I was drafted to the All-star Baseball team year after year for my defensive play. However, it was a few years into my baseball years when my dad thought I needed to be “straightened up”. I had gotten lazy, I became content with not being a great batter. My batting skills were absolutely terrible. “Who cares”, I thought. After all, I was making the All-star team without need of hitting the ball. It was then that dad said these 2 words that I think about to this day, “Don’t settle, son.”
Today, I have been thinking about these words with my patients often. Unfortunately, many people sell themselves way too short. So, here is my recommendation if you have found yourself settling:
1- Don’t settle for a life lived at any less than 100%. You are the only one that knows if you are holding anything back.
2- Don’t settle for a CoreScore less than a 90. Your nerve-system can be measured. If it is measuring poorly, get back on track with your chiropractic care.
3- Don’t settle for a level of health that holds you back from enjoying time with your kids. I have never felt like it was a bad decision to play with my son. Get your health where it needs to be to make this a reality every time.
4- Don’t settle for a smaller dream. Your dream is your dream. It is yours for a reason, make it happen or you will find a hole in your life that can not be filled with inaction.
Make it a great week, and comment to let me know what you plan to not settle on!
I have heard it referenced to “being in the zone”. That is when timing seems to be right on. The light turns green just in time. Just then you arrive at the meeting just in time to get to your seat, order a coffee, and voila: your date arrives.
Then there is terrible timing. Like the time you get to the intersection. Your distracted too much to make a quick enough stop, so you opt for the speed up. Just then you notice that the lights flash from the camera, and you feel like a movie star, without the glam.
With all this talk about time, when is the right time to take care of your health?
Do you wait for symptoms to show, before you practice good, healthy habits?
Do you keep your nerve system healthy with regular chiropractic check-ups?
We have people that come to our office because of pain, and we have people that seek our care because they want to be healthy. Which one do you think leads a happier, healthier life?
A common conversation today is on insurance, specifically: health insurance. Health insurance is misunderstood so commonly because the term is incorrect to begin with. If health insurance companies were truly insuring your health, then more energy would be given to funding pre-unhealthy states of their members.
For instance, an insurance company would help pay for healthier food options, or pay for a trainer at your health club. To the contrary, what we see now is an insurance company that will pay for tubes in a child’s ears due to ear infections, however will not pay for conservative chiropractic care which has shown some great results with ear infections in children. Check out the research: Research: 93% of ear infections improve in children with chiropractic care
It would be interesting to see the business model of a true “health insurance” company develop. An insurance company that would pay for chiropractic services, nutrition, organic food choices could be a discount to the plan, etc.
Maybe health insurance needs a new name..sick insurance.
It is not often that a good comparison can be made between the human body and a machine. After all, one is a living, self healing entity, of which we truly know little about. However, there is one analogy that works well:
If you wait till your car stops running to change out the oil, you will most likely need to replace your engine.
The same could be said about your nerve system. The cost of huge repairs becomes not only financially irresponsible, it also is a time and energy burden. Not to mention the aggravation, and decrease in overall quality of life. So here is the real question you should ask yourself:
Is it irresponsible to NOT practice prevention in your life?
I would love to help you and your family prevent a lower life experience. It is true, we are only on this planet for a short time. Let’s experience it at the highest level of health possible. You cannot be healthy without a healthy nerve system.
Before deciding whether something is working or not, it would be in everyone’s interest if you define what “results” meant to you, as well as the person helping you.
Your doctor, for instance, may have a completely different definition of results, than you do. Finding out his or her definition of results, will allow you to either:
1-re-define what results you are looking to achieve.
2-find someone that is looking to getting you the same results you search for.
This is simple logic, I know. However, once you look into different aspects of you life, you might find a huge difference in what everyone considers, “results”.
I have had many people, including my mother (lol), bring this to my attention as a great, positive article on chiropractic. While it is nice that people with pain can seek and relieve some of their pain while under chiropractic care, it is not what causes me to wake up at 5 am every day to go to work. I go to work because of results like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVP2Yzsnko
I understand that pain to the individual with pain is a big deal, however when chiropractic care has been shown to help a child that has been diagnosed with ADHD, that is when you are really making an impact: http://www.adjust4life.com/article/2587.html
A similar action would be if Mercedes Benz bragged about how their car has a windshield wiper. Sure, the windshield wipers are nice, however it doesn’t save lives like their patented “intelligent drive system”, which detects hazards in your path, and brakes for you.
I was drafted to the All-star Baseball team year after year for my defensive play. However, it was a few years into my baseball years when my dad thought I needed to be “straightened up”. I had gotten lazy, I became content with not being a great batter. My batting skills were absolutely terrible. “Who cares”, I thought. After all, I was making the All-star team without need of hitting the ball. It was then that dad said these 2 words that I think about to this day, “Don’t settle, son.”
