The second experience to share happened this past weekend when out of town visiting relatives. The first night there we ate at a restaurant that was totally packed with people. There was a line out the door. Food was great, service better, and the vibe was unmistakable.  The next night we ate at a place about a block away. Although the establishment was there for over a decade the place was close to empty. I asked our waitress what the deal was and she said the reason was it was hot outside, summer time vacations, the time of year, and about three other reasons.  The food was fair, service ok, and the vibe was dead.

Obviously the external factors mentioned would have effected both places equally so they couldn't be the reasons. The internal factors effected both office also and made the difference. The point being you have to honestly look at your office and analyze it.  What factors is keeping it where it is?  Is it the area, weather, time of year, location, or is it something or a series of things internal? 

Let me list the classic reasons one office goes flat while another down the street booms.

- front desk person

-people person skills of the doctor or lack thereof.

- infrequent promotions

- poor procedures

- stress somewhere with staff or the doctor -lack of focus, distractions -lack of motivation and passion, purpose -cross purposes

So take a moment this week and honestly look are your situation.  Use the above as a check list. Improve what you can. Change what you need to change. Toss out what holds you back.  

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On this Marvelous and Miraculous Monday, I've decided to start the week with everyone's favorite segment, "Dumbass Things People Say".
By the end of the week, most people that Practice Chiropractic as it was founded and developed, In it's Purest and Most Effective Form, may get to hear this one. Following a Specific, Scientific, Chiropractic Adjustment, the recipient utters the Dumbass statement of The week, saying, "That's it?"

This is typically coming from a person that's spent hundreds of hours in other Drs offices, days in hospitals and years in misery. Every procedure they've experienced, up to this point, has been an extremely time consuming experience in futility.
Here's a question for you... If I had my hands around your throat and was choking the life out of you, I'd only have to do ONE THING!!! Let go... At that point, would you look at me and say, "That's it?"? Would you prefer that before I let go, I got a manicure or gave you a shave??? Would you require an in depth diagnosis detailing all the evidence that's available to confirm you're choking prior to or during the process of me letting go??? Maybe some MRIs or Scans of some kind that are read by a genius somewhere that assure me that you're really choking...

The only thing that would be required for you to BEGIN getting your life back would be me Letting Go!!! Understand that when Pressure exists on your brainstem, It is choking the Life out of you. Usually Slowly, most of the time WITHOUT any Pain or symptoms at all. The Brain-> Body Connection is the Source of ALL LIFE in the human body. The Most Skillful, Highly Trained and Technologically Advanced Practitioners can remove that Interference in seconds. It takes longer to determine the proper Application, area and Factors involved in determining the Force to be Applied than it does to deliver The Proper Adjustment. Once THAT happens, LIFE is instantly Restored. THAT is EVERYTHING!!!
If my child was drowning, I wouldn't be too happy if The Life Guard wanted a thorough Family History to determine if my grandparents had problems swimming as well prior to saving my child's LIFE... Until Pressure is Removed from your Brain-> Body Connection, your child may get to the Surface occasionally, But they're STILL in the Pool!!!

This week, if somebody says, "That's it?" Maybe you should choke the living daylights out of that Dumbass...

Love Y'all Mucho!!!

Just to clear this up with "The Authorities", This information is figurative in nature. Please don't choke anybody this week...

^^^ Proper Disclaimer ^^^

This week I wanted to share with you two different experiences I have had over the years. The first is one of my favorite stories of the chiropractor who attend a Parker seminar for the first time. On entering the seminar a friend asked him how many patient visits he was seeing a week average to which he replied "50 visits." When he was leaving the seminar Sunday someone he didn't know asked him the same question to which he replied " I'm seeing 500 visits." 

Having been on the mentoring side of the profession for nearly 30 years I can't tell you how many platform speakers I have heard talk about their numbers. Knowing them personally and mentoring most I knew the real stats were half of what was presented.  I even had a client once in private consultation tell me about how big his numbers were, but when he presented his stat sheet for review it was only a fraction.  I remember thinking to myself "doesn't this guy realize I am the same person? " The bottom line is don't fall into the trap of comparing your numbers to someone else. You just might be listening to am illusion. Compare yourself to you alone, your progress and effort. 

Don’t let the past steal your present.  Your past has not defined, deterred, or defeated you.  It has only strengthened who you are today.  Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask yourself if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Then make every day count. – What you do daily matters more than what you do every once in awhile.  Your life will not improve unless you start making daily improvements.  It’s not about being the smartest, it’s about making the smartest decision. It’s not about being right, it’s about doing the right things.

Goals are important but they are temporary.  Values on the other hand are forever.  Raise your standards by taking a values-driven, not just a goal-focused, approach to life. Walk the talk and always set a great example. – Be the change you want to see. Give what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, and mirror what you admire.

At some point we all wonder, “Why is it so impossible to get everything done?”  But the answer is stunningly simple: We’re doing too many of the wrong things.

Several research studies have shown that people never get more done by blindly working more hours on everything that comes up.  Instead, they get more done when they follow careful plans that measure and track key priorities and milestones.  So if you want to be more successful and less stressed, don’t ask how to make something more efficient until you’ve first asked, “Do I need to do this at all?”

Simply being able to do something well does not make it the right thing to do.  I think this is one of the most common problems with a lot of time-management advice; too often productivity gurus focus on how to do things quickly, but the vast majority of things people do quickly should not be done at all.

If you think about it, it’s actually kind of ironic that we complain we have so little time, and then we prioritize like time is infinite.  So do your best to focus on what’s truly important, and not much else.

You are a victim of the beliefs you live by.  And a belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses, it is an idea that possesses the mind.  So believe in yourself.  Believe in your capacity to succeed.  Believe that the answers are out there waiting.  Believe that life will surprise you again and again.  Believe that the journey is the destination.  Believe that it’s all worth your while.