Chiropractic Practice Building - Building Your Dream Practice

Today's topic is a great topic, it is how to know where you are at in practice and really build the life and the practice of your dreams. Doing an honest assessment of where you are at in practice. Are you tired? Are you burned out? Are you ready to quit? Do you need to change things? The reason that I love this is, I have redefined myself, professionally, a number of times in my career. I joke about chiropractors getting into ruts and then making a home there. That really is true. Chiropractors love ruts, and we tend to get into what is called locked in thinking, where we think that that way is the only way, and get really burned out. So, I have listed some really key things.

My background is that after three years of really being in a very strong MD/DC PI, neurological and skeletal practice, after three years, and a number of practices, I decided that that really was not for me, and became willing to completely change my model.

After about four years, I am thinking just over four years of being in full time practice, a very full time practice, full time plus, I woke up and really assessed my life and said, that is not what I want to do, and redefined myself again and changed the model of the practice that I am in now.

I practice part time with adjusting, and it really developed into more of my practice CEO versus the primary adjuster. I have another doctor that does that. So, I have listed some things on honest assessment.

To me, the journey of becoming a powerful human being and really someone that has charge of their life, has made huge changes, that is able to be successful. What I mean by success is, achieving the things that are values and priorities to your family, your health, being fit, being financially secure. All of those things are incredibly important.

A number of things I listed, as far as the journey to become a powerful person, one is, obviously the biggest mistake people make is they don't regularly look at and define their goals and their vision for their life. Without vision we perish, we have nowhere to move towards.

So number one is, really sitting down and saying, what does my vision look like. Am I working too much? Am I working too little? Have I lost my passion? Have I lost my commitment? Do I not enjoy my hours? Am I not reaching people the way that I want to? Just looking at what our goals and our vision are for our life and our family. What is working and what is not working. I do this daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I do this with my husband, we sit down as a family and we do this, we lay out goals.

Number two is, then I sit down and I list, am I congruent with my use of resources. Am I congruent with that, for my values and priorities right? Do I have congruency in my life? So if I list my, in one column, my values, my priorities, what I want my life to look like, in my second column, am I utilizing my resources towards that my time, my energy, my focus, my finances. There has got to be congruency there. I will tell you what, in a lot of people's lives there is incongruency.