You have ideas, services and products that you know can really help people and I bet that you are frustrated by the fact that all too often people just don’t seem to get it. Is it that people don’t seem to be willing to even entertain that what you have is something that could help them? Are they so stuck in their beliefs that they can’t stretch themselves to risk thinking that they are able to receive and attain something…
During our undergraduate years most of our time and energy is spent learning the ‘hard’ sciences of anatomy, neurology, biochemistry and spinal biomechanics. We eagerly focus on the skills and techniques that address the malfunctions that have produced the people’s maladies. Over my career as a chiropractor, principle to many associates and coach to a large numbers of chiropractors, I have noticed a pattern. New graduates have a major focus on the ‘problem’ that the person has, whether an allopathic…
Maybe there is a realisation that you didn’t achieve what you wanted at the beginning of the year. The resolutions and commitments that you made last New Year haven’t materialised BUT you may have also received a whole lot more (both good and bad) other than that which you ‘told’ the universe you wanted. The tendency at this time of year is to take the annual holiday at the beach, lounge around home or partake in energetically schussing down the…
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…
As caring, sharing healers, chiropractors have a preference, in the main to be supportive and nurturing. These qualities are what set chiropractors up for success in their clinical field and get great results for their practice members. There are times, however when this style is counter-productive and it is appropriate to adopt a different style. Let’s take the bigger picture of improving prospective and existing client and public perceptions of you and your profession. Maybe we need to get more…
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…
When a person is on a mission they can move the world. History is filled with people who got amazing things done. They didn’t necessarily have greater intellect or talent than anyone else but they did have a strong sense of mission – Elan Musk threw everything into his space program and failed twice. He could have given up but he went a third time and succeeded. When you think of the Musk’s or the Branson’s of the world how…
Much is spoken about the importance of harmony in a team of people. If harmony is not appreciated for what it is it can often be sought at great cost. The cost of attaining harmony can lower productivity, lower creativity, lower attractiveness and even lower harmony itself – what an oxymoron! There is a certain drive within all existence to seek harmony and its paradoxical as to how harmony can be amplified. It was Doug Floyd who is quoted as…
As I write this I am sitting in the passenger’s seat of a shuttle being driven from Summit County in the Rockies of Colorado to the Denver airport. I was engrossed in banging away on my keyboard for some time and then looked up at the road ahead and immediately went into confusion mode. We are on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, and so are the opposing cars I thought. I momentarily went into high alert. I had dived…
I’m currently in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of the trip is to attend a conference and it happens to be at the Disneyworld Resort complex. One thing that is evident from the first phone call to the hotel reservations and on through the experience is that it is an ‘experience’ every step of the way. The Disney culture is not just in the Park, every team member or cast member as they refer to themselves is part of the culture…
