How many hypnosis sessions (by a hypnotist) does it normally take to start achieving one's personal goals?

For most situations and most hypnotist up to 4 times.. for something like motivation it will be several times, keep in mind a reinforcement session counts to me as another session and they will prob. leave you a reinforcement cd of your session and most of them will have you listen to it every night for the first few weeks... ask them to teach you a version of self hypnosis you can use as well when ever you feel un motivated but dont have time to listen to a cd. If the dont teach you the self hypno email me and let me know and I can teach you