STILL LAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
January 23, 2009
Please hold the line for the next available Wellness Coach.
Once again, I’m living proof for the importance of having specific goals and a game plan for accomplishing them and what can end up happening if you are not specific. Because I’ve become something I never even realized I set out to become. Turns out, I’m a Wellness Coach.
Evidently, I’ve been one for several years and no one ever pointed it out to me. Until yesterday. My friend from “ELLAY” (L.A.) who is much more on top of things and hipper than me, called for our bi-annual chat and referred to me in passing as a Wellness Coach. I looked at the phone like it had three receivers then asked her for the definition.
She rolled the eyes of her voice as she explained what my apparently retroactive job is (has been) and basically,it’s a life coach for your body.
Think of it as a hybrid, combining a personal trainer with a psychologist topped off with something similar to a Wedding Planner only not planning weddings but planning your dream body.
Maybe you’ve heard of Executive Coaches. They are hired to help you achieve your career goals. Then there’s Life Coaches who help you become less aimless. So Wellness Coaches help you get unstuck in the body department.
And the bodies that I see darkening the door of my gym are often times not that person’s ideal body and it’s not because they are lazy. These people are usually stuck in behavioral areas of their life that might be as simple as portion control, not enough sleep, night-time eating, drinking more than they know they should or not stretching the right muscles.
A Wellness Coach, my friend expostulated, helps clients identify specific (S.M.A.R.T. comes to mind, those of you more faithful readers may remember) goals that help them make behavioral changes that lead to winning that race, losing that weight or sticking with that workout routine.
Check. Check. Check. I do that.
So I love it when my friends tell me things about myself that I didn’t realize, like I discovered a few years ago I could lick my elbow after I saw my neighbor do it. Eye-opening, I can tell you.
So I’m hanging out a virtual shingle and I’m moving in above my virtual Workout World Store (open 24 hours.) I’ve decided to offer a sort of Wellness Lounge and share all my fitness secrets and open my fitness tool box for each of you to once-and-for-all get the body you know awaits you. My new (old) job will be mostly psychological and will start with an online “well-being assessment” to find out what floats or sinks your boat, what drains you and what feeds you.
Then it really comes down to accountability. You accountable to me. We make it happen.
If you want to find out how to map out a plan of action then you’ll want to hang out in my Wellness Lounge. I’m launching it in a few days. It will include the initial assessment, with eight weekly calls for only $79 a month, it’s a bargain.
I’ll send more details in the next few days. It starts February 1st. Stay tuned for the Lounge Launch!
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