If you follow the RISE Facebook page, you’ll have noticed that I’ve started asking a lot more questions on there.
Generate some more discussion.
It’s going going really well.
Lots of people responding to the main question that I’ve asked.
Some of those questions are a bit more lighthearted……
Some are to do with the things that people might be finding difficult.
Related to making changes, results, their eating and exercise and so on.
In many of those cases, the response will essentially be identifying the ‘problem’ the person has.
What they find difficult or are struggling with.
Which is great.
That’s what those kind of questions are there to help identify.
But as a good coach, which I like to think I am (and, you know, four times Top 6 at the National Fitness Awards, 13 consecutive months as the UK’s top 1:1 trainer on Club Training and more), I’ll then respond with further questions to help people look at things in a different way.
It doesn’t mean those challenges aren’t there for them.
It’s not dismissing them.
But just asking the same questions always just leads to the same answers.
Answers that they’ve already essentially told me haven’t worked for them.
Different questions can help lead to different answers.
Different answers that might serve them better.
But, as I’m sure you’ve guessed from the title of this blog, relatively few people respond to those questions.
Responding to the question that helps them point out their problem but not to question that might help them solve it.
I get that.
I get that from over two decades (23 years last Tuesday) of helping people with this kind of thing.
And I get that from over four decades of doing the same sort of things myself.
It’s human nature.
We all, at times, use the difficulties we face as a justification for the things that we haven’t done.
It’s easier.
Again, I know this from doing it.
But easy doesn’t always mean right.
Or best.
I work with my own coach, in part, to help me challenge my justifications over not doing things.
—– As always, beware the coach doesn’t have their own coach. Either every single aspect of their life is absolutely perfect or (infinitely more likely) they’re far more willing to take your money than they are to invest in the same thing —-
And I’ll do the same for you.
Doesn’t mean those problems aren’t there.
And maybe some are insurmountable.
But for many, answering better questions can help them become things that are on the way rather than in the way (www.myrise.co.uk/apply when you’re ready for that)
Much love,
Jon ‘Q&A’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
