Here’s To The Crazy Ones
March 23rd, 2009 by angiemeyer | Filed under Goals & Aspirations, Leadership, Motivation, Skills, Success, communication.It is time for our chiropractic profession to shift. It is time to tell the truth to the world and to ourselves. It is time to stop fitting in to a medical infrastructure and practice model and to stop selling ourselves short by selling ‘pain relief’. Aspirin or Tylenol is way cheaper than your services.
Here’s to the crazy ones ~ the chiropractors who want to push back against the status quo. The ones who are standing their ground, practicing wellness chiropractic and not the treatment of symptoms, sickness and disease. The ones who are becoming leaders in the wellness revolution, the shift that is unstoppable.
The medical system in many countries around the world is on the verge of collapse with regards to the percentage of GDP spent on health care and the increasing statistics of disease and death. Ready to burst at the seams as soon as the baby boomers are ripe. It’s a faulty premise to use sick care as health care and it’s not working.
And people want something different. They just need to know that chiropractic is a better way. And that you are the one who will care for them with honest, loving, authentic service. You’ve got to have enough value for your service, enough confidence in your skills and the communication level to share the truth… and the guts to do so.
From my favorite ad campaign of all time… Apple in the late 1990’s called ‘Think Different’. It is time to inspire yourself and the people in your community to Think Different about health. Are you willing to be the ‘Crazy One’ in your community?
“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do”.
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Wow!!! Thanks for this article! It really is motivational and inspiring! And the poem at the end of it is the cherry on top of the cake! It motivated me, even if I am not a chiropractor or a nurse. Now I’m again in one of those moments when I believe I can change the world!
I wish there were more chiropractors, doctors and nurses taking up this model you present. I’m tired of going to the doctor just to get Tylenol or hear the same things I already know, or things I can find on the Internet. I expect more than that.
Thanks again for this inspiring moment.
You know I have always referred to myself as the crazy chiropractor who believes I can make a difference; who believes I can change your health by removing vertebral subluxation and changing lifestyle . . . been doing it since 1985. In fact, in 2005 I became a Creating Wellness Center and what I quickly discovered is that “selling” wellness is an uphill battle. I keep thinking that it is my location; location, location, location. And, I know that many of the great gurus say that location doesn’t matter. And, after kicking this around for 20+ years I totally disagree! There are different parts of these great States we live in where people ARE more or less concerned about their health and wellness. In my neck of the woods they all claim that they are interested, but when push comes to shove, they’re only interested if it is free and if they can get it after a 10-minute phone call, at their convenience. As you may have summized, after beating my head against the wall trying to promote Creating Wellness, and after investing a more than $20,000, I have stopped doing this. People still come to me in pain, and I do my best to convert them. However, make no mistake about it . . . I am STILL the crazy chiropractor! Peter