I have just finished reading this book by the Health Brothers, Chip and Dan, and just like their former book Made To Stick, I found this book to be packed full of great concepts, real life scenarios and a great framework that I have already shared with many of my chiropractic clients at Rosen Coaching.

Many chiropractors out there want to make changes to both their personal lives and their practices.  At Rosen Coaching, our mission is to help chiropractors become the recognized leaders of true health care (where we help people get healthy, stay healthy and have the best life possible) worldwide!  To do so, we need chiropractors to become extremely successful in their practices and serve as many people in a true wellness model as they possibly can!

The reality, is that we are far from the mark of achieving this, so we have work to do!

Not only do I highly recommend that you read this book, I do believe that using these principles will help individual chiropractors make the changes that will help them be more successful!  This will result in our profession being stronger with many more people successfully practicing principled chiropractic, and truly helping humanity the best way we know how: through a clear functioning nerve system and making lifestyle choices to support greater health and not recreating their subluxations over and over.

Whether you choose to use these principles to make personal changes or changes in your practice, there are 3 components that we must address, for sustainable change:

1. We must direct the rational side  (The Rider) by looking for bright spots, scripting the critical moves and pointing to the destination.

2. We must motivate the emotional side (The Elephant) by finding the feeling behind change, shrinking the change, and growing the identity of the people.

3. We must Shape the Path (the environment) to support the change by tweaking the environment, building better habits, and rally the herd!

By applying these principles to any change, large or small, we can become more successful and save our profession!  That is our mission at Rosen Coaching!

Tags: change, Chiropractic Coach, Chiropractic Practice Success, Leadership, Switch

We are at the halfway point of 2009, are you on track to reaching and exceeding your goals?

Maybe you didn’t set goals for yourself and your practice at the beginning of the year.  If you didn’t, don’t beat yourself up.  Take some time to pull together some goals for the back half of 2009.  What do you really want to achieve? What do you want to look back upon? How much growth are you looking for?

If you did set goals, are you halfway to achieving them?  If so, congratulations! Maybe you should celebrate with your chiropractic coach and recalibrate in case you set the bar too low! Or maybe you’ve been working so hard to reach your goals that we’ll exceed them by the end of the year!  Spend some time with your coach to figure out what IS working?  What is the “Winning Formula” that you’ve found to help you create such success?  What else can you leverage to get more results, success and momentum?  For the first six months of this year, we have been consulting offices that are expanding and having record-breaking months!  It’s time to put the pedal to the medal.

If you set goals and you’re not on track to achieving them by the end of the year, why not?  What do you we need to change to make it happen? Is it your action steps and follow through?  Have you been resistant to changing the way you do your communications and procedures because it’s outside of your “comfort zone”?  Are you stuck on perfecting the foundation because you are afraid to make change?  Has your vision gotten cloudy?

At this halfway mark you’ll want to re-assess your initial goals.  Do they still fit for this year? Do they need to be altered because of life changes?  Are you still passionate about them?  Do they need to be recalibrated from this halfway point? 

If you’ve been stuck in a rut of old pattern or thinking, talk to us and get out of it!  There is no point doing the same thing and expecting different results! They called that insanity!  Now is the time you have to stretch yourself, for growth and change only happens outside the “comfort zone”.  If the ‘old way’ worked, you’d be as successful as you want to be, already!

Tags: change, Chiropractic Coach, Chiropractic Practice Management, Comfort Zone, consultant, Goals, half time, halfway mark, Insanity, Internal Resistance, practice success, resistance, Success