How to make sure that you don’t bog down your brain with unfinished business As I prepare for my annual family fly-in fishing trip with my nine year old son, I am amazed at how much equipment and clothing that we cart up into the northern woods each year. Knowing what to take is essential,…
Spirit is defined in Webster’s dictionary as “an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms.” Vital principle is defined as “the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.” It is not an easy thing to quantify since it is a force or energy and not a physical tangible thing…
A reputation is something you take your entire career to sculpt, but can be squashed in a minute like a pumpkin on November 1st. More and more people are not opening their wallet to local service providers before checking 3rd party endorsements, making your online reputation more and more valuable. However, when it comes to…
I have been a serial entrepreneur since I was 6 years! I saw an ad on the back of a comic book I was reading and much to my parents horror, filled out the ad and enthusiastically started selling greeting cards door to door. This was going to be awesome! I was going to have…
“I’ll give you $500 if you let me have access to that unused cabin” he stated with a sly grin. “No deal” I stated with an equally sly grin. “Come on doc, my wife and I have been together for many years and I have never wanted her more” he said with enthusiasm. “I know…
“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” -Albert Einstein While not everything that counts can be counted, here at Full Circle we do our best to keep our eye on the right numbers and metrics so we know the needle is moving in the right direction. Without…
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Pareto’s Principle is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who, while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, developed the principle by observing that 20% of the peapods in his…
Within our careers are the multiple inspirational stories that we not only hear about but actually get to witness. Real miracles in actual progress. It makes getting out of bed easy in the morning. Other times? Maybe not so much! There are the moments where getting back into bed and pulling the covers over your…
As the old cliché goes ….. there are two ways to have the tallest building in the area ….. one is to tear down everyone else’s buildings and the other is to build a taller building. I contend that the latter choice is the better choice where you focus on what is great and optimal…
The numbers of chiropractors that burn-out of practice early is something that makes my heart bleed! I contend that one of the main reasons this happens is because many do not understand a key concept of service and end up giving and giving until ……. there is nothing left to give their practice members, their families…
Have you ever experienced the frustration of setting a goal and then run out of time before you even got started? Does laundry or errands ever take the place of reading or exercise for you? If your answer to any of these issues has been “yes” then most likely this is due to a dearth…
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed.” -Eleanor Roosevelt As Tom says, we all have 3 black belts in beating ourselves up and a PhD in self criticism. I believe we are all so caught up in how the neighbours are doing that we are always competing for the bragging rights. The…
Vision is defined as the act or power in participating that which will or may come to be! Some people do not share the same personal vision for their life. And many do not share the same professional vision. The process Dr. Tom explains below allows us to consciously design our lives in our ideal. Spiritually,…
A young entrepreneur opens a restaurant in downtown Toronto. It’s a very small place but a very good location. The owner of the previous establishment spent over 20 years serving breakfast items and coffee, sandwiches and soups for the lunch hour rush and stayed open until only 6pm. They knew their audience and catered to…
“You know what I like about people? They stack so easily.” That’s a line from the television program House of Cards. And while its lead character is based on Richard the Third, those words still ring true. People have roles, and when they are competent and consistent at said roles, your profile has risen. It’s…