“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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There’s something extra special about this time of year. The awesome reverence of celebrating the birth of Christ on Christmas always makes December special.
And then there’s that week between Christmas and New Year’s, where people and things seem to move at half speed. Work still gets done, but the feeling is like a ship that cuts engines and drifts into port.
Many people look upon the New Year as a chance to hit the reboot button. It’s a clean slate. A time to start over, or to reinvent one’s self. There’s a feeling of hope… tomorrow’s going to be a better day. And so new year’s resolutions are made, and new goals are set.
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So I’m sitting at a CE seminar earlier this month, and it’s December, so many of us present are in the same camp. We waited ‘til year’s end to get the last of our required hours.
Anyway, I notice doc sitting in front of me isn’t paying attention to the instructor. He’s got his laptop logged into an online CE hours site. He’s studying another course for more required hours. I can see his screen from my seat… the topic? “Chiropractic Ethics”
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Life on campus is not the real world. As a student, it’s like being wrapped in a cocoon. You’re pretty much insulated from what life in practice will be like.
One example?… For the most part, you’re all in it together, studying with and helping one another to get through. Once you’re gone from there, it doesn’t take long to realize your old “support system” is gone.
If you’re in school, what is your goal right now?
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One of my favorite movies is “Princess Bride”. It’s one of those “the more times you watch it, the funnier it gets” movies.
In the scene “A Battle of Wits”, two of the main characters are squaring off, “Dread Pirate Roberts”, and “Vizzini”, the little Sicilian with a lisp. Vizzini is trying to out-wit Roberts to determine which of two chalices contains a poisoned drink.
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I don’t mean to sound disrespectful. As I mentioned in my last post, I thank God for the majority of our chiropractic universities. They do what they are designed to do.
Some I believe have lost their identity, and are sending their graduates out to a gun fight armed with pea shooters. But that’s a discussion for another day.
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I’ve heard it many times now. Maybe you experienced it too.
You may have been told by some well-meaning professor or staffer at your chiropractic college something like, “You just learn and apply what we teach you here, and you’ll be successful in practice!”
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I’ve already heard it from some colleagues! Not that we haven’t had great discussions, but writing a blog? And linking to that facebook thingy?
In a world gone insane, I’ve tried to retain mine. Friends and family almost all on facebook, twitter, etc… I love ya, but do we really need to know you’re on your way for a quart of milk?
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Is that so far-fetched? We offer the best health care available on the planet, and yet chiropractic runs well behind traditional medicine in utilization by the American public.
If you’re like me, you’ve probably wondered why that is.
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