from the collective restriction of the herd where most people spend their lives in a constant state of morose reac-tion to work, kids, finances, the idiot next door and any other number of potential irritants. There are no dress rehearsals in life. We challenge you to see the greatness within you. You did not choose your path for only the money or prestige. You did it out of passion and commitment to change lives for the better. Choose to be great. Determining your purpose 1. Write down as many of your positive character traits as you can think of. 2. Write down all of the things that give your life meaning and pleasure. Things that when you are doing them, you forget to eat or drink. 3. Now, taking into consideration the www.Cndoctor.ca above, write down as many potential opportunities to make a difference as you can conceive. What in life gets you both fired up and pissed off when you think about them? 4. Prioritize each of the above three lists noting the top three that reso-nates the most from each. 5. Results could look like this: Top three traits may be: I am hardwork-ing, intelligent, and empathetic. Top three things that give your life mean-ing are family, your patients and your career. Top three opportunities might be: to take care of my family and help them thrive, to work with patients to help them reach their full health potential and the third op-portunity may be to be my own boss, financially secure and in con-trol of my destiny. 6. Your preliminary purpose may un-fold as: “ To work to provide a won-derful life for my family by helping as many patients as possible reach their full health potential while liv-ing my life without limits and inde-pendent of the opinions of others.” 7. Once you are comfortable with your end product, post it where you will see it regularly and start creating your life plan using your purpose statement as the center of the wheel from which the spokes of your life extend out. 8. Understand that a purpose state-ment and resultant life plan is a living document and depending upon circumstances and opportuni-ties is constantly open to amend-ment and revision. To be great, first, you need a great vision and then you need a plan. First let’s take a minute to examine the core principles for success from which to create that strategy. Key component #2: Success principles that work: “Definitely not the same s---different day. ” Although the principles of success are basically the same now as they were 100 years ago, the players and the circum-stances are not. It is a folly of human nature that people keep trying to com-plicate things. It seems that inevitably everything which was once easy eventu-ally becomes complicated. But, experi-ence in life and practice has convinced us why we still like simplicity. Here are some tips to help you create a virtually limitless life and success. • Invest in yourself and commit to be-ing the best version of you possible. Don’t ever settle just because it is convenient or feels like enough. • Dare to dream big. Most people “dumb-down” their lives by being afraid or just too lazy to dream a magnificent future for themselves • Live your life independent of the good opinion of other people. • Be a first principles person in all of your dealings. This is much easier than having to say that you are sorry. • Be inquisitive and never be afraid to fail. Remember that you are only stupid if you make the same mistake more than once. • Plan for the future but live in the now. Although it is scientifically impossible to live anywhere but “in the now,” many in life spend their creative thoughts consumed with the past, or in planning for the future. Take time to smell the roses every day. • No blame and even fewer excuses – your boat, your oars. Do the novel thing and be accountable. It is posi-tively liberating. • Adopt an attitude of gratitude. In doing so you welcome more prosper-ity into your life. Remember, on the socio-economic totem pole you are already at the top compared to most of the world. • Be a life-long learner. This is what we believe to be the greatest gift of being a human, the capacity to continue to grow. • Given the choice between right and being kind, always choose kind. As mentioned in the title, it is all about motivation and this in turn is born out of knowing who you are, your role in the world and adopting an un-wavering belief in the universal principle of “the more you give the more you get.” You will notice that we did not refer to hard work anywhere. Hard work is for digging ditches, smart work is for being successful. This is all a headgame and the biggest part of this battle is in stop-ping the negative you from sabotaging your success. Join us in the next edition where we will explore more key components to building a successful practice. January/February 2022 Chiropractic and Naturopathic Doctor 9
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