TNR Happenings, October 30, 2023
Miyagi Training Is This Weekend!
It’s finally here! With an intimate audience and plenty of time with me, bring your questions and real-life conundrums. This will be an interactive, roll up your sleeves training, focused on the needs of all participants. When I was coming up through the ranks of Quest Alliance with Dr. Guy Reikeman, my mentor, Dr. Joe Flesia, was instructing a group of advanced doctors who were doing or wanted to do what others couldn’t. It started with 165 doctors in attendance. These were some of the biggest names in the profession at the time. Each quarter, the numbers kept shrinking. I was perplexed. What could be more important than having solutions to your practice (and life) problems? I would say to myself, “Didn’t these doctors know what they were missing?” Each participant was responsible for homework for the next meeting and guess what? They were not going to do their homework and didn’t want to meet Dr. Joe at the next session. It ended up being me and a handful of people or me period. I spoke out of frustration to my mentor and asked why they didn’t realize this opportunity they were missing. He smiled at me and said you will wonder about this again in the future. I have a smile mixed with tears as I write this.
Christmas on the Reservation
The countdown begins! Donations, donations, and toys! We need them all. Powerful people make things happen. They make instant decisions. Wanna bees must ask for permission, will stall, will say they’ll get to it next year, etc. Every year we have people tell us the same thing: I’ll get to it next year. Then it never happens. These kids have had enough IOUs to last a thousand years. They’ve heard too many empty words with broken promises. When it comes to standing up for these kids, we are it. There is nobody standing up for these kids who are living in third-world poverty and squalor. Look in the mirror and look at what and who looks back. Don’t let your commitment to these kids slip. It’s a sacred trust; guard it well.
From the Mind of Miyagi
Although the issues and problems of TNR members are infinite, there is a common binding thread that connects these issues and problems. It really isn’t about the problems, regardless if the problems are with not enough new patients, retention, marital, kids, hiring/firing CAs, finances, health, etc.: it’s YOU! There is simply not enough of you to deal with the problem. In reality, there is more than enough, but there are self-made obstacles that prevent you from making decisive solutions. Think of an iceberg: the problem is the tip and what is under the surface is ignored in the world of appearance. As the saying goes: it’s never about what it’s about.
Say you have a lackluster, plateaued practice. Are you putting up with nonsense from your practice members? How about keeping Below the Line employees because you don’t want to go through the hassle of hiring another? Are you doing extra paperwork (unpaid and unappreciated) so someone other than the practice member pays for care? We are trained to fix things without checking our gravitational center. Don’t make decisions without checking in with yourself. How solid are your relationships? How solid is your relationship with yourself? Do you have confidence or are you just attempting to get through the day? How many unresolved grievances or injustices are you carrying around with you? How about economic strain? Like a soldier with a lot on their mind, they are the first casualties. They are not centered and their performance reflects this every time.
Problems are variables (x,y,z) and the constant is your centering, your ability to make decisive decisions and follow through. If you are prepared, you will tend to experience a high-quality life. When things come your way, you handle them. If you are off-center, each and every problem takes your eye off the ball. The problem of the day will take over your life. People who let problems, people, family, or friends take over their frame of mind are always behind the eight ball. They make such a big deal over things that are not a big deal. They actually start to anticipate resistance, drama, and problems, especially the kind that supposedly don’t have solutions. Transparency alert: all problems have solutions, but there is a price to pay.
Being present and living in the now has never been more difficult. Society keeps heaping more and more activities, expectations, and opinions on you, from covid to wars, conflict, the value of your services, who you can help back to health, etc. Do the unthinkable and cut an hour or two off of wasting time on your computers each day. Watch how the quality of your life instantly improves and problems have less power over you. It’s your life; don’t give it away to fit in with a society that is lost and doesn’t know it.
DCME Confidential
Question 1: I have a back pain practice member who has a very serious problem and will not consider coming to me for anything else but a couple of visits here and there. Is there any hope?
Answer: No. Closed-minded people would rather die than open their minds to anything they don’t already know. This is sad but true. Look no further than your family and you will see what I mean.
Question 2: Some of the fees you mention with DCME/Level 2 care scare me. Will people really pay these prices?
Answer: Breaking industry norms and secretly seeking permission for authority holds people in place with fear. Transformation is the only way to move forward and never look back. This is only for the bold and adventurous.
Outer Banks Horses
