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Lockdown Or Love
Thinking of you all. I'd like to share a timely reflection from Fr. Richard Hendrick, OFM,. I pray that you'll be encouraged by his wonderful words in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis. Lockdown Yes there is fear.Yes there is isolation.Yes there is panic buying.Yes...
Carrying A Heavy Load?
"Hi, I'm Paul. I am a recovering overachiever." Richard Rohr says that there is one universal addiction–we are all addicted to our way of thinking. I've met a lot of therapists who are overachievers. Who are locked into their own way of thinking. It takes a certain...
Being a Therapist is Dangerous to Your Health
I'm sure you know of many people suffering the consequences of receiving minimal care or none at all. Recent Democratic debates have focused a lot on providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor. This being said, there hasn't been enough attention paid to the...
Kobe’s Mamba Mentality-The Shadow Side
Kobe Bryant's legacy is on display throughout the world since the news broke of his untimely death. People have been processing their own mortality in light of what Kobe Bryant stood for. Me too. One thing that everyone can agree upon was his positive "Mamba...
Time to Press Pause
Each new year brings a renewed enthusiasm to make this year–the absolute best year ever. Goal-setting methods, books, and planners abound. Choose a guru, write down your goals, get an accountability partner, and you're off to the races. But if you're not watchful,...
Do You Want 2020 Vision This Year?
I couldn't resist the opportunity to use a 2020 riff at least once this year. For most of us, 2020 is a turning point — the start of a new year, a new decade, and perhaps with new clarity or vision. Unless we pause to reflect, we may not recognize the times...
The 10 Person Rule: How Focusing on Less Helps You Do More
What would your practice look like if you made a goal to have a significant impact on 10 people? How would the focus of your work change if you weren't allowed to help everyone? Which someones would you help? Who knows you might end up doing what you are on...
Gratitude Changes Things
It doesn't matter what country or background you come from... Gratitude creates change. "One of them, when he realized he was healed, turned around, and came back, shouting his gratitude...so grateful. He couldn't thank him enough–and he was a Samaritan. Luke...
500 Loyal Patients
This post is unusual, made up of an adaptation of a pivotal piece by Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of WIRED magazine, called “1,000 True Fans”. I've changed some of the wording for a cash practice startup. Enjoy! 500 Loyal Patients To be a successful...
What’s Your Professional Time Worth?
Knowing what your time is worth is essential if you want to achieve your professional and personal goals. To be honest with you, most therapists I talk to are in the dark regarding a realistic hourly rate. Most of us have a gut feeling that we are not paid...
Fees: Are You Focusing On the Right Thing?
For therapists who are starting a practice, especially a cash therapy practice, determining what fees to charge is often an excruciating experience. Most of us would instead do a hundred ab crunches rather than tell a new client our full fee. Fees: Does This...
5 Fatal Mistakes Therapists Make Setting Fees
Not making one of the 5 fatal mistakes when setting your fees is critical to launching/growing a successful cash practice. Setting fees is one of the biggest hurdles for therapists to overcome when launching/growing a cash practice. I'm not totally sure...
What’s Up With Therapists And Money?
I'm on a mission. I want to get to the bottom of why therapists struggle to talk about their fees. When I mentor therapists, setting fees is one of the biggest hurdles for therapists to overcome. I've observed that therapists have many hang-ups about money that...
Strangled To Death By A Mouse
The vitality of the therapy profession that we have come to know and love is dying a slow death–and it's not by what you think. If you feel like you're professionally suffocating,there's a reason for it. You may feel like a patient whose pulse oxygen...
Stop Calling My Patients Targets
One of my all-time favorite comic strips was Gary Larson's Far Side. Larson's morbid sense of humor often caught me off guard and caused an eruption of a belly laugh(much to my wife's embarrassment). Larson often used surreal characters to illustrate...
3 Powerful Insights To Grow Your Practice
Are you looking a quick and easy way to grow your practice? Despite what you read on most marketing websites, a magic solution to open the floodgates for new patients doesn’t exist. Sure you can host a seminar or an online contest to get a...
How Many Patients Are Way Too Many?
Money is the topic most therapists find hard to examine. The majority of therapists can trace their hangups about money to the fact that they've not reconciled two seemingly opposite concepts: profit and service. For some, service is honorable and profit is evil. For...
Washing Dirty Feet
The thought of washing someone's filthy, dirty feet makes me squirm.Even the thought of having another person wash my feet makes me uncomfortable. It invades my sense of personal space. No thanks, I'll pass. In the Christian calendar, holy week is the week...