Where’s Your Passion?

Where’s Your Passion?

After coaching many Doctors for the last 10 years one thing is clear to me… Many chiropractors who are struggling or on a plateau, have lost their passion for chiropractic and their enthusiasm to serve humanity.

It’s not the “what”…it’s the “who”…

It’s not the “what”…it’s the “who”…

Have you ever found yourself comparing what you have to what your friends have?  “He has a bigger practice.  She has more jewelry.”

“I’m flat!” (At least I was, until yesterday)

“I’m flat!” (At least I was, until yesterday)

While conversing with chiropractors on Friday, before Larry and I spoke, the predominating theme was fear.  Fear of survival,  fear of the economy, and fear of the future.  There is nothing worse than looking into the sad eyes of a chiropractor and seeing the, “This isn’t how I thought it would be,” look.  “I’m flat,” they would say…and their facial expressions proved them right!

My, You've Changed!

My, You've Changed!

I just got back from Las Vegas – I returned to a chiropractic seminar that I haven’t attended for the past four or five years.  You know that feeling of going to a reunion of some sort?  The excitement, mixed with the anxiety, mixed with the discerning observations of, “what happened to that friend, or this family member, or this old place that we used to hang out in?”

A Model of Consistency

 A Model of Consistency

Here’s the fact…consistency is the key!  It really doesn’t matter what you are trying to accomplish, just be consistent.  Wanna try to refute my theory…go for it.

The Curtain Is Up

The Curtain Is Up

When chiropractors talk about training their staff members, they are usually referring to handing their new employees a few crumpled up scripts that they copied from a 1978 practice management manual that their friend’s uncle used all of those years ago.

I Don't Get It...

I Don't Get It...

With the modern tools of communication at our disposal, there are fewer and fewer occasions where information is sent through the mail.  In the “old days,” if you received correspondence that you didn’t want, you simply threw it away and went on with your life.  Now, in the social media generation, if you receive an unwelcome email or read a Facebook post that rubs you the wrong way, you feel compelled to attach an emotional, and commonly biting reply.

It’s Time For 2012 Goals!

It’s Time For 2012 Goals!

Yes, you read it right! Your 2012 goals must be written by October 1st.  Why, you ask?
Because, while it only takes a few minutes to read your goals every day, once written, it takes over 90 days of repeating them over and over again for your mind to become absolutely clear on what you want!

Time to Make the Donuts!

Time to Make the Donuts!

If you break it down to its core elements, there is no difference between owning a chiropractic practice and owning a donut shop.  There are four elements that must be followed, no matter which business you are running.

I Am Your Patient

 I Am Your Patient

In 1989, when I first sat down to write the first full member textbook for Markson Management Services, I called it, “Chiropractic Practice Management in Action.”  It contained the philosophy, business acumen, strategies and tactics that I thought Doctors of Chiropractic needed to know to attain superior professional performance.