We're roughly halfway through a year of these notes, so here's one to reflect on rather than act on straight away.
Almost everyone who builds a practice started with a reason beyond the business of it — to help people, to do the work to a standard they believed in, to build something of their own that made a difference. It's easy, in the daily grind of admin and compliance and full waiting rooms, to lose sight of that reason. The practice that started as a calling can quietly become just a source of stress.
So at the halfway mark, it's worth asking: is the practice still serving the reason you built it? Are you still able to do the work the way you hoped to? And if not — if it's become a machine that runs you rather than one that serves your purpose — what's one change that would bring it back toward what you intended?
Everything in these notes — the systems, the team, the financial steadiness, looking after yourself — points at one thing: a practice that's good for your patients and good for you, sustainably, for the long haul. That's not a luxury. It's the whole point.
Thank you for reading these. The care you provide matters enormously to the people who receive it, and the fact that you also want to run the place well says a lot about the kind of practitioner you are.
Building a practice that stays true to why you started is what the [Practice Management course] is ultimately for.
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With respect for the work you do,
Annie
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