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Do you feel overly responsible for your clients’ success?
Do you feel overly responsible for your clients' success? Do you worry about whether your clients are getting healthier, losing weight and feeling better? Does it keep you up at night? Are your clients always on your mind? Do you think feeling this responsible for your clients makes you an exceptional health coach? It doesn't. Our job as good coaches is to give our clients the tools they need to create their own success. You can teach them how to choose optimal foods to support their health goals, you can show them how to read food labels and cook meals for their families, and you can coach them to upgrade their thoughts and improve their self-care. However, what your clients do - or don't do - with the tools you teach them, is out of your control. It can be frustrating, I know. I find myself worrying about my clients' success too. I build a new website for a client, teach them how to use it, share my tips and techniques for effective newsletters, and give them my best business coaching... and then I worry about whether they're going to have all the success they want and deserve. Truth is, some of them will and some of them won't. Ultimately, it's out of my hands. And your clients' success is out of your hands too. Your job as a health coach is to share the best of your knowledge and experience, to be present for your clients as they encounter the growing pains of transforming their lives, and to give them the tools they need to succeed. That is … [Continue Reading...]
