The Good Advice You Didn't Take

I see it everyday.

People come into my office and pay good money for help taking care of things that they can’t take care of themselves. I provide treatment, of course, but I also do something else.

I give advice.

Whether it be an exercise recommendation, a “lifestyle change” recommendation, or any useful piece of info, I know in my heart that the advice, if followed, will make someones quality of life better. Some people follow my advice…and some do not. The ones that follow it usually get better faster (and stay that way) and the ones that don’t usually take a little longer to help.

I’m not writing this today to harp on the patients that won’t take my advice. I’m writing so that I can take a look inward (and perhaps give you a window inside too).

I know that there are plenty of times in my life that I’ve been given good advice (and knew it was good when I got it), but didn’t follow that advice. I was only able to turn over a new leaf when I hit the proverbial “rock-bottom” and a change had to be made.

As I get older, I’ve really started to focus on the chase for “constant growth”. In this chase I’ve noticed that the good advice is harder and harder to come by. Why is it when I was younger and more unwilling to take any advice that “good advice” was everywhere? Now…I usually have to pay to get really good advice (that sounded bad….haha…I meant pay experts for their advice.)

I think that we all need to take a step back and really start to look for the “experts” who are already in our lives. I think that alot of the people who advance quickly in their chosen fields do so, not because they are already filled with information or have unlimited resources readily available, but instead because they have the innate ability to follow “good advice” (How was that for a “run-on” sentence?).

So……

Is there “good advice” staring you in the face right now that you don’t see.

-Dr. Ben Adkins

Tags: chiropractic, chiropractor, constant growth, good advice, personal development