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I have a deep conversation with Bogdan Rosu about my life's journey from being a broke janitor to becoming a successful life coach! 

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How does one become a life or business coach?

I started out as a life coach when I was 18 and it wasn’t so great.

I had social anxiety, I worked as a janitor just to get by.

This is me five years ago struggling to get words out; My life was such a mess, why would anyone pay me to help them?

That question made me a prisoner in my own mind, cutting me out from being a successful life coach.

Though now I have had almost 9000 hours of coaching and have worked with people all around the world I had to break out of that cage.

The biggest hurdle of mine was the belief that; I am too young, why would anyone listen to me?

If you are starting out as a life coach you know what I am talking about you have your own version of this.

The voice that says; why should people listen to me? who am I to tell them anything?

Solve this hurdle and you will be able to figure out the rest of your journey yourself.

Most people try to overcome it by faking it.

The fake it till you make it approach, talk like an authority, an expert.

That’s a trap because it’s fake and your clients can sense that.

The way I got started out was;

Hey, you know what you should be doing, let me help you do that.

Let me hold you accountable for that.

This way I was not pretending to be an enlightened human; I was just being honest with a pure desire to help the other person.

Allow yourself to be vulnerable because only through cracks, your imperfection, your insecurities, can the light escape.

It's not about manipulating them to pay you; It’s about can you solve a problem?

Can you pour your heart out and try to help the other person the best you can?

I share with you how you can simplify your life for the better!

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Life Advice: How can I make my life simpler?

Stop with all the should's, the expectations. Stop with all the self-help advice. Stop listening to anyone.

Let’s stop with all the things you should be doing and declutter for a minute. It’s actually way easier than you think. How?

Just ask yourself one simple question, What do I really want? Make a list. Let’s take all the opinions, all the should's, all the judgment out of it.

Repeat after me, What do I really want? Not what my family wants from me? Not what do my friends want from me? What do I want from me?

The only thing that’s ever worthwhile is to go after what you truly want.

If you are not pursuing that you are gonna be half-dead. No self-help advice can help you because you are not doing what you really want. The quickest way to simplify your life is to know what you want.

I share with you why you are losing money, time and energy and how you can improve it!

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What was a choice you made that completely changed your life?

The choice of using my mental spotlight.

I am not talking about meditation or concentration.

I am talking about what you look for in life and changing that.

Let’s play a game.

I want you to look around and find everything that’s blue, you only have five seconds…find blue. 5..4..3..2…1.

Now keep looking at the screen and tell me everything that was red.

Unless you peek and find red things, you will have a difficult time naming them.

Why? Because you just weren’t looking for them.

Same is with happiness, success, money, relationships.

If you are looking for reasons to be upset and why life isn’t fair; you will find them.

If you are looking for reasons to be content and how everything is working for you; you will find them too.

You get what you focus on in life.

Look for how or why you can;

Lose that weight, start that business, improve your life.

Knowing this you have two options;

1. Ignore this and keep on living on autopilot and never get the life you want.

2. Try to implement it, make it a mental habit and get everything you want.

When I was 18, I picked the second option and now I am here. I hope you do too.

Start looking for reasons on how things can work out for you.

I share with you how you can achieve your dreams of traveling the world!

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What are the most common life mistakes young people make?

Here are 7 common mistakes young people are making nowadays.

1. Living for likes: Every moment is wasted away by trying to capture it perfectly for social media. It’s much better to experience the experience than trying to make it look cool.

2. Enough sleep: I am not saying don’t party but make sure your body gets the sleep it needs.

3. Not saving money: Wasting money to look cool or buy unnecessary things they think they need to get approval from others. The best thing young people can do is develop a saving habit.

4. Being fake: Not being their true self and pretending just so their peers will like them.

5. Fretting over mistakes: We all make mistakes nobody is perfect. Learn and move on.

6. Worrying about looks: Looks matter yes but what matters more is how people feel around you. Focus on that.

7. Day-dreaming: Thinking once they do something, once they travel to this new place everything will be fixed.

I share with you how you can become the best version of your self and start being the real you!

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What are good habits to start young that will significantly make your adult life easier?

Here are 7 small habits you should start young.

1. Save money: Learn to save your money. Even small savings like 10% every month add up and you can learn to invest it later.

2. Explore hobbies: Whether it’s learning an instrument or art, try it. It’s very easy to write it off as time-waste when you grow up i.e. you end up as boring adults.

3. Stop people pleasing: You don’t need everyone to like you. Learn to be okay if someone doesn’t like you.

4. Meditate: In this attention lacking world, the future belongs to people who can hold their attention in one place for the longest period of time. Start early.

5. Read: Whether its fiction or self-help. Developing a reading habit is always good.

6. Small talks: Learn this skill and you will never be lonely.

7. Be real: Never pretend to be someone you are not. This trait will keep you miserable your whole life. So, Drop it.

I share with you how you can beat procrastinating in your life!

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What will be your single best advice to remove procrastination from your life?

To untangle it.

We tend to force our way out of procrastination.

We try to trick and push ourselves out of this feeling. Without ever questioning where this feeling is coming from.

Where does procrastination come from?

If you are procrastinating, it’s likely that this is what’s going on in the background.

You don’t think you will do the task ‘right’.

You don’t think your efforts will get you any results.

You have didn’t follow through on something and now you are saying what’s the point of working on this.

These background thoughts are the real culprit. Not you being a lazy person.

Target them and solve your procrastination.

1. Mental Work

What you have to realize is:

It’s okay to feel like you can’t do it properly.

It’s okay to feel like you won’t achieve anything.

It’s okay to feel like you don’t deserve what you want.

That’s what you have to tell yourself. And the moment you give these hidden emotions space to breathe, they will lose their grip over you.

You won’t feel so tense and find it easier to take action

2. Positive Action

After fixing the real cause, treat the symptoms.

Take some positive action. It doesn’t even have to be the thing you are procrastinating on.

Any action to get the momentum going. It could be washing the dishes or cleaning your room.

Soon you will get your flow back and feel good about yourself.

Fixing your mindset coupled with action is the only way to beat procrastination.

Three years ago, Rafael Eliassen had a major life turnaround. He went from being 65 pounds overweight, ridden with anxiety, and addicted to video games to becoming a life coach and a popular motivational speaker. In the this podcast Rafael Eliassen shares with you the four psychological principles that could help you feel better about yourself and improve how you relate to others.

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1. Use active listening.

3. Motion creates emotion.

Featured: https://www.good.is/articles/psychological-life-hacks

This podcast starts out with speaker Rafael Eliassen asking you what the difference is between someone who wins in life and someone who loses. The video explores the idea that life responds to what we think we deserve, not necessarily what we want.

The whole premise to this motivational speech is to want more for yourself and to want it so badly you know you deserve it, to fight for what you have and to work for what you deserve until you achieve it. It’s about perseverance and passion to get the life of your dreams.

Featured in: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/250638

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I share with you tips on how you can become fearless, stop being afraid of and learn to eliminate all of your fear. 

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What are some safe and comfortable ways to overcome fear?

There are none.

There is no comfortable way to overcome fear.

Does that mean you can never overcome your fears? No.

The only way to overcome your fears is to move towards them.

You didn’t want to hear it, but that’s the truth. Take that scared feeling inside and go through it.

It’s supposed to be uncomfortable because it’s supposed to change you.

It’s not about getting rid of the feeling beforehand.

Most people think like:

I need to get rid of my social anxiety; then I will start talking to people

I need to get a degree first; then I will start my business

I need to be the right person; then I will ask her out.

It’s isn’t supposed to be that way.

You get rid of the feeling by doing the thing that you are scared of:

You get rid of your social anxiety by talking to people.

You start that business and then you become independent.

You ask her out and then you become the right person.

There is no perfect future where you won’t be afraid.

The only way to create that future is to move towards the thing you are afraid of.

How long are you going to stay small and comfortable?

I share with the secrets of how you can tap into your own inner strength and use it to be successful in life!

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What is something you learned very late in life, but wish you knew much earlier?

Everybody is a genius.

If you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid ~ Albert Einstein

We all applaud such quotes and condemn the educational system.

A system which educates us to be “good” at everything.

Working on your weakness and discarding your strengths is what we are taught in school.

Is it really worth it?

If Albert Einstein tried to be the life of every party, would he be great at physics?

If Alexander the great started focusing on being an empath, would he have conquered half of Asia by 30?

Whether or not you agree with these people, they were successful.

They were known for their strengths.

People who are great at something are rewarded way more than someone who is good at everything.

Selective greatness is not what people strive for.

I can bet you are currently more focused on your weakness than your strengths.

Maybe you are trying to fulfil society’s standards of how you are supposed to be extroverted.

Maybe you are trying to put yourself in the box of the adventurer while you really like a simple lifestyle.

I don’t know you;

But I do know that the world will miss out on your greatness if you keep trying to box yourself in.

Yes, normalise your weaknesses but work more on your strengths.

Are you artistic? Try Filmmaker, animating, etc.

Are you an empath? Try being a psychologist, writer, etc.

Are you resourceful? Try being an entrepreneur.

What's the one strength you will start working on? Because if you don’t you are just wasting your potential.