{"id":7602,"date":"2017-07-20T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2022-09-13T19:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T19:38:39","slug":"deciding-to-hire-a-wellness-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/deciding-to-hire-a-wellness-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Deciding to Hire a Wellness Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding to Hire a Wellness Coach<\/p>\n<p>By Cathy Liska<\/p>\n<p>The decision to hire a wellness coach possibly boils down to the time and money involved versus the degree of discomfort with the status quo.\u00a0 Having said that, when a client has a clear objective and the desire to achieve it, working with a wellness coach is often their best option.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the cons and then the pros in detail:<\/p>\n<p>Cons &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time because working with a coach involves the time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coaching.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coaching<\/a> sessions and also the time for following through on action plans.<\/li>\n<li>Money is often a deciding factor whether or not this is expressed or even of significant impact.<\/li>\n<li>The discomfort of change because working with a coach means choosing to make meaningful change which will require discomfort and effort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pros &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/creating-awareness\/\">Awareness <\/a>of more possibilities and opportunities because a coach expands thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Insights from reviewing possible strategies because a coach asks the questions that challenge thinking.<\/li>\n<li>The gentle push to create specific, measurable action steps because the coach holds the focus on the desired objective.<\/li>\n<li>An accountability partner because the coach checks in on progress, challenges a lack of follow-through, and celebrates progress and success.<\/li>\n<li>Support for exploration, strategizing, planning, doing, and achieving desired results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For each person wanting to improve their wellness, ask yourself whether you are best served by saving money and doing it independently or by investing in yourself and engaging a coach to keep you focused and on track.<\/p>\n<p>What additional pros and cons influence the decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding to Hire a Wellness Coach By Cathy Liska The decision to hire a wellness coach possibly boils down to the time and money involved &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,471],"tags":[222,310,174,48,511,329,480],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","tag-accountability","tag-accountability-partner","tag-awareness","tag-coach","tag-objective","tag-wellness","tag-wellness-coach","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}