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 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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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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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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