Our profession is sitting at the threshold of dominance in health care within our society and soon after worldwide, if we are ready and willing to take the right steps to get there.

In the past two decades, we have seen some great leaders step up to the plate and take some steps that were necessary at the time. There have been a multitude of seminars designed to educate and motivate chiropractors so that they will go back to their practices empowered to do a better job, get new patients, and involve more families in their practice. Some of our leaders have dealt with core philosophical principles of life, principles that have to be honored and followed to move lives and practices to another level.

We have also seen weekend boot camps that allow chiropractors to reflect internally and decide what it is they really want, what is holding them back from getting what they want, and by the end of the camp make decisions regarding what they are going to do to create the changes they need to make.

These are all great leaps forward for the doctors in our profession, and I know I would not be where I am in my personal and professional life if it wasn't for an abundance of these excellent opportunities to grow. These leaders need to be commended for their great efforts. We can all appreciate that these programs, seminars, and boot camps are elements that need to remain within our profession.

As I try to grow further as a doctor of chiropractic, I feel that we are on the verge of the next very important step that we need to take, one that we haven't been able to nail down yet as a profession. One that the rest of the world is primed to accept and one that chiropractic is primed to take.

The world is ready to hear about our philosophy, and how chiropractic can benefit human health. The world is ready to learn that people everywhere need to have their spines checked if they want a chance at optimal health. We are now in the position where we can create global educational programs and the rest of the world is ready to listen. I will actually go one step further and argue that the rest of the world is waiting for us to put out this education and to assume our new role of global acceptance.

This next step needs to be done in a way that we are not only putting out the education, but we are promoting the unity of our profession at the same time. It needs to involve programs that are educating the whole world about the power of innate intelligence and how chiropractic helps this intelligence to propagate itself throughout the human body.

To be able to execute global educational programs we must allow our paradigms to grow from only being concerned about our personal practices to include the profession at large. Too many are concerned about building their own practices so that they neglect the need to be concerned about the world's view of our profession.

If any chiropractor wants an extremely strong practice-building instrument, here it is. The strongest building tool anyone could ever imagine is one of allowing every person in the world to understand the power of innate. If we put our creative minds together as a profession, create these programs, and unite in vast numbers to execute such programs and educate the world, just imagine the impact we could have.

Imagine the standard in health care being that chiropractic care needs to be utilized for everyone from the cradle to the coffin in every society. Imagine TV news items about how autistic children are making great breakthroughs because of chiropractic, instead of how we can drug them up. Imagine universities and governments spending millions of dollars on chiropractic research instead of on more drugs.

Does this sound huge to you? It certainly does to me! However, think of it this way, which way would you rather have it? I believe the world is ripe to hear what we have. It's up to us if we want to put it out there. In fact, it is my opinion that if we do not create these programs, we are missing a great opportunity. The world is ready for us but are we ready for it? If we take this next step needed to create a global dominance in health care, we will certainly reap the benefits.

Some great strides have been gained politically to open the doors for these programs. Work accomplished by organizations like the WCA and CLA has moved chiropractic into a powerful position. We cannot just sit and assume that these programs are going to be developed for us. We as a profession must create them. We need every doctor out there contributing and working together in some form to develop them. It is the responsibility of every one of us if we want to create global dominance in health care.