Expectations that others do or be what you expect of them is a sure-fire way to frustration, low performance and shattered relationships in your practice, your team and community. Hardly a day goes by when Quest Coaching doesn’t field a call from a stressed out chiropractor or associate regarding the sorry state that their relationship is in. (It is usually at a crisis point). At the root of these in almost every case is failed expectations. It can be principals,…
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…
Have you paid attention to the way in which you move relative to your outcomes? Now, I don’t don’t mean the way you move your body, I mean the DIRECTION that you move your thinking in order to get your outcome. There are two ways that people can move on any issue – TOWARDS what they want or AWAY from what they don’t want. Think about yourself. Do you move towards the ‘carrot’ in achieving your outcomes or away from…
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…
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…
