep dive into what exactly is
(01:28):
life coaching now?
So, to start off with lifecoaching, it's a new trendy
phrase that a lot of people arestarting to hear more and more,
especially in Taiwan.
Starting to hear more and more,especially in Taiwan.
(01:49):
It's actually been somethingthat has been around for quite a
while in the United States andother western countries, but in
recent years it's starting tobecome more of a globalized
profession, and so when we thinkabout life coaching, we're
trying to focus on a couple offactors, and one of the big
things that a lot of people talkabout with life coaching is
(02:11):
it's very similar to some otherprofessions.
Those are therapists,psychologists and even
psychiatric help psychiatrists,psychiatric help psychiatrists.
So we want to get clear aboutwhat is the difference between
life coaching and these medicalprofessions I guess we can call
(02:32):
them and also, what exactly doeslife coaching do that sticks
out from those?
Okay, so that's one big thing Iwant to talk about today, and
another big thing about lifecoaching is how can you start to
have a life coach in your lifeand why is it significant for
(02:55):
you to have one?
Okay, so we're actually goingto start with that specific
point of what is life coachingand how is it important to you?
Okay, so here we go.
What is life coaching?
Life coaching is a person whohas a little bit more experience
(03:17):
in something that you aretrying to achieve and you want
to ask them questions, inquirethem about what is it that they
have done to achieve their levelof success or their level of
understanding in a specificsubject that you are struggling
(03:41):
in currently.
Now, this is very similar toasking for advice from, say, a
professor or a mentor or evensomeone in your family, but
there's a big difference herewith life coaching.
Now, with other people, youmight ask them this question and
(04:05):
they would give you their pointof view and you say, oh, okay,
so I can see from their example,and now I'm going to just copy
that example in my own life andhopefully it will have some
result from that.
So, in this perspective, we'relooking from an outward point of
(04:28):
view.
We're looking at someone elseexplaining their situation and
you're trying to do the samething they did and hoping for
the same results.
Okay, this is great, don't getme wrong.
Learning from advice is awonderful way to improve
yourself, but the one thing thatlife coaching does differently
(04:50):
here is you learn from anexample and then the life
coach's goal is to try to makeit so that it fits into your
life, rather than you justhearing it from an outward point
of view.
So let's get really clear aboutthis through an example Okay.
So let's say, for example,you're trying to start your own
(05:13):
business Okay.
And let's say you want to starta bakery Okay.
When you're starting a bakery,there's a few things that are
involved.
You have to know where you'regoing to have the bakery.
You want to know how big yourbakery is going to be.
Are you going to do it just byyourself and have it just be a
(05:35):
one person store, or are yougoing to have employees?
Are you going to have two orthree people working for you?
And then there's the wholepoint of you know where your
ingredients are going to comefrom.
Are you going to importingredients from foreign
countries or are you going toget them from local areas?
There are all these factors thatare involved and you have a
(05:58):
choice of either understandingthis information from an outward
point of view by going andasking other people and let's
say those people are otherbakers who have their own
bakeries and you ask them theirperspective of how did they go
about doing it, and so askingfor this advice really helps you
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understand from an outwardpoint of view.
How did they achieve theirsuccess.
They will tell you oh well, Iwant to have a three-person
bakery.
So that person the owner andtwo employees want to work with
local farmers.
So they work with all the localfarmers there and they get all
(06:41):
of their ingredients on theirown.
So maybe they don't use adelivery service.
They go out every day and pickthe things up on their own.
So you have this very clearimage of what they do, but you
don't know what's going oninside of their mind about how
are they achieving these things.
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You can see from an outwardpoint of view what they are
doing, but you're not seeing onthe inside who they are being.
And this is the big thing thatLife Coach is trying to help you
understand is who do you wantto be in order to do the things
that you want to do?
And then, when you know whatyou want to do, then it's very
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easy to have the things that youwant to do, and then, when you
know what you want to do, thenit's very easy to have the
things that you want Be do have.
That's the life coach'sperspective.
So, instead of looking at itthe other way around with advice
, which advice is looking at wow, I can see what you have, you
have a very nice bakery and Ican see what you do and you do
(07:47):
these actions.
You shop locally, you buy youringredients on your own, you
have two employees, you haveyour own store, but the big
question is still remaining whois that person being Right?
We don't know right, we don'tknow.
(08:09):
So what?
When you're doing is trying tounderstand who can I be in this
situation in order to do thethings correctly and have the
things I want?
Okay, so a life coach will helpyou do that.
So, if you're looking at tryingto be a different person, for
example, let's go to a differentsituation, like in a.
Let's go to a differentsituation, like in a
relationship.
This is a very easy one tounderstand.
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Sometimes, when you're in aloving relationship, your
partner is asking you to bedifferent.
Maybe that's because in yourrelationship you have a lot of
fights.
Maybe you have a spouse, a wifeor a husband who you get into a
lot of fights over small thingslike maybe some dirty dishes
(08:52):
are not getting washed on aregular basis.
Okay so, maybe every day afteryou eat dinner you are a little
tired, so you decide to leaveyour dishes in the sink and your
wife or husband, boyfriend,girlfriend are looking at that
and they get mad.
They're saying, oh, there it isagain.
Eric is leaving his dishes inthe sink.
(09:15):
Oh man, all right, eric, herewe go and we're going to have
this fight over the same oldthing that we fight about every
day Clean your dishes, be clean,cleaner, be more responsible
with your dishes.
I don't want to do your dishesfor you, eric, so be responsible
(09:37):
, like me.
Notice here that we're focusingon not the actual action a lot.
We're not looking at the dishesvery much.
We're actually just looking atthe personality, the
characteristic of being cleaner,being responsible, right.
(09:57):
So when we understand that whatour partners are really asking
us is not about the actualdishes, it's more about who we
are, what we're being, then wecan easily make adjustments by
looking at how we act.
Okay so, maybe in certainsituations I am being
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responsible, maybe I'm a veryresponsible driver, or I'm very
responsible at my job, or I amvery clean in my own bedroom
Maybe I make my bed every day.
But in some parts of our lifewhere we have a relationship,
some things can easily beforgotten or we just have a
(10:42):
different habit with thesepeople.
And that can happen because ofhow we were being, who we were
with other people in our life inthe past Maybe with our parents
or with our brothers andsisters or our close friends,
something like that and thesecan stick with us as we get
(11:03):
older.
So a life coach's goal here isto help you recognize in that
specific moment here is to helpyou recognize in that specific
moment oh, in this aspect of mylife I'm causing a problem
because I'm not being the personwho I truly want to be.
So if we can make a change inthis scenario, then it's very
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easy for us to adjust accordingto, or hopefully with the
connection with the otherperson's desire, and that's if
you know we really want to dothat.
It has to be something that weare willing to change.
If it's something you're notwilling to change, then
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compromise, of course, is theother answer here.
But life coach's goal is foryou to understand it all starts
with being someone who youdesire to be, and then, after
that, all the doing and thehaving will come with it.
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Come with it.
So it's a very backwards pointof view that life we see in
daily life shows us.
A lot of times we want to havethings that we see, like I see a
(12:26):
really nice bag, maybe a newpurse from a very luxurious
brand, or I see a reallybeautiful car outside that I
would call my dream car.
Or I drive by a house that Isee every day, that I would say,
oh, wouldn't it be nice to havethat house?
And we always see these outwardperspectives and think, maybe
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it's impossible for me to havethat.
And that's connected tolimiting beliefs, and we'll talk
about that more in a laterepisode.
But today, life coaches aresimply here to help you
understand that this is allcapable of being yours.
You can have anything you want,but realize that the person you
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are being right now doesn'tnecessarily match the person you
need to be to have the thingsthat you desire.
Some things about who you'rebeing right now is keeping you
from having those things, and sothat's why people keep talking
about personal development,self-growth, these kind of words
(13:38):
, Because if you work onyourself and you do personal
development, then you're growingOutside of the self you are
being now and into the personthat you wish to be to do those
things and have those things.
So these slight adjustmentsover time, when you have someone
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who's already achieved them andyou know that person doesn't
have to be a superhero, they canbe just somebody who has
experienced a few more thingsthan you have and are humble
enough to tell you okay, I didthis and I was being this way.
Are you willing to be this way?
Are you willing to be this way?
And if you have the willingnessto change like that, then you
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might see similar results.
So life coaching is all aboutthat.
Now, what I want to do isclarify what is the difference
between life coaching and theother aspects that we see in
life, like therapy, counseling,psychiatric therapy and these
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types of emotional help,therapeutic help, or some people
call it mental well-being.
Okay, a lot of these are verysimilar to life coaching, but
with the other options that wejust talked about therapy,
counseling and these kind theirgoal is slightly different.
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Their goal here is to help yousolve a problem that is within
your mind or your emotionalbehavior Okay, within your mind
or your emotional behavior, okay, life coaching can help with
this, but the goal is not tosolve the problem, that one
problem that you have.
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Right, this is something thatyou are possessing, like it's a
trophy on your wall, or the carthat you have outside, outside,
or you know something like this.
A lot of people look at theirmental and emotional problems
like this.
It's like, oh, I have a diseaseor I have a mental problem,
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right, it's something that theyhold, but they don't identify
with it.
They don't say I am this thing,I am this problem.
If they do talk like that,that's simply because they are a
little confused about what itis to be and to have.
If you say I am sick or I ammad, well then I should be able
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to open a dictionary and when Ilook up the word mad, I should
see your face there next to thedefinition of mad, because if
you are mad, then you should benext to the definition, what it
describes.
And of course you are not.
You are not mad, but sometimesyou have mad feelings, right?
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Sometimes you have angryfeelings, but you are not
necessarily the word mad, right?
So that's just an example.
Therapy is about understandingstuff like that, and psychiatric
therapy talks about moreserious stuff like that, like
depression or adhd orschizophrenia, you know, very
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serious mental or disorders andthese kind of things have a very
serious situation.
And that's the type of stuffthat psychiatric doctors come in
.
They come and help people withmedicine, with that.
Life coaches don't do thosesort of things because they are
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not related in this way.
And then, when it comes tocounseling, counseling and life
coaching are, you can say, canbe very similar, but the big
difference is is that counselingis analyzing a problem and
looking at it from all thedifferent angles that you have
about that problem, and its goalis for you to hopefully,
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crossing fingers, have aself-realization that this
problem is a problem that youcreated.
That's really what counselingis all about.
And if you realize that youjust created this own problem in
your mind, then hopefully youwill feel relieved that it no
longer is a big issue becauseit's all in your head.
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It's not actually happening inreality.
Okay, life coaching can helpyou with this too, but, like I
said, it's not the goal of lifecoaching.
Life coaching is to help youhave many realizations of who
you were and who do you want tobecome.
In other words, accepting whoyou are right now and
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acknowledging who you want to bein the future.
This is a step-by-step processthat helps you get guidance and
clarity about what it is in lifethat you really want.
Getting really clear about whatthat is.
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What are the common ways toachieve that?
Things like law of attractionor understanding, wants and
don't wants, understanding, getthe power of giving up or
surrendering.
All of these things are thewisdom that is provided inside
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of a life coaching session, andso it's more of a like what life
coaching says in the name.
It's kind of like an activitybecause you're working with a
coach and this coach is pushingyou forward outside to be
outside of your comfort zone andachieve these greatness that
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you really want in your life,based on what they understand
and have found effective.
So that is the big differencehere with therapy, counseling,
psychiatric therapy and lifecoaching.
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Now, for you to gain access tothis is actually becoming much
easier over time Online thesedays.
There are life coacheseverywhere.
You can find them on placeslike fiverrcom.
There's a lot of individualwebsites that offer them A place
(20:24):
like Amazing Talker, whereAnita and I have worked before,
offer it through a course calledEmotional Healing.
I'm actually going to createanother episode explaining what
emotional healing actually meansand, if you wanted to
personally talk to Anita or I,we are life coaches, we are
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certified and we offer this as aprivate session on our own
website, which is ericananitacom.
So these are wonderful placesfor you to find life coaches and
, like I said, this is aprofession that is growing in
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asia.
Right now, in taiwan, I knowthere's more and more life
coaches, and so if you arelooking for somebody to help you
in any kind of field thatyou're trying to achieve
greatness in, it's becoming moreaccessible to you day by day.
So if you're interested indoing something like that or if
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you want to know moreinformation about this,
definitely reach out to us onour website or on Instagram at
Taiwanica Podcast, and you candefinitely find out more about
what exactly is available to you, and especially if you're
looking for spiritual orrelationship help, because those
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are the specialties that Anitaand I have, and, like I said,
you can find that on our website, ericananitacom.
Okay, well, I really hope thatyou enjoyed today's episode.
If you did, please definitelylike it if you're on spotify, or
give us some feedback onfacebook or on apple podcast.
This is episode 81, talking about life coaching.
What is it and how can it be apart of your life?
What's going on?
Everybody?
It is Eric here, one of thehosts of Taiwanica Podcast,
coming back to you once again tointroduce one of my favorite
(00:21):
subjects and actually one of myprofessions.
One of my favorite subjects andactually one of my professions
and just so excited to be backhere after a little break from
Taiwanica podcast For all of youwho follow us on a regular
basis.
Thank you so much for yourpatience and, for those who are
new, welcome.
Today I am going to beintroducing something that some
(00:42):
of you may already know, thatI'm a part of, and some of you
might not even know what it is.
That's life coaching.
Why are we talking about thistoday?
Well, one of the things thatTaiwanica podcast is all about
is spreading awareness, and thethings that we want to share
with you today are all relatedto the things that we're
passionate about today, are allrelated to the things that we're
(01:06):
passionate about, and so lifecoaching is something that both
Anita and I like to do, andwe're actually just about to
start doing it as a part of ourprofessional career.
That's right, anita and I arelife coaches, so if you are
interested in learning moreabout that, tune into today's
episode, because we're going todeep dive into what exactly is
(01:28):
life coaching now?
So, to start off with lifecoaching, it's a new trendy
phrase that a lot of people arestarting to hear more and more,
especially in Taiwan.
Starting to hear more and more,especially in Taiwan.
(01:49):
It's actually been somethingthat has been around for quite a
while in the United States andother western countries, but in
recent years it's starting tobecome more of a globalized
profession, and so when we thinkabout life coaching, we're
trying to focus on a couple offactors, and one of the big
things that a lot of people talkabout with life coaching is
(02:11):
it's very similar to some otherprofessions.
Those are therapists,psychologists and even
psychiatric help psychiatrists,psychiatric help psychiatrists.
So we want to get clear aboutwhat is the difference between
life coaching and these medicalprofessions I guess we can call
(02:32):
them and also, what exactly doeslife coaching do that sticks
out from those?
Okay, so that's one big thing Iwant to talk about today, and
another big thing about lifecoaching is how can you start to
have a life coach in your lifeand why is it significant for
(02:55):
you to have one?
Okay, so we're actually goingto start with that specific
point of what is life coachingand how is it important to you?
Okay, so here we go.
What is life coaching?
Life coaching is a person whohas a little bit more experience
(03:17):
in something that you aretrying to achieve and you want
to ask them questions, inquirethem about what is it that they
have done to achieve their levelof success or their level of
understanding in a specificsubject that you are struggling
(03:41):
in currently.
Now, this is very similar toasking for advice from, say, a
professor or a mentor or evensomeone in your family, but
there's a big difference herewith life coaching.
Now, with other people, youmight ask them this question and
(04:05):
they would give you their pointof view and you say, oh, okay,
so I can see from their example,and now I'm going to just copy
that example in my own life andhopefully it will have some
result from that.
So, in this perspective, we'relooking from an outward point of
(04:28):
view.
We're looking at someone elseexplaining their situation and
you're trying to do the samething they did and hoping for
the same results.
Okay, this is great, don't getme wrong.
Learning from advice is awonderful way to improve
yourself, but the one thing thatlife coaching does differently
(04:50):
here is you learn from anexample and then the life
coach's goal is to try to makeit so that it fits into your
life, rather than you justhearing it from an outward point
of view.
So let's get really clear aboutthis through an example Okay.
So let's say, for example,you're trying to start your own
(05:13):
business Okay.
And let's say you want to starta bakery Okay.
When you're starting a bakery,there's a few things that are
involved.
You have to know where you'regoing to have the bakery.
You want to know how big yourbakery is going to be.
Are you going to do it just byyourself and have it just be a
(05:35):
one person store, or are yougoing to have employees?
Are you going to have two orthree people working for you?
And then there's the wholepoint of you know where your
ingredients are going to comefrom.
Are you going to importingredients from foreign
countries or are you going toget them from local areas?
There are all these factors thatare involved and you have a
(05:58):
choice of either understandingthis information from an outward
point of view by going andasking other people and let's
say those people are otherbakers who have their own
bakeries and you ask them theirperspective of how did they go
about doing it, and so askingfor this advice really helps you
(06:20):
understand from an outwardpoint of view.
How did they achieve theirsuccess.
They will tell you oh well, Iwant to have a three-person
bakery.
So that person the owner andtwo employees want to work with
local farmers.
So they work with all the localfarmers there and they get all
(06:41):
of their ingredients on theirown.
So maybe they don't use adelivery service.
They go out every day and pickthe things up on their own.
So you have this very clearimage of what they do, but you
don't know what's going oninside of their mind about how
are they achieving these things.
(07:02):
You can see from an outwardpoint of view what they are
doing, but you're not seeing onthe inside who they are being.
And this is the big thing thatLife Coach is trying to help you
understand is who do you wantto be in order to do the things
that you want to do?
And then, when you know whatyou want to do, then it's very
(07:22):
easy to have the things that youwant to do, and then, when you
know what you want to do, thenit's very easy to have the
things that you want Be do have.
That's the life coach'sperspective.
So, instead of looking at itthe other way around with advice
, which advice is looking at wow, I can see what you have, you
have a very nice bakery and Ican see what you do and you do
(07:47):
these actions.
You shop locally, you buy youringredients on your own, you
have two employees, you haveyour own store, but the big
question is still remaining whois that person being Right?
We don't know right, we don'tknow.
(08:09):
So what?
When you're doing is trying tounderstand who can I be in this
situation in order to do thethings correctly and have the
things I want?
Okay, so a life coach will helpyou do that.
So, if you're looking at tryingto be a different person, for
example, let's go to a differentsituation, like in a.
Let's go to a differentsituation, like in a
relationship.
This is a very easy one tounderstand.
(08:30):
Sometimes, when you're in aloving relationship, your
partner is asking you to bedifferent.
Maybe that's because in yourrelationship you have a lot of
fights.
Maybe you have a spouse, a wifeor a husband who you get into a
lot of fights over small thingslike maybe some dirty dishes
(08:52):
are not getting washed on aregular basis.
Okay so, maybe every day afteryou eat dinner you are a little
tired, so you decide to leaveyour dishes in the sink and your
wife or husband, boyfriend,girlfriend are looking at that
and they get mad.
They're saying, oh, there it isagain.
Eric is leaving his dishes inthe sink.
(09:15):
Oh man, all right, eric, herewe go and we're going to have
this fight over the same oldthing that we fight about every
day Clean your dishes, be clean,cleaner, be more responsible
with your dishes.
I don't want to do your dishesfor you, eric, so be responsible
(09:37):
, like me.
Notice here that we're focusingon not the actual action a lot.
We're not looking at the dishesvery much.
We're actually just looking atthe personality, the
characteristic of being cleaner,being responsible, right.
(09:57):
So when we understand that whatour partners are really asking
us is not about the actualdishes, it's more about who we
are, what we're being, then wecan easily make adjustments by
looking at how we act.
Okay so, maybe in certainsituations I am being
(10:20):
responsible, maybe I'm a veryresponsible driver, or I'm very
responsible at my job, or I amvery clean in my own bedroom
Maybe I make my bed every day.
But in some parts of our lifewhere we have a relationship,
some things can easily beforgotten or we just have a
(10:42):
different habit with thesepeople.
And that can happen because ofhow we were being, who we were
with other people in our life inthe past Maybe with our parents
or with our brothers andsisters or our close friends,
something like that and thesecan stick with us as we get
(11:03):
older.
So a life coach's goal here isto help you recognize in that
specific moment here is to helpyou recognize in that specific
moment oh, in this aspect of mylife I'm causing a problem
because I'm not being the personwho I truly want to be.
So if we can make a change inthis scenario, then it's very
(11:25):
easy for us to adjust accordingto, or hopefully with the
connection with the otherperson's desire, and that's if
you know we really want to dothat.
It has to be something that weare willing to change.
If it's something you're notwilling to change, then
(11:46):
compromise, of course, is theother answer here.
But life coach's goal is foryou to understand it all starts
with being someone who youdesire to be, and then, after
that, all the doing and thehaving will come with it.
(12:06):
Come with it.
So it's a very backwards pointof view that life we see in
daily life shows us.
A lot of times we want to havethings that we see, like I see a
(12:26):
really nice bag, maybe a newpurse from a very luxurious
brand, or I see a reallybeautiful car outside that I
would call my dream car.
Or I drive by a house that Isee every day, that I would say,
oh, wouldn't it be nice to havethat house?
And we always see these outwardperspectives and think, maybe
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it's impossible for me to havethat.
And that's connected tolimiting beliefs, and we'll talk
about that more in a laterepisode.
But today, life coaches aresimply here to help you
understand that this is allcapable of being yours.
You can have anything you want,but realize that the person you
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are being right now doesn'tnecessarily match the person you
need to be to have the thingsthat you desire.
Some things about who you'rebeing right now is keeping you
from having those things, and sothat's why people keep talking
about personal development,self-growth, these kind of words
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, Because if you work onyourself and you do personal
development, then you're growingOutside of the self you are
being now and into the personthat you wish to be to do those
things and have those things.
So these slight adjustmentsover time, when you have someone
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who's already achieved them andyou know that person doesn't
have to be a superhero, they canbe just somebody who has
experienced a few more thingsthan you have and are humble
enough to tell you okay, I didthis and I was being this way.
Are you willing to be this way?
Are you willing to be this way?
And if you have the willingnessto change like that, then you
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might see similar results.
So life coaching is all aboutthat.
Now, what I want to do isclarify what is the difference
between life coaching and theother aspects that we see in
life, like therapy, counseling,psychiatric therapy and these
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types of emotional help,therapeutic help, or some people
call it mental well-being.
Okay, a lot of these are verysimilar to life coaching, but
with the other options that wejust talked about therapy,
counseling and these kind theirgoal is slightly different.
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Their goal here is to help yousolve a problem that is within
your mind or your emotionalbehavior Okay, within your mind
or your emotional behavior, okay, life coaching can help with
this, but the goal is not tosolve the problem, that one
problem that you have.
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Right, this is something thatyou are possessing, like it's a
trophy on your wall, or the carthat you have outside, outside,
or you know something like this.
A lot of people look at theirmental and emotional problems
like this.
It's like, oh, I have a diseaseor I have a mental problem,
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right, it's something that theyhold, but they don't identify
with it.
They don't say I am this thing,I am this problem.
If they do talk like that,that's simply because they are a
little confused about what itis to be and to have.
If you say I am sick or I ammad, well then I should be able
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to open a dictionary and when Ilook up the word mad, I should
see your face there next to thedefinition of mad, because if
you are mad, then you should benext to the definition, what it
describes.
And of course you are not.
You are not mad, but sometimesyou have mad feelings, right?
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Sometimes you have angryfeelings, but you are not
necessarily the word mad, right?
So that's just an example.
Therapy is about understandingstuff like that, and psychiatric
therapy talks about moreserious stuff like that, like
depression or adhd orschizophrenia, you know, very
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serious mental or disorders andthese kind of things have a very
serious situation.
And that's the type of stuffthat psychiatric doctors come in
.
They come and help people withmedicine, with that.
Life coaches don't do thosesort of things because they are
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not related in this way.
And then, when it comes tocounseling, counseling and life
coaching are, you can say, canbe very similar, but the big
difference is is that counselingis analyzing a problem and
looking at it from all thedifferent angles that you have
about that problem, and its goalis for you to hopefully,
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crossing fingers, have aself-realization that this
problem is a problem that youcreated.
That's really what counselingis all about.
And if you realize that youjust created this own problem in
your mind, then hopefully youwill feel relieved that it no
longer is a big issue becauseit's all in your head.
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It's not actually happening inreality.
Okay, life coaching can helpyou with this too, but, like I
said, it's not the goal of lifecoaching.
Life coaching is to help youhave many realizations of who
you were and who do you want tobecome.
In other words, accepting whoyou are right now and
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acknowledging who you want to bein the future.
This is a step-by-step processthat helps you get guidance and
clarity about what it is in lifethat you really want.
Getting really clear about whatthat is.
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What are the common ways toachieve that?
Things like law of attractionor understanding, wants and
don't wants, understanding, getthe power of giving up or
surrendering.
All of these things are thewisdom that is provided inside
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of a life coaching session, andso it's more of a like what life
coaching says in the name.
It's kind of like an activitybecause you're working with a
coach and this coach is pushingyou forward outside to be
outside of your comfort zone andachieve these greatness that
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you really want in your life,based on what they understand
and have found effective.
So that is the big differencehere with therapy, counseling,
psychiatric therapy and lifecoaching.
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Now, for you to gain access tothis is actually becoming much
easier over time Online thesedays.
There are life coacheseverywhere.
You can find them on placeslike fiverrcom.
There's a lot of individualwebsites that offer them A place
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like Amazing Talker, whereAnita and I have worked before,
offer it through a course calledEmotional Healing.
I'm actually going to createanother episode explaining what
emotional healing actually meansand, if you wanted to
personally talk to Anita or I,we are life coaches, we are
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certified and we offer this as aprivate session on our own
website, which is ericananitacom.
So these are wonderful placesfor you to find life coaches and
, like I said, this is aprofession that is growing in
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asia.
Right now, in taiwan, I knowthere's more and more life
coaches, and so if you arelooking for somebody to help you
in any kind of field thatyou're trying to achieve
greatness in, it's becoming moreaccessible to you day by day.
So if you're interested indoing something like that or if
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you want to know moreinformation about this,
definitely reach out to us onour website or on Instagram at
Taiwanica Podcast, and you candefinitely find out more about
what exactly is available to you, and especially if you're
looking for spiritual orrelationship help, because those
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are the specialties that Anitaand I have, and, like I said,
you can find that on our website, ericananitacom.
Okay, well, I really hope thatyou enjoyed today's episode.
If you did, please definitelylike it if you're on spotify, or
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