How often do you hear yourself or someone else say something like: “It won’t work” “It can’t be done” “It didn’t work before therefore it wont work this time” “It wont happen in my town” Too often we generalise a little bit of knowledge of a past event out to include everything in the future – not very smart and it is very paralysing to human endeavour. This puts the operative person into the state of victimhood and helplessness and…
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. On the back of last week’s discussion on values I want to address the practical application of your…
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. Your values are the drivers of your life. We often take on our values and their subsequent hierarchy…
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 we will visit some of the key components of this viewpoint and how it relates to your practice. The word discipline comes from the same Latin root as disciple. Rather than just a being a follower and…
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. My thought goes to an experiment in education that was conducted way back in a time when ethics…
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. Everything that you think you have to hide from a practice member shuts a part of you down….
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #6 is “Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do”. This mistake is a universal challenge amongst chiropractors who are passionate about the…
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #5 is “Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study”. The one organ in your body that can…
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #4 is “Refusing to set aside trivial preferences”. Life is full of distractions. Every second of your life you are confronted with choices. Do you go…
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #3 is “Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it”. Because you haven’t been able to achieve something does it mean that you…
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #2 is “The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected”. How often do you find yourself entertaining worry about something, person, event,…
This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”. I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2100 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes. Mankind’s Mistake #1 is ‘‘The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others’. Now, more than ever in the history of mankind is this approach erroneous….
