The greatest misconception among health care professionals is that your training is enough to make you successful. It isn’t. It’s not anyone’s fault, but the challenge, whether you’re in your first year or tenth, remains the same: The skills that got you to graduation aren’t the same ones you need to successfully grow your practice. [...]
Hi All, Next year is almost here! Thanks to the many (wow!) of you who took advantage of the pre-order special on The Practitioner’s Journey workbook. The offer ends on December 31. Before then, you can get the digital workbook for just $9.95, or the original eBook and the workbook together for just $14.95. Click [...]
Even the most devout anti-resolutionist has a tough time not thinking ahead at this time of year, and we’re no exception. If you’re like us, your thoughts are turning toward the New Year, and how to improve your practice. Here are three upcoming happenings here at TPJ for 2012 that we think will make a [...]
‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’ — Thomas Alva Edison Our next book is in the works. Like The Practitioner’s Journey, part of the writing process is looking for patterns. I’ve been interviewing successful practitioners for the past few months, digging [...]
A practitioner once told me, “I’ve cried a lot of tears from comparing myself to others.” What she meant was that constantly comparing yourself to other practitioners is exhausting and destructive. She meant that feeling like everyone around you is more successful than you are is a tough way to go through life, and ultimately, [...]
“No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.” -Seth Godin If you’re in a busy market, competition does a funny thing to your brain. It makes you want to stand in rows with everyone else who offers what you do, and raise your hand like a schoolkid and hope for the best. When your [...]
Creating content is becoming more and more essential for practitioners. It’s hard to create a website that gets search traffic without good words on the page. Newspaper ads work better when you also write articles. It’s easier to engage your clients in the long run when you communicate with them regularly, and that, too, takes [...]
The Short Version of this Post: We Need Your Help We’ve written a free resource for schools to help students get started sooner on the path to practice success. It’s an ebook called The Gift: 7 Practice Success Ideas for Students and Educators. We’d like to ask you to give it a read and share [...]
When it comes to practice success, there are just two kinds of habits that matter: the ones you need to create, and the ones you need to undo. What to start doing, and what to stop doing, in other words. There are things that don’t serve us. Like habits of self-criticism. Or working too long [...]
It occurred to me the other day that I could describe our clinic this way: We’re the most expensive We have the worst parking We offer the most inconvenient hours Every one of those is true. But I’m not going to focus on them. Why? Because faced with the decision to talk about our crap [...]
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