Could there be a more important conversation or action plan than this? There is not a worthier objective in your life than looking at yourself as an investment. Bluntly, the more value you place in yourself the more valuable you will become.
However, this doesn’t happen by accident. The more casual you are about it, the less control you will have over the outcomes in your life.
Yes, this ties directly into the last several weeks about generalities and specifics in your vision for your life and practice. You’ll never achieve more than you have clearly defined and committed to. That means that you have to see it first, give yourself permission to want it, and then create it without self-doubts.
You will have enough obstacles and impediments thrown in your way by life and other people. Don’t let yourself make it more difficult to achieve your goals and objectives, your ambitions and desires, and your dreams and passions.
By the way, one of the most valuable lessons I learned from Zig Ziglar was the fact that motivation is temporary. No matter what you do in your life, you must re-motivate, re-invigorate, re-energize, and re-focus frequently. Even sometimes moment by moment. This is important because the grind, whether life or practice, can weigh you down which clouds your vision and ability to act decisively.
Fueling your motivation is critical to success. You notice it in others straight way. When you see someone who’s feet are hardly on the floor because they are moving so quickly and passionately towards their goals. Here’s what I want: someone’s head grounded but their feet flying and not the other way around.
So, your first level of investment in yourself is in your motivation and that comes from your own well-being and centeredness.
This is a big part of what I do for you every single week when I write these reports. You are investing in yourself by charging up your motivation, elevating what you believe to be possible, and of course gaining tangible strategies for execution.
Motivation is the base of your investment into yourself that makes everything else more valuable to you and you to it.
With that in mind, I want to share the latest All-Star Doctors Zoom Interview…
You are going to love every single minute of this jam-packed, hard-hitting interview from five very interesting doctors. You will find inspiration, motivation, insights, and ideas for practice building, lifestyle enhancements, team improvements, and mindset shifts from these doctors. Pay close attention; you don’t want to miss the nuances and key take-aways.
It’s one year after the comeback and our Doctors have done more than just “comeback,” they have used this last year to grow like never before in every possible way (the least of which is money, though that’s been substantial).
Finish reading this Weekly Report and then really study this – you deserve it. Carve out an hour of time to invest in yourself in a meaningful way…
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Then answer the question: what else are you doing to routinely and consistently invest in your motivation? Daily. Weekly. Monthly. Quarterly. Throughout your year that’s built into your schedule and routine.
This brings me to one of the biggest favors you can do for yourself which is to gain exposure to more of what you want to emulate and be a part of groups like what you aspire to become.
It’s a very simple ratio in life… those that read about, pay attention to, focus on, and act upon more of what they are working towards instead of what they’re leaving behind, the more successful they will be.
Now, I’m going to tell you two more areas of critical valuable for investing in yourself before we shift over to your practice as a business entity next week.
There are two sides to your practice coin that you must focus on. You want to be growing your value as both a clinician and a business owner.
You already knew that but do you really embrace it? Do you prioritize it? Do you align your growth in yourself with the goals you have for your practice and your life overall?
I will tell you this, after almost two decades in dentistry, most doctors just do not look at their continuing education with any real point or intentional strategy.
Rest assured, I want you to follow your passions and keep learning. Yet, if I’m just talking from an investment position (and I am), then if I’m going to invest an hour reading a book, I’m going to do it in the most valuable book possible for me and my overall objectives. That doesn’t mean you don’t run up against a dud once in a while nor does it mean that you don’t read for pleasure.
You have the same twenty-four hours as every other one of your peers. The more discipline you exert over your time and the more discernment over where you invest your energy, the more valuable you will become and the greater return on yourself as investment you will make.
Remember, I’m not talking about just return in money and wealth, though that’s a big foundational component of it, it’s also the return on every other aspect of your practice.
The question is what can you do, learn, experience, decide, change, or adjust to become more valuable to your practice?
Answer that in your own mind and then ask your team. Watch what can happen when you apply this to your clinical goals and educational journey.
Now, how about you as business person. What are you doing to become better and more valuable in that regard?
As a Doctor Business Owner specifically, the composite of the list is very unique. It could be leadership or management or communication or financials or marketing – and it should be some of all of these.
While it’s true that the smartest people outsource or hire the ‘doing’ of everything that is not their strength or beneath their value, you can’t show me a CEO of any business that doesn’t have an understanding about every area of their business.
The leader at the top should be having more conversations, reading more books, gaining insights, showing more awareness, making more decisions, and growing their own value more so than anyone else in the organization. The secret, of course, is they also did all of that before they were CEO.
The real point I’m making is not just you are your own most valuable asset, it is that you are the only one going to invest in yourself. Done properly, you will become a multiplier to the value of everyone else and to the overall value of your business.
If you want to earn more, become worth more. If you want to grow your practice, grow yourself. You simply will never become faster, better, more profitable, more valuable, and more fulfilled than you deliberately set out to achieve.
What do you need to learn, what do you need to acquire, what do you need to become in order to reach your next goals and to breakthrough your current plateau?
I’ve given you several areas to invest in you today. And none of it requires money, even though it’s worth a lot. It’s about the investment in your time, your belief, your open-mindedness, and yourself that makes it possible.
We’ll pick up right here next week.
