Tune Chiropractic From the Doc

Focus.   I can’t tell you how many times I say that word to my children.   Whether it’s eating, walking, homework, or just listening to what their mother or I are telling them.   The instruction to focus has been a recurrent theme in my children’s lives since my oldest was about 2 or so.   If you think about it, there is more to my favorite parenting mantra than meets the eye. There’s a saying that if you’re multi-tasking, you’re actually half-assing and studies are beginning to agree.   Trying to do multiple things at the same time results in poorer results for all of those tasks.   Here’s a link to an article suggesting as much:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028589900169 From personal experience, I could not study or do work from home and parent at the same time.   I was short-tempered asking for near-silence and then talking and playing and not giving the attention needed to comprehend what I was reading. ...

                My last post was titled, You Are Going To Die.   The intention behind it being that many of us live as though we have all the time in the world and we tend to sacrifice things that make us happy or could add value to our lives for things that do not actually matter.   This post is similar in nature, but with a slightly different slant.                   About a month ago I was having a conversation with an acquaintance.   She knew I am a chiropractor and I knew she was a patient with another DC, whom she was happy with.   She asked me a few questions regarding my philosophy on health and wellness, and I shared that I had lost about 40 pounds over the previous 8 months or so.   She asked me which diet I used and I said I didn’t use a diet.   I then related how my journey into this healt...

                 I know, it’s a morbid topic, but it is absolutely true.  We will all die.  If you think about it, even if we live to be 117 years old (the age I will be if I get to see the year 2100) it’s just the blink of an eye in the grand scheme.   Ever since my grandfather passed away last summer, my own mortality has been weighing on me.   The thought that in ten years, I will be 45; the last ten years have flown by.   I could realistically be a grandpa.   I fall into the trap of what I haven’t gotten accomplished.   My professional life is just barely starting, my colleagues are mid- to late-twenties when they start.   I haven’t traveled to enrich myself.   I could go on… Realistically, it’s not a bad thing to finally face and accept one’s own mortality.   Thinking of how you want to spend the next 70 years.   What you want to leave behind, in terms of y...