Helping Others Make Money

While helping other people in years past (and here and there still) was a matter of altruism, now companies claim to want to help others, but for loads of money. A lot is not right here, and I’m going to try to sort that out. Remember, altruism involves putting others before yourself with no expectation of compensation.

1. These program-selling coaches don’t want to help anyone; they want to make money. If coaching is about helping others, they should call themselves something else.
2. Searching (recruiting, creating) clients often also means talking to the other about a problem combined with a strong belief in manufacturability. Are you not having any success? Then you need me! Are you not happy? A coaching program with me makes you see the light!
3. People who call themselves coaches and follow these programs do not yet have a pearl of straightforward wisdom that money does not buy happiness. In other words, they have a problem with their image of humanity and meaning.
4. Suppose you earn that little bit or more as a coach. What are you going to do with it then? I can’t answer someone else, but I do have a suspicion. Don’t start a shelter for the homeless.
   
   
   
   
   
   Bet? Following even more programs in the context of ‘personal growth and development is more prominent.
5. Love me, money doesn’t make you unhappy, and working for money is good. Logically, you want to earn money in your chosen profession. But what kind of profession is a ‘coach’ anyway? What is incorrect here is that these program-following coaches think they are entitled to hefty payments without knowing what for them.
6. Investing in these types of programs costs money and time. You often must overcome a lot of trepidation and fear yourself to have the guts to charge specific prices, to ‘put yourself in the market.’ So, I do a lot of ego care, and then I express myself sweetly.
7. What is the influence of all this ego care on your coaching itself? When you finally get to the point where you sit across from someone else for a hefty hourly rate which wants to cry and tell their story, what do you do? Can you afford to listen for an hour, or do you still have to excel with better questioning?
8. I keep writing here that coaching is helping someone else because if you ask someone at the beginning of their coaching career why so and so, they always say they want to help someone else. And that’s a beautiful thing. But then.
9. Indeed, in this world, several people are endowed with specific talents and other things that make them real coaches, or whatever you want to call them. Spiritual leaders are also allowed, as gurus or teachers. And often, it also looks relatively easy what they do. Unfortunately, that is not the case, but the trap has been set in the meantime. The trap many people fall into who want to become a coach or call themselves that but need a lot of programs.
10. The bad thing about this story is that many people invest a lot of money in programs to make much money. And that it doesn’t work. Despite all the skepticism, the coaching profession is still very tempting for many people who want to do something good. Still, if you’re going to make a lot of money, it is advisable to consider other professions or take programs and training courses. Following this, you learn something substantive that people are pleased to pay.