Nothing, actually. Even when you make a great decision, nothing’s happened yet. You haven’t added any new patients, gotten out of a relationship with the wrong associate, or signed a lease. You haven’t changed your practice, or changed your future. You’ve only changed your mind. The part that comes after deciding? That’s when things happen. […]

“It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E. L. Doctorow Doctorow was talking about writing a novel. But you might just as easily think of building your practice the same way. Sometimes you just can’t see the whole […]

“‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.” – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Fast forward […]

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love It’s easy to count things. New clients. Facebook likes. Dollars in, dollars out. The number of to-do’s crossed off your list. What’s tougher is weighing. What’s that new patient worth? How valuable is a Facebook like? How […]

“Life is lived forward and understood backward.” – Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher Replace life with practice. Then cut yourself some slack. 🙂 Have a great weekend, everyone. -Dan  

‘Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.’ – Stephen King, On Writing Replace “art” with “practice”. You can agree or disagree, but I’m pretty sure it’s important to choose…    

It’s true. No one needs what you do. No one suffers from a shortage of acupuncture or a lack of massage. No one is experiencing a chiropractic outage or struggling with insufficient naturopathy. What they are short on is what those things do. Or, to put it in limerick form for Saint Patrick’s Day: In […]

We spend a lot of time trying to remember things. To-do’s. Appointments. Lists.  It’s the core skill set we’re taught in school, and we have a whole world of external memory tools to help us out–things like day timers and post-it notes, to-do lists and software programs, calendars and smart phones. One of the great […]

Furred one digs, searches Feathered one pretends, avoids Both heads in the sand Which one are you in practice? The ostrich or the dog?  

‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’ — Thomas Alva Edison Our next book is in the works. Like The Practitioner’s Journey, part of the writing process is looking for patterns. I’ve been interviewing successful practitioners for the past few months, digging […]