032 \\ How to Schedule It All: Building a Profitable Boutique Practice That Fits Your Life

How Do You Schedule It All?

Ever wonder how other women in healthcare manage it all — the school drop-offs, sick days, vacations, and still run a thriving boutique practice? In this episode, Dr. Alex Pankoke pulls back the curtain and walks you through her exact process for building a profitable, part-time, all-cash practice that fits her real life.

Inside you’ll learn:

• How to plan your schedule around your season, not society’s 9-to-5 model

• Why margin management matters more than time management

• How to price and package your care plans based on your true capacity

• What to do when life happens — without guilt or burnout

• The secret to building a practice that supports your faith, family, and freedom

If you’ve been praying for a better rhythm between motherhood, ministry, and meaningful work — this episode is your permission slip.

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Episode Transcript

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How do you schedule it all from vacation, school schedules, off days, sick days? What happens to client care when something comes up with your family? If you're transitioning from a solo practice, it's nine to five.
What are the steps that actually make it work? Hey, friend, today's episode comes straight from a question inside our Boutique Practices school group.

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It's where I drop free trainings, host live coffee hours, and help you get clarity on how to start or grow or glow up your boutique practice.
It's also where you can spend your own questions that might get answered and show up right here on the podcast. 6 00:00:43,513.291057943 --> 00:00:46,183.291057943 Hey, friend, and welcome to the Boutique Practices Podcast. 7 00:00:46,663.291057943 --> 00:00:54,253.291057943 If you're a woman in healthcare who's felt torn between your mantle as a healer, and let's just say the rest of your life, you are not alone. 8 00:00:54,343.291057943 --> 00:00:59,203.291057943 If you've been praying for a business model that is low maintenance part-time. 9 00:00:59,768.291057943 --> 00:01:18,848.291057943 All cash, highly profitable and potentially social media optional because you don't have time to be dancing on TikTok all day and you know that you can deliver life-changing results for your patients, but you need something that allows you to have the margin you've been craving, then you're in the right place. 10 00:01:19,208.291057943 --> 00:01:20,258.291057943 I'm your host, Dr. 11 00:01:20,258.291057943 --> 00:01:27,818.291057943 Alex, and I'm here to show you how to use heavenly strategy to grow a practice and a business that honors every role God's given you. 12 00:01:28,113.291057943 --> 00:01:30,933.291057943 From your practice to your home and everything in between. 13 00:01:31,623.291057943 --> 00:01:32,793.291057943 Think Proverbs 31. 14 00:01:32,793.291057943 --> 00:01:35,73.291057943 Wisdom meets boutique practice simplicity. 15 00:01:35,163.291057943 --> 00:01:45,123.29105794 So whether you're rocking scrubs, yoga pants, or a spit on cupboard t-shirt, take a deep breath, press play, and let's build the dream practice God's placed on your heart today. 16 00:01:48,91.338 --> 00:01:56,41.338 Okay, so I love this question because it's one of the main reasons I started coaching women in boutique practices. 17 00:01:56,191.338 --> 00:01:57,91.338 So let's dive in. 18 00:01:57,91.338 --> 00:02:06,506.338 If you are tired of trying to fit business into your life, if you've tried having your full schedule work around your practice. 19 00:02:07,126.338 --> 00:02:20,296.338 Kids ministry marriage, or just the real life care chaos of life? You know, this scheduling is less about time management and more about margin management, and that's what I help women do inside my coaching programs. 20 00:02:20,536.338 --> 00:02:22,6.338 We build practices with margin. 21 00:02:22,696.338 --> 00:02:26,746.338 We design businesses that fit your life, not the other way around. 22 00:02:27,226.338 --> 00:02:29,746.338 Not only that, I, I just wanna add something. 23 00:02:29,896.338 --> 00:02:35,806.338 Not only do we design it to fit your life, we help you design and craft a custom business. 24 00:02:36,376.338 --> 00:02:42,886.338 For you, for what you need and are called to bring to this earth. 25 00:02:42,916.338 --> 00:02:46,936.338 Okay, so here's the first thing we need to do. 26 00:02:46,996.338 --> 00:02:50,806.338 There's really five steps when it comes to figuring out how to make it all work. 27 00:02:50,806.338 --> 00:02:57,466.338 And the first step is building a custom business, which starts with a mindset shift. 28 00:02:57,766.338 --> 00:02:59,806.338 Okay? Your business is not. 29 00:03:00,106.338 --> 00:03:01,96.338 Cookie cutter. 30 00:03:01,336.338 --> 00:03:01,636.338 Okay. 31 00:03:01,636.338 --> 00:03:07,726.338 You have to recognize your business is going to be different than anybody else's business. 32 00:03:07,876.338 --> 00:03:15,586.338 We cannot slap an old model onto our life and expect for how everybody else is doing it and how the world has always been doing it. 33 00:03:15,916.338 --> 00:03:16,36.338 And. 34 00:03:16,36.338 --> 00:03:21,691.338 I think that it's going to work, especially if we are a mom, we are a wife. 35 00:03:21,871.338 --> 00:03:25,981.338 We have so much going on, so we need to get really clear on a couple of things. 36 00:03:25,981.338 --> 00:03:37,201.338 First, when I help women craft and design their practice, I like to have them think of their practice or their, this process, like a 3D printer. 37 00:03:37,651.338 --> 00:03:41,791.338 Okay? In a 3D printer, you have to know what goes. 38 00:03:42,751.338 --> 00:04:01,411.338 In the printer, like what resources do you have? But you also need to decide on what outputs do you want the outputs of the printer look like, your patient results, your income goals, your schedule, your sanity, like all of the things that you need to come out of your practice. 39 00:04:02,266.338 --> 00:04:10,816.338 But like I said, we also need to know what do you have to put into your practice? This is your time, your resources, your gifts, your energy, your calling. 40 00:04:10,816.338 --> 00:04:12,886.338 All of those things have to go in. 41 00:04:13,756.338 --> 00:04:18,286.338 And then we have to program the machine with instructions. 42 00:04:18,496.338 --> 00:04:21,406.338 This is our systems, these are our KPIs. 43 00:04:21,406.338 --> 00:04:29,631.338 These are the, the parameters and the boundaries of our practice to allow for it to print out what we want on the other end. 44 00:04:29,891.338 --> 00:04:30,111.338 So. 45 00:04:30,111.338 --> 00:04:43,221.338 Think of it this way, like if you had a three, 3D printer, if you're not familiar what that is with what that is, it's, it's a device where you can do input materials and have it print out an actual item. 46 00:04:43,431.338 --> 00:04:48,711.338 So say for example, you wanted to print out blue Legos. 47 00:04:48,711.338 --> 00:04:52,521.338 You would have to know, first of all what you want it to look like when it comes out. 48 00:04:52,761.338 --> 00:04:57,111.338 Do you want big like duplo style legos? And forgive my mom reference. 49 00:04:57,111.338 --> 00:05:01,551.338 I've got little kids and it's what, that's all around my house right now and I kind of like Legos. 50 00:05:01,761.338 --> 00:05:17,691.338 But besides the point, do you want big blue legos? Do you want square legos? Do you want rectangle legos? Do you want duplos? Do you want, what kind of Legos do you want it to make? Then you also have to recognize. 51 00:05:18,456.338 --> 00:05:23,321.338 What color do you want it to be? How many do you want it to make? Those are all things you have to consider. 52 00:05:23,621.338 --> 00:05:27,281.338 You also have to consider what materials you have to put in the machine. 53 00:05:27,581.338 --> 00:05:35,651.338 If you put felt inside of a 3D printer to print plastic Legos, it's not going to work. 54 00:05:35,891.338 --> 00:05:36,911.338 Okay? A lot of us. 55 00:05:37,161.338 --> 00:05:57,816.338 Are trying to output what everybody else or what the world thinks a practice should be putting out, what it should be, what, like, what we should expect from a practice, but we don't have the same materials putting it in and we're trying to figure out some equation, some magic, prompts to get the machine to do something. 56 00:05:58,256.338 --> 00:05:59,576.338 That is impossible. 57 00:05:59,696.338 --> 00:06:05,876.338 And then we get frustrated and we say, well, I just don't have what it takes, so I'm just not gonna do the thing. 58 00:06:06,146.338 --> 00:06:09,296.338 But instead, what we need to do is get creative. 59 00:06:09,326.338 --> 00:06:13,826.338 If we've got felt, maybe we don't need to produce Legos. 60 00:06:14,306.338 --> 00:06:20,966.338 Maybe there's something else that somebody is looking for that it, that would be excited and happy to buy. 61 00:06:21,206.338 --> 00:06:32,486.338 That would be made out of felt, trust me, there's somebody who's looking for what you have to create that is going to be specifically unique to what you actually have to put into the machine. 62 00:06:33,176.338 --> 00:06:37,916.338 Okay? So when we are designing our practice, that's how I like to think about it. 63 00:06:37,946.338 --> 00:06:47,306.338 Okay? We have to know what we have to put in, what we're trying to get out, and we have to give the machine the right instructions. 64 00:06:47,546.338 --> 00:06:48,746.338 That is the blueprint. 65 00:06:49,16.338 --> 00:06:50,396.338 That's what we use. 66 00:06:51,416.338 --> 00:06:58,846.338 When we are building out somebody's practice and here's the cool thing about a 3D printer, y'all, you can change it. 67 00:06:58,846.338 --> 00:07:00,496.338 You can change what you put into it. 68 00:07:00,676.338 --> 00:07:02,416.338 You can change what you want out of it. 69 00:07:02,566.338 --> 00:07:04,186.338 You can give it different instructions. 70 00:07:04,216.338 --> 00:07:07,801.338 It's not gonna, it doesn't have to print the same thing day after day, year after year. 71 00:07:08,496.338 --> 00:07:09,936.338 That's the cool thing about it. 72 00:07:10,236.338 --> 00:07:15,306.338 Everyone's blueprint is different and sometimes in every season it might look different. 73 00:07:15,546.338 --> 00:07:17,976.338 Some of us have babies and nap schedules. 74 00:07:18,6.338 --> 00:07:20,946.338 Some of us are homeschooling or helping out aging parents. 75 00:07:21,96.338 --> 00:07:24,816.338 Some of us have teenagers that wanna travel and do different things. 76 00:07:25,206.338 --> 00:07:30,246.338 Some of us are trying to get started while some of us are scaling past six figures. 77 00:07:30,516.338 --> 00:07:37,661.338 While some of us are wanting to open multiple locations and bring on teams, y'all, we are all in different phases and stages. 78 00:07:38,551.338 --> 00:07:44,71.338 And what we must focus on and understand is we do not want to build someone else's business. 79 00:07:44,251.338 --> 00:07:45,781.338 We want to build our own. 80 00:07:45,961.338 --> 00:07:50,311.338 Okay? So that's what we walk through inside the Boutique Practices 2.0 81 00:07:50,311.338 --> 00:07:50,941.338 program. 82 00:07:51,121.338 --> 00:08:04,441.338 We take the glow method and create a plan that is fully customized to your season, to your gifts, to the outputs that you need and you want and desire, and that God has called your machine to create. 83 00:08:04,771.338 --> 00:08:05,101.338 Okay. 84 00:08:05,281.338 --> 00:08:06,61.338 That's part one. 85 00:08:06,241.338 --> 00:08:10,591.338 Step two is we have to know, we're talking about scheduling. 86 00:08:10,591.338 --> 00:08:19,651.338 Right? That was one of the, the first part of the questions is how do we make it all work with the schedule? Well, that's one of the inputs we have to recognize. 87 00:08:20,41.338 --> 00:08:22,501.338 We all have different time. 88 00:08:22,846.338 --> 00:08:25,546.338 Schedules that we need to put into our practice. 89 00:08:25,876.338 --> 00:08:34,636.338 The first thing that I like to do when we are figuring things out for a practice or outlining the blueprint of a practice is obviously to set the goals. 90 00:08:34,636.338 --> 00:08:48,136.338 What is the output? The goals include things like your revenue goals and in order to determine revenue goals, which are going to be unique to you, your budget, what you're trying to accomplish, and how you're trying to get there. 91 00:08:48,886.338 --> 00:08:51,106.338 We have to know how often you're gonna work. 92 00:08:51,436.338 --> 00:09:05,956.338 So one of the first things I do is I help people to figure out how many weeks do you plan to work? This is important for figuring out your revenue goals and building your business around when you are actually working, but it's just essential for long-term planning. 93 00:09:05,956.338 --> 00:09:08,896.338 As a Proverbs 31 woman, you plan ahead. 94 00:09:09,106.338 --> 00:09:11,716.338 We wanna make sure that we hedge our. 95 00:09:12,271.338 --> 00:09:18,221.338 Ourselves,, in the best position possible for the upcoming seasons. 96 00:09:18,626.338 --> 00:09:21,926.338 We know it's gonna be cold winter, we know it's gonna be hot and summer. 97 00:09:22,166.338 --> 00:09:27,506.338 If you've been in practice for more than a few years, you may have noticed that there are slow seasons and busy seasons. 98 00:09:27,746.338 --> 00:09:33,356.338 There are things that we know to be true that we can set ourselves up for success in. 99 00:09:33,686.338 --> 00:09:35,426.338 So it's not a theoretical schedule. 100 00:09:35,426.338 --> 00:09:40,76.338 We're trying to create where everything goes perfectly, but we are being realistic. 101 00:09:40,76.338 --> 00:09:42,986.338 Okay? So most doctors look at their numbers and they start. 102 00:09:43,231.338 --> 00:09:47,881.338 Basing their, their revenue goals or percentages off of 52 weeks outta the year. 103 00:09:47,881.338 --> 00:09:51,751.338 But the reality is between holiday school breaks, sickness and family life, that's not happening. 104 00:09:52,141.338 --> 00:09:57,61.338 So for most people, I recommend planning 44 to 48 weeks in practice. 105 00:09:57,361.338 --> 00:10:00,421.338 That gives you, you know, I start with four weeks of vacation. 106 00:10:00,571.338 --> 00:10:02,311.338 Planned rest I know is going to happen. 107 00:10:02,311.338 --> 00:10:04,651.338 I'm gonna go on vacation, we're gonna do the things. 108 00:10:04,736.338 --> 00:10:05,26.338 Okay. 109 00:10:06,11.338 --> 00:10:18,641.338 I also, I, there's certain months, weeks during the year that are just slow and me and my husband have personally decided we don't really enjoy fighting it and trying to, to work against the slow weeks and building up. 110 00:10:18,641.338 --> 00:10:21,941.338 We'd rather just go with the flow and take vacation when it's easy. 111 00:10:22,151.338 --> 00:10:25,991.338 Why not? It always seems to line up with when we need a break anyways. 112 00:10:26,351.338 --> 00:10:34,721.338 Okay, so how many vacation weeks are you gonna take? But then you also need to consider if you were going to work in a job somewhere. 113 00:10:35,156.338 --> 00:10:39,716.338 They're gonna give you likely vacation time, but they're also gonna give you sick time. 114 00:10:39,986.338 --> 00:10:57,56.338 Okay? So how much sick time are you going to allow for yourself and your business? This allows for you to do the math properly so that way if you do take time off, you are not gonna be stressed and frustrated because you can't go to work or you need to take the time off. 115 00:10:57,266.338 --> 00:10:59,96.338 You wanna be able to take time off. 116 00:10:59,516.338 --> 00:11:06,686.338 To heal if you're sick or to take care of your kiddos without guilt or stress, or wondering how you're gonna make ends meet. 117 00:11:06,956.338 --> 00:11:12,896.338 Okay? So you want to plan against this or plan knowing that this is going to happen. 118 00:11:13,136.338 --> 00:11:17,906.338 So how many weeks are you going to work? That's the first thing you need to determine. 119 00:11:18,116.338 --> 00:11:23,96.338 Again, like I said, I typically recommend, you know, 44 to 48 weeks. 120 00:11:23,96.338 --> 00:11:23,966.338 For most people. 121 00:11:23,966.338 --> 00:11:26,696.338 You might do more, you might do less, but you need to really. 122 00:11:27,41.338 --> 00:11:28,31.338 Be realistic. 123 00:11:28,61.338 --> 00:11:32,51.338 Okay? Step two is you need to choose hours that work for your life. 124 00:11:32,411.338 --> 00:11:35,336.338 Next, we need to decide when you're going to see patients. 125 00:11:36,11.338 --> 00:11:41,361.338 I build my schedule for my practice around my life when my husband is at home. 126 00:11:41,571.338 --> 00:11:50,271.338 Right now, I work about six to eight hours a week right now, and I still generate almost a full-time income because my pricing and my structure is intentional. 127 00:11:50,541.338 --> 00:11:54,411.338 Okay? I am literally making as much as some people right now. 128 00:11:54,631.338 --> 00:12:01,201.338 And there are associate jobs working 40 hours a week because I know what I have to give, and I also know what has to come out. 129 00:12:01,501.338 --> 00:12:09,961.338 And if that means that I have to turn people away because they're not a good fit and they don't wanna pay, then they're just not the right fit for my practice. 130 00:12:10,21.338 --> 00:12:15,601.338 And by the way, I only have six to eight hours a week available, so I can't take everybody anyways. 131 00:12:15,901.338 --> 00:12:18,961.338 So my pricing and my structure is very intentional. 132 00:12:18,961.338 --> 00:12:23,491.338 My hours work for my schedule, my target audience that I work with. 133 00:12:24,126.338 --> 00:12:25,476.338 It also works for them. 134 00:12:25,476.338 --> 00:12:29,676.338 I line it up with what works for me, but I am considerate of what works for them. 135 00:12:30,126.338 --> 00:12:38,16.338 But here's the thing, sometimes even people in my target audience, my schedule doesn't work for their lifestyle and tough. 136 00:12:38,76.338 --> 00:12:39,226.338 That's just, it is what it is. 137 00:12:40,236.338 --> 00:12:52,416.338 I am not going to completely bend over backwards and move my schedule around for every single person I practice because then every single person expects that, and that's when you start to lose your boundaries. 138 00:12:52,416.338 --> 00:13:03,36.338 Okay? So if you're a mom, you need to consider when are the times of the day that you are completely irreplaceable, that it would make your life so much smoother if you were not working. 139 00:13:03,306.338 --> 00:13:14,136.338 Okay? What hours are sacred to your lifestyle, to the other mantles in your life? That you are not willing to give up, okay? Stop trying to squeeze your business into everybody else's schedule. 140 00:13:14,256.338 --> 00:13:18,126.338 Your hours are your hours and the right patients will fit into them. 141 00:13:18,306.338 --> 00:13:20,856.338 That's one of the perks of having a boutique practice. 142 00:13:21,96.338 --> 00:13:23,946.338 Your patients value you not convenience. 143 00:13:24,126.338 --> 00:13:30,396.338 That's also one of the reasons most people open a business in the first place because they want freedom and flexibility in their schedule. 144 00:13:30,396.338 --> 00:13:34,986.338 So accept the freedom and the flexibility. 145 00:13:36,21.338 --> 00:13:40,941.338 Okay, this fourth step is to, again, expect real life. 146 00:13:41,151.338 --> 00:13:42,261.338 Sick days are gonna happen. 147 00:13:42,411.338 --> 00:13:43,611.338 Babysitters are gonna quit. 148 00:13:43,821.338 --> 00:13:46,671.338 When I, during COVID schools closed every other week. 149 00:13:46,671.338 --> 00:13:50,421.338 Now we live in a much better situation right now, and I hope that never happens again. 150 00:13:50,661.338 --> 00:13:59,661.338 But the reality is, is stuff comes up and that's okay, and your patients will understand, especially when you're in a boutique model where your relationship with your patients is personal. 151 00:14:00,291.338 --> 00:14:01,491.338 They're gonna understand. 152 00:14:02,1.338 --> 00:14:05,511.338 Even medical doctors reschedule patients all the time for emergencies. 153 00:14:05,781.338 --> 00:14:08,211.338 You are human and your clients will respect that. 154 00:14:08,211.338 --> 00:14:18,651.338 So if you plan ahead for the things that you can anticipate, it makes it a lot easier when things come up that you don't expect. 155 00:14:18,861.338 --> 00:14:21,501.338 When you know your weeks, your hours, your priorities. 156 00:14:21,681.338 --> 00:14:27,441.338 It's easy for you to reschedule people without guilt when things come up and if it's not working out. 157 00:14:28,581.338 --> 00:14:31,401.338 It's always okay to change your hours. 158 00:14:31,671.338 --> 00:14:34,761.338 I revisit my hours every single quarter. 159 00:14:35,181.338 --> 00:14:39,231.338 Sometimes the hours that I think are gonna work great don't work at all. 160 00:14:39,471.338 --> 00:14:46,161.338 Either they don't work for my family or they just don't work for the, the overall schedule of my practice. 161 00:14:46,161.338 --> 00:14:54,51.338 Meaning if I'm gonna see people a few times a week, I don't necessarily wanna have two days back to back because it doesn't make sense clinically. 162 00:14:54,291.338 --> 00:14:56,571.338 But I also wanna make sure. 163 00:14:57,741.338 --> 00:15:00,831.338 That the schedule is working for my family. 164 00:15:00,831.338 --> 00:15:06,741.338 There have been times where, you know, when I have toddlers and they're just starting school, they're gonna get sick. 165 00:15:06,951.338 --> 00:15:08,841.338 They get sick all of the time. 166 00:15:09,51.338 --> 00:15:24,531.338 And so this year one of the things that I decided to do was, even though all three of my kids are in school two days out of the week for, for, um, 10 hours total, it would be easy for me to think, okay, I'll just work when they're at school, but. 167 00:15:24,861.338 --> 00:15:34,41.338 I remembered after having this, now I'm a third kid, that whenever kids go to school for the very first time, they get exposed to all the things and they end up missing a lot of days. 168 00:15:34,941.338 --> 00:15:43,371.338 And I want to be the mom that is going to help them and be there with them when they're sick, when they're dealing with sniffles and coughs. 169 00:15:43,641.338 --> 00:15:46,671.338 And as a chiropractor, you know, I think sometimes. 170 00:15:47,46.338 --> 00:15:53,676.338 When I know a lot of chiropractors are listening to this, you feel like, oh my gosh, like I must be doing something wrong because my kid is getting sick all the time. 171 00:15:53,826.338 --> 00:15:58,296.338 I just wanna release you from the pressure and the guilt for your kids to always be completely healthy. 172 00:15:58,566.338 --> 00:15:59,946.338 Um, I think that's unrealistic. 173 00:15:59,946.338 --> 00:16:02,586.338 That's how they built their immune system in the first place. 174 00:16:02,946.338 --> 00:16:11,16.338 And since COVID, a lot of places, like the school that my kiddo goes to, the Mother's Day out has a zero illness policy. 175 00:16:11,256.338 --> 00:16:14,766.338 So like literally snee teething, sniffles. 176 00:16:15,96.338 --> 00:16:17,196.338 We don't, we don't get to go to school for those. 177 00:16:17,616.338 --> 00:16:29,616.338 And so, you know, just a little itty bitty runny nose, a little bit of like some hum something, nothing like you can completely asymptomatic if you are have any symptoms, you cannot come to school. 178 00:16:30,96.338 --> 00:16:34,236.338 And I, I can respect that because they, they want to keep. 179 00:16:34,911.338 --> 00:16:37,581.338 From spreading illnesses, which is it. 180 00:16:37,791.338 --> 00:16:49,911.338 I think it's a part of life, but I also understand, you know, there's weeks when I'm like, man, I really don't want my kid to be around somebody that's sick because I have things to do and I just don't have bandwidth right now. 181 00:16:49,911.338 --> 00:16:59,61.338 So I'm going to hedge against or protect my kiddos and not necessarily take them out to the places where all the other little ones are running around. 182 00:16:59,306.338 --> 00:17:01,616.338 For my toddler to get exposed to something. 183 00:17:01,616.338 --> 00:17:04,766.338 'cause I've got a big week next week and I need you to be healthy. 184 00:17:05,6.338 --> 00:17:05,336.338 Okay. 185 00:17:05,486.338 --> 00:17:07,766.338 That's just smart planning and parenting. 186 00:17:08,216.338 --> 00:17:09,506.338 That's just something to consider. 187 00:17:09,506.338 --> 00:17:14,156.338 So what I'm doing in this season is I'm actually not working when they're at school. 188 00:17:14,306.338 --> 00:17:22,346.338 I'm working when my husband can be home because I know no matter what happens, if my little one, 'cause he is like, she's 14 months right now. 189 00:17:22,346.338 --> 00:17:26,876.338 She's been exposed to like all the things at this point, I think not all of them, but most of them. 190 00:17:26,876.338 --> 00:17:28,676.338 So we haven't, oh man. 191 00:17:29,61.338 --> 00:17:32,631.338 For, we've been so blessed that after, you know, the, the first wi. 192 00:17:33,696.338 --> 00:17:47,286.338 First year of life, we've kind of gotten most of the things that she's doing pretty well, but I know that it's very possible that she's gonna start teething at any point and she's gonna have a runny nose, and then we can't go to school. 193 00:17:47,526.338 --> 00:17:53,496.338 And so I've decided I don't wanna have to reschedule people all of the time for little things. 194 00:17:53,796.338 --> 00:17:57,546.338 I wanna be there when she's available or when, when I need to be there. 195 00:17:57,786.338 --> 00:17:58,381.338 And so my hours. 196 00:17:59,106.338 --> 00:18:02,886.338 Are actually not when my kids are at school, they're when my husband's at home. 197 00:18:03,216.338 --> 00:18:06,696.338 So you wanna think about the different priorities you have at hand. 198 00:18:06,696.338 --> 00:18:09,486.338 And remember, friend, a wait list is your best friend. 199 00:18:09,756.338 --> 00:18:18,426.338 It's important to start with a few hours and then fill them up and expand them as your plate and your schedule allows. 200 00:18:18,456.338 --> 00:18:26,226.338 Okay? So one of the things, this is really part, part four, one of the things I want everyone to keep in mind when you're scheduling. 201 00:18:27,366.338 --> 00:18:37,296.338 If you are looking at your schedule and you have 12 hours on your schedule and it's half full and consistently week after week after week, it's 50% full. 202 00:18:37,536.338 --> 00:18:55,926.338 How do you think that's gonna make you feel as compared to looking at a schedule that is booked out overbook, or you have a wait list that is six hours a week, y'all? Psychologically it is so much easier for you to plan your life around a completely full schedule than it is. 203 00:18:56,271.338 --> 00:18:59,211.338 To have a schedule with a bunch of empty gaps in it. 204 00:18:59,451.338 --> 00:19:12,801.338 When you have a schedule with a bunch of empty gaps during that time, your mind, your brain is going to need a lot of discipline to be productive because you're constantly going to be thinking, I should be doing something for the business 'cause I scheduled this time for the business. 205 00:19:13,191.338 --> 00:19:20,886.338 But also, what do I do right now? There can be a lot of guilt and frustration wrapped up into those empty six hours. 206 00:19:20,886.338 --> 00:19:24,156.338 And when it happens consistently, you can find it very easily. 207 00:19:24,156.338 --> 00:19:25,386.338 Find yourself stuck in a rut. 208 00:19:25,386.338 --> 00:19:27,576.338 And I see that happen a lot with people. 209 00:19:27,756.338 --> 00:19:30,426.338 And we tell them, cut your hours down. 210 00:19:30,756.338 --> 00:19:32,46.338 Cut your hours down. 211 00:19:32,286.338 --> 00:19:37,596.338 If that means you're working six hours a week, slowly, that six hours gonna get full. 212 00:19:38,226.338 --> 00:19:39,936.338 Because there's gonna be demand there. 213 00:19:39,936.338 --> 00:19:42,306.338 People are gonna realize they don't have access to you. 214 00:19:42,486.338 --> 00:19:50,556.338 And then now you, you will have leverage to be able to schedule people and you'll have people saying, oh wait, I gotta get on your schedule now, because there's not a whole lot of options. 215 00:19:50,586.338 --> 00:19:52,236.338 There's not a whole lot of availability. 216 00:19:52,776.338 --> 00:20:00,546.338 Slowly that turns into a wait list and slowly you start to recognize, hey, like I'm consistently adding an hour here, or adding an hour there. 217 00:20:01,306.338 --> 00:20:09,226.338 Why don't I make this a new shift or add this to my shift, and now all of a sudden, after a month, month and a half, you're at eight hours. 218 00:20:09,496.338 --> 00:20:14,836.338 And then the same thing happens a couple months later and you're at 10 completely booked hours with a wait list. 219 00:20:15,76.338 --> 00:20:29,86.338 And then a couple of months later, the same thing happens and you're at a completely booked out schedule at 12 hours a week, y'all, that is so much easier to build up than staring at a consistently half empty schedule. 220 00:20:29,736.338 --> 00:20:32,46.338 Or have full schedule, however you wanna look at it. 221 00:20:32,586.338 --> 00:20:39,721.338 I know for me, when I see appointments, spots on my schedule, I start to do anxious work, busy work. 222 00:20:39,721.338 --> 00:20:40,771.338 I'm like, I gotta do something. 223 00:20:40,771.338 --> 00:20:46,231.338 Like for whatever reason this, this spot wasn't open, I have a tendency to wanna fill it with something productive. 224 00:20:46,231.338 --> 00:20:48,901.338 I feel like if I'm not being productive, I'm wasting time. 225 00:20:48,991.338 --> 00:20:53,611.338 And then ultimately most of the time I am really just wasting time on busy work. 226 00:20:53,941.338 --> 00:21:04,801.338 Um, and so that's just something I personally struggle with, but I see so many other people struggle with it, that it is just something that I consider to just not even deal with. 227 00:21:05,161.338 --> 00:21:05,491.338 Okay. 228 00:21:05,616.338 --> 00:21:05,836.338 The. 229 00:21:06,391.338 --> 00:21:08,131.338 Sixth step is protect your margin. 230 00:21:08,131.338 --> 00:21:09,871.338 Scheduling isn't about cramming it in. 231 00:21:09,871.338 --> 00:21:11,581.338 It's about protecting what matters most. 232 00:21:11,791.338 --> 00:21:14,491.338 Margin is the oxygen of a stable business. 233 00:21:14,641.338 --> 00:21:18,61.338 So you build it by setting hours that, like I said, fit for your family. 234 00:21:18,241.338 --> 00:21:25,111.338 Pricing accordingly to your own capacity, taking actual time off and staying rooted in your why behind your work. 235 00:21:25,171.338 --> 00:21:27,961.338 Because the goal isn't to prove that you can do it all. 236 00:21:28,141.338 --> 00:21:31,471.338 It's to build a business that lets you live while serving as. 237 00:21:32,596.338 --> 00:21:41,176.338 Well, okay, so if you want help building that kind of practice, one that's profitable, peaceful, part-time and personal, that's what I do. 238 00:21:41,626.338 --> 00:21:44,506.338 Join me inside the The Boutique Practices School Group. 239 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