TNR Happenings May 6, 2019

Miyagi is next weekend!

There’s lots of excitement and speculation regarding the Friday evening’s activity. What should you wear? A tee shirt, shorts, and a sports bra or a bathing suit. You are going to get wet, hot and cold. That’s your hint. You will need a beach towel. I was speaking in Virginia on Saturday and noticed that the trend in Chiropractic is to shy away from cases involving more than a handful of visits. Kids, difficult cases, and wellness care is frowned upon, like the courage and boldness of DCs are wavering in some circles. Pretending you have earned this ability and choosing not to see these types of cases will not help your practice. It’s the invisible resistance that hogties countless DCs into being face-in-the-crowd DCs. No matter your clinical prowess, if you are not expanding and challenging your belief systems at their core, you will stagnate in Chiropractic. This is no different than marriage, parenting, or anything else that matters.

Annual fundraising for Fun Day begins! 

IT’S HERE! This is so exciting! We are raising funds to install another Geodesic Growing Dome Greenhouse in Frazer, to purchase food for 1,000 families, and to purchase 1,000 backpacks with school supplies. We will be going door to door to deliver the groceries. Get your office started today! The complete step-by-step Love Has No Color fundraising guide has been mailed to you. It not only explains how to fundraise, but it also explains how to expand your practice at the same time. Practice members will really become involved with your efforts. Get started right away. Don’t wait until the end of July to do your fundraising. Share the fundraising guide with other successful DCs that you know. Get all of your current and past practice members involved. Get your whole community involved, including your kids’ schools, Karate centers, churches, businesses, etc.

DCME  is on July 20th

It’s not too early to make your plans to attend this training event. The most forgotten about topic in our profession, spoken only in hushed tones, is Difficult Cases. Every DC has a batting average or ability in handling Difficult Cases, regardless of whether they know or understand this concept. Agreeing and giving permission to society to limit the application of Chiropractic is in nobody’s best interest. In the 20 years of TNR coaching, DCME training is one of the things that I’m most proud of. It’s the development of real Chiropractic in a world of substitutes, short-cuts, and imitations.

From the mind of Miyagi

I was speaking in Virginia on Saturday and I met all kinds of DCs, from wimps to warriors, DCs in service to humanity to salespeople who don’t care what they sell or to whom they sell it to, as long as they make a profit (the business model). I met the warriors; one was a high-level Alumni of a Chiropractic College who had donated thousands upon thousands of dollars to this college. He resigned from his official capacity of the Alumni Association as a consequence to the college’s changes in policy and curriculum: they removed the technique the school was founded on and replaced it with medical analysis and research. He spoke to the president and told him when Chiropractic is the main focus of the college, I will begin donating again.

I met doctors who had lost their conviction and strength, being swept away in the undertow of the disease model. They used to be warriors but they lost their MOJO, their ability to not go along with the majority of insane, card-carrying members of the church of disease, limitation, and lack. Their once principled offices look like a hodgepodge of a GNC store, spa, and rehab clinic. Then I saw the part-timers and I’m not referring to the hours they serve, rather the declining sacredness and pride of being a DC. It’s just a thing they do to earn money. It used to stand for something. Some DCs appeared to be analytical and skeptical, speaking chit chat that was devoid of real meaning and purpose. They were cynical of anything that challenged the narrow confines of their rigid beliefs.

There are many different problems for these DCs who have become lost but they have this in common: They don’t belong to a tribe. They don’t stand for anything. They are looking to be paid more by being less than their authentic selves. They are steeped in competition instead of cooperation. United we stand, divided we fall. As my grandfather told me when you don’t stand for anything, you’ll be good for nothing and you’ll fall for everything. They don’t hold Chiropractic to be sacred. They are alright with doing anything under the scope of their license that allows them to make income. The fun part of being in TNR is we are under a unification of intent but we are not conformed to a standard. Hair length, dress, religious preference, introvert or extrovert: these don’t matter. Everyone is recognized and respected as an individual. There is no pressure or benefit to conform to a uniform standard to be like everyone else. If there is one thing you can say about TNR members, we are unique to the core. We are free to be who we are as individuals, yet united in the humanitarian model of serving people for their betterment. Every time you attend an event or read a TNR writing, it says something different to you depending on your current resonation. How cool is that?

Practice tip of the week

Be bold, not boisterous. Be brave, not pushy. Use power instead of force. If there is one thing that gets the job done, it’s being a warrior and being impeccable. New TNR members think being a warrior is about being physically strong and dominating people. It’s really about guiding and serving. It’s also about understanding how people react to new ideas and concepts and not wasting time on people that don’t have ears to hear and hearts to feel. It’s more about saving your personal power in all situations by not fighting and resisting people. A warrior doesn’t attempt to convince and prove what Chiropractic is to people when you know they are immersed in the disease paradigm. It’s not letting practice members cut corners to make it more convenient and easy for them because that’s not helping them, it’s enabling them.

In society, agreeing with everybody and having no opinion of your own is considered good manners in public and private places. Continually speaking this language tears down your core value, pussifies your spirit, and neuters you to be an ineffectual DC. Now if you’re all about adult pain relief, you don’t need to be a warrior. In fact, it’s in your best interest to put profit before people and be like everybody else. When you don’t stand for something, you’ll be good for nothing.

DCME confidential

Question 1: I have a practice member who insists they want a DCME level; however, they want to pay a la carte or by the week. Should I allow this?

Answer: Don’t do it. It’s pre-paid outside of insurance or it’s nothing. Now that being said, they can discontinue at any time and you will refund them the unused portion. Going a la carte means you are enabling them and are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Question 2: I have a practice member who insists her insurance company is going to pay for her DCME. She just won’t listen and can’t hear me. What do I do?

Answer: You can see her in a level one capacity; however, she is not ready to become healthy. She still won’t (or can’t) accept full responsibility for her predicament. Although it’s not her fault, it’s certainly her responsibility to get herself out of the predicament. Expecting or allowing others to do her responsibility won’t help her or society at large. It breeds dependency and gets further and further away from health.

LHNC news

Don’t you just look forward to Boot Camp all year round? It’s almost Miyagi time, then Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, DCME, and it’s here! Make the effort to invite family, friends, colleagues, etc. Ask yourself what is a crazy simple and easy pod to do. The pod needs to be something that has very few rules or directions, just instant fun. We need more super soakers this year, too. This is not a place of learning, it’s a place of fun. One year we had a very creative DC who put hours upon hours into her pod. The problem was it was just too complicated. The kids ignored her pod in favor of other pods that were more appealing to them. Her pod might have worked in an off-Reservation setting in suburbia, USA, but it’s different on the Reservation. Instead of traveling with supplies and materials, most of us usually shop at the Super Wal-Mart in Williston, North Dakota right after we land. Whiffle ball has not been used for a few years now!