Posts Tagged ‘Taking Action’

Charted Course

June 29th, 2009 by angiemeyerdc | No Comments | Filed in Chiropractic Coaching, Goals & Aspirations, Leadership, Practice Management, Success

leadership, adversity, challengeAre you a pessimist, an optimist or a leader?  We need to look at how you deal with challenge and adversity to find out. Most people say they are optimists when asked, but if we look at the proof of their external results we might find out otherwise.  John Maxwell, one of my favourite authors on leadership, says this:

“The pessimist complains about the wind.  The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

Sailing without a charted course is like driving without a map or GPS, and like setting goals without an action plan.  It leads to circular action, unintentional sabotage, and rarely reaching your desired destination.

Not only do leaders have a vision and mission, they set long-term and short-term goals with a definitive action plan.  AND they consistently take intentional action, stay on the charted course, adjust the sails and the course as needed.

To manage your chiropractic practice like a leader we need to ensure you are the captain, keeping the big picture about what practice growth you want and what you are trying to achieve.  You need to look at the conditions, the charted course, and take consistent action AND you need to lead your team!  A world cup skipper cannot sail the ship themselves.  They need a solid team with the same vision, desires and willing to work hard and be rewarded for it. As chiropractic coaches and consultants, we help office create and manage a Dream Team and help Get The Team To Grow The Practice!

If you have been being a pessimist or an optimist during the stormy conditions of the past 6 months, it’s time to step up your leadership of yourselves, your practice management and your team!  People in your community need your help. It’s time to lead the chiropractic wellness revolution!

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When You Think You’ve Had Enough

February 12th, 2009 by angiemeyerdc | No Comments | Filed in Motivation

Inspired by a blog on lifestyle design that I read regularly by Tim Ferriss, I want to share this profoundly inspiring video:

Get Back Up

The truth is, you are not alone.  Every person and every chiropractor, no matter how successful, has thought to themselves at one time or another, “I’ve had enough”.

Maybe it’s the global economy tanking and your practice is going down.  Maybe it’s the Canadian media telling the country that a chiropractor ’caused’ another stroke.  Maybe it’s the medical professionals in your community who slander what you do.  Maybe it’s the person who says they’re not coming back because their insurance ran out.  Or maybe it’s something entirely different.  But we’ve all been there, at one time or another.

As a coach, I work with chiropractor’s head space and mindset on a daily basis. Oh yeah, and I work with my own too (which is much more difficult)!  It is up to us if we are going to manage the dialogue we have with ourselves, day in and day out. It is a choice to decide if we press on, or quit.  When you think you’ve had enough, do you get back up?

One of the most powerful phrases I have ever learned is from a previous coach of mine, Bart Precourt, DC. And it goes like this, “So What?  Now What”?  So what I am down in the dumps; Now what am I going to do about it?  So what I just ate a piece of cheesecake; Now what am I going to do about it?  

The power comes to release ourselves from the downward spiral of self-abuse with “So What”.  One of my life lessons is not to take myself so seriously.  This frees me from the regret and the guilt of a bad decision.  And the “Now What” empowers me to take action.  Because every choice I make either moves me toward what I want, or away from it.

So the next time you think you’ve had enough, remember Nick Vujicic and get back up.  Your community needs you to be a beacon of light now more than ever.

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