Monday morning has a way of revealing exactly how your practice is actually running — not how you think it's running. The philosopher Simone Weil noticed something important about attention: most of us believe we're paying it when we're really just applying our existing assumptions to what we see. She called this the difference between looking at something and truly looking *for* something, with the self temporarily set aside. In a chiropractic office, this distinction is the difference between a leader who walks in and confirms the story they already hold about their team, versus one who notices the small friction — the patient who paused before rescheduling, the front desk exchange that had a half-beat of tension in it — and follows that signal. The practical move: before your first conversation with a staff member today, spend thirty seconds asking what you expect to see, then deliberately bracket that expectation and watch what's actually there instead.

What is one assumption about how your office runs that you haven't seriously questioned in the last month — and what would you need to actually observe to test it?

Drawing from Existentialist / Phenomenological ethics — Simone Weil