No Way to Avoid the Train if You're on the Right Track at the Right Time

Call it coincidence or lucky if that makes you more comfortable, but I'll tell you it's just the way the universe works. I was in Columbus, OH last week to visit OSU & attend the ICA Fitness Symposium. I hosted a couple of meetings for anyone interested in a Chiropractic career and visited advisors on the campus.

I met Vivian, a student at OSU, the last time I visited OSU's campus. She showed up to a drop-in Coffee & Career Talk that I hosted at Caribou Coffee. Vivian is great - she is that person who lights up the room with her excitement & passion. Through the course of her schooling, she had considered several career options, but none of them seemed to quite fit... until she found Chiropractic.

Vivian has already applied & knows her start date for the Chiropractic program at Life University, but she wanted to see me again just to say hello & find out what new & exciting things I could tell her about the campus. Unfortunately, I received a message from her saying she couldn't attend any of my events because she had just started a new job. I told her that I would check the conference schedule for the weekend & we would try to work something out.

Thursday evening, after trekking around OSU's campus for a day & a half, I arrived at the event hotel for the Fitness Symposium. I thought about curling up in my room & ordering in, but decided that the opportunity to network while eating at the hotel restaurant was a better option. I was tired, over-hungry, and not quite all together. As I approached the host stand, I found myself staring at the woman behind it.

Do you ever have that moment when you know that something or someone is familiar, but you can't quite place them because they're not in the context that you know them from?

The woman was watching me... and then we smiled at the same time. It was Vivian!

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

There is no way to avoid the train if you're on the right track at the right time.

Dear Future Chiropractors...

This post is compliments of Dr. Mike Headlee, one of the faculty mentors in the Center for Health & Optimum Performance (public/outpatient clinic where students spend their last several quarters adjusting 'real' people).

Dear Future Chiropractors,

Here are 10 thoughts on whole living:

1. Rather than muscle through your day, take a moment to breathe.
   
2. Personal growth is a winding path. Expect to revisit the same issues – and the same mistakes.
3. Empower your decisions and your self-esteem by learning to say no.
4. Tune in to your sense of smell. It connects you to your emotions and your health.
5. Surrender isn’t about giving up. It’s about letting go.
6. Listen to your body; it knows what it needs most.
7. Balance self-improvement with self-acceptance.
8. Invest in your work space. Inspiration and fresh ideas bloom in a positive atmosphere.
9. Use your vacation as an opportunity to engage your creative side.
10. Anger is a voice of the soul. Express it, explore it, let it be heard.

Fast paced tempo seems to go hand in hand with all great success. Developing the SPEED requires that you start moving and keep moving at a steady rate. When you become an action-oriented person, you activate the “Momentum Principle” of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get going initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going. The good news is that the faster you move, the more energy you have. The faster you move, the more you get done and the more effective you feel. The faster you move, the more experience you get and the more you learn. The faster you move, the more competent and capable you become at your job. So, what are some action steps that will help you speed up?