Merry Christmas!!!!

Dear Friends and Fans,

YES!!! I made it...LOL. I wanted to get my blog up in enough time to say that. I've been running around taking care of end year stuff, and preparing for the holidays. I plan to lay low here at the house. I thought we would have a white Christmas, but it's a very wet Christmas here in the STL. I'd prefer the snow, but it's all good. It's just nice to have an excuse to do only 500 things a day instead of 1000, at least for the weekend. I made all my baked things last Sunday and gave then out to my friends. I'm about cookied out. tomorrow is the spiral ham, yummy sweet potato casserole.. the good kind that's gooey! LOL. I have to bake a couple of Christmas cookies tomorrow to at least fill the house with the season. Snowman sugar cookies and peanut butter ones with the kiss in the center. I hope the rain stops so the drive to see Xmas lights is nicer. I plan to end the night cozy on the couch with a Christmas movie. Now that's a HOLIDAY!

I did receive an invite to the 2010 Arnold Classic! I'm very excited to be on the Memorial Stage again! It's a tough line up for me and the possibilities of moving up from my last years placing of 9th. I hope to finish in the top 10. My ultimate goal here is to maybe in a couple years get in the top 6 at least once, but really, the challenge this year is to continue to be superwoman and do it all, help patients, run my business better every year, improve my physique every year, stay healthy AND be able to show up ready for a show. SHIT!!! my goal is to show up IMPROVED! The placing doesn't matter at a show like this. I'm there!! What more can you say? Worry about a placing? If I can see improvements myself, and realize all the things I had to take care of in addition to making physique improvements, I'll be proud.

Happy Holidays to you all!

Your Pro,

Dr. Dena

In The Starting Blocks

Dear Friends and Fans,

I know it's been a bit as usual, but I Do have a good explanation... LOL. I'll start where I think I left off last with HALO. She is wonderful. She is getting big so fast. She looks like a little stuffed horsey. She loves to play and run around and when I the house she chooses to chill on the couch or in bed. She loves to snuggle... soon I'll have a pony in bed with me.

What is really driving me crazy right now and has all my mind space occupied is my business. You see, in school, they taught us how to be Chiropractors! They forgot to mention we need to run a business too! LOL. Logan College has changed that and is now offering great business classes in their curriculum, but I still have some figuring out to do. I keep complaining that I can't get any bigger without help. I keep kicking and screaming that I have the energy to See more patients but need help on the business end to make it happen. Of course, I have been complaining of this the past 5 years. I keep saying " I'm the Doctor not the Business Manager". Now a big brick just landed on my head and made me realize ,I'm both the Business Owner and Manager! AHHHH? I finally called my mentor from Florida and told him my issues. he said " it sounds like you want to move forward but don't want to do the work"! After 2 days of working that around in my mind, I figured HE'S RIGHT! In my mind, I have been thinking to better my practice I need to see more patients. I now understand that the way to build my practice is to step outside the box I know and leap into that business box I fear. I keep telling myself that I don't have the mind time, patience, energy or $ hours to waste on business management. Well with that in mind, It will never grow beyond what it is now. HUMMM? Is this what everyone has been telling me all these years...LOL? I have built this practice from scratch right out of school not knowing anything about how to start a business. I knew how to be a Chiropractor! I've decided to spend this extra " patients seeing energy" on getting to understand my taxes and electronic filling, payroll, billing, auditing accounts and utilize my Quickbooks better. Once I open my mind to understand it, I know all of this will be at the tip of a finger. It's time to OPEN UP!

With all of this being said, I plan to have the busiest bodybuilding year yet. I'm looking really close at the Phoenix Show FEB. 20Th, I sent in my application for the Arnold, guest pose APR. 25 Midwest Novice, NY Pro, Tampa and hopefully the O. OMG! What is my problem?

I'm sitting at a hard and ripped 147 and growing. I have about 10 weeks till the Phoenix Show. I'm concentrating on filling up a bit with food and really hitting the cuts of my muscles. I'm training with an X Blues Player, Rick Wilson; he is training my legs like a skater for the next couple of months. OUCH! We plan to pull out the glute/ham area with this style. I have my video guy coming to the workout next Monday, so you can see how the Pro Hockey guys DO IT! http://www.rikwilsonspowerplay.com/ . I'll be starting a gallery of my show preps soon. I look forward to all of your support. It will be a hard year... Champions never take the easy way out!

Keep pushing me to the top!

Xo

Dr. Dena