“Certainty Is The Fool’s Dream And The Charlatan’s Selling Point”

Thinking of carving out a new career in coaching? Please take care; there are no short cuts and plenty of sharks selling them.

I FORGET where I first heard that quote, but it’s particularly apt now, as furlough ends, many people are finding themselves out of work, and some are reinvesting their redundancy into training for a new career.

Enter the greatest dry land sharks of our time – people promising a world of opportunities, with riches beyond their wildest dreams, to those wanting to retrain as coaches.

Not only will these unscrupulous greedbags train you as a coach, but they’ll sell you a promise of several thousand pounds of income dropping into your bank account like clockwork, within just a few months of completing your training with them.

With one swipe of your credit card, you’re caught in the web – surrounded by wide-eyed sycophants and course leaders who insist their programmes are paved with gold, so long as you do EXACTLY as they say.

They’re like cults, trading on desperation, with hangers on so brainwashed by the BS they can’t see they’re being starved of…