John Wetmore explains why he stops working with clients who won't take coaching seriously. He asks what people are actually willing to sacrifice to reach their goals, then builds plans around their real answers, not what they wish were true.
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I decided I was going to quit them before they quit me. I could— because if you're— my thought was, if you're not going to be coachable and listen, why are you involving me? Like, what's the point of calling? Like, yeah, what's the point? Like, why? Like, if you don't want to listen, I ain't mad. Can you just leave me out of it though? You know what I'm saying? And so I had to get really good at asking people questions to understand kind of where they were at in life. Understand where they want to go, and most importantly, what they were willing to sacrifice to get there. Because everyone wants to go from broke to a millionaire, but most people ain't willing to sacrifice long enough to get there, you know. So I had to kind of get people to verbalize that stuff to me, and then I would give them— I'd build a plan around their situation, whatever it was. Everybody's different. It's like, what do you sell a client, dude? I don't know. It's every— every client's different, you know. So I, I'd spend time with them