We just started a 6-week challenge at our gym (so we can get our beach bodies ready for… Thanksgiving? whatever.)
The challenge program includes daily workouts and a specific meal plan.
Here’s what happens anytime I make significant changes to my diet literally overnight:
My body… doesn’t really like it.
My body’s like “Yo, you were giving me plenty of calories, all this easy-burning sugar fuel… we were living the good life, dude!”
And my mind is like “Sorry, body, time for something different. Deal with it.”
For the first 3-4 days, my body tells my mind: “Hey dude, you can stick it up your you-know-what. I ain’t changing a thing.”
The Body is in a state of Resistance.
The result: I feel extra tired, dragging, a little foggy. Because my body fights against the big shift, as my mind fights against my body.
So it’s Mind vs. Body. What I *know* I need to do, vs. what I *want* to do.
And for the first few days, the Body seems like it’s winning the battle.
Slowly but surely (by about day 5-6), the Body relents and starts to get on board with the Mind.
The Body stops fighting the change. It adapts. And I start to feel better, clearer, have more energy.
Then the Mind is affirmed in its decision by the feeling from the Body. And the Body realizes it can function well in this new, “cleaner fuel” environment.
Momentum builds. The cycle perpetuates itself in a positive direction…
Mind and Body working together…
As long as I can get over that initial 5-day hump.
Here’s the deal…
And the same thing happens when you try to take your practice to the next level.
Right now, you have your usual stuff that you do at your practice, and you do fine.
You make good money, do a decent number of surgeries, and everything’s pretty solid.
But when you challenge yourself and decide it’s time to take your practice to the next level…
You are playing the role of The Mind. And “The Body” (your team, your processes, your culture) isn’t ready for that change.
So it feels like an upstream effort… at first.
As you make seemingly radical (but reasonable) updates to your “meal plan” including:
” /> Raising your prices
” /> Offering early morning and evening consultations
” /> Multiple follow-up points with every prospect
” /> Daily training and development of your patient-facing teams
The Body will give pushback… at first.
But then shifts will start to happen. As your team is trained in the proper ways to bring these new initiatives to life…
And they start to experience the results for themselves…
“The Body” will start to get on board with “The Mind.” And that’s when the momentum can build.
It takes a little time. It takes a little effort. Just like meal prepping and working out take a little time and effort. But it’s all totally doable.
…As long as you can get past the initial Resistance.
SO – what’s keeping you from fighting that initial Resistance and taking your practice where you *really* wanna go?
because if you’re *still* dealing with the same issues you were faced with last month…
Last quarter…
Last year…
It may be time to make a change or two?
The short-term Resistance is worth fighting for the Long-Term Gains.
Think about it…