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1. Why You Don’t Commission More Money as a Contract Massage Practitioner
   A discussion I paid attention to on Facebook illuminated a common complaint among massage practitioners: They think they are paying too much rent.

2. Are You Financially Fit?
   There are a number of ways to measure physical fitness, such as resting and active heart rate, VO2 max and maximum resistance tests. But how do you measure if you are financially fit? With physical fitness, awareness is key—which is also the case with financial fitness. Check your financial pulse.

3. National Week Promotes Massage Therapy
   Each year, massage therapists across the nation participate in EveryBody Deserves a Massage Week, sponsored by Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals.

4. Workplace Wellness–Is This the New Funding Source?
   When complementary industries align to deliver health and wellness, the result can be a better, faster recovery and a healthier population. Health care, fitness and corporate wellness initiatives contributed to our industry's growth in the first place. In economic times like these, it makes a lot of sense (and cents) to align with these industries to encourage productive, healthy workers.

5. Want to Build Your Practice? Cultivate Yourself
   I imagine you’ve heard the key to success in school is to focus on the 3 Rs “Reading, (W)Riting and ARithmatic.” While these skills are certainly essential, I’ve discovered several other essential “Rs” in the development of one’s life and business.

6. The ABCs of Practice Retention
   A U.S. study found it takes five times the resources-–time, energy and money-–to acquire new business than to retain existing business. It makes more sense to provide more and better care to your existing clients than to constantly try and find new ones.

7. Your Success Starts with Clear Intentions
   In the healing arts, we often discuss the body’s bio-energetic system. This system, only recently given some attention in Western culture, describes a vital system of energy centers and meridians. Bioenergetics is at work in practice management, too. Have you noticed when you were feeling tired one day at work, really wishing for a break, someone cancels her appointment? The reverse can also be applied: When your mind is clearly focused, your appointment book fills up.

8. Six Presumptions that Damage Massage Business Agreements: Presumption #6
   Presumption #6 – “It’s a Contractor Relationship Because I’ve Classified It as Such”

9. Six Presumptions that Damage Massage Business Agreements: Presumption #5
   Presumption #5 – “Contractor Status Is Less Hassle than Having or Being an Employee”

10. Six Presumptions that Damage Massage Business Agreements: Presumption #4
    Presumption #4 – “Contracting Practitioners Have Little Leverage in Agreements”

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