I couldn’t let this week’s blog go by without a comment on what I got up to this past weekend. In fact, as I think about it there are a number of messages that I will convey to you based on this experience over the next few weeks. Anyway, I attended the Rolling Stone’s 14 Australia tour performance in the Hunter Valley, NSW and oh, what a show. 20,000 people of all ages and generations rocked to the music that…
Potential and recently enrolled practice members are coming to your practice carrying with them their own understanding of health, health care, chiropractic and in fact their own worldview. They don’t know (and probably don’t care much) about what you know. They don’t necessarily see things as you do. Metaphorically, you might see it that they use a different type and style of ‘boat’ to navigate the waters of their life than you do. The question must be then ‘What is…
How often do you hear yourself saying that you need your CA to do something different, that you need more New People in your practice, that you need more time or any number of pleas of neediness? There is a direct relationship between needing and having. I think that the more we need, the less we are capable of having. The greater your need for anything, the less you will have of that which you ‘need’. Whether it is in…
“Excellence can be attained if you…. Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Jim Gentil Here’s the fourth comment on Jim Gentil’s quote on Excellence. I suggest that if you take the time over the next week to focus on each of these statements you will see major changes occur for yourself and your practice. Expecting more than…
“Excellence can be attained if you…. Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Jim Gentil This week we continue to dissect the above quote on excellence. This line which reads “Dream more than others think is practical” causes us to think about the power of big dreams. Big dreams are what build big practices and big businesses. Lofty…
“Excellence can be attained if you… Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Jim Gentil This week’s quote has so much wisdom in it so we will explore it under the 4 topics that it deserves. I suggest that if you take the time over the next four weeks to focus on each of these statements you will…
“Excellence can be attained if you… Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Jim Gentil This week’s quote has so much wisdom in it so we will explore it under the 4 topics that it deserves. I suggest that if you take the time over the next four weeks to focus on each of these statements you will…
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd This week I want to extend on the conversation we had last week around harmony. Last week I stressed the importance of difference of the individuals in order to create harmony of your practice team. This week we will look at the value of difference in your practice members. Harmony of your practice comes from the multitude of phases and stages of their personal evolution. As they…
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” — Doug Floyd Much is spoken about the importance of harmony in a team of people in your practice team. Harmony can often be sought at great cost. The cost of lowered productivity, lowered creativity and even lowered harmony itself – what an oxymoron! Do you hire for similarity? Often we find ourselves seeking the company of those who are like us, who like what we like, who see the…
The past month has seen my personal life intimately involved in the ceremony of commitment aka marriage. A dad’s mixed emotion of the symbolism of giving one’s daughter to marriage is something that I haven’t experienced until now. It is certainly a powerful moment, as any dad will attest. (Or maybe it’s just the ‘wet’ ones of us that get all soppy about it!)… Anyway, marriage is a commitment to a relationship that is enduring. So it is with the…
This is a series of thoughts addressing the theme of excellence based on a famous quote from Rita Mae Brown, the American novelist and activist. She stated that “You cannot invest your life’s spirit into a compromise” and over the next few weeks I want to visit some of the key components of this viewpoint and how it relates to your practice. Theme – Willing to share themselves with others Everything that you think you have to hide from a…
This is a series of thoughts addressing the theme of excellence based on a famous quote from Rita Mae Brown, the American novelist and activist. She stated that “You cannot invest your life’s spirit into a compromise” and over the next few weeks I want to visit some of the key components of this viewpoint and how it relates to your practice. Theme – Accept responsibility to hold others accountable As we discussed earlier in this series of blogs holding…
