Mindset vs Habits: Which is More Important For Chiropractors?

The other day someone asked me what an abundance mindset meant to me. Honestly, it made me roll my eyes. I was thinking, “Here we go. One of these manifest your future guys.”

I know this isn’t going to set well with a percentage of chiropractors, but I’m going to say it anyway. The law of attraction is stupid. You aren’t God. You aren’t a little god. You don’t create the world around you with your thoughts. You don’t manifest anything.

There…I said it. It felt good, too.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I know mindset is important. How you think impacts how you act. How you act impacts your life. So in that sense, mindset does impact your life, but only as much as it impacts your actions.

If you could only pick one, I would tell you to get your habits right before worrying about getting your mind right. I don’t particularly care how you feel about the task at hand, positive habits will move the needle regardless of how you feel.

A positive mindset alone is of little value. There is no scenario where you can think yourself into the life of your dreams. Sooner or later, you are going to have to put the rubber to the road…pen to paper. If you want to change your life, you are going to have to work for it.

With that said, it’s easier to have good habits when you have a good attitude. A positive mindset can give you the energy and motivation needed to work hard. A positive mindset may help you stay the course at times when you might have otherwise quit.

That’s why the best-case scenario for your success is for you to have positive habits AND a positive mindset. They work hand-in-hand, but the driving force for your success will be your positive habits.

We live in a world that overemphasis the power of thoughts. There are people out there who are so convinced that they can manifest things that they aren’t honest to themselves or anyone else about their situation.

They act as if admitting that they are struggling or saying that their practice isn’t doing as well as they would like is some sort of death nail to their future best life. People like that go around living life like the people in the Lego Movie, “EVERYTHING IS AWESOOOOME!!!”

If that’s something you struggle with, let me ease your mind. Your thoughts and words don’t have that sort of power. You aren’t God….which is a good thing.

You aren’t going to wreck your future blessings in life by admitting that you are currently having a hard time. The reason you are struggling is because you don’t know what you are doing and you have bad habits. It’s not because you complained when you should have said something positive.

Lying is never good…even when you are doing it to yourself. And if you keep telling yourself that everything is fine when everything isn’t fine, that’s exactly what you are doing. My suggestion is that you be honest with yourself. 

Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should. Don’t think less of yourself than you should. Have an honest mindset. If you need help, ask for help. If you don’t know what you are doing, start learning.

The future, more successful YOU knows things that you don’t currently know and has habits that you don’t currently have. So work on that. Start learning new things. Start developing better habits. That’s how you’ll become the person you want to become.

OH…and it doesn’t hurt to have a good attitude along the way.

 

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