Working Less to Accomplish More in Private Practice
In the fast-paced world of private practice, it's easy to fall into the trap of busyness without intention or direction. We often find ourselves overwhelmed by countless tasks and goals, unsure of what truly matters and how to achieve it. The myth that being busy equates to productivity can leave us feeling unfulfilled and stuck. But what if there was a way to break free from this cycle? What if, instead of reaching and grasping for success, we could work less and accomplish more?
Review & Renew Your Business
The Review and Renew Focus is a business practice that supports success, sustainability, balance, and joyful productivity, while maintaining life/work balance in private practice. This CEO practice mindset work entails becoming focused on what matters most and what you want to accomplish. So many times, we have so many things we want to do. We get overwhelmed with what to do, when to do it, and how to implement it. Sometimes, we don’t know what we want, which creates purposeless-passionless efforts that fall short and leave us feeling unfulfilled. Who wants to feel like that!
As a result, we are left in a stand still, nothing gets accomplished, and we fall into the trap of negative self-talk. More often than not, we buy into a myth that being busy means we are accomplishing lots of things. Unfortunately, that is the case for most, especially in a therapy practice. So let’s make a change.
The Truth About Your Private Practice
When it comes to starting or growing a private practice, what usually happens is that we end up reaching and grasping to stay busy without intention or direction, or worse, we lose connection to purposeful work. Reaching and grasping, reaching and grasping, over and over and over. What are we left with? A full plate of piece-mealed activities that lack follow through from beginning to middle to end, which lacks purpose, passion, and peace of mind. How do you actually work less to accomplish more in private practice? It’s time to do it differently! Gain clarity with purpose and begin to create a clear plan of action. It’s time to DREAM BIG!
Workshop Time
This is an exercise that provides time to review your desires, teaches you how to prioritize, and maintain focus throughout your projects until the finish line. Tap into your CEO mindset and dream BIG!
Work Less to Accomplish More Exercise
Gather needed materials: You'll need a pen and paper, a quiet space, your calendar, and 15-20 mins to complete this exercise.
Big Dream Braindump List: write a list of what you want to accomplish and what is important to you in your life & business at this stage in your life? This step will only work if you give yourself the permission and the belief that everything is attainable, and everything that you write down on this list is possible.
Time Bound List Review: Imagine there is a time limit on your life. You have 2-3 years left to live. With this in mind, review your list and ask “does this energize me or drain me?”. Circle what energizes you and renew your list with only the energizing items.
The Top Dogs: Review your updated list and ask, “what energizes/excites me the most?’ List your top two.
The To Do List: create two columns with your TopDogs. List every task/action item you need to do to accomplish this top dog project.
Develop a success plan: Planning tomorrow, today is a common strategy to maintain momentum, direction, and clarity. Schedule 1-hour focus time for your top dog projects, a minimum of 3 times per week. Success requires you know your strengths and soar with them. Ask yourself, “Am I an early bird, or a night owl?” Schedule your focus time accordingly in your calendar. Also, plan in the afternoon when you still have brain/cognitive abilities, don’t wait until the end of day when you are tired.
Focus-time Action: Identify three tasks from the To Do list, and take it one step further. Identify the task, the time, and location where you will accomplish the task.
Amazing work! In only 20 mins, you have determined what matters most and a success plan to get to work. So with that, get to work. Until next time, be well.
In your corner,
Francisca
Embark on a transformative journey with Francisca Mix, LPC, BC-DMT, ACS—an experienced confidence consultant in mental health and clinical leadership. With diverse expertise as a mental health private practice consultant, educator, clinical supervisor, and trauma-informed movement therapist, Francisca guides professionals through tailored group programs and impactful one-to-one online sessions.
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