Hmm. Where’s that question coming from? I’m going a little deep today. Better than off the deep-end. Some observations I felt led to share… my hope is it touches even just one reader…
In coaching many DCs in practice, and directing hundreds prior to opening their own practice, I’ve identified a “theme” that recurs, not often thankfully, but recurs nonetheless.
It has to do with a person, we’ll call him “Ralph”, who is faced with some problem that has yet to be overcome. He has already figured out the reason for his failure, or so he is convinced… at least at first.
What I mean is I believe Ralph truly is convinced about “why” something is as it is, why something won’t work, or why he hasn’t been able to overcome… but there comes a time in coaching that it becomes obvious, maybe to everyone but Ralph, that he is so hellbent on defending his “reasons”, he would rather be “right” than embrace a solution and move forward.
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It’s very interesting to hear what students are thinking regarding opening their own practice. Kindof. I mean, I do remember what it was like as a student, even though it’s been nearly eighteen years since I last ate Ramen Noodles… not so delicious, but boy were they economical! A steady diet of those, and one can eat for a week on about ten bucks. A little tuna and Cream of Mushroom soup mixed in, and there’s your protein as well.
I was clueless back then. Not just in a culinary sense, but in my concepts of what things were really worth my time and attention. I was so focused on getting through all the requirements, while maintaining my 3.something GPA. Then came state Boards. Being from a suburb of Buffalo, many people have asked me how I settled on North Carolina as the state I would live and practice? My honest answer? I placed my finger over Buffalo on a map, and traced an imaginary line due south!
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What is the likelihood that Chiropractic will ever become the #1 healthcare choice in America? At the outset of this blog, this was one of my stated passions. To see our profession and our individual doctors elevated to the status we should hold.
If I get hit by a truck, take me to the ER. If I have a heart attack, call 911. If I have a genetic anomaly or inexplicably develop a disease such as diabetes or a cardiomyopathy requiring life-sustaining medication, then give me that medication.
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Do you remember the movie, “Cast Away”? Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane goes down, stranding him on a desert island for years. As he recovers remnants of the wreckage, he opens some of the packages.
He finds his buddy, “Wilson”, and the ice skate that helps him with that toothache problem (Ptoooooie).
But there was that one package that he refused to open.
About a year ago, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie.
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It’s a cold, rainy day today. I just left a grocery store and saw an elderly
man with a limp checking out about the same time I was. Think of the classic, Norman Rockwell grandfather… now picture that gentleman leaving the store, donning a crash helmet, and straddling a kickin’ yellow scooter like one of these to make his getaway:
Cold. Rainy. Grandpa. This fella’s choice of transportation was either due to a late-life crisis, or my guess is “the economy” had something to do with it.
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Hello and welcome back. I’m going to dive right back into my train of thought from my last post. There were two key points I’d like to repeat here to bring us back on point:
A chiropractor in private practice is really an educated entrepreneur.
And
…the skills and information needed to be successful are over and above what you’ve been trained for in school!
If you’re reading this and you are still a student, you have learned some concepts that place you light years ahead of your colleagues, and yes, ahead of many a practicing DC trying to build a practice and earn a living.
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If you’ve checked in on this Blog from the beginning, you’ve noticed I’ve shared a lot about some of the problems that exist in the chiropractic profession.
If you’re a newer visitor here and you have a few minutes, go ahead and review some or all of my prior posts. No really, go ahead… I’ll wait…
I’ve focused on why so many DCs struggle in practice. Really and truly, with what we have to offer a suffering humanity, we should be the #1 Healthcare choice in America and throughout the world.
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The Doctor from Illinois continued… “I didn’t need anybody to tell me how to do it”. But as a business owner, she started to lose her passion. Feeling overwhelmed with the business side of things, she wasn’t exactly enjoying life anymore.
Stories such as these are heard over and over in our profession. Remember the “myths” we discussed in my last post. Hers was a common one… “I was on fire for chiropractic… I didn’t need anybody to tell me how to do it”.
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It’s safe to assume most students and newer docs have dreams of success.
But dreams based on myths don’t come true. Here are some of the most common myths about practice success that plague the minds of chiropractic students and graduates alike:
- If you graduate from “this” school…or hang “this” sheepskin on your wall…
- If you use “this” technique, that’s all you need…
- If you use “this” piece of equipment…
- Just get good results with your patients, and it’ll open up the floodgates of referrals into your practice…
- “I’m intelligent, I’m a Go Getter, I’ve always been successful at anything I’ve done, I can figure this out on my own… (How hard can it be?)”…
- Or BJ’s famous, “just drive your car ‘til you run out of gas, and build your clinic there.”
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Goethe
Hello, and welcome!! Last post we discussed moving a resolution or a goal from “thinking” to reality. The above quote commonly attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is one of my favorites. He was known as Germany’s “Shakespeare”, and he would have been a fan of this topic.
How do I know? Check out a couple more from the man, who incidentally is also credited with being the first to identify the Incisive bone, part of the Premaxilla (Ahhhh, flashbacks of Gross Anatomy):
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