What is a personal coach, you ask?
What can he or she do for you?
If I answer your inquiry now,
Will you know what next to do?

About Personal Coaching

There are articles, blogs, and plenty of web content on the Internet that will answer the question, “What is a personal coach.” So, when asked to write about what is a personal coach and what do they do, I figured why join the chorus of the routine and the mundane – why not write a poem about it.

So – here goes – the rest of the poem about personal coaching. I doubt I’ll become the Poet Laureate of the United States, but perhaps you will take away a little information about personal coaching, and why you should consider using a personal coach.

The world is competitive, hectic, frightening,
And filled with forks in the road to success.
It almost seem necessary and the only path to
Your goals is to work and struggle to excess.

But personal coaching can help you find
A balance between family, pleasure, and work
So you can achieve all you ever wanted
Without going completely berserk!

What is a personal coach, you ask?
Are you interested in finding results?
To have the life you always wanted
Like so many other adults.

Personal coaching helps improve your life
Cleans up the fragments and mess.
It increases contentment and joy,
While reducing negativity and stress.

Are you satisfied with your current role in life?
Are you satisfied with who you’ve become?
Do you struggle to achieve success and wealth?
Is your relationship a strong and healthy one?

If you answer “no” to any of the above
And think that something isn’t right,
You might consider personal coaching
To move your life to a new height.

What is a personal coach, you ask?
What can he or she do for you?
If I’ve answered your inquiry now,
Take that step to a new life debut!

What is a Personal Coach?

If you like poetry as much as most of us did in high school, and breeze right through it, here are the basics of what a personal coach can offer their clients:

• Life coaching – identifying life goals and creating a plan to achieve them
• Career Coaching – we spend roughly a third of our lives at work (some of us more!), so why not find your passion, or at least be happy with what you do?
• Health and Lifestyle Coaching – personal coaches aren’t doctors, nurses, or health care professionals, but they can help you find balance and make wise choices when it comes to food, exercise, and lifestyle.
• Relationship Coaching – relationships often dictate how happy we are. A life coach can help you improve yourself, and improve your chances of having happy and healthy relationships with family, friends, and mates.

Will Personal Coaching Help You?

What is a personal coaching expert going to do for you? That’s the specific question you are wondering about. Well, he or she can help you with everything above and everything mentioned in the poem (yeah, you should read the poem!)?

But, no coach can help you if you don’t want to be helped. Some people may shell out the money to hire a coach, and they go to sessions with a closed mind and a negative attitude. If that is you, save your money and buy a pint of ice cream, sit on the couch, and watch infomercials all night long. Coaching won’t help.

What is a personal coach you ask? Well, he or she is merely a facilitator, a guide, a mentor, a well of knowledge for you to tap, and a professional who will do his or her best to ensure that you find your own answers to your questions.

You’ve heard the expression, you can bring a horse to water but you can’t make him drink? Well, you can bring a client to a coach, but the coach can’t make changes. You make the changes! You make you the YOU you want to be…with a little help and guidance from your personal coach.

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article…Thank you!

Fred Philips
Business Coach
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