This week’s post examines the what, why, and how of perfectionism and its impact on our lives.

In recent weeks, I’ve talked about being more selective in what you take on your plate as well as the opportunity costs associated with medicine.

Today’s post examines that which we give up to practice our craft.

Today’s post will examine something at the core of our interactions with one another: requests for each others’ time and attention.

I was recently interviewed by one of my classmates from my life coaching training small group!

Last week I introduced a life coaching tool called the wheel of life and how it could be used to map out the six underlying causes of burnout.

Last week I wrote a long piece on the six root causes of burnout as described by Dr. Christina Maslach and colleagues.

This post is long so I’ll keep the intro short.

The following is my first guest post and it comes from Dr. Floriane Wu, an emergency physician, military veteran, and physician coach!

This week’s post will build upon last week’s post The Misapplication of Fear in Modern Society.

In this post I examine our fear response, and how what once helped us become the dominant species on the planet now can hold us back.

I’ve spent the last seven weeks trying to convince you of the merits of adopting a better system to supercharge your productivity: calendaring.

In my post on your brain’s resistance to calendaring, I mentioned Parkinson’s Law in passing.

In prior posts (here, here, and here), I have referenced not letting the urgent usurp the important as well as a decision tool to help with this.

The post before last introduced you to calendaring, my name* for a system of getting stuff done.

Last week I gave you a step by step rundown of how to calendar, or schedule, your to-do list.

In last week’s post, I made the case that a to-do list is only useful if part of a larger system, namely calendaring.

In last week’s post, I tried to take to-do lists down a peg or two, making the argument that they aren’t all they’re made out to be.

Ahh, the to-do list.

This week I decided to write about physicians’ relationship with status quo, specifically as it relates to medical training and culture.

Sorry for the hiatus for the past two weeks, but I had to focus my time launching my group coaching program called Charting Conquered, which started this week!

The past few posts (here and here) have looked at various charting-related topics, and they’ve been long reads. For a change of pace, I will keep this one short.

In last week’s post, I made the case that physicians should chart as they go.

In recent posts, we have been talking about physician burnout.

In last week’s post, I discussed the lack of cohesive and coordinated attempts to address physician burnout on a national scale.

In last week’s post, I explored how charting is the number one of physician burnout as identified on the Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report 2021.

In last week’s post, I offered my hot take on the first half of Medscape’s recently released annual National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report 2021.

Hot off the press, Medscape released their annual National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report 2021 on January 22nd, 2021, with the tagline (not sure what it’s called when it precedes the main report name?) “Death by 1000 Cuts.”

This week, we are going to take a look at one of my favorite coaching topics: buffering.

This week’s post examines urges, an interesting phenomenon resulting from our primitive brain seeking immediate gratification.

In last week’s post, I shared the eight steps to dismantling limiting beliefs and provided a worksheet to help you do so.

In last week’s post, I shared my most original limiting belief, and I’ve previously discussed limiting beliefs here (under quote #3).

I have touched upon limiting beliefs in prior posts (most notably in Top 10 Best Yoda Quotes for Life Coaches) and how they get in the way of us being our best selves and achieving the results we want.

In this post, I will show you how important stories are to us.

Star Wars has captured the hearts and minds of countless people for over four decades.