relationships will grow and improve when you share new experiences with your partner. Taking advantage of Airbnb and other online booking re-sources will often introduce you to places you might not have seen other-wise. Consider making a list of all the places you want to visit, remembering to do the more active things earlier in your life. Take advantage of long holi-days like Christmas, Easter, and three-day weekends – they can minimize your time away from practice. You may pay more for a flight, but you will more than make up for that by returning to the office on a day when you can be there to provide care. flight on Saturday night and fly back on a Wednesday. This allows me to see pa-tients Thursday through Saturday, in-conveniencing fewer patients. with better coverage for new patients and walk-ins. If the idea of retirement in practice ap-peals to you, consider inviting your friendly neighbourhood chiropractic competitor to join you in practice. By combining your practices and selling each other off, you may find yourself in the enviable position of having a full practice (two practices) when you are not travelling. You may find that by splitting the overhead and sharing patients, your income will remain close to the same even though you are travelling more. Make sure you have similar techniques and practice philosophies though, or you may not be happy with the outcome. Chiropractic, like medicine, is univer-sally needed and the chiropractors I have met do very well. I will be interviewing chiropractors in subsequent columns to provide us with a different perspective on work-life balance. Stay tuned. Practice amalgamation In-house locums Scheduling mini vacations In our office, we tend to work Saturdays – why is that? Saturdays are a great day to practice. Often we see new patients and the day is short, for example, start-ing at 8:30 and ending at noon or 1:00 p.m. The upside of that is we can grab a 3731 VISION canada halfpage_3093 YEL VISION and ROMA backup.qxd 9/5/2018 9:51 AM Page 1 It can be useful to have a chiropractor share your clinic so that the clinic con-tinues to pay the overhead while you are away. If you want a hassle free as-sociate, consider offering a semi-retired chiropractor an opportunity to work 12-20 hours per week in your office. They can increase their hours when you are away so that patient care is not compromised. Seasoned chiropractors can also keep you from making the same mistakes that they may have made decades ago. The patients that don’t click with you will often click with an older chi-ropractor whose schedule is not as busy. Your associate chiropractor will often be willing to work the hours that you don’t want to have providing you THE EXPERIENCES OF LIFE LIFE Vision is a two-day shot of high-energy, high-impact inspirational, and educational moments designed to bring current and future chiropractic leaders of all perspectives together to connect and TWO-DAY SEMINAR re-charge. This is a series of presentations delivered by visionaries who have lived it, are living it, and will continue to live it. Philosophy, neurology, science, and lifestyle, with great practice-building ideas. Join us MARCH 29-30 for the time of your LIFE. March 29-30, 2019 “I attended Life Vision Canada with my team in Montreal in 2017. It was marvelous to have such great speakers. They were so inspiring! I was actually going through a very busy period and so I was exhausted ... listening to them really helped me refocus and I came back more energized and ready to change people! Thank you and I’m looking forward to the next seminar!” -Dre Emmanuelle Moreau, D.C. Montreal, Quebec Register today at LIFEVisionSeminars.com. For a full list of receptions, gatherings and our exciting itinerary of inspirational messages, visit our website at LIFEVisionSeminars.com. QUESTIONS? CALL (770) 794-3031 OR EMAIL LIFEVisi onS emi na [email protected] REGISTER TODAY AT LIFEVisi onS emi na rs.com www.canadianchiropractor.ca CC_Life Vision Canada _Oct18_CSA.indd 1 October 2018 Canadian Chiropractor 21 2018-09-05 11:03 AM
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