111. 4 Simple Steps to Your Personal Physician Wellness Strategy

  In this episode, you'll discover the tools. As you need to actually implement your own personal burnout prevention. Strategy in the midst of the whirlwind of a busy doctor. Doctors existence. In the last episode, number one 11, I showed you the. The ideal practice generator process. Here's how you actually. Implement those steps in the midst of your busy life. This is where the rubber meets the road and you fundamentally change your reality. To a healthier and more balanced place.

Ready? Let's get started.

So in the last episode, Number one 11. We talked about the four parts of the ideal. Practice generator process that was developed in our 40,000. And Dr. Coaching and training practice. The first step. Is to focus on what you want, not what you don't want and develop an. An ideal job description, write it down on paper.

My ideal. The job description, put a date on it and write down all the aspects of a job. You would love your ideal job, a job. You would run towards that step one, get it out of your head. It takes a couple of weeks. Weeks. Uh, where do you take on this kind of work? Well, the first thing you have to do is step out of the world. Wind of your busy life. To find a quiet place, make. It special, get a nice journal and a pen. Your favorite beverage? Cup of tea or whatever it might be.

And step out of your. Whirlwind, take a big breath with me right now. And as you exhale. They'll just release anything that doesn't need to be here right now. And step. Out of the whirlwind of all the demands that are placed on a doctor. Because the only place to do this work of planning for a better life. A better practice, a better job, a better career is from out. Outside that whirlwind. So make sure that you take your doctor. After hat off.

Go ahead and put your hand on your head and take that hat off. Now. Say it with me. I'm taking my doctor. Doctor hat off now, step out of your whirlwind to do this work. And what I'm going to teach you is something that comes from the entrepreneur community. Unity entrepreneurs are also people whose lives can be dominate. Nominated by their entrepreneurial job. They make a living in business for themselves. And there's a saying in. The entrepreneur world. That is absolutely equally. Valid for all physicians who are working on creating a better. Practice experience and it goes like this. You have to work both. On your job as well as in your job.

Because if all you do is work in your job, always doing. What you've always done. You'll always get what you've always got. So you have. Have to have a way to take a break. Take a break. From the whirlwind of things coming at you as a physician at work. And the hangover of responsibility and liability and. And things that may go missing in the test results, you know, all the things that. Can go wrong in your practice that follows you home.

Sometimes take that breath. Step out of that whirlwind and get busy on your ideal job description because. Because that becomes a target that you aim yourself and your practice at. Step to create that van of happiness. You know what this job feels like. You're gonna imagine what your ideal job would feel like. Those are two circles of a Venn diagram.

How much overlap is there? Then the third step is to make that master plan, all the things. Things you would change a master list, everything out of your head of all the things. That you would change. And any one of them would move you. From your current job to a more ideal job. And then the key is to. Just pick one action and go. Pick one action and take that new. New action.

And see what new result you get. And what. I know is that there's a, there's a famous quote. A life unexamined is not. Worth limping. If all you do is work in your practice following. Someone else's job description that was written without your ideal practice in. In mind. If all you do is what you've been told to do to fulfill your. Job description, just like a good resident.

I might add. If all you are as a good resident, you'll always burn out because what are the odds? Is that your job description? Description is actually your ideal. Deal job description. Remember it was written for the purposes of your employer. not to make you happy. So here's where outside. The whirlwind. With your ideal job description and your master plan. Taking baby steps towards your ideal practice here is where you. Make your practice, your own. Now I realize I'm going pretty fast. Fast here. Working here in a podcast. Is closing down 14 years and 40,000 doctors with of experience. Into just a few minutes.

So please feel free to listen to the podcast. Again, And slow it down even cause you can control the speed on a lot. Of replay devices. Take notes. Start building. Your own ideal practice description notice is focused on you and your needs. So it will. I'll always be perfectly aligned with you and remember. Your ideal practice description is always changing because your life is always changing. The profession is always changing. So the key is to have a regular. A regular rhythm of stepping out of the whirlwind to valuate your ideal job. Job description and see if you're on track. To pick a new baby step new. The new action that you're going to take to try and move closer to your ideal practice. And the best way to do that. Is with a regular time that you step. Out of your whirlwind. Grab your journal. Look at your ideal job. Description, write down maybe something that you're grateful for and plan. On your next step. A great place to do that is in about a half hour on. The weekend. I call it your power half-hour and I even have a. A worksheet. That gets gratitude, planning your action step reviewing. Reviewing the actions you took in the previous step. Even. Reviewing your squeegee breath practice and your trigger. Oh, by the way, all these things that I'm talking about. Are covered in our burnout proof online workshop, online video training. Uh, 86 videos.

Only four of them are more than eight minutes. It's long, it teach all of these tools and the entire ideal practice general. Generator process. 37 hours of CME. And I've got a special link in the show notes that will give you lifetime access for only. $125. How good is that? So check. Check that out and consider getting yourself access to. The training videos so that you can do this all at your own pace. I guarantee it'll work for you once you step out of the whirlwind and learn. To work on your practice. Instead of just in it and have a regular. Rhythm. Irregular. Cadence. Uh, regular movement in and out of your practice, work on it and make it better. And then go back and work in it and see how the changes that you hope will make a difference. Pan out.

Now 70. The percent of the folks that I've worked with as a coach. Can resolve their burn. Burnout in six to nine months with little changes like this, following this exact. Process by the way, the 30 that can't are. Our folks who have a conflict with their boss and actually have to quit their job and move on. In order to get relief from burnout.

That's not a topic of today. We'll discuss. Discuss that in future lessons. So in the show notes, I have. The link to the power half-hour weekend planning process. For physicians. Uh, so have a $125 sale. Sale link to the burnout proof online workshop. By the way I teach. How to use. The power half-hour worksheet. In the burnout proof online workshop. And courage you grab. These resources. It's thousands and thousands of doctors. Worth of in the real world success. In creating. A more ideal practice and a lot more sense of fulfillment. Satisfaction and that you're really making the difference. Do you hope to make, when you went to medical school in the first place, that's it for? Today. In the next podcast. We're going to talk about Corp. Corporate burnout prevention strategy that coal mine strategy.

Now that you're working on. Your Canary strategy. I'll be with you then. Until then keep breathing.