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anthony robbins, at the beginning, expat lifestyle, first experience, introduction, life coach, life coaching, motivational speaker
That was my first thought regarding life coaching. In fact, I thought the subject name sounded dumb. What the heck is life coaching anyway? I know what life is, and I know what a coach does, but a life coach?
Like most of you, I did a quick google. A familiar name popped out and I went “oh”.
Anthony Robbins.
Wait, isn’t he a motivational speaker?
Ok, depending on where you click after the search engine, my results told me Robbins is a motivational speaker, a life coach and an actor. I nodded along the first and third labels, but the second one?
I’m not sure.
Now I didn’t start pondering over what a life coach is just because I’m in some life crisis. In fact, I’ve got so many gigs going on that I wanted to look for ways to be more efficient and productive.
Like they say, work smart and play hard. Haven’t done the latter in a while now.
My boss decided to persuade me to check out life coaching with him and some of our colleagues.
We all know when the boss wants you to check out something, you have to actually check it out so you can answer them later.
So I did what any paid employee who respects her boss would – I checked out what life coaching was all about. Ok maybe not all, but at least ita definitions.
Isn’t this exciting? It’s a deeper conversation with ourselves! My boss gushed.
Right. Don’t get me wrong, I love mysteries. But somehow this term life coaching fails to get me hippity hopping.
We have to go, next Saturday, deal? The training to be one is only 60 hours and you have to go through 100 hours with other clients so you can make the report.
What, there are statistics involved? All those zeros and a report are making me dizzy.
And because I’ve signed up all five of us, we are going to get a discount for the course fees! My boss gushed again.
Wha… I got to pay for my pain? And this is unknown pain with unknown cure. Am I being punk’d?
Soon, I was in a whatsapp group for life coaching. After chatting with the others, I was half relieved that I’m not the only one paying for this mysterious adventure. We are all innocent souls forking out good 4 digits for a course no one has heard of or even sure about.
Is this a scam?
Oh well, I’ll probably finally get the chance to hire a lawyer and sit in the beautiful court that I always see in Suits or Law and Order.
Wait a minute, don’t lawyers cost 5 digits? I’m not a big fan of math but I sure know that 5 is bigger than 4.
Ok, no lawyers.
As I waved goodbye to my cheque and handed it over to the smiling lady behind the counter, I wondered if I should grab it back and book a quick holiday to London or Paris instead.
But it was too late. The smiling lady had already made my cheque disappear.
(To be continued)