Step Up Your Own Game to Lead Others
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007As health and fitness professionals we’re often seen by our clients as an almost limitless source of motivation and inspiration that can be called upon to help them reach practically any of their health, fitness and lifestyle goals.
Whenever they’re feeling stuck, unmotivativated or at a low-ebb they want, no, expect their instructors, trainers and coaches to say, do or be whatever is necessary to get them back on track and feeling great about themselves and their goals again.And generally, we accomplish exactly that. We say the things that need to be said, we do the things that need to be done and with a cheery smile and an ‘I know you can do this’, we help lift our clients out of the dip they’re in so that they can move onto bigger and better things.
So far, so good, right? After all, a happy, smiling client is what being in a service profession is all about… isn’t it? Well, not exactly.
I mean, yes, we want happy clients and we want definitely them to feel that the time, money and effort that they’re investing in us is being well spent, but measuring our success solely by the happiness and results of our clients is the quickest way to ensure that we’ll lose heart, burn out and, in all likelihood, end up quitting the profession altogether.
Just like the thousands upon thousands (more…)
