Whether or not you decided to set New Year’s resolutions this year, adopting a new routine and effectively changing your habits sounds like really hard work! However studies show that taking small actionable steps can help make real, positive changes in our personal and professional lives.
What do we mean by ‘habits’? Habits are behaviours that our brain has learned to produce without thinking about them. Some experts say that it takes 21 days to form a new habit but other experts say it takes different people different amounts of time depending on the habit.
As James Clear in his New York Times bestselling book 'Atomic Habits' said
"Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”
In our first blog of the year, we asked our lovely Facebook group members what habit in their massage therapy practice has been a game-changer for their business. We got such inspiring responses, we just had to share them with you because we know they'll benefit you & your business in 2022!
POSITIVE PERSONAL MINDSET HABITS
GAME-CHANGING PERSONAL HABITS
Habits also extend into the actual massage practice too. Many therapists have seen improvements in their business by listening closer to their own bodies and and to that of their client's.
Ultimately clients like to go to a massage therapist who they like and who they feel listens to them. Remembering to take notes and not always setting out with the goal of 'fixing' clients was also highlighted as small habits that have changed some of our Facebook group member's businesses.
If you would like to find out more about how changing habits can have a positive impact, we recommend watchingour first Massage & Physical Therapists Talk Show of 2022. In this episode, Anna Maria Mazzieri recommends the books Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits. She says these books have not only helped her clients create new habits & stick to their programs, but have also helped her create new habits and set goals for her business. Our other lovely therapists also discuss their goals and hopes and dreams for the industry in 2022.
And if you would like to add to this and share some of your learnings and habits that have made a positive impact on your business, please share here in our Facebook group. Our Facebook group was set up at the beginning of the pandemic as a safe and private place to receive and offer support among other therapists. We’d love to have you!
In massage, applying pressure places the highest demand on your body.
Newcomers to the massage profession often stand still when massaging and rely solely on their upper body strength to generate power - tensing their shoulders to deliver pressure. This puts strain on their shoulders and makes the massage more stilted and less powerful.
Imagine there was something very easy – and completely free - that you could do to attract more clients; you’d jump on it, wouldn’t you?
Well, there is something - and you’ll have heard of it! It’s called...*drumroll*… Google Reviews!