Change The Game: Recent Episodes
Dr. Michael Buffington
Change The Game is a conversation for men and women that want to squeeze all they can from life. Those that see life as a game we get to play. One that is about your body, your soul, your relationships, and how you make money.
As your host, Dr. Buffington will share his 26 plus years as a chiropractor and entrepreneur. The painful lessons he has paid for as a man, a husband, and a father (divorce, a son’s addiction, and financial loss) and the tools, tactics, and insights which lead him here today. All to inspire, guide, and lead you to be more, do more.
Life is a team sport!
I am not a quitter, I am extremely competitive and have never looked at quitting anything as an option. One day I had my mind blown when a good friend told me there is a difference between quitting and stopping. If something is not of any benefit and can even be a detriment then maybe you just need to stop doing it. Where in your life have you quit where you shouldn’t have, and where do you need to stop where you haven’t yet?
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Fear is false evidence appearing real and it is widespread and very dangerous to all of us. Fact checking yourself frequently and keeping yourself rational and not emotional can have a huge impact. You can not answer an emotional question, logically, or vice versa. Are you being careful with what you are putting in your mind, just like you are with what you eat?
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Just like a picture frame has 4 sides, if you were to remove any 1 of them, it would fall apart, the structure of your life can be seen the same way. Body, being, balance and business are the 4 sides of that frame. The beauty of the system is that if you have one of your sides that is by far stronger than all the others, you can appropriate how you built up that strong side and apply it to a weak side and make the entire system stronger.
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Remembering who you are is something that is applicable in any aspect of your life. That one simple statement, when said to someone, is just a simple check on their self awareness, self esteem, and self worth. It is vital to remember who you are in your business, if you don’t then no one you serve, take care of, supply, or interact with will either, and you’ll be operating at a subpar version of yourself.
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Having a game plan, revving the engine to the redline, and spinning the tires to warm them up is all great, as long as you don’t lose control halfway down the strip and end up in a ball of fire. We all need to know when to drag the breaks and regain control of our lives. By dragging the break you keep all the momentum without sacrificing the control.
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Being efficient and having some forethought when planning things out can pay huge dividends in time saved and hassle avoided over the years in your business and even home life. Without efficiency thinking it is extremely difficult to maximize the profit and purpose of your business. Efficiency has to be the first thought, not an afterthought.
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If you believe that the team is more important than the individuals that make it up then it is hard to focus on yourself, which can lead to feeling a lack of purpose, which in turn, damages the team as a whole. If you aren’t taking care of yourself and pushing yourself forward, the team will suffer. You have specific talents and gifts that only you bring to the team. Where in your team are you putting yourself last?
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Freedom looks different to everyone that looks at it. To some, freedom is money, to others it’s time and space to do what they want. Where freedom goes wrong is when you strive for someone else's version of freedom, or even worse, someone tries to push on you what your freedom should be. Is what you are doing in your life and business moving you towards or away from your freedom?
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You do not have to have the magical “it” factor to be successful in your personal life or business, or to be fit and healthy. Plenty of people have the factor and have no results to show for it. If you don’t have the “it” factor, you can overcome that with daily disciplines, just be careful not to do too much and overdo it. Where in your life is there something you’d like to level up, and what is a daily action you can take to get there.
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Almost all of the most successful people have a system they follow to run their businesses efficiently. Systems and processes are what keep the gears turning and everything running on all cylinders. But when the system becomes an identity and you have forced yourself into a box and can no longer be yourself, the system becomes a hindrance. Have you ever felt trapped inside one of the systems you use on a regular basis?
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Your number one assets are you and your family. Be sure that your actions match up with that. Are you treating the people around you like they are assets or expenses? Do you see value in people or do you only see them as what they cost you?
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When was the first time you remember money being an issue? Are you letting your past issues with money impact how you see and use money today? As long as you live in the scarcity mindset you’ll never have or make enough. Don’t let your old money stories run your life. Use them as the experiences they were and build on them.
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Before anything else, you must have a real desire to move to the next level. To go from good to great you can’t play things safe all the time, you have to be willing to risk it, and put yourself out there far enough to win at a different level and make a bigger impact. You have to take time to celebrate yourself at each level. The shift in what needs to be done to go from great to elite isn’t massive, but the results are.
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Being stuck becomes a significant problem when you or your team become bored. If you or your people get stuck, the business is stuck too. What parts of your life haven’t moved in the last 5 years? Same salary, same old services, same level of body health?
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You are your strongest competition. Once you recognize that and focus your drive to win directly back at yourself, it will cause a level of growth and leveling up that you have not seen before. If you are constantly competing with others, you’ll rob yourself of a lot of joy and satisfaction in becoming the best version of yourself.
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So often in life, we sit back and wait for the conditions to be right, for everything to line up perfectly. We do this in many aspects of our lives, from starting a new diet and working out to when we are going to retire. If you are waiting for the right conditions, are they ever going to really show up? Where in your life are you just sitting and waiting for the right conditions?
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Our thoughts can come from 3 places. God or a higher power, however you see that. Our own internal voice. Or, lastly, the devil or darkness, however you view it. Where in your life do you need to ask yourself that? We rarely put thought into where our thoughts are stemming from. If you recognize where the thought came from, right from the start, you can set yourself on a different path or avoid a path you don’t want.
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How we think can make or break us on any given day. Are you thinking through challenges that present themselves or are you just reacting with emotion? In some cases it’s helpful to ask yourself if the problem is even real or if you’ve inflated it to thinking it’s a problem because of your own fear and emotion. Changing how you think can impact every aspect of your life, not just your business.
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You have to pay to play. If you aren’t paying people, then money will not come back around to you. If you are constantly looking for a freebie and unwilling to pay people for services, their advice, coaching, or a product, why should you expect anything different in return? Once you decide to pay, your results change.
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Having problems isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If you have grown your business to a point where you are taking in huge amounts of money, you’ll have problems with taxes, that’s a good problem to have. This is a problem brought on by action. However, if you continue to do the same things you have always done, that is a problem of inaction. Are your biggest problems based in action or inaction?
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Doing overhead presses can be an easy way to injure yourself if you aren’t very careful, and in many ways the same results can be obtained with a different, less risky exercise. Where in your life are you unnecessarily pressing overhead when it isn’t going to serve you and will only lead to an injury? Once you get that massive weight up, it’s going to come right back down on you.
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Other people's choices are not your responsibility. No matter how badly you want them to be and how much you think you could help them. You are responsible for your choices and your choices alone. You can give others all the information and guidance you want but in the end they are responsible for what they do with it. Where are you not taking responsibility for your own choices and allowing others to choose for you?
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Coaching, systems, proven tools, nothing that you do matters if you don’t have leverage being applied by yourself or someone else. As soon as you have leverage, things shift. If you have the leverage of what you want in front of you, it’s going to pull you straight towards that goal. The pull of leverage is far more amicable than the abrasive push or other methods.
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The snooze button; that extra 9 minutes we all give ourselves to stay in bed every morning. There isn’t much technology in our lives that doesn’t have a snooze button at this point. We have all been there, where we just don’t feel like getting up, and hit the snooze button 1, 2, even 3 times. Just hitting the button once a day adds up to over an hour of lost time every week. What difference would those 9 minutes make over a year?
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Sometimes in business and life we need to take a step back and recover for a while, just like we do with vigorous exercise. To recover we don’t need to do a full stop and just sit around, we can instead do an active recovery, without actually stopping completely. Learn something new, exercise, do something with the family. Always be self aware enough to know when you need to slow down to not burn out or do damage.
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Be very careful what you delegate and where in your life you delegate it. Delegating your responsibilities as a father and husband will just ensure that there is someone else there to pick up where you are absent. You can unintentionally delegate away a ton of power and results in your life if you aren’t careful. What step can you take today to take back ownership of something you were responsible for?
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Scarcity is the most common disease on the planet and it has an amazing way of finding its way into every area of your life if you aren’t careful. Sometimes when the scarcity creeps in we need to step back and reframe the situation to see what is really happening more clearly. Some of our greatest victories can come on the heels of what we thought were massive defeats. Scarcity is never about facts, it is always about fear.
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When we discipline our kids, it’s not just about holding them to the standards we want them to hold throughout their life, it’s also about holding ourselves to our standards as parents. Where in your life are you bailing on your own standards? What is one thing you can do about that in the next 30 days?
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Just because we have always done something a certain way doesn’t mean that is the only way we can or should do it. We have to be constantly analyzing what we are doing and if it still makes sense to do it the way we always have. You don’t have to eat turkey and dressing just because everyone else is. Today, identify 3 patterns that you want to challenge to see if there is a better way to do those 3 things.
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Being dedicated to hustling is great as long as you have compassion for yourself and understand why you do what you do, otherwise it’ll just lead to burnout. The key is knowing why you are doing what you are doing and who you are doing it for. When you forget why you do what you do it’s very easy to slip into burnout mode. It’s not the work you put in that matters most, it’s what drives you.
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The absolute, number one, best way for you to get better at anything in life is to actually start. If you never start and gain the experience, you’ll never get better or learn anything new. Where in your life are you just waiting to know how to do something, rather than going out and just doing it? What can you do today to just get moving on something?
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The earlier you choose to be happy each day, the better off you’ll be, and also those around you. If you don’t choose happiness, no one is going to choose it for you. The goal isn’t to be super happy every second of every day, the goal is to have some say in what you are at any given moment, in any situation.
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Collision is your friend. Collision does not mean there is a winner and loser within the collision. Collision often comes when both parties are feeling something but no one is saying anything about it, doing anything about it, or most importantly, telling the truth about it. Where in your business or life do you need to collide?
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Pelicans’ lives are extremely simple: eat, sleep, look for food. We all look for simplicity in our lives to keep things effective and efficient, and simplicity has its place. However, being too simple really just equates to waiting to die. Pelicans have no drive to go above and beyond their simple lives. Don’t be a pelican, go hunt for your freedom to do what you want to do.
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We all have stories we tell ourselves about life, how we live it, and how we want our loved ones to learn from it. These stories age with time and sometimes become obsolete or flat out wrong. Where in your life do you need to revisit some of your old stories and challenge them or even throw them out? Do you have the tools you need to revise your old stories or even write new ones?
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Today I just ask that you meditate on the following questions. When is your time, here on earth, up? What are you doing while you are here? Finally, why does it matter? Sit and really think about those questions and then use your answers to go out today and live your best life.
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Be proud if your standards are high and never apologize for them. As long as they aren't unnecessarily high, they will serve you well and provide stability. Your standards set the tone in your home and business life. You are completely responsible for your standards, but not responsible at all for anyone else’s. What can you do today to raise your standards?
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There are plenty of ways people can read you or get a feeling for who you are. The truest and most telling way people can know what you are thinking and who you are, is by what you do. They know you by your actions, and the results of those actions speak for themselves. Where in your business or life, can you let people know what you are thinking by what you are doing?
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Don’t get sucked into chasing everyone else’s measurements of success, it’ll just end in a no-win situation and unnecessary stress. You can hit a point where you see anything less than the ideal as a failure. When you only measure yourself against the ideal, you’ll never feel like you are winning; which leads to burn out and frustration.
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Success requires the right environment. If your current environment isn’t conducive to success you aren’t stuck there, you can change or even create an environment for success. Rest, food, the people around you and how they operate, and exercise are all part of your environment and you have control over all of them. Where in your life does the environment need attention?
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We can often become so focused and driven that we lose perspective on everything else. We also may not realize that everything in our lives is absorbing some amount of our focus. Our family, our business, day-to-day tasks, literally everything in our life does this, and we just need to be aware of it. Where your focus goes, your energy flows. Where, in your life, do you want more focus and what action can you take today to get that focus?
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Issues don’t have to be problems; they can also be opportunities or different perspectives. They don’t have to be negative. In almost every case an issue is an opportunity if you put in the time and effort to work at it, and solve it, it will benefit you or someone else, and all of the above will help you learn and create value.
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Much like a physical wound, some of the greatest growth in your life can stem from a conflict, confrontation, or something that felt just as painful to you. Where in your life, are you feeling something that is uncomfortable, unpleasant, or concerning, but is really just an indicator that you are growing? This could be in your personal life, religious life or even your business life.
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Your life, just like a set of scaffolding, can be built up, one tier at a time. You and all those that you care for can climb the scaffolding together and support each other as you all make your way up to where you desire to be. However, it’s important that on the journey up, in your desire for greatness that you don’t get too far ahead of everyone else. It can disconnect you and hinder your ability to help them to their next level.
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Competition is good and healthy, but be sure it doesn’t get to a point where it is hindering or interfering with your life or business. The healthiest form of competition is to be the absolute best version of you. That is when we are operating at our highest levels but without any of the unnecessary pettiness.
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Is your personal operating system genetic, how you were raised, influence from your friends and coworkers or some mix of each? Be sure that you are always updating and improving your operating system so you can run the latest and greatest apps and experience life to the fullest.
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Don’t get so held up on what could have or should have happened that you get stuck in the past. It is completely normal to look back on your cherished memories with a deep sense of fondness. Just be sure that your reminiscing doesn't reach the point of making growth more challenging. The same goes for the people you surround yourself with, are they supporting or stunting growth?
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You can be a doormat and allow people to walk on you, use you up, and take advantage of you. Or you can see it as a doorway to business and forming relationships that matter. The majority of the situation is all in your head and how you look at it. What can you do today to convert a current doormat situation into a doorway situation?
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It’s easy to miss things when you are in the heat of the moment and moving too fast. Sometimes you need to slow down, take account of what is going on and react accordingly rather than try to rush a response and make things worse. Where, in your life, can you slow down to speed up the results you are getting?
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When you are prepared, you at least have a strategic plan to fall back on when everything hits the fan. Without a gameplan to fall back on; chaos, life, and business will happen with or without you. Unless your plan is written down and somewhere you can see it, it’s not good enough, because once things go sideways your plan will be the first thing to leave your mind.
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It’s easy to walk past the full trash bag in the kitchen or the candy wrapper on the ground when no one is watching. Where, across your entire life, do you need to step up your game when no one is watching? Once you have identified the problem areas, what are you going to do today? Make a real commitment and follow through.
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What if you didn’t always play to your strengths, but instead propped them up with other things that you are less dominant in? When you strengthen your off-hand to a point where you can play almost as good with it as your dominant hand, you become less predictable and more dangerous. The same holds true in business.
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Where are you moving too fast in your life and generating mistakes because of it? Working hard and fast is great, right up to the point that you are making mistakes and creating more work for yourself. The same holds true in your home life, where could you slow down and be completely intentional with your time and attention?
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Your actions and even inactions impact everyone around you, even people you don’t know. Where in your life are you creating more chaos for yourself where it doesn’t need to be? What is the collateral damage inflicted on everyone around you at home, the office, and even strangers?
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When your kids see your posts on social media are they seeing the real you or just the person you want everyone to see? Be the most authentic version of yourself across the entirety of your life. Do your patients, coworkers, friends, spouse, and kids all know the truest form of you? In that authenticity, you’ll find freedom.
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Every difficult situation presents us with the option to complain or train. It’s never useful to simply focus on the problems and not even look for solutions. Where in your life are you complaining rather than making changes or finding solutions?
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The minimum standard is exactly that, a minimum. It can give you a false sense of security that you are prepared when you aren’t. How are you preparing for the unexpected days that life throws at you? You can’t do the minimum amount of preparation and live the maximum version of your life.
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What are the top 3 upgrades, anywhere in your life, that you need to make? What is the easiest thing you could upgrade, right now, that would give you the biggest benefit? That’s where you need to focus in the short term. Upgrade your thinking to match where you want to be, not where you are currently.
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Today I’m joined by Steve Rickman, a chiropractor that has been practicing for a bit over 20 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Steve, from gaining confidence and recognizing that he had the ability and skills to really push and grow the business, to implementing a daily structure that has invigorated and driven Steve’s practice.
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How often do we take it for granted that people understand us when we give them the short answer? If we don’t tell people in our lives that we appreciate them, do they know it? This applies to our business, our personal life, and even ourselves. If you think they do know, will they know to the same level of detail as they would if you told them.
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What are some of your resources (time, skill sets, relationships, mindsets, even love) that you could take better care of and use more wisely? Where in your life can you be a better steward? How could you be a better steward in your business, as an employee, as a spouse?
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When we are coasting through life and not pedaling as hard as we can, is when all the wrecks happen. When we are coasting, we are unstable and inattentive, when we are pedaling, we are focused, driven, and fully in control. Where in your life, are you coasting on what you’ve done? Where in your life, do you need to be up on the pedals, pushing as hard as you can?
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Today I’m joined by Aaron Hollis, a chiropractor from Kansas, where he has been practicing for 27 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Aaron, from adjusting to a struggling economy to not only survive but advance his practice, to finding balance and improvement across all aspects of his life.
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The same old work can feel totally new, depending on how you show up. After 10,000 hours of doing whatever you do, you are no longer owned by the intimidation, the worry, or being fearful. What in your life is worthy of you putting in 10,000 hours to master?
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You get the maximum result with collaboration. Most areas of your life will benefit from collaboration, be it professionally, as a spouse or a parent, or even mentally or physically. Collaborating can make you stronger so when you compete, you win. Where in your life, do you need to collaborate to win?
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Power and force are synonyms for each other but how we apply them in life is very different. What if we decide to meet force with power rather than more force? Where in your life, are you using force when you need to be using power?
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Today I’m joined by Steve Anderson, a chiropractor from Missouri, where he has been practicing for 11 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Steve, from receiving guidance and direction on how to really bring his practice to the next level, to gaining a brotherhood of men that support and encourage him in every aspect of his life, not only in his business.
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You may say you hate deadlines but I bet they have helped you achieve some of your most significant accomplishments. If you want results, you need deadlines. Deadlines are a great way to motivate yourself and push you forward. With all that in mind, what have you been putting off that needs to be done today?
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We all have a conscience. Where in your life are you ignoring yours? When you shut down your conscience in one area of your life, it spreads and affects other areas. Spend some time today to just sit and listen to what your conscience is telling you.
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Today I’m joined by TJ Goss, a chiropractor from Texas, where he has been practicing for 6 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for TJ, from gaining clarity across all aspects of his life and finding a way to finally balance his life out, to realizing he didn’t have to go at things alone .
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Conviction and compassion are not mutually exclusive. We can be rock solid in our beliefs and still have compassion for those that disagree with us. Compassion costs you nothing. Without compassion for others you can not have compassion for yourself.
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Where are you putting yourself last in your life? What are the long-term consequences if you continue to put yourself last? You need to take care of yourself first, before you can take care of anyone else. Get your head out of your ass and shift your perspective.
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Where in your life are you wasting time, energy and money? More importantly, where in your life could you spend money to actually save time and money? It’s worth it to become more aware of where you are doing this and to work on adjusting those habits.
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How important are the connections you have with the people in your life? More importantly, when you have an opportunity to connect with those people, are you being present with them, or are you distracted? Oftentimes being present with the people in your personal and business life is the best way to strengthen those relationships.
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Today I’m joined by Dakota Hegi, a chiropractor from Kansas, where he practices. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Dakota, from realizing right away that Gamechanger was about actualizing what he wanted and meeting his goals rather than just another generic strategy, to recognizing his shortcomings and becoming a better father and husband.
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Are you taking advice from someone with less credentials and less experience than you in a certain subject? Many people fall into the trap of taking free advice from people who simply haven’t lived through the situations of which they are providing feedback from.
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Have you ever got into an argument and got to a place where you completely forgot what you were arguing about? I created a list of simple questions to help get very clear on what it is we are hoping to create by a tough conversation. In today’s podcast we’re going to discuss some of them and the impact they have on you prior to having a tough conversation.
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Where in your life have you made a mistake and you are not owning up to your mistake? Integrity and trust are built when we have the ability to be 100% responsible for ourselves and our actions, and taking responsibility for our own mistakes when dealing or interacting inside of our relationships with people.
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Today I’m joined by Phillip Paul, a chiropractor from Texas, where he has been practicing for over 26 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Phillip, from gaining clarity on who he was, what he was doing, and why he was doing what he was doing, to gaining a deep level of support within the Gamechanger fellowship. Phillip expresses how Gamechanger has changed his mindset, which has improved things across all aspects of his life.
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She picked up the 15 pound frozen turkey, over her head, and spiked it into the trash can that pulled out of the cabinet, much like a football player spikes a ball after a touchdown. Well...the trash can didn’t survive, and Thanksgiving was cancelled. What led up to the spiking of the turkey? Not speaking the truth around how we truly feel.
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When it comes to having a service take care of you or your business, if that provider is not doing what they agreed to do and expecting to get paid, it is time to cut the cord. Alternatively, expecting to get a result without paying for it points to reassessing your own expectations.
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What you do on a daily basis adds up. All the planning, working, and review adds up. It’s great to have a vision and work towards it, but just understand that you just never know how much success is really in front of you. Pick an area across any area of your life that needs addressing and start work on the number one thing that can have an impact there.
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Today I’m joined by Shayne Javersak, a chiropractor from Oklahoma, where he has been practicing for 20 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Shayne, from gaining action and clarity across his entire life, to feeling like he is a part of a team within Gamechanger. Shayne expresses how the Gamechanger has changed his game, and more importantly, his life for the better.
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If the first thing you do in the morning is wake up and check your email, you immediately put yourself into someone else’s agenda. We also need to look at the activities we should limit in our lives, activities that could end up taking too much of our time which could be better spent somewhere else. In this second part, we’ll talk about the second two quadrants.
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What is it going to take for me to get from point A to Z in my business? How can we make sure we are putting on our calendar the time and space for us to take care of the important but not urgent tasks we have on our list. This simple tool we can use works, and in this podcast we’ll talk about the first two quadrants.
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God will never give you more than you can handle is the phrase we’ve heard most of our life. Except, in reality, God gives us more than we can handle. God does these things to stretch us to become more of a person than where we are currently. When he does, it is for a reason.
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Today I’m joined by Jake Schuman, a chiropractor from East Texas, where he has been practicing for 2 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Jake, from being aware of burnout and working to avoid it, to being sure to invest in himself as a man, not just a business owner. Jake expresses how the Gamechanger brotherhood has brought people and knowledge into his life that would not have been there otherwise.
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Capacity is developed, you can accelerate and build your capacity to improve it. We are pushed to our capacity across all aspects of our lives, from business to being a father or husband. One of the best indicators that you have hit your capacity somewhere is the manifestation of pain. Once the pain shows up is when the work really begins and that is where you start expanding your capacity. Where in your life do you have a capacity block?
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You need a business model. It doesn’t have to be super advanced or complicated, but you need a simple life model on how you are approaching your day. This applies across all aspects of life, from working out to talking to your kids, just have a plan. Is your current life and business model working? If one is working and the other isn’t what can you do to change it?
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The Seagull Approach is simply walking by and dropping things or work on someone’s desk and continuing to walk right on by. This is good because it implies a level of trust in your team, but oftentimes people need more than that, they need direction. When you do things like this you need to be sure you are setting yourself and your team up for success, not frustration. The same ideas hold true in your family life.
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Today I’m joined by Kim Hester, a chiropractor from Oklahoma City, where he has been practicing for 5 years. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Kim, from finding a brotherhood among the members of Gamechanger to obtaining accountability and being transparent in his actions. Kim expresses how he feels Gamechanger has touched and improved things across all aspects of his life, not just business.
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Can you be both optimistic and realistic at the same time? I’d like to think you can. When you are realistic you are relying on the facts and reality and when you are optimistic, you are relying on emotion and feelings. When coupled together these two can be very powerful as long as you can recognize the difference. When we were young, we had the optimism to feel like we could do or be anything. Where in your life do you need more optimism?
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Today I’m joined by Aaron Cain, a young chiropractor that has been in practice for 3 years, from Austin, Texas. We discuss what Gamechanger has done for Aaron, from getting burned out within the first year of practice and spending no time with his family to growing the business and improving the relationship between Aaron and his wife and family.
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If you just succumb to feelings rather than being rational, you could end up bailing on something before it has a chance to work. When you make big decisions, stay committed and stay true. Be sure to focus on the “why” you made that decisions so you can use that a fuel to help push you forward through the doubt.
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We need both fact and feeling to make decisions and live life, but when we don’t separate the two and recognize the difference when making a decision, we are almost guaranteed to make more bad decisions. When have you made decisions from an emotional state and how did it impact your decisions?
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Much like when grinding down and shaping a piece of metal on a grinding wheel, we need to make sure we stop, step back, and look at what we are doing and how things are coming along to make sure we are getting the results we want. Look back with clarity on where you were and where you are now and ask yourself what has changed and how far have you come? That will enable you to move forward with more power and certainty than ever before.
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Accountability; that’s the secret. Often, people just don’t know where to go to get it. Where to find people to hold them accountable at a high level, every day. The other possibility is that they just don’t want it. Some people just don’t seek the structure of accountability in their life. Where in your life do you want and need more accountability?
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Sometimes when we just feel off, all we need is a little push forward to balance out again. Like the initial push of the pedal when riding a bike, we slowly get ourselves moving in the direction we want to go and then build momentum as we continue to move forward. A push anywhere throughout your life can be all you need, be it spiritual, exercise, family, really anything can help.
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It is easy to get lost in the chaos of abundance when your plans actually produce the results that you wanted. When things are just constantly going right and you get caught up in the excitement you can quickly lose focus. You can slip right into thinking about the few things that didn’t go well and what you could have done differently. Once your mind goes there, your actions follow. Where in your business or life have you lost focus?
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It’s gotta be me. We can only control ourselves and how we react to things. We don’t need to wait on others to come to us or to trigger a change, we can do it ourselves. It always comes down to us - it has to be me. Where in your life are you waiting on someone else?
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