Unfiltered Pre-Coffee Thoughts
Unfiltered Pre-Coffee Thoughts
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The coach-selling-course pipeline exhausts me. I think it all feels scam-ish. With the exception of PTs and physical health coaches who you pay so they can help you to get in shape, I think a lot of life coaches and mindset gurus are grifters. Preying on the insecurities and vulnerabilities of people to make money. It’s insidious.
I do understand the allure though. We feel lost and someone comes along and tell us they have the answers we need. Of course that’s an attractive prospect. And maybe I’ve been facetious and hyperbolic to make a point. But what I’m trying to say is, if someone comes your way claiming to be able to ‘fix you’ in exchange for money, I would run. My gut would be screaming and I’d be running because when things sound too good to be true they usually are.
And other opinions. And takes you may agree with or may not. Does it matter? Not really. People will do what they want to do regardless of what other people say. That’s how we are. The hot takes serve the attention economy, and people get outraged until the next opinion comes along to distract them, and so on and so on. And we never really ask ourselves why this is happening, why the internet is designed to make us behave like this. We just allow the emotion to lead us.
I don’t even know what I’m trying to say today. These are just the thoughts that have bubbled to the surface this morning. Make of them what you will. I must drive to Galway in a little while. How are you doing? Are you calm? Are you vexed by something? Have you explored why you are? What is controlling you? These are the questions.