Living and Practicing By Design™ – Not Default

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I’m down here in Fort Lauderdale today, and I just spent the entire day with some incredible businesspeople. Literally, I am learning from some of the smartest and biggest businesspeople in the world. Millionaires and billionaires.

There are three things I want to tell you that are takeaways from things I’ve known for years, but they were just driven home today.

 Number one is you’ve got to design your life first.

What do you want your life to look like? What do you want to do with your recreational time, your downtime, et cetera? That’s huge. You see, when we feel like doing this lacking, a real purpose behind what we do, life and practice becomes so much more difficult. And it doesn’t have to be that challenging. My biggest motivation has always been and will continue to be personal and financial freedom.

 Number two Is to have longevity In your practice, you need to simplify everything. Healthcare especially can get absolutely crazy. Especially today. Unless you have a proper design to make you the unique physician for your community you’ll always struggle. 

And this changes over time especially if you want to continue to grow and expand and serve more people which is the reason I came here for three days!

 Number three, rather than delegating all tasks to everybody else, which ultimately, you may end up doing a large portion of, you’ve got to know what the key steps, components and operational systems are.

For example, one of the biggest mistakes that oftentimes gets made with practice marketing is that you hire a marketer. What happens? You don’t even know the basics. You have no idea what they’re doing. You spend an absolute fortune and have little or nothing to show for it. Because you can’t even ask them the right questions. 

Next, apply this strategy to almost everything else that it takes to run a private practice successfully.

 Guys, listen up. It doesn’t have to be that hard. I first started to talk about this in 2007 when I published Living and Practicing by Design, Saving the Hearts that Care for Our Lives, which I’m currently rewriting and updating.

The takeaway is this. Spend time learning these, even just a little bit every day, and dive in deeper when you need. You’ll ultimately have a lot less stress, much better income, plus the ultimate freedom and joy that come from running your own show.

 Remember, this is a choice, too


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About John Hayes, Jr., MD

John Hayes, Jr., MD spent years working primarily with family physicians and surgeons helping their pain and surgery patients with chiropractic, clinical nutrition, and lifestyle coaching. His work with the sickest lead not only to further his training in Family & Lifestyle Medicine but more importantly the development of patient systems, tools and books to better help those patients suffering neuropathy & chronic pain. He is the inventor of the NDGen® neuropathy and pain treatment device. Frustrated with the changes in healthcare and concern about increasing physician demands he published the EVVY nominated book “Living & Practicing by Design”. Along with his wife Patti they developed simplified EMR, practice business platforms, and systems. In addition to his DPC practice in Marshfield Massachusetts he also consults with Physicians and PTs in private practice personalization, neuropathy and pain protocols. https://www.drjohnhayesjr.com/perfectpractice