TNR Happenings May 21, 2018
Miyagi: Just what the doctor ordered!
A gap is present in all professions and all walks of life. This gap is between the average and the high achievers (the dreamers and the ones who continually push the envelope). The participants at this past weekend's Miyagi are definitely high achievers who helped make this seminar amazing! Like past Miyagi seminars, there was a lot of discussion about the intent of an adjustment. Although invisible, the intent makes all the difference in the adjustment. DCs may have the same degree and may have had the same instructors and instruction materials, yet they will create an entirely different outcome with their adjustments! The first level of mastery is the technical proficiency of the adjustment, but that only brings you so far, especially with DCME and complicated cases. Almost like driving a car, once you master the technical, most drive with the same set of skills as when they first began. Others continually improve their skills at the track and learn how to drive fast and safe. Did you know that your skills don’t get better by merely doing them? Think about playing golf here: your ability stays quite constant your entire life until your physical skills diminish. Your abilities must be sharpened and developed to a razor’s edge to bring out your gift with every adjustment. The average DC never experiences this climb or journey. Then, if we’re not careful, good enough gets in the way of great!
Dr. Sabrina’s traveling companion, Diana, is the most maintenance free kid you’ve ever seen. At only 14 months, she certainly entertains herself and is up for any adventure she encounters, from China to the states and back again. If only all kids could be this low maintenance! An at-risk kid and his mother showed up at Miyagi on Saturday morning because they thought Taylor Family Chiropractic was open to see patients. Was this a coincidence! We saw the kid’s innocence, the kindness and caring Dr. Cliff showed him, and the smile on the mother’s face looking around and seeing her once-in-a-lifetime DCs taking a Saturday to perfect their craft. After they left the mom sent a very sweet text message to Dr. Cliff & Dr. Christy thanking them for everything they are doing to help her son. We had a mystery guest visit via video to discuss the paperwork bureaucracy in Chiropractic College, which leans heavily toward paperwork and diminishes the actual patient care. It’s modeled after hospital care, internships, and working for someone else. It's deadly and does not equip the DC who thirsts for opening up and becoming successful with their own practice.
Dr. Kevin to visit Kenny Smoker on the Reservation
Dr. Kevin will be visiting Kenny to finalize plans for our Boot Camp/Fun Day Carnival and the building of the Geodesic Greenhouse Growing Dome. Planning Boot Camp takes hundreds of phone calls, conferences, emails, and live visits to make each year’s adventure a smashing success. It's worth it when it comes to these kids reclaiming their health, hope, and dignity. It doesn’t get done without all of our members, practice members, families and other interested people helping out!
LHNC fundraiser is off and running!
Get your Crowdrise Team Page established. Go to: www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/help-us-restore-health-and-hope-for-native-american-kids1
If you haven’t done so, buy a LHNC decal with a $100 donation to LHNC. Put it on an office wall in a conspicuous place for all to see. Buy one for your kids' rooms or your man cave or garage. It's an instant conversation starter. Everyone should have received our fundraising kit in the mail and by email. If you didn't, please call TNR right away. Get an early start this year. Some members have made their first donation in their family’s name or clinic name to get things rolling. Others have made donations in memory of deceased loved ones, including pets. Have your kids and your practice member kids get the word out on social media. Some have used apps like gofundme to get people from all over to donate to LHNC. Don’t forget to get businesses and philanthropic groups involved with your fundraising. The better the relationship is that you have created with a person, the easier it gets. If you have to go thru committees and hoops, chances are you will not receive the funds in time.
The Geodesic Greenhouse Growing Domes will be the start of having a sustainable food source on the reservation, which will be a milestone. Having LHNC assist in building the first one on the reservation is how we roll.
MM news
Ambitious members have utilized MasterMind as a way of exponentially increasing their income over the years and there is nothing like it on the planet. It is so much more than a think tank: it creates ideas to be implemented in your practice that nobody else is using. Many of these ideas are already tested and ready to use. You just have to have the temerity to use them without having to ask your spouse, CA, and practice members if it’s okay with them.
An idea was hatched a few years ago at MasterMind to have a ‘speed pass’ which guarantees practice members in a high volume office of never having to wait. Everyone loved the idea, but the idea has laid dormant until Dr. Mark Bassett picked up the torch and implemented it in his new 2-tiered recommendations. Congratulation Dr. Mark!! People are willing to plop down premium fees for a speed pass upgrade at Disney and practice members will appreciate this also. This works best in offices that are seeing lots of people already.
DCME news
Have you ever noticed how connected we are? The kid that coincidentally showed up for an adjustment at Miyagi had lost a brother a few years ago. His brother was run over by a car being operated by an impaired driver. Dr. Cliff lost his twin brother to the same fate. This kid and Dr. Cliff share the same birth date. Coincidence or is it a reality that you just can’t see? There is an invisible thread that connects all of us that have gone through adversity, suffering, sickness or oppression. DCMEs can pick up on this. At a deep subconscious level they are looking to partner with a person that has also ‘been there’ or has some scars on their backs and still wants to help people that have fallen through the cracks. Reach out to kids that have been given up on or are considered hopeless. You won’t have all the answers with each of these kids, only a willingness to help.
Intro Seminars scheduled in NC, VA, & FL
We are on the prowl for new members who want to become once-in-a-lifetime DCs. We are searching for DCs that have always suspected there is an untapped potential within and are willing to accept guidance to realize this potential. Dr. Craig is co-hosting an Intro Seminar at his office in North Carolina with Dr. Llana. Dr. Terri is assisting in a Virginia Intro Seminar and Dr. Lizzie is hosting an Intro Seminar in Florida. These are capped (10 max DCs) events. The DCs will fill out a practice profile before the seminar and then, using their own office metrics, are shown how their office would benefit from joining TNR. Along with the many benefits of becoming a TNR member, it’s not uncommon for DCs to 3,5,10x their present income after joining. Their CAs and spouses are encouraged to attend. If you know any colleagues or DCs in these areas, reach out to invite them to attend. Use social media to reach DCs in other areas with your story about being in TNR.
Practice tip of the week
Make it a habit to really focus and reflect on these newsletters each week. Reading it online is okay, but hungry members three-hole punch the Happenings to keep in a notebook. They make notes on them and highlight special parts. Just skimming won’t get it done. As you know, TNR is completely voluntary, but it's all about full participation. It's just not attending events, which is a great start. It’s adopting this as a new orientation of looking at a world where the actual people you want to help have all kinds of reasons why they can’t participate to receive help. Really taking in the contents of the newsletters, blogs, and training videos between the actual TNR events helps to fortify and reinforce your life day to day. Successful TNR members have a way of not agreeing with someone’s belief in disease or hopelessness, but they don’t make them wrong. Just living in this world of disease, you will be tempted every day to lower your expectations and stop living for a cause bigger than yourself.
When you are connected to the source, you will not cave when it comes to demanding, commitment-disabled practice members. You will stand before your patients in truth and not give in to being liked, accepted, or making it easy for them. As much as an overweight person wants to believe that there is no effort required in regaining their physique, there is. There is too much sugarcoating going on these days.
Get out into the community!
Now that the weather is warming up, farmers' markets, health fairs, and events in your parking lot should be on the drawing board. You can’t stay only in your office. Find events that draw the people there. Then be fun, engaging, and let people know what a real TNR DC is all about. Most of our members have been afraid of doing the events at first. But then they got good at them and they love doing them. This is an alpha skill that the majority of DCs don’t have. Online marketing is great and it’s a piece of the solution, but it’s no substitute for face-to-face interaction. Use both instead of one or the other. If you have an event like this at least once a month, you will see HUGE increases in your numbers.
