When I began exploring success, way back when, one of the first books I ever read was Napoleon Hill’s all-time classic, “Think and Grow Rich.” It was a book that literally changed my life forever (still available on Amazon.com), for in it Napoleon Hill elaborated on “The Mastermind Principle,” a subject that I worked on understanding for many, many years.
It is simply not good enough to hire a “nice’ person, who shows up every day, does his or her job fairly well, then goes home and starts all over again the next day. Rather, the idea is to hire right, terminate quickly if a mistake has been made, and spend an extraordinary amount of time in two areas -- Training and Accountability.
I had a client who told me recently, “I know everything I need to know to become a successful chiropractor. I know my stuff. I know how to adjust and how to read x-rays. I know procedure and I have set policies. I go to seminars and get all charged up, then I get back to the office and I just can’t get it going.” I assured this client that far too many others felt the same way. Here are seven tips I gave him to help him get back on track toward the achievement of his goals.
If you have ever seen a flock of geese fly overhead, you know how difficult it is to tell who is leading whom. The geese move in swift syncopation as if they are all responding instantaneously to the same cues, tapped into an unseen force that directs and guides their movement as one. It is the same way with wild horses or a herd of buffalo.
