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 better?
At every level of our existence, there is some degree of slavery. By that I mean that we are slaves to something that is controlling us. We are slaves to beliefs and ideas that do not serve us but we continue to do despite all evidence to the contrary in the present time.
Just like the practice members who don’t recognise the value of what you are offering them, you, also are controlled, contained and blinded by the things that you don’t see that could help you.
Whether that thing which is controlling you is for your benefit or for not, it’s still slavery until you are aware of it and make a conscious decision about it. It is still a thing that has an effect upon you, and you will conduct your life accordingly.
Harriet Tubman is an abolitionist who, as a black person, fought for the emancipation of slaves in the South in the U.S. She is credited with a quote saying, “I’ve freed 1,000 slaves, but I could have freed 1,000 more if only they knew they were slaves.”
The message of that is appropriate for all of us. Like me, I’m sure that you experience angst on a regular basis when you or others don’t recognise that we are slaves to certain ideas, viewpoints or behaviours. We find ourselves acting on past behaviours that don’t serve us and yet we adhere religiously to them.
If a person, as Tubman suggested, doesn’t know that they’re a slave, then we really don’t have many places to go. In this state you and your practice members are destined to repeating the same behaviours and getting the same results.
When we are sure that our position in life is the ‘right way’. If we don’t see a problem with the way that we’re living, we will justify it, and say, “Well, this is just the way I’m meant to be. It’s my genes or this is my lot in life, or it’s because my parents did this or because my experiences in early childhood were that and therefore I can’t change.”
When a practice member is showing this denial of slavery it is frustrating to those of us who see more in the person than they see in themselves. When you have knowledge, experience and identity that you’ve found to be useful and if you are like most chiropractors you are burning up inside for others to get it.
So, how could you change this?
Let’s just dissect this a little.
It all begins with you and your team. When you commit to freeing the enslaving parts of yourself and your team you will gain the ability to awake others to their ‘slavery’. When you know yourself, clarify yourself, identify your practice and have well defined core values with an empowering statement of purpose your team can then take the collective identity and culture of your practice on board.
This collective energy creates a synergy which permeates our environment so when we are out there freeing the ‘slaves’, so to speak, when we’re communicating our vision, when we’re taking our service to the market, we have a very clear focus around what we’re doing and how that benefits our people.
Spend some time assessing the stories that you tell yourself. Are they useful? How about the missing links in your logic, are you stopping yourself because of what you ‘know’ from the past that is no longer true?
To the degree that we remove the interferences to our ability to relate to our world in present time is the degree that we are no longer a ‘slave’ to our past and with this clarity we can free the ‘slaves’ in our practice, our profession and our community.
If you would like to free more of your practice members to the bigness of chiropractic and enjoy a flourishing practice as a result then make a time to have a chat with us here.
