Within the Quadrant 2 part of your brain you will experience much pullback on your fantastic ideas, possibilities, opportunities and developments. The drive of the Quadrant 2 part is to keep you safe. To stop you from getting into danger. To stop you from jumping in over your depth. Often fear and protection, however is disguised as reason and critical thinking and this is where you can sabotage yourself and your practice in a big way. You have a huge…
Every person on this planet has a philosophy. The philosophy that one has relates to and includes everything in their comprehension. A philosophy is a way of thinking about something. Regardless of how strongly one denies the illusion that they are not philosophically driven they do have a philosophy (and in fact, that is their philosophy). A philosophy is not some hallucination or dream. It is a logical process driven by the interaction between the Quadrant 1 & 2 parts…
The success of a year, like the success of any relationship, journey, business, practice or any other endeavour is best identified by the question; “For what purpose?”. When you are on a journey it is made meaningful, impact and successful to the degree that it sits with and honours your purpose. Purpose is a product of your Quadrant 1 activity as defined in thein8model® and this month we want to support and challenge you to explore the reason why you…
As a chiropractor, I am sure that you are feeling two urges with every person you adjust. I bet that you will have a deep desire to really help the person. This ‘help’ may be to relieve pain, sickness, suffering, dysfunction, a current challenge or make the most of an opportunity. You also may have a yearning for the person to understand the chiropractic viewpoint and get a bigger vision of life and health just as you do. I also…
True to the KISS principle it is pretty clear – Your practice and everything in it is either growing or it is dying – there is no standing still. You can’t hold it where it was last week, last month or last year let alone 10 years ago. In fact, if you are not growing you are going backwards. If you are not continually working on your practice, revising systems, training your team, improving delivery, mastering communication, educating your people…
When we consider the dictionary definition of transformation we find words like – change in form, appearance, nature or character. The operative word here is change. Transformation is the process of change across form – or from one form to another. What you experienced yesterday is gone because the world changes every day. People change. Weather changes. Relationships change. Prices change. Emotions change. Circumstances change. Practices change. Everything changes. Everything is changing, is in motion and transforms every second. And…
Isn’t it interesting how some people respond to your care readily and yet others with seemingly similar ‘problems’ and severity are resistant to improvement? It seems like the architecture and mechanics of the human body is pretty consistent across most of humankind. Science has consensus (for the most part) around anatomy, osteology, physiology, neurology and so on. Obviously, there are subtle variations in all of these from individual to individual and as a result, we find that every person in…
Right now the future of our world is being created by students in schools, colleges and universities as they grow their brains, their perspective and their possibilites. Ponder for a minute, how would our future be, if this year they will be studying from the same texts, reading the same books, discussing the same issues and sitting the same exams as they did last year. Would their lives be enhanced, by doing another year of the same stuff? Would their…
In your eagerness to apply your professional skills have you overlooked the importance of designing your business model? In chiropractic college and the universities it’s not uncommon for academics and undergraduate lecturers to view the business side of our profession with disdain and sometimes contempt. As a result many chiropractors do not think about their professional activities as a business and as a result are doomed to working a job that centers on their favorite hobby – chiropractic. The idea…
Warning. This article has a push towards Quest and its services – a sort of infomercial if you will. It is in response to the questions and situations we encounter with chiropractors seeking our services on a daily basis and I thought it worthy of discussion. As a chiropractor in the ‘trenches’, it is easy to cocoon within your practice ‘bubble’ and not notice the familiar things that are not working but you still keep doing. There is one thing…
As you know, your Chiropractic Assistant plays an ever-increasing role in the success of your practice. Your CAs are not only masters at administrative work; they have interpersonal relationship, communication, education, inspiration and problem-solving skills to name a few. The leverage that you gain through your CA team contributes significantly to your prosperity and your freedom. The power of a group of people with a common vision is massive. Many stories are told of the ingenuity of groups of people…
We live in a moment-by-moment world. People present to your practice wanting current health issues fixed – now. They want you to provide instant results and then they won’t worry about it until next time the issue occurs and at that time they will seek the same ‘band-aid’ solution. It seems like the short-term perspective increasingly drives people in their decisions on life and their health. Well, how do you change this with your practice members who have learned that…
