Rather than setting the usual big resolutions for 2015 that are usually impossible to achieve and often easy to break, I suggest that you act small and locally – very locally in fact. The vision for, and the associated actions that you have for your team and practice members along with those people close by is your most effective instrument of empowerment. Your ability to affect your immediate sphere of influence and their future is profound. Everything you think, say…
As a chiropractor I bet you are feeling two urges with every person you adjust. I bet that you will have a deep desire to really physically help the person and also have a yearning for the person to understand chiropractic, life and health just as you do. I also bet that you want to help people so much that you want to try to do everything that you can see that they need right now, while they are on…
“Excellence can be attained if you…. Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Jim Gentil This week we continue to dissect the above quote on excellence. This line which reads “Dream more than others think is practical” causes us to think about the power of big dreams. Big dreams are what build big practices and big businesses. Lofty…
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…
Last week I left you with the suggestion that you cannot NOT be in Integrity. I posed the question; “Is your current expression of your integrity what you want”? “Would you like it to be giving you something more or less, something different or something better”? I trust that you have considered this question over the week and have done an audit on what you are “Being”. You may have identified and decide on the additions and deletions that you…
In an attempt to help people as much as possible as soon as possible many chiropractors ignore the power of scarcity. One thing that makes people want something more is to know that they can’t have it or that its availability is dwindling for them, or that it’s scarce or rare in some fashion. In health care those things that are difficult to possess are usually better. The hierachial structure of medicine and its control over numbers at the top…
When people go into the weightless environment of space, stress is eliminated to a large degree from their bodies. In this environment, their body has nothing to push against and starts to weaken, muscles start to atrophy and bones start to demineralise. Innate intelligence needs forces, commonly known as tropisms, to grow to. Without opposing forces, we shrivel and die. The avoidance of stress is endemic in our society. We have developed a culture that is hell-bent on reducing risk…
Many chiropractic practices operate in an ad hoc manner. It is a “Do as I say not as I do” environment where everyone makes it up as they go. There is no overall purpose and no purpose broken down to every action. There are few if any written policies, procedures and scripts and the people who work there and worse still, the people who are serviced there just go with the flow and go by their own rules. Practice members…
Watch a toddler as he or she is exploring the world. They trip, they fall, they get ‘ouchies’ but they just get straight back up again and carry on their way. Sure there may be a few tears but they don’t last and soon all is forgotten and they plough headlong into what it was they were about exploring at that moment. Adults, on the other hand have a tendency to let the situation determine who they are – “I’m…
Chiropractic, like most of the health care professions, is populated by a group of people who are passionate about providing their services and skills of health care upon their practice members. They are there to serve people in their business and do the very best they physically can. Unfortunately, they often pay little attention to the structure or the operation of their business outside of the clinical delivery. This leads to practices being unsustainable in the long run. Most chiropractors…
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…
