So, here I was a 17 year old high school junior who grew up totally illiterate about matters Chiropractic. As I said earlier, I literally had not heard the word Chiropractic until I met a man who changed my life completely.
I had always had an innate interest in “natural” things like diet and exercise. The problem I had as a high school junior is that I did not have a clue what I wanted to do for a career, which made it very hard to decide which college to attend.
In those days, you could wait until you graduated. Today, with the so-called “helicopter parents”, panic starts to set in if little Johnny or Suzy’s parents can’t get them in to the right preschool as the first stepping stone toward admission into Harvard or Yale. Actually, one of my sons is a double graduate of Harvard Dental School, which was a complete surprise to his mother and me! In another article, I will prove my earlier statement that with the right attitude and tools, you can accomplish anything in Chiropractic, and your life. I will describe to you how my son might have never amounted to much without that attitude and tools.
Back to my chiropractic story…I will offer a small apology for all this painful detail; however, I do have a definite purpose. I want to prove that your practice success is attainable – even in the northeast United States – with proper guidance. I will share this with you, once the foundation of my failures and successes has been established.
OK, diet exercise and things natural.
One day, I noticed an ad in the paper for a new gym opening in our little town, so I was one of the first to get a membership. I had been religiously using a new form of muscle building called “isometrics” which is simply muscle exertion without motion. The manager of this gym was a guy who had just graduated from chiropractic college and was running the gym until he could take his boards, which he never took.
I proudly announced to him how great I thought the isometrics were that I had been using. He wasted no time in proving to me that I had not accomplished much with that approach.
We got to be best of friends. One day he asked what I was going to do with my life career wise, and I answered that I was not really sure – and that was far from the whole truth. I didn’t have the foggiest notion what I was going to do with the rest of my life. The next question he asked changed my life forever.
We will get to that in the next article. Stay tuned to learn how powerful the question principle can be.
