Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

As a leader, your job is to be excellent at what you do, to be the best chiropractor in your community. Your job is to have high standards in serving people. You not only exemplify excellence in your own behavior, but you also translate it to others so that they, too, become committed to your vision.

Leadership Excellence
The key to leadership is the commitment to doing work of the highest quality in the service of other people, both inside and outside of your office. Leadership today requires a focus on the highest priorities in your office, keeping your key people motivated and filled with your vision of community wide wellness, and making sure your vision is understood through the values of those who you serve in your office.   

Integrity
The single most respected quality of motivational leaders is integrity. Integrity is complete, unflinching honesty with regard to everything that you say and do. Integrity underlies all the other qualities. Integrity means that when someone asks you at the end of the day, “Did you do your very best?” you can look him in the eye and say, “Yes!” Integrity means that you, as a leader, admit your shortcomings and commit to improving everyday. It means that you work to develop your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses.

Courage
Courage, combined with Integrity, is the foundation of character. One form of courage is the ability to stick to your principles, to stand for what you believe in, and to refuse to budge unless you feel right about the alternative. Courage is also the ability to step out in faith, to launch into the unknown and then face the inevitable doubt and uncertainty that accompany every new venture or opportunity.

Responsibility
Responsibility is perhaps the hardest of all leadership qualities to develop. The acceptance of responsibility means that, as President Harry Truman said, “The buck stops here.” If you run into an obstacle or have a setback, and you make excuses rather than accept responsibility, it can mean the difference between success and failure.

To be a leader in your community, begin to apply the principles above.  Meditate on them throughout the day and use them as a compass in your thoughts and decisions. 

Love and Lead,

Dr. Wilson

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Comedian Bob Newhart said in two words and a 5-minute comedy video on youtube of what Dr. Wayne Dyer expounded on in his new book and a 3-hour PBS special.  When it comes to making excuses for why your life is not going the way you would like:  Stop It!

In Excuses Begone! Dr. Dyer proposes that the excuses you have used your entire life to explain away what you haven’t done, can’t do, or won’t be able to do, are all “memes” or mental viruses that are completely fabricated in your own mind.  They include:

1.      It will be difficult.

2.      There will be family drama.

3.      I can’t afford it.

4.      No one will help me.

5.      I don’t deserve it.

6.      It’s not my nature.

7.      I’m not smart enough.

8.      The rules won’t let me.

It’s not that we consciously sabotage ourselves with these memes, but our habituated mind (not subconscious because we can access it if we choose) has accepted them as truths by which we have lived for as long as each of us has been on the planet.  There are subtle but substantial payoffs to hanging onto our personal memes instead of dropping them for more liberating truths.  They provide a way of avoiding what might be difficult or challenging work.  They offer the safety of the status quo and an easy way out.  They can also be used to manipulate family and others around us to do the job for us, or allow us to continue blaming others for our problems.  Maybe they keep us always being right:  “See, I told you it couldn’t be done, and I was right!”  Or they offer protection we fear we need to keep us from experiencing the present moment, so we can continue living in some fuzzy daydream about what coulda/shoulda/woulda been if the world had only treated us fairly.

Pain, anxiety, fear, anger, and the like make themselves known in your body as rashes, eczema, heart palpitations, arthritis, backaches, headaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, eyestrain, cramps, and many more ailments.  These can become your way of life and define your reality. 

If you begin to acknowledge that possibly—just possibly—these don’t have to be your reality forever, then you can access the profound and universal ability to quickly change your reality, no matter how long you have been in the old one.  From now on each time you are confronted with one of your excuses, begin the habit of immediately challenging it with the following questions:

1.      “Is it true?”  Is this excuse that your mind has thrown up as a blockade to some dream or desire absolutely 100% certainly true?  If it’s not (and it won’t be), then there is an opposite and equally possible truth, so why not choose the positive one to work from? 

2.      “Where did this excuse come from?”  The answer to this one is always your mind.  Someone else gave it to you or you made it up on your own, but it exists nowhere else but in your mind.

3.      “What is the payoff?”  What challenge will I avoid or what anxiety will I escape by clinging to this excuse?  I call this the Rumpelstiltskin question:  when you face it directly and answer it honestly within yourself, the excuse will disappear in a puff of smoke.

4.      “What would my life look like if I couldn’t use these excuses?”  The answer to this one is fun—here you build your dreams, without roadblocks or restrictions or excuses.

5.      “Can I create a rational reason to change?”  Change is difficult, so there must be a compelling reason to draw you out of your protective meme shell.  The three criteria for a rational reason are:  (1) it must make sense; (2) it must be do-able; (3) it must allow you to feel good; and (4) it must be aligned with the calling of your soul.

6.      “Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits?”  The answer to this is a resounding “yes!”  It’s been called the law of attraction, like attracts like, birds of a feather.  The universe is made of energy, and like energies are drawn as a force of nature into communion with each other.  Point your face and your heartfelt intention toward the summit, and the universe must align with your energy.

7.      “How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being?”  Refer to No. 5 and the part about feeling good.  Sense the good feeling that bubbles up when you are experiencing your dream, and return to that feeling often.  Awareness, focus, mindfulness, meditation, prayer, practice, practice, practice, one small step at a time. 

Will  today’s thoughts be dominated by inspiration or desperation.  Circumstances will always come, and your philosophy will determine how you see life after.  One guy lets cancer lead him to Livestrong for himself and others, another chooses to stop living life before he is even dead. 

Dig deep on what you believe today about  how you see life should be lived, and live it full out.  Today I will live to be inspired so that I can inspire others.  Don’t just livestrong, but live inspired!  Inspiration begets inspiration. 

I believe that no matter the circumstances or situation, you have a choice in how you respond to it.  You deepest, conscious or even unconscious beliefs will dictate how you imerge from it.  Choose very wisely, what beliefs guide you each and every day!

Lovin and Livin,

Doc W

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If only we could really guarantee that buying a product would help our focus, or better yet our focus on the right things.  It is said that we get what we focus on!  What really does that mean?  Focus deals with what our attention is on.  Many of us keep our attention on our problems, therefore we have our focus on our problems.  So by all technical means our focus directs our future, and if our focus in on our problems.  Then our future is full of… yikes.. that is right problems.   Wait, that is not what I signed up for, but it is exactly what I got, is what you might be thinking!!

So the key is that your focus must get past your problems and go immediately to your solutions, so that your focus can be on the solution.  Therefore, our live can be full of solutions.  The reality, our life will always have problems and challenges, therefore you will always have to choose what you will focus on.. Choose today to focus on your solutions.  Ask better questions about the challenge and create a solution that you don’t see right in front of you.  Choose solutions from this point forward.  It is never easy, but always worth it.

Enjoy solutions!

Dr. W