The Re-Organizational Wake Up Call

The recovery from my bout of sickness (or my re-organizational wake up call, as I like to think of it), has been slow and steady. My naturopath was astounded by how quickly I bounced back, as she thought it would take me many weeks. My colleagues who saw me in a seminar I attended during the worst part of the sickness did not expect me to look as well as I did when they saw me at a Clear Day two weeks later. (I know: I still went to a course when I was sick!)

Still, as my energy and strength slowly return, I find it hard to get through a day the same way I used to. I can really see how much energy I used in order to do all the things I packed into a day. Now I get to choose what I include and what I leave out. I am now making conscious decisions on how I want my days to be from now on.

I reduced the time during which I see patients. My associate and office manager kept everything running smoothly when I was gone and that showed me that I was not as needed as I thought! A blow to the ego? A little. Freedom to focus on what I really want? For sure!!

It was a hard decision to reduce my hours because there will always be people that are unhappy with change, but in order to serve others, you must make sure your needs are met first! Part of the reason for my re-organizational wake up call was the fact that I was focusing on building my practice and getting busier seeing patients.

I love my patients and I really missed them when I was off but I realized that when I was spending all my time in the office working, I did not have much time to write, create programs and workshops, develop web-based learning tools, and do things that add value to the patient experience in the office.

Dr. Amanda, my associate, is thrilled to be the doctor who is providing care for our practice. People are happy to have her take care of them. I am happy to see people during the one lunch time and the three afternoons I now work and I am much more focused and present during those times than when I had more shifts. The people who really want to see me now know when I am available. The rest of the time, I am busy working as the manager and entrepreneur in the practice.

These things bring me far more joy than being the technician (doctor) in the practice. Creating ways to enrich and expand a person's experience of Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) and Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) as well as add value to their experience in the office are things that inspire me. When I am excited by the things I am creating, my practice feels it and I am serving my patients at my full capacity.

Most people are asking me if I am really getting anything done in the time I am not in the office. I can't tell you how many things that have been on the back burner are now being addressed. The space I created in my life to do what I really want is rapidly being filled with plans, projects and opportunities.

I am now inspired by the direction that I am taking my life. I was very happy and inspired before, but my life now requires a level of integrity that is very high. I cannot stay off track for very long or my life will let me know.

My NSA practitioners and personal mentors are a husband and wife team by the names of Pierre and Christine. Pierre had had a similar re-organizational wake up call experience and I recall how long he was very ill before he made the necessary changes. Christine told me that their practice today reflects much of what Pierre learned during that time. She also told me there are easier ways to take two weeks off work! I knew I wanted to get and apply my lesson in a much shorter time period than what I observed Pierre do. And from now on, I want to learn from more subtle cues than full body rashes and swollen joints!

Are there any places that you have been wanting to make a necessary change in your life? Have you been putting off a change that you know you must make? Perhaps your life is already giving you subtle cues to let you know it's time to change. Do you really want to wait for the big re-organizational wake up call?