As the classic film “Groundhog Day” staring Bill Murray beautifully depicted we tend to produce results based on the behaviours that we do. If we do the same behaviours next year as we did this year then there isn’t much chance of getting different in results in 2019. I was recently in the USA and was in a petrol station paying for some gas and the attendant, picking up on my accent said, “Oh, I have always wanted to go…
A wise teacher once told me “Know that if it is possible in the world it is possible for you”. In the chiropractic perspective, if another chiropractor is able to create an awesome practice it is possible for you – it’s simply a matter of the THOUGHT followed by the action of HOW. One of the most frequent justifications offered by those practitioners who are not reaching their potential in practice is something along the theme of “You can’t do…
A dying Indian chief, as the story goes, summons his three sons and tells them “Go out into the land and bring me the thing in the world that will serve our people the greatest. To the one of you who brings me the most valuable, I will give you leadership of our people. The first son goes deep into the forest and finds a magnificently fashioned rock with incredible powers, the power to heal the sick. He brings it…
Many chiropractors speak of the importance of certainty. The certainty trap is a state of holding on tightly to the trapeze bar that we spoke of in the last blog. This is a state where there is zero learning. The paradox is that it is important to hold on to the bar but it is equally important to let go of the bar at the right time and enter the world of uncertainty. And so, transformation of fear may have…
Mark had the pleasure of going live with Jim Chester from Chiro Hustle. Listen in and learn the ins and outs of what makes Mark tick!
Practice and life can feel like a series of high wire trapeze swings. Imagine yourself hanging tightly on to a trapeze bar swinging backwards and forwards and then for a few moments, at a time, letting go and hurtling through space and navigating your outstretched hands to grasp on to another trapeze bar swinging towards you? Most of the time we are tightly hanging on to our trapeze-bar-of-the-moment. It carries you along at a certain steady rate of swing and…
The next few blogs will focus on the topic of transformation. When we consider the dictionary definition of transformation we find words like – change in form, appearance, nature or character. The operative work 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. Your body changes. People change. Weather changes. Relationships change. Prices change. Emotions change. Circumstances change. Practices…
The journey of life is the journey of discovery. Take a minute to observe a child being a child in their natural state. Their absorbent mind is filled with curiosity for its environment and everything in it from a scratch on his skin to a fly on the wall to the movement of a pea on her dinner plate. There is a constant source of wonder, fascination and discovery. They notice, they explore, they test and then move on when…
What you believe affects your perception, your biology, your results and even matter itself. Belief creates your personal reality. This is a unique worldview where often what is true is only true for you and yet often you can fall into the trap of assuming that it is true for others also. I think of beliefs as bar codes – just like those parallel lines on a supermarket package which identify the product within. If you change one of the…
In accordance with your philosophy and your critical reasoning process you will reach a point in your journey when you are confronted with the question of “how do I apply my philosophy to this situation”? This brings up the question around what are your roles and responsibilities? Whilst a role is a process for doing something, for example, adjusting, it has little impact or effectiveness on your results unless it is firmly tied to and congruent with your philosophy. A…
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…
