Saying What Coaches Say

If you regularly tell people you know things like:

• “I don’t work for nothing.”
• “How many things of the many we brainstormed together have you actually done to expand your business? Make a list of all of them, next to it put how much or how many times you have done and then email me each time you do one.”
• “Do you think your son is telling you the whole truth? What do you think is really true?”
• “If you put that much money on your credit card and give him the money, what will be his incentive to pay you back?”
• “You have trained him to treat you with no respect.”
• “Do you actually have to spend so much money on the cleaners?”
• “Are you telling yourself the truth about being happy with your weight?”

My hand is raised. If yours is raised because you have recently told people these things or things like them all in the last couple of weeks, you are probably a life coach yourself.

Often the job of a life coach is to be willing to tell clients the hard things they pay you to hear because they’ve been ignoring their own inner voices that tell them the same things. It helps to hear it from another person with who you have set your coals and who will help you hold yourself to them.