Tip 5

At the end of the Parker Seminar, instead of catching a Vegas Show, my wife, my staff and I were excited to catch a motivational seminar at the Hilton entitled, "Take Control of Your Life." It was the perfect way to end the weekend and recharge our batteries before returning home. As vendors, we spent the weekend empowering other chiropractors and their teams on How to take control of their lives and now it was our opportunity to soak up the messages of such superstars as Bill Rancik (The winner of the first apprentice), James Van Praagh (The Ghost Wisperer)and Chris Gardner (The movie, The Pursuit of Happiness was based on his life).

During the seminar, Bill Rancik said, one of the keys to success was to "think like an entrepreneur." Being about three feet from the stage, this information hit me like a ton of brinks and excited me to the point that I immediately wrote it down and had to share it so.....

Tip #5 is - Think Like an Entrepreneur

Part of the art of being a chiropropractor (fill in your occupation)is the art of being a successful business person and to that point thinking of ones self as an entrepreneur. Wickipedia describes an entrepreneur as someone who is in charge of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and outcomes. Read more at wikipedia.org. But for now let's say that as chiropractors we are certainly entrepreneurs and that means that to run a successful office we need to develop an entrepreneural spirit and the business skills necessary to identify market opportunities and exploit them by organizing our resources effectively to achieve specific outcomes.

So how does one develop an entrepreneural spirit? Simply by understanding that they are in business not only to help people but also - to make money. Yes, I said it. You primary mission is to make money and in order to do this you must begin seeing yourself as an entrepreneur - a leader - an innovator and a business person well versed in business, accounting, and marketing. Now these are the major catagories and in the coming days we will break these down into subsections so they can be better understood and achieved.

Entrepreneurs do not sit around waiting for things to happen; they are self-motivated individuals who think outside the box and make things happen. Entrepreneurs are learners. They get up early and they work late. There is an old saying which says 'learners are earners and readers are leaders."

There is more to being an entrepreneur than just wanting to be one. You have to work hard, attend seminars, listen to people, get mentored, purchase materials which will help you grow and then utilize all of the above.

For today, let's just absorb the understanding that you are an entrepreneur by repeating the following affirmation over and over. "I am an entrepreneur and I posess and utilize every skill necessary to run a highly successful office and earn enormous income."

Think like and entrepreneur in all you do. Discover new ways to run and market your business more effectively. Ask yourself focus questions everyday such as "how can I attract more new patients or how can I streamline my procedures?" Even if you do not have the answers right now, by conditioning your mind with forward thinking questions on a consistent (daily) basis, your mind will begin to provide you with the answers - them all you have to do is implement them.

See you tomorrow with more tips.