Dan Go: Clients promising to be the 'best client ever' usually fail
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Health and fitness coach Dan Go discusses client screening heuristics and behavioral red flags with host Codie Sanchez.
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“Because to me, and this, and I'm like, cool. I would love for you to be my best client ever. I would love for you to have like a before and after. But what I, what I've come to realize is that why you're doing it is probably the wrong reason. You're doing it for external validation. You're not doing it for an intrinsic motivation to get yourself healthy, to make yourself feel better, to become a better version of yourself. You're doing it, you're saying, I'm gonna be your best client ever. I'm just like, oh crap, that's like the death knell. I wish you hadn't said that to me. And then for me, I'll automatically be like, no, no, no, no. Like do this for yourself. I don't care. Like you're hiring me do this for yourself. But when people say that I'm automatically being like, you're probably doing this for the wrong reason at this very moment.”
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