Along the way in my struggling to put entries into my QB program, I saw the beginning, the development, and growth of a relationship that changed my world perspective on family, legacy, and the meaning of life. It's true. I had to think about it a good deal this last week. I'm still smiling about it all even if every now and then a tear rolls down my face out of nowhere. It's still true.
It's also the end of my contract next week. In the process of providing my supervisors and other 'seasoned' docs how I became one of the most 'up and coming' chiropractors in our corporate group, I've had to answer one basic question, "What brought you to California?" It's a question I know the answer to and immediately respond by saying, "It's because I'm in love with a woman and our future legacy at the time I was considering this company as a client." It's seemingly been a hot topic because I'm one of the only people that came from out of state to join the company's Los Angeles group. Also, I'm the only 'Award Winning' chiropractor in the entire California group.
It's another topic that gets me questions on, "Why would you leave the award winning office you were in?" I laugh at first cause it's what I usually do when I get nervous or am not sure what I should say. My usual answer is the above, but most people don't know the story or how it ended or where it's presently at, so I tell them the rest of it. "I came to California because I'm in love with a Minnesota woman that I was starting a family with just before I arrived here." Then I usually make some comment on the weather or that I don't get an ocean view on my drive to work back in Minnesota. LOL! In the recesses of my mind that tune by the Calling titled Where ever you will go.. plays as I answer people.
Some people think the weather reason is a good one even though none of them have been to Minnesota. But, when I tell them that a good part of my decision in coming to California involved being in love with a woman, they don't quite believe me as if it was an antiquated notion that doesn't exist anymore! LOL. I usually switch topics and go back to company business and my take-over of the area as the newest and most sought after doctors within my three month introduction. I don't believe it when I hear those things from other docs, front desk staff, and a few of the corporate personalities because I'm doing the same things I was doing back in the Home Land at the Burke Center. Kinda...I've refined a neck and side-posture technique that has become second to none in these clinics at any rate.Maybe the big smile, the shiny white teeth, and my visible noticeable lifestyle has been paying off. I should feel great about it all, but there are days when I'm 'putting on a show', and I'm only a few thoughts away from throwing in the towel. #Whatismissinginthispicture It's true. All the reasons I came here to succeed are essentially gone less the one where I left California originally to survive cancer, regroup, and come back hopefully stronger. And as most of my stories go, I met a girl in the process of coming back. I'm thankful for her and her role in my life because she was the reason behind my reason for coming. Perhaps that was her role in my life...that I needed someone soo close to me that I could find no other option but to leave what I knew and grew comfortable with behind for what I could almost grasp the future of with and in her. It was worth risking everything I had even if it wasn't much to take a chance at destiny and really live life and not just dream about it. You have to do that at some point in your life...live it.
When I interviewed for the job, first round, I was asked, "What special skill-set do you feel you bring to the table?" I thought of all the things that I usually put on a resume.. well traveled, diverse education and work background, speak Spanish fluently, etc, etc. What I said, on the other hand, was different. I said to them that although it is not a traditional skill or answer one may state during a "brag yourself up' interview, I said I understood how to fail! As you might expect, the corporate recruiter was a bit taken back by it. "I say failing because it's the beginning of learning something different about yourself. Failing teaches you something that cannot be learned by only having things go right for you, and that something is the determination to get up again and put one foot in front of the other, even if it hurts, and start over again. Only this time, you know something more about yourself, and that knowledge and experience only sets you up for greater successes." Martin Luther King says something to this degree in his Civil Rights struggles. "You must remember to keep on keeping on." As an aside, I mentioned that I was a cancer survivor, and that somewhere along the recovery process I became an award winning doctor. I would later inform them that we had lost our pregnancy, but I was still going to take the job and start as planned.
Later they asked me why I didn't bring up the award winning status first in the interview. I laughed cause it was during that interview that I had just learned the day before that I was no longer expecting and still in the aftermath of an emotional overload and shut-down. "You asked me about skills that I brought to the table. The award winning status was not all my own doing but the combined efforts of a group of people that worked with me as a unit...a group of friends, and by and large, are as close as family to me. That's why it wasn't the first thing I mentioned." They told me that it was a good quality to have...humility! I'm not sure anyone else would agree with them on that one! LOL.
So that is where I'm at today. I'm waiting and happy the entries into my QB are done. I think it may be a Malibu running weekend. It's been a while, and it's time to get up to speed for the TC 10 miler this October! #GetAdjustedToTheGoodLife #Whatismissinginthispicture #Californiadreaming
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