PRIORITIZATION Part 1 - Organization

Prioritization is one of the most important skills you need if you desire to create something that extends beyond yourself, and if you want to manifest your greatest projects and goals, make the biggest contribution you can to the world, and minimize stress along the journey.

“If you have more than 3 priorities, you don’t have any.” ~ Jim Collins, author of good to great

In order to adhere to these wise words I have kept this section to the 3 main components that are skills you must develop in order to properly prioritize your business life; organization, systems, and distraction.

In the end, prioritization of your time should boil down to you performing the highest value tasks in your practice/clinic/business that are in alignment with your vision and how you want to spend your time each day.

Remember, your business should be created with the purpose of serving your most fully realized life, the life you desire - not you being a slave to it and essentially just having a job.

First step to organizing your practice/clinic/business is to ask yourself;

Do you want a private practice?

Do you want to run a clinic?

Do you want to own a business?

In my experience most TCM docs & acupuncturists are born to be practitioners. Frontline clinicians that are amazing at helping people attain their health related goals with the tools of the trade.

Many of these practitioners may be entrepreneurial in spirit and flirt with the idea of running their own clinic, or building a business where multiple practitioners hang their hat! Sounds good?

This may be a very bad idea

You have to find out who you are, what you want, and what you are cut out for, before jumping into the abyss of running a clinic or business ownership. It could be the difference of attaining the life you desire, or becoming a slave to your business and growing to loathe going to work

CONGRATULATIONS

You have created a

J.O.B.

that you can’t quit

So do some soul searching, some profiling, ask trusted friends and colleagues... Will you be fulfilled with a simple practice, do you want to operate a clinic, or are you cut out for the roller coaster of entrepreneurship?

Each comes with specific ups and downs, and each requires specific skill sets and personality characteristics to succeed, and each requires very different organization and prioritization!

A private practice can and should be kept quite basic. It requires organization for your basic clinical procedures, your client (patient) management, some simple administrative tasks, and marketing.

The main benefits of a private practice are;

It is only you

Things are simple

The limitations of a private practice are;

It is only you

Your time = $

Running a clinic is a lot more complex. It also requires all that is needed to organize a private practice, with the addition of managing multiple practitioners, more complex administrative tasks and possible hiring of support staff, managing culture, and marketing the whole.

The main benefits of running a clinic are;

Working with others

Potential for greater financial gain

The limitations of running a clinic are;

Dependant on you

Not creating an asset

Owning a business is a roller coaster. It requires everything running a clinic does, with the addition of employing a team to free you from business operations, so that you can lead and grow the clinic into a business that becomes a successful company.

The main benefits of owning a business are;

Freedom

Passive income

Growth of an asset

The limitations of owning a business are;

Risk

Responsibility

PRIORITIZATION

Part 1:

Organization

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