All relationships begin with an agreement. Your relationship with your practice member is no different. The agreements that you and your team make when a practice member first enters your doors significantly sets the stage for their journey with you. A journey that may span many weeks, years or even a lifetime. In my experience agreements can be tricky. What happens with most chiropractors is that many of the agreements are assumed. Often the chiropractor assumes that the person wants…
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…
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…
I saw a new person in the practice last week. A lady, mother of two with a litany of health complaints. When I enquired whether she had been to a chiropractor before she replied with – “YES and I vowed never to go to a chiropractor again – it was an uncomfortable and rather ugly experience”, she added. My interest was now aroused. Then what changed your mind, I asked. She explained that her bias was turned around by some…
The actual profession of chiropractic – as a distinct form of health care — dates back to 1895. However, some of the earliest healers in the history of the world understood the relationship between health and the condition of the spine. Hippocrates advised: “Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.” Herodotus, a contemporary of Hippocrates, gained fame curing diseases by correcting spinal abnormalities through therapeutic exercises. If the practice member was too weak to…
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…
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…
Relationships are such because of the operative word ‘relate’. This word brings with it such phenomena as understanding, affinity, appreciation, tolerance, cooperation and collaboration. To relate is to be able to step into another person’s reality – To walk in their ‘shoes’ – to understand things from their perspective. When people are in a relationship there is relating going on at many levels. The net effect of high level relating is agreement. Agreement is a shared energy that bonds atoms,…
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…
