Last week we suggested that you review your Statement of Purpose and consider the profile of your “Ideal Person”. After doing that I am sure that you will have a way of identifying the general style, look and feel of the values, beliefs and character traits of your favourite people. These are the people who you love to work with. Today I am suggesting that within these “ideal people” there are further categories that give you a profile of a…
Every moment that you spend in your office in the experience of connecting with those people who you serve is an exchange of a part of your life. You invest an irretrievable unit of time with every person you see. Whilst it could be argued that every person comes to you loaded with gifts and there is opportunity to extract massive pearls of wisdom and associated growth from them all it is also useful to consider why you are doing…
Often in practice we are faced with making decisions around the application of our technique that have us doing more rather than less and less when we should do more. How do you know when you have done just enough? BJ Palmer DC, pioneer and developer of Chiropractic is quoted as saying , “The fundamental of this clinic is to see how little we can do, at how few places, how rarely, and how quickly it can be done, to…
By the words we use we define our reality. When we create a reality that is not what we think it should be, we have identified a contradiction. “To arrive at a contradiction,” writes Ayn Rand, “is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.” Our current chiropractic vocabulary is full of baggage that obscures the truth of chiropractic. This has resulted in…
As a reminder as to how important every word we say to the people we serve the late Dr. DeJarnette made the statement that “Words kill more people than bullets”. Think of the millions of lives that have and are being lost because of the utterances of dictators, despots and duly elected governments throughout recent history alone. Think about the language of western medicine and look at the epidemic of death and suffering it is creating. Maybe even think about…
There are many obstacles that stand in your way of being able to provide your chiropractic service at an optimal level to your community. Sometimes that task seems so huge that it even seems fruitless to start. The medical machine is so pervasive and it has spread its tentacles into every corner of people’s minds. It is in the battle for people’s minds that success or failure is determined. It’s a big job and yet it can be done and…
It has been said that some people are in our life for a reason, some for a season and some for a lifetime. Whether it is true or not it can be a useful way of looking at life and practice. Let’s consider each of these groups for a minute. REASON… How often do you get all bent out of shape because a person, situation or event has occurred when you think it “shouldn’t” be the way it is –…
Following on from last week I suggested that you consider the reason that you got into chiropractic in the first place and what your vision is for the part you wish to play in your profession. I suggested that you might like to have a clear statement of this purpose written out. The message that chiropractic brings to the world is very different from the myths that we are engulfed in propagated by our medico-politico-corporate monopolies. The chiropractic vision includes…
It is undeniable that we are engulfed in a rapidly changing world, both local and global. The world is changing and like it or not we are a part of it. As we draw to the half way point of another year it may be useful to reflect on where we are, where we have been and where we wish to be. Are you where you want to be? Is your practice where you want it to be? Is your…
When you hold a position of transparency, where there are no hidden agendas, people trust you. When you tell the truth people trust you. When you are open and authentic you invite trust. As Ghandi is quoted as saying, “To believe in something and not live it is dishonest”. If people know that what they see is what they get and they can always rely on your honest opinion whether positive or negative they will entrust themselves and their families…
To what degree have you bought into the fear and coercion that is being perpetrated upon you as a chiropractor by a profit driven medical establishment? The sickness cartel rubs their hands with glee at the news of more chronically sick children and more degenerative diseases. More drugs mean more disease, more morbidity, more mortality and all of that means more business. The drug industry appears to have a three-step marketing plan: 1.Get them when they’re young (preferably before birth)….
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn How often do you fail to inform a person on the relationship between their spine, nerve system and health? How often do you not recommend optimum frequency of care for a person? How often do you not recommend appropriate care beyond symptoms for your people? How often do you not take the time to explain to…
