Worth and approval aren't the same thing

A post this week got the difference badly wrong. Here's where...

The organ grinder and the monkey.

The days I coach best are the days I say the least.

If you can't remember their name, you're not coaching them

Three Fingers Pointing Back

The question I ask four times

What Linda taught me about listening properly.

The qualification you think you need before coaching over-50s

You don't. The barrier was never knowledge.

Winning the argument doesn't end the argument

You don't think your way to confidence

The reps come first. The confidence follows.

The hard part was never the training

Your client already knows how to squat. That's not what's stopping them turning up.

The want doesn't go away

Just because you understand it doesn't mean it goes away.

The question I don't hear coaches ask enough

What are you actually here to do?

I didn't do enough

The sentence that stopped the call.

Almost to the minute

What it means when a client shares the anniversary

The night I priced up quitting

The quiet ledger that comes out on the drive home

The map your clients are handing you

The "I wish" list isn't complaint. It's data.

Making it for the right reasons

What you bring to the room

The person you are when no one's watching

Your job is to make yourself wanted, not needed.

The programme didn't fail. The person it was built for no longer exists.

The client who can't ask for what they need

The Priest Moment

The relationship is the product

The drive home

Why the best moments don't survive the drive home.

The voluntary hard thing

She wasn't training for spin class. She was training to be someone who chooses hard things.