Dear Doctor:
While waiting for our son Dan during rehearsal in NYC, Regina and I decided to head uptown to see the new Museum of Modern Art, which had been recently remodeled.
What an astounding place! Granted, some of the stuff there was over my head (is a fluorescent light fixture with a pink bulb really art?), but even a novice like me could tell genius when it is just that obvious. Standing in front of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” or one of dozens of Picasso and Matisse paintings and sculptures, or seeing an original Magritte or Dali – no reproduction or coffee table book does justice to these remarkable masterpieces. Seeing a Jackson Pollock the size of an entire wall, a Buckminster Fuller or Frank Lloyd Wright architectural sketch, or Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe in the real colors, gives you a glimpse into the vision, brilliance, expertise and craftsmanship that sets these artists apart, even fifty, a hundred or two hundred years later.
What are you doing today that someone might care about a hundred years from now? Before you jump to conclusions, think about this – you have an opportunity, every day in your office, to impact the lives and the health of many people. You are in position to plant seeds of wellness and nurture them until they sprout into living principles that will improve your patients’ quality of life and longevity. You get the privilege of representing these vital concepts in your community, and, with constant tending of your garden, of influencing the evolution of awareness in your constituency, toward a glorious future.
You will have the chance, sometime soon, to paint a beautiful picture of an ideal lifestyle for your patient, not only without unnecessary pain and symptoms, but filled with all the beauty and splendor a life well lived can hold. There will come a time when you can sculpt someone, or many someones, with your artful communication, and cause them to make life-altering distinctions and decisions that will shape them at the deepest levels for years to come – so before you think less of your contribution, notice what is possible based on your willingness to go the extra mile to create your own master work.
Not all of us can be gifted painters and sculptors, but each of us has a purpose, and expressing ourselves in our own special way makes a mark no one else can. Be generous with yourself -- use your creativity to define your love in some tangible form that others can enjoy and benefit from, and it will leave a legacy you can be proud of.
Dennis Perman DC, for The Masters Circle
PS Come see guest speaker Guy Riekeman at our second quarter seminar, “Secrets of Exceptional Practices” -- please call 800-451-4514, or go to themasterscircle.com
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