Monday Morning Motivation | Santa, Tooth Fairies, and Genies
Posted by Bill Esteb on Jun 20th 2026
A Moment of Clarity from December 22, 2008:
No one is coming to rescue you.
If the circumstances of your life or practice aren’t as you wish, you may be inclined to look outside for a solution.
Insurance companies do not hold the answer. The golden days of the past will not be returning.
The government is not going to bail you out. Nor should it.
Your staff will not save you. In fact, they’re looking to you for leadership and direction.
Patients will not solve your problem. Depending upon them is an unsustainable role reversal.
Waiting for Santa, the Tooth Fairy, a genie, or mere luck simply delays the action you must take to face what you’ve neglected, don’t want to look at, or have so artfully avoided.
That thing you’ve resisted, that difficult conversation you’ve put off, the toleration you’ve been enduring? Lean into that. Your solution lies there. Healing comes from the inside out, remember?
Bill Esteb, a passionate chiropractic advocate since 1981, brings a fresh perspective to the profession as Patient Media’s creative director and co-founder of Perfect Patients. With 13 insightful books examining the doctor-patient relationship, he inspires chiropractors worldwide as a chiropractic speaker, through his chiropractor coaching program, and consulting. Since 1999 Monday Morning Motivation has been emailed weekly to over 10,000 subscribers, sparking breakthroughs across the chiropractic community.


