The Life-Health Balance
Hilton Johnson and his wife, Lisa, founders of Hilton Johnson Productions, Inc., HealthCoachTraining and HealthCoachingU, are pioneers in the health coaching industry. They began back in 1990 offering innovative coaching programs using web-based technology, and today, they offer a 12-month certification training program that combines both health training and coach training.
The new certification program is more than just health and coaching, though. It also focuses on marketing and sales techniques because even the best coach has to know how to find and keep clients. Hilton has worked with many of the industry’s top leaders including Bob Proctor, Brian Tracy, T. Harv Eker, Zig Ziglar, Marcia Wieder, Loral Langemeier and Vic Johnson.
Hilton Johnson’s passions didn’t always involve health. Like many young men, his passions early in life were to chase women and play rock music. He stopped chasing women when he met his wife, but it was only after the sudden death of his brother that he decided not to pursue a rock star dream. No one realized his brother had heart disease so early in life, so his heart attack was quite a shock to Hilton.
His brother’s death caused Hilton Johnson to reevaluate his own health. He felt okay, but so do most people with heart disease. After extensive tests, Hilton underwent a five-way bypass surgery. Many diseases such as diabetes and heart disease can go undetected for years without proper health checkups and healthy lifestyles. Most don’t notice symptoms until it’s too late.
Health coaching isn?t for everyone. Like anything, it?s almost impossible to succeed without first having a passion for what you?re pursuing. Even if you have a passion for health, you?ll also need to have or develop other skills. Presentation skills, marketing skills, and business sense all play vital roles in the business.
Some people may disagree, but to Hilton Johnson, a passion for making money must be at the top of your list before becoming a health coach. Money isn?t important to people who already have it. It?s essential for those without money to succeed in their ventures, though. Only after you succeed can you begin making a difference in the world through donations.
What does a health coach DO, exactly? They help their clients find balance. Even people who feel okay are many times not healthy. They?re not exercising or eating right, they have stress and/or bad habits like smoking, and they may even have serious underlying health problems that have not been diagnosed yet, like diabetes or heart disease.
Health coaches help people create a plan of action in their lives, and then they help people carry out that plan to become well-balanced, healthy individuals. This isn?t some sort of half-hearted New Year?s Resolution. It?s a life changing dedication to bettering one?s health.
