Change The Game

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com 

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com 

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?   Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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?  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com 

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. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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?   Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

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?  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com