Going from Average to Exceptional!
These are the many questions that I struggled to answer for years, while working two practices and not being satisfied with my results. I worked long hours and didn’t see my family until early evening… unless I had meetings, then I wouldn’t even see my wife or kids until the next morning when I was up early again to go to work.
My practice was draining me of all my vitality, energy, fun and joy for life.
Those were some tough years. Can you relate? Do you know what that feels like?
Yes, there were days I wanted to quit! Not quit practice but sell my business, just work in my clinic and not have to manage all the crap that I deal with.
I thought if I could only go work for someone else as an associate and keep my practice, I’d be in heaven on earth. Then, I could truly de-stress and wouldn’t have all the headaches of running a business. Can you relate to this? These were my actual thoughts for years…
Life was so stressful at one point, I was seriously looking for ways out. Have you ever felt that way?
The downturn in economy, major staffing issues, rising rent and expenses were rapidly eating up profits…
WHERE ARE THE NEW PATIENTS? Rescheduled again? What about recalls? Are you doing your recalls? Where is the Jones family??? They cancelled again? …was the rhetoric and anxiety in my practice life. Does this sound all too familiar to you, too?
Do you think this extreme business stress carried over into my personal life? You bet your bottom dollar it did! My marriage and family life were falling apart. I had trouble sleeping. The stress was overwhelming at times. I felt like I was burned out. Worse, I wanted to quit. Do you ever feel so overwhelmed that you feel like quitting… or at least partially quitting? That was me in a big way.
But quitting practice, quitting life and getting out was never an option for me… Like for you, I’ve accomplished a lot in my life. I was a good student. I got my professional designation. Dammit, I’m a great chiropractor!
But I learned over the years that those qualities alone aren’t enough. It’s not enough to know a whole bunch of stuff, read books, listen to podcasts and speakers talk about their success. It’s not enough to try harder, work longer hours, hire more staff, build a nicer clinic, blame another staff member… It took me years of learning the hard way, making mistakes among the successes to really learn how to run, manage and take ownership of my practices.
My breakthroughs came after I made a conscious decision to improve myself. Yes, over my years of high stress, failures among successes and heart felt pains of life, I slowly realized that the only thing I could do was to work on myself.
“I needed to work on my mindset. I knew I needed to work on me and my inner game. That was my turning point in my career! Secrets to my success started to appear.”
Several years ago, while listening to a radio ad about a personal development course, I jumped at the opportunity and enrolled. There began my new journey to the powerfully transformative mindset that I’ve developed to overcome many of my doubts and fears about running a successful practice and business.
I began doubling and tripling my profits in my business. I felt so much more confident and in control of my practice. Leading my team and my patients to a better way of healthy living felt so much more natural to me. I was in the “flow” more often than not…
So many events and people evolved into great things, since starting my journey to re-work my inner game.
I believe mindset is everything when it comes to achievement and success in business, life and practice.