At some point in your career, you’ll fall into a slump. You won’t know how to move your business forward on your own and might seek some form of coaching to help you figure out your next moves.

Coaching, in all forms, is always designed to get you breakthroughs. No matter who your coach is, they should be helping you get better results. They should help you in the areas that you need improvement on and clear whatever roadblocks are inhibiting you from getting to the next level.

But most people think that business coaching and executive coaching are the only way to make you more successful. And while it’s proven to help grow businesses, it’s not always the best option.

As a productivity coach who’s coached hundreds of clients, here are my major grievances with business coaching:

• It’s designed to help your business, not you. Often, as entrepreneurs, it’s more important that our life works than our business. If you’re feeling personally overwhelmed, unmotivated or unproductive, a business coach might not be able to change that.

• It’s not designed to help you create systems that will permanently improve you and your business. In reality, getting solid systems into place in your business and personal life is what creates the foundation for lasting success.

• It’s not designed to make your life better, it’s designed to make your business grow faster. Working more and more hours just to keep up with your growing business is the fast lane to burnout. A growing business isn’t sustainable without you being sustainable!