H3
There are three components you must understand to accomplish your goals and achieve your standards of success.
Here at SIDECAR we are always pushing to be better than we were yesterday. Since you’ve signed on to join us we hope you have felt the atmosphere surrounding our company to be one of constantly trying to improve and deliver higher levels of value. An important lesson that comes with self-improvement and striving to be the best you can be is the concept of self-awareness. Being self-aware about what it is you do well and what it is that you don’t do well.
You might be aligning your mindset with revamping your business to expand to serve hundreds of more people per week. Some of you might be preparing to build a business that provides for your family far after you’re gone. Regardless of where your dreams are, the process it’s going to take to get there is going to be the same.
Before you set out to accomplish your goals, you need to become self-aware and downright practical in three different areas that we refer to as H3 — Heart, Hustle, and Humility.
You will create whatever you want to create in your life. What you need to understand is that there are levels to success. No level is right or wrong. We all have our own dreams. Your dreams may require a different level of success than mine do. My hustle is not your hustle and that is okay. We need to be honest with ourselves and self-aware about what it’s going to take in each of the H3 categories to reach that specific level of success.
Not everyone can see 500 patient visits per week or increase their patient volume by hundreds of patients. Accomplishing these feats would place you at a very high level of success. These are tremendous goals to have but they aren’t everyone’s goals. Regardless of what level your goals are on let’s examine how you are going to have to change and improve in different categories to achieve them.
Heart
Heart is about serving above yourself. It’s delivering truly great service by going above and beyond yourself to take care of the needs of others. It’s about possessing and displaying a servant heart. Everyone watching this segment right now has heart. You wouldn’t have gotten into this profession without it. Where you need to be honest with yourself is by examining where your heart truly is at this exact moment. Are you passionate about what you’re doing and do you wish to increase your reach and influence? Remember, passion is not a buzz word. True passion is something you’re willing to suffer for. Are you willing to suffer for your dreams?
Hustle
The hustle component is the one that’s going to require the most physical work. If you’re going to increase your level of success, your hustle is going to have to change in multiple different areas of your life. To serve more patients you’re going to have to physically change your body. Your energy levels are going to have to increase along with your physical conditioning if you want to physically be able to see more patients. You might need to hit the gym regularly for a month before your body will be capable of the increased physical stress that increased patient visits requires.
You’re also going to need to change your lifestyle habits that get in the way of you achieving the successes that you desire. Creating and operating a high volume, efficient, systems-based practice isn’t going to happen if you’re watching two hours of T.V. every night. It’s not going to happen if you’re only working twenty-four clinician hours during the week. Massive amounts of success are going to require massive amounts of action.
Additionally, your mindset is going to have to change. You will not be able to increase your future level of success by thinking at your current level. Big dreams stem from big thoughts and you’re going to need a lot of these if you want to see your dreams manifest into reality.
Humility
Finally, the humility component is going to be the biggest modifier that will provide the most scale for your success in either direction. Your ability to be humble and accept the need to change are going to directly increase or decrease your level of success. Understand that you’re not the smartest guy in the room, nor should you be. If you are open to coaching.. things will change for the better. If you are unable to get out of your comfort zone and be pushed to new things you are going to stay on the same level.
This is just the truth of what it takes to be ridiculously successful. “Overnight” success stories do not exist and there is no magic pill that is going to turn your practice around or elevate it to the next level. However, if you’re truly committed and I mean truly committed to improving your business, your life, and the lives of those around you, you can reach the levels you dream about.
It’s going to hurt. At times, it’s not going to be fun. If you’re pushing hard enough you are going to come to a point where you will want to quit. You might have to say goodbye to some people in your life that are holding you back. You will have to meet new people and expand yourself in your community. Operating at the levels of affluence you dream of is going to increase the chaos of your life. This can be controlled but not all of it. If you’ve got the desire and do truly want the dreams that dance through your head at night, then you can do it and, in fact, you will do it. And that’s where SIDECAR can help.
Your Reality
Some of you reading this today might be hovering around a number of patient visits that allows you to live comfortably. You haven’t quite reached the level of affluence that you desire or that you thought you would when you first began your career as a chiropractic entrepreneur, but you’re able to live a nice life with a nice salary and provide nicely for your family. You have achieved a certain level of success that you can and deserve to be happy with. But if you were truly happy with where you were, and viewed yourself as being as successful as you set out to be, you wouldn’t be here. So let’s find the areas where you can improve, become more efficient, tweak your mindset and start to change your current reality to give you and your business that boost you desire.
Some of you might be struggling. You may find yourself scraping to get by or even falling in the wrong direction. You’ve tried and failed and are looking for options to turn your business around. You’ve got no choice but to seek change and be hungry for improvement. You need to be obsessed, you’ve got everything on the line! What you need to realize is that there is something about you that is directly responsible for the levels you have been operating at. Understand that you not only have the desire to change and improve, but that you need to. It’s time to put your nose down and grind to turn this ship around. Understand that as soon as you commit, there is no going back. True commitment leaves no room for failure.
Honestly, starting from the bottom is going to make your success even sweeter. I myself only started to really grow when I reached my rock bottom. I had no choice! Many of the truly successful individuals in the world started from places that were much worse off than where you are now. Ghandi was in prison and Steve Jobs was fired from his own company! If you’re at this position, the humble component should take care of itself and all that’s left is checking where your heart is and hustling to get it done!
Some of you might be just starting out or may be in the preparation and planning stages of crafting your business. You have high aspirations and are ready to achieve your dreams. Understand that it’s going to take more work than you think to achieve your goals. It always does! If you easily achieve your goals, they were never goals in the first place!
Take a hard look in the mirror and align your dreams with the level of work you really want to put in. Understand that increasing your level of success is a multi-faceted process and accept that things may have to get worse before they get better. We want nothing more than to see you achieve your dreams. Celebrating breakthroughs with doctors is our favorite part of the job. So let’s get started on making your dreams a reality.
Let’s Ride,
Dr. Nathan Unruh, CXO SIDECAR
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