Many chiropractors have a difficult time with life balance. Whether you are just starting your practice OR seeing 500 visits/week, it’s hard to find a balance between the office and your personal life, your community and your family.

The truth is, wellness chiropractors who are running successful chiropractic practices have to lead by example.  If wellness chiropractors are going to lead the wellness revolution, we have to walk the walk, not just talk the talk!  You can’t be overweight and teaching nutrition. You can’t be a stress case telling people to reduce their mental/emotional stress.  Just like you can’t smoke and tell your kids not to smoke.  It is who you are BEING and DOING, not what you are SAYING that matters.

While coaching chiropractors, it is essential to look at their life priorities and build their life and practice around that.  You get to choose the life you want to create! First you need to know what that is, then you need to create and action plan to get there.

Secondly, it is not about time-management, but it is about self-management. How focused are you?  How effective are you at following through on your plan? How much do you allow yourself to get distracted?  How tenacious are you at pushing through the dip?  Are you showing up in life with the discipline it takes to be a true leader? And who is holding you accountable for your choices?

Lastly, to be of true service, we have to be full vessels ourselves.  Unless we serve ourselves and our personal needs, we can’t truly be of service.  It is about being self-full not selfish.  It’s time for you to exercise “Extreme Self Care” as outlined by Thomas Leonard in his book, “The 28 Laws of Attraction”. Here are the categories to revamp your life:

1. Stress elimination: By focusing on stress elimination in all areas of your life. What is stressful? What are you tolerating? What isn’t adding positively to your life?

2. Environment & Family: Design your environment to serve you and your family relationships to add energy to your life.

3. Pleasure: Know what makes you feel great and then get more of it in your life.

4. Well-being: Ensure all aspects of physical, mental, emotional, chemical are 100% .

5. Support and Experts: Receive wellness care from experts and seek support from a coach.

6. Ingestion: You are what you put in your mouth. Keep it clean. Treat your body like the temple that it is.

7. Appearance: Take care of the outer you as well as the inner you.

8. Sustainability: Make extreme self-care a behaviour not a quick fix.  Take control of your time, learn to say no, delegate finances for self-care.

9. Daily Rituals: Small improvements lead to great results.  What you do daily is who you become.

10. Special-care Items: Add anything else you need that isn’t listed above.

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