2021 kicked serious ass 🔥! 

Yes, for many outside of our practice, our profession, and our style of people (of which there are 100+ million, see below)… it was a chaotic, stressful, and toxic year. 

But if you were inside the rapidly expanding circle of influence we live in and lead from, this year was freaking fantastic 😃 !!! 

I wake up every single day not only committed to living full out this incredible life God has granted me, but also getting the perspective and actions steps that led to it shared with as many of you as possible. 

So in that light, here are the 3️⃣ most impactful, most helpful-to-you lessons I learned in 2021.

Read on, learn, and if inspired… get after these three things like never before in 2022!!! 

1. If you focus too much on math 💰 and profits, you lose your meaning and purpose. 

Like all things in life, running a business (practice) means always seeking to maintain a delicate balance. I like to refer to this as the “sweet spot” and it very much appl...

This one will speak right to the heart ❤️ of those who are especially mission-minded and purpose-driven, looking to achieve big things 🔥! Doubling down on that, it will especially speak to you if you want to achieve those big things not for your own personal gain, but in order to massively impact kids 👶 and families in your community.

If you're in it for you more than them, you won't make it very far down this list 📝 before you run out of ⛽️. This takes work, commitment, consistency.

Our practice is going through some insane growth 🔥 again over the last few weeks to months, and this morning it had me reflecting on exactly what 'steps' it took to get here over the last 10+ years. I wanted to share them, because it's my hope and dream to see so many of you not only take them... but take them faster, better, stronger 💪 than we did so that you can impact and influence even more kids and families!

So, here goes:

1️⃣ - Adjusting 🙌

While of course I studied for exams and boards during sc...

The #1 thing we all want so badly, growth 🔥 🚀 , quickly becomes the #1 thing that trips us up and stresses 😩 out to the absolute max! 

Been there, done that haven't you? 

If you've been in practice for even a short period of time, it's likely you know all about how growth 📶 works... and how it doesn't. 

Growth does NOT have a tendency to come in consistent, steady, bite-sized chunks like this little emoji here - 📶. Nope, instead, it tends to come seemingly all once and awesomely sets fire 🔥 to most everything in our practice and lives! 😳 

We end up: 

• Working straight through lunch, preparing ROFs, and catching up on paperwork 📂 
• Staying late to fit more patients in, finish paperwork 📝 , and keep everything else in order 
• Our systems 📓 we worked so hard to sort out, are rendered near useless and start to look like a 1988 dial-up phone ☎️ 
• Our team gets worn out, exhausted 😤, cranky, and perhaps even quit 🤦‍♀️ 

What gives? Why is exactly what we wanted, so darn stressful!