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Personal Life Coaching Scams

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Personal life coaching can be a wonderful thing when you are able to find and use the coaching services of a reputable life coach. Unfortunately, there are some individuals who “hang out a shingle” as a personal life coach, but they actually have no business doing any life coaching because they have not been trained properly, or they offer bad advice or they try to sell you a million products. In other words, there are snake oil salesmen (and women) in any profession, and sadly, there are some personal life coaches who fall into this category, and you definitely do not want to get scammed by someone who claims to be an effective personal life coach, but who in fact is anything but.

This means that it is extra important to do your “due diligence” when researching any of the people you are considering hiring as a personal life coaches. If a person who is offering life coaching services is legitimate and has a good (or preferably excellent) track record, you will be able to find plenty of evidence backing up their claims. They will be affiliated with legitimate personal life coaching associations, for instance. They may also invite you to speak to some of their past or present clients so that you can get a better sense of how they work as personal coaches and if they customize their programs to suit the needs of each of their individual clients.

After all, each client has different needs, yourself included. You don’t want a personal life coach who approaches life coaching in a cookie cutter style, giving each client the exact same advice as all of their other clients. When interviewing each potential life coach, pay particular attention to how closely they listen to you when you are describing what you want to get out of the experience. An effective life coach is a good listener who takes his or her clients’ specific desires and needs into account when designing a life coaching program.

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