September 18, 2023 • 29 mins
Are you feeling trapped in a whirlwind of tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities? It's time to break free! Today, we're navigating the murky waters of overwhelm that often engulf us as physicians and entrepreneurs. And guess what? It's okay to feel overwhelmed. It only makes us human.
Embark on this enlightening journey as we tackle how to prioritize work, balance rest, and focus on the activities that give us the most bang for our buck. We'll uncover the secret of the 20/80 rule and how to make it work for you, create your ideal work week, and identify those activities that have sparked past success. Together, we'll also weed out the tasks that might be overwhelming you and put together a robust plan of action.
Finally, we'll arm you with seven, yes seven, powerful tips to better manage your time, prioritize tasks like a pro, and conquer overwhelm. From mastering the art of saying 'no' more often to planning your week ahead of time, these strategies are primed to keep you ahead of your tasks and free from overwhelm. Plus, we'll delve into the art of resilience, an essential tool for these challenging times, and how taking time for yourself can help you build this muscle and radiate positive influence. Get ready to rise above the overwhelm and thrive!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi docs, welcome to the EntremD podcast, where it's
all about helping amazingphysicians just like you embrace
entrepreneurship so you canhave the freedom to live life
and practice medicine on yourterms.
I'm your host, dr Ibnah.
Well, hello.
Hello, my friend, welcome backto another episode of the
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EntremD podcast.
I just want to say a big thankyou.
I have gotten a lot of privatemessages on Instagram and
LinkedIn and Facebook of doctorseither sharing wins they've
gotten from the podcast orletting me know how it's made
such a big difference in theirbusinesses and their families
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and their hope for medicine andall of that, and it's really
been so heartwarming for me, andso I want to say big thank you.
And again, especially as we'recoming up on our fifth year of
EntremD, I really am all in myfeelings and grateful and
honored and humbled by theopportunity I have to be a gift
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to the physician community.
I don't take it for granted andI know none of this would
happen without you.
So I want to say thank you forlistening, for sharing the
podcast, for leaving us reviews,for buying the EntremD Method
book A really, really big thankyou to every doctor who's in the
EntremD business school andthank you, thank you so much.
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Today.
I come from a place of reallyinteracting with a lot of
physician entrepreneurs andseeing a lot of overwhelm, a lot
of overwhelm, and life can be alot and business can be a lot,
and especially if you're aparent, especially if you're a
mother, it's even morechallenging.
And so I want to come talkabout really how to rise above
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the overwhelm and some of thethings I've done and some of the
things I've helped my clientsdo over the years, and this is
probably one episode you'regoing to want to come back to
over and over again, but it willbe so worth it.
This is going to be like awhole masterclass, if you will,
and the thing about overwhelm isyou'd never really outgrown the
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feelings of overwhelm, or thetemptation to be overwhelmed, as
we like to say it in EBS, andthe reason for that is you'll
figure things out and kind ofget a good cadence and a good
rhythm and you decide that, okay, I'm going to do what I'm doing
on an even bigger scale and thethings that used to work will
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no longer work.
You're going to have to learnto do new things and you might
find yourself back up againstall these feelings of overwhelm,
or life may throw you acurveball or whatever it is, and
so this is something that isworth it to have it as a skill,
like when my life seemsoverwhelming, I have this
framework of things that I do soI can rise above the overwhelm.
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So this is not going to becompletely exhaustive, but it
will give you a good way ofthinking about it, a good way of
navigating it, and it's just atool you have in your toolbox
that you can whip out wheneveryou feel overwhelmed.
And so in the Entry intoBusiness School, we have this
saying, like we don't dooverwhelm and that's not to say
we don't feel feelings ofoverwhelm or that life doesn't
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show up in an overwhelming wayis that when that comes, it's an
invitation to do something else, so I can rise above the
overwhelm, right?
So there will be those feelings, but we can choose.
We can choose what we want ourstate to be.
And I mean, think about howmagical it would be if we
recognize those feelings ofoverwhelm, the way we recognize
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symptoms in our patients.
And so when somebody comes inand says I have a fever, we
don't just say, oh my goodness,you have a fever.
Now you're feverish, and thisis just the way it has to be.
No, we take a history, we do anexam, we come up with what
could be triggering this and wecome up with a plan of attack.
Right, that's literally what wedo with our patients, and when
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we have these feelings ofoverwhelm this what we're going
to talk about in this episodebecomes like a tool in your
toolkit, like a soap process andwhere you're like okay, this is
how I am going to run thediagnostics on this and come up
with the plan.
So that's what we're going tobe looking at for today.
So I'm going to give you seventhings and you can work through
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it, and I'm all about doingthings in community.
So, if you're in the on-chamdbusiness school, of course this
is something you can work inwith your classmates.
And if you're not, we've talkedabout the on-chamd podcast
accountability pods, where youcan just grab a group of friends
and you guys can go to aStarbucks somewhere and they'll
work through this, right, okay?
So let's look at seven things.
So the first thing here is andthis is really important is to
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acknowledge that there's nothingwrong with you.
Okay, I have had the gift ofbeing in some rooms is some of
the most powerful people, right,we're talking people who are
running seven figure, multipleseven figure businesses, nine
figure businesses.
Right, people are runningbillion dollar businesses, like
things like that, and in eachone of those rooms is very
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fascinating to see how similarwe are.
And so you think at that, atthat stage, they've mastered
team, they have the money tohire the right teams, they have
all the stuff so they don't dealwith overwhelm, and nothing
could be further than the truth,from the truth, and so there's
nothing wrong with you.
This is the path of anentrepreneur.
I mean, truthfully, it's thepath of a human being, and so
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feeling overwhelmed does notmake you this unique individual
who has these deep problems.
That there's no solution to.
This is what everybody goesthrough, right?
So there's nothing wrong withyou.
I almost wanna say there'snothing wrong, right, like when
there's nothing wrong with you.
They will work through it,right, and coming from that
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standpoint is really freeing andit really it just normalizes it
.
I'm not uniquely messed up.
This is just.
This is life, life is life-ing,and so there's nothing wrong
with you.
That's really critical, thatyou get that, okay.
So that's the first thing Iwant us to acknowledge.
The second thing is time.
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Your project and I call it aproject.
Same thing.
If a patient was gonna come toyou, you have a timeline, right.
You come in, you have the timewith the patient, you come up
with your diagnosis, you come upwith your plan and you may tell
them okay, did all of this.
Johnny has an ear infection.
I'm sending you a prescriptionfor homoxicillin and he's
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probably still gonna have feversfor another three or four days,
and that's okay.
Give him, like you, give him,tylenol, and we'll take this
long for it to go away.
And then follow up with me inanother 10 to 14 days.
Now, if you think about that,you're not saying everything's
gonna be fixed in two minutes.
So when you start working onthis overwhelm thing, it's not
gonna be fixed in two seconds,right.
And you can say you know whatI'm gonna work for the next 30
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days, to put myself in aposition where these things that
make me feel overwhelmed, theydon't overwhelm me anymore.
Or you may say this is what I'mgonna work on for the next
quarter, right, so for 90 daysor whatever, but kind of time it
.
It takes away this pressure ofI was like this yesterday.
I'm still like this today andwe have patients who do that to
us, right, where you're like,and you're like, wait a minute,
this is gonna take a minute,right?
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So just give yourself the spaceso you can relax, so you can do
this, and you understand thatI'm doing something that is a
gift I'll keep giving.
It'll put me in a much betterspace.
Now are you going to startseeing wins much sooner than the
30 days or whatever?
Yes, of course.
It's just like the mom withJohnny who has an ear infection,
right, like, maybe after 48hours, johnny no longer has
fevers and she stopped theantibiotic then, absolutely not
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because we're not done, but shestarted seeing results, right.
And so think of it that way youwanna time it right.
Give yourself two weeks, giveyourself a week, give yourself
30 days, 90 days, whatever, andyou're like I'm gonna work
through this stuff, okay, and soyou can decide on the time
after we're done with the seventhings.
But it's important that youtreat it that way.
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And so, day to day, you're notfrustrated because everything
did self-correct in 24 hours,okay.
So that's number two.
Number three.
Number three is you wannacreate your ideal work week Now
in the Uncharted Business School.
This is something we work on alot, okay, so we call it the CEO
calendar, and this is kind ofthe structure of your week,
because as you build yourbusiness bigger, as you cross
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the seven figure milestone, themultiple seven figure milestone
all of that, you're gonna havemore stuff, right.
You're gonna have more stuff todo and you're gonna have more
life stuff to do and there'salways gonna be more things to
do than you'll ever be able todo.
There will always be more booksto read than you can ever read.
There will always be morepodcasts to listen to than you
can listen to.
There'll always be more ways ofdoing your business than ways
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you can actually do yourbusiness.
There's always gonna be a lotmore.
And so your CEO calendar is allabout disciplining, like
reining in your time and usingit for the things that will get
you to where you want to goright.
And so let me talk about andagain, this is a document you
will work on forever.
You will use it, life willchange, it will break.
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Then you are gonna edit it andthen life will change and it
will break, and not bad changes.
This could be business growth,like, even with business growth,
the things that used to be veryvaluable use of your time.
It's gonna change and so you'regonna need to change your
calendar.
But we can't go into everythingabout your calendar, but I
wanna give you some things Likeyour ideal calendar.
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My ideal calendar I'll give you.
My method has three criticalcomponents to it, right.
One is my priorities.
So if you've heard me once,you've heard me a thousand times
talk about my daily five, okay,and this is me scheduling my
priorities, and so what it doesis it puts me in a position
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where, no matter how busy theday is, no matter how bad the
day quote unquote bad the day isno matter what happens, I did
stuff in the day to move myselftowards my most important goals,
okay.
So for me, yeah, I say dailyfive, but it's been six, and I
actually recently it's beenseven, but these are things that
I do every day, okay.
So, when I think about my lifein general, what are the most
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important things to me?
Well, my relationship with God.
That's number one, superimportant to me.
My relationship with my familynumber two, very, very, very
important to me my health, right?
Well, even before, my health isyou know, my legacy, the things
that I do to make an impact inthe world my health and all of
these things, right, okay, sowhat that means is I pick these
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little things I can do every daythat will move me towards them.
So I pray every day, I meditateevery day, I exercise every day
, I have me tweaks, mtwk, whichis meaningful time with kids
Every day.
I would review my goals everyday so that I make sure I'm in
line.
That's like my GPS, if you will.
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I read every day and I listento podcasts every day.
Okay, now, these seven thingsare things that are typically
done with in the morning, butthey're things that, even if
things are overwhelming and alot of things going on, I can
still go through an overwhelming30 days and my life still got
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better.
My health got better, myrelationship with my family got
better.
My relationship with God was somuch better Because I scheduled
these things and I prioritizedthem right.
I scheduled my priorities.
So the first part, when youlook at your ideal work week for
every day, the first thing thatneeds to be there would be your
priorities and the second thingwould be your focused work,
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which I say your focus workbecause day to day may be
different.
So, for instance, if you work ajob, you may work four days a
week, so Tuesday through Friday,and then Monday you work on
your business, and so your focuswork will be different on
Monday because it's yourbusiness work, and then the
other days of the week it may beyour job, for instance, right,
but your focused work, right.
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That will be the second thingthat will be there, and I'll
talk a little bit about whatgoes in there, and then the
third will be your rest, right.
So when does your work day endIf you do not have an end time?
As an entrepreneur, and youwill know this, you can work
till 1 am, right.
So when does your work day end?
And it doesn't have to be aspecific time.
You may be at a state where,like, things are crazy and I am
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working till 10, and you may sayokay, from today I'm going to
work till 8.
You may not be able to take itto 5.
And that's okay.
It's your ideal work week, it'snobody else's right, and you
can move it back to 8.
And then you can move it backto 7.
And this is a reason why yougive yourself time to do this.
Do you see what I mean.
But you own that.
But this gives you time to rest, this gives you time to relax
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with your family, this gives youtime to eat, sleep, all of
those things.
But you know, because as youstart growing as an entrepreneur
, your thinking work becomessome of your most valuable work,
and so you want to put yourselfin a position where you can
think best.
Right, Because your mind issharp, is rested and all of
those things.
So three things that go inthere your priorities, your
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focus work and your rest.
Okay, so every single day, youhave these three components and
then, in the things you need todo for your work, you put it in
your focus work time.
Right, but what does this do Inthe midst of all these
overwhelming things?
You're like what bucket does itfit in?
I didn't just put it in thebucket, you know what I mean.
But it still forces you toobserve your priorities and your
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rest, which are the two thingsthat go away when we allow work
to eat up all the time.
Right, okay, so that is numberthree.
Number four number four becomesreally important because we
talked about your focus work.
Now number four is definingyour 20% and your 80%.
This is work you will always dobecause it will change as you
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change, but understanding thisis the thing that would make you
get so much more done in alittle bit of time.
It will make it clear thatthings overwhelming you may be
things that you just need to notdo, or things you need to
delegate, or things that like,flat out don't matter.
If you don't have this 2080type of filter, you won't know
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and you may be stressed outabout things that just don't
matter.
Okay, so let's go over this.
We've talked about it manytimes on the podcast, but quick
refresher here 20% refers tothose 20% of your activities
that actually create 80% of yourresults, and sometimes people
are like well, I don't know whatthat is.
Okay, so when I talk withpeople, let me say I'm talking
to a coach and the coach has had100 clients.
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They've served 100 clients andthey're like I don't know how to
attract people.
Okay, for the 100 people thathave worked with you, what is
the number one way people foundyou?
And they're like oh, they findme when I go to speak at events
Wonderful, okay, other thanevents.
What is the second way peoplefind you?
Or they listen to my podcastand there I tell people to book
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a call.
And they book a call and theycome to work with me.
Outstanding.
What is the other way peoplefind you?
Well, I guess coach in othergroups and every time I do that,
people reach out, they bookcalls, they work with me.
Fantastic, okay.
Now, what are you doing now togrow your business?
Well, I'm doing ads, I'm doingsocial media.
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I just hired somebody for SEOand all this stuff.
I'm like, okay.
So how about events?
I'm not speaking out of eventsanymore, okay, okay, okay, cool,
cool.
How about your podcast?
I decided I don't want to besales anymore, so I don't ask
people to do discovery calls.
I don't invite them from thepodcast anymore.
Okay, all right.
How about guest coaching?
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I decided I wanted to protectmy time, so I don't do that
anymore and I'm like okay.
So what I hear you say is thethree things that have made you
super successful over the lastyear are the three things you
are no longer doing.
Right, and so if that person isoverwhelmed with the SEO, with
the ads, with the challenges,with all of that, what do you
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think I'm going to tell them todo?
I'm like squash all of those.
Or I mean you can still do them, but put them in their proper
place and exalt the 20% Likethey should be exalted, because
those are the things that gotyou the hundred patients in the
first, the hundred clients inthe first place, right, and so,
being really clear on the thingsthat are moving the needle, for
you are creating the resultsand doing those things.
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Those are typically the thingswe want to procrastinate on
Right.
Usually, usually they're thethings we procrastinate on.
So what is the 20% in yourbusiness?
I just pulled out an example.
But what is that?
So when you do your focus work,you're not filling it with 80%
activities that are only goingto give you 20% of the results.
You're filling them up withthings that will move the needle
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forward.
Now I'm saying don't try newthings.
Of course, try them, but wenever kill cash cows, we never
kill the things that are workingRight, except we don't want
that result anymore if we'redone with it, right.
So you want to be very clearDefine that, define that.
And when you start definingyour 20%, your 80%, it becomes
so much clearer.
What is the waste of your time?
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Become so much clearer.
There's something that you needto procrastinate on, become so
much clearer.
If I want to bring a rapidresult, what are the things I
need to do?
And it makes your life.
It makes it so much easier foryou to hear the noise, and you
know what I mean.
All the things around you thatare just noise.
You can hear them for what theyare, as noise, and you're like,
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yeah, I don't listen to that.
And you're able to with theprecision of a sniper.
You're just like, boom, let'sget what we need to get.
So define that that way in yourfocus work time on your
calendar, you're filling it withyour 20%.
Does that mean you don't do any80% activities?
Of course you do, but you dothem with only 20% of your time,
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not more.
You spend most of your timedoing the things that work Okay.
So that's number four.
Number five.
Number five is leverage yourteam.
Okay, I've done a lot ofepisodes.
I'm not going to go too deepinto this, other than tell you
this Leverage your team as yougo higher in business.
One of the fastest ways to livein overwhelm is to take on new
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things without getting off oldthings.
This is something you want toconstantly ask yourself.
Notice that I didn't say, get ateam.
Now, you're going to get yourteam, but leverage your team,
okay.
So I'm talking about your teamat home and I'm talking about
your team at your business andI'm talking about your team at
your job.
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If you're working a job Allthree teams Like I want you to
think about as a CEO of yourlife you have this massive team.
Take out like paper, write outall the people who are on your
team.
I'm talking people who arefamily members and people who
are not, people who are paid andpeople who are not paid, people
at your business, people inyour home.
Put all of it and ask yourselfare there any things on my plate
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?
Are there any things I make itto my to-do list that belong to
these people?
Right, are they?
So you want to pay attention,you want to pay attention and
you want to leverage them.
One of the habits I do is,after I have my ideal work week,
and so on Sunday Sunday is myplanning day I plan, I put
everything in all the spots theyneed to be in I start asking
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myself questions Is thereanything on here anybody in my
life can do?
Forget that.
Nobody can do it as good as me.
We're not.
We're very, very important, butwe're not that important.
Of course, somebody can do it,and B plus work or B work from a
team member is much more viablethan A work from me, if that,
especially if that's somethingthat's not in my 20% right, okay
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.
So leverage.
Look at it, what here?
And it's easy as go.
No, I have to do all of thesebecause you've always done them.
That's your default.
But you want to take a looklike one by one.
Do I need to be doing this?
So leverage your team.
Leverage your team.
Leverage your team.
Your team is giving you as anantidote to overwhelm.
Leverage your team.
Number six say no a lot moreoften.
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Say no.
There's some opportunities thatare good, but the opportunity
cost is so high.
Say no, somebody invites you todo something you don't really
want to do and you're, like me,a recovering people.
Pleaser.
Say no.
You're clear on your vision,you're clear where you're going,
you're clear on all of that andyou have something that's about
to come on your plate.
Say no, say no.
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Say no a lot, a lot more oftenthan you're saying okay.
As you become more and moresuccessful, as you build your
business, bigger and bigger, oneof the words you're going to
get.
You're going to need to getreally good at saying is no, no.
So look at it, think about it,the things causing me to be
overwhelmed.
How many of them, I just don'tknow.
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Forget that you said yes beforeright, but how many of them are
just, they're just a no.
Now, I am a very principledperson.
If I give somebody my word, asmuch as it's humanly possible, I
won't back down right.
But at least I know next timewhen something like this
presents itself, the answer isno.
And if it's something where Ican ask, I know I said yes and I
am not going to go back on myword.
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I am just asking in case thereis somebody else who could feel
this or whatever.
Is there any way I can be letoff the hook for this?
If they say no, I will do itand I'll do it with a great
attitude and I'll do it likereally out of the goodness of my
heart.
But I also know like when thiskind of thing happens, I just
don't say yes.
If you're a people, please are.
One of the things you can do iswhen people ask you for stuff
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you're like I'm not sure.
I have to look at my schedulefirst.
Can you send me an email?
I'll check it out and if I can,I will, and that gives you the
opportunity to then actually golook at your calendar.
Do I have the bandwidth?
What is the opportunity cost ofme saying yes to this right?
Okay, so say no a lot moreoften.
And then seven okay, seven isokay.
This is what it is.
Live in the magic of what yourlife is right now.
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Live in the magic of it when wehave a lot of things thrown at
us and business stuff is goingon and maybe a team member left
and you did this big launch anddidn't play out the way you
wanted, and you have to do thisnew thing you haven't done
before and speak on the stagethat's so much bigger and at the
same time, something happenedwith your kid and all of that,
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and life is just throwingcurveballs at you.
Just stop, stop, stop, stop.
It is always not the rightthing to do to focus on the
challenges and the problems,because your life is magic, like
stop to think about it.
If you don't stop and trainyour brain to think that way,
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you'll miss out on so manythings and you'll turn nine
years ago, like man, my life wasmagical the whole time, and I
missed it Like I didn't enjoyany of it.
So I'll use myself as anexample, and you can relate to
this, because it's all in how wechoose to see things.
It's not about the way they areSee.
Perception is stronger thanreality.
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Things are the way we perceivethem to be, not the way they are
, and so I can have so manythings and please understand
this, everybody has a lot ofthings going on in their
businesses.
Okay, I told you, I've been insome of the most powerful rooms.
It's unbelievable.
All right, but at the same time, I wanted to be a doctor, and I
am.
I wanted to retire at 40, and Ihave.
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I set out on a mission to helpa hundred thousand physicians
learn to build profitablebusinesses.
And, yes, we're not at ahundred thousand, but, my
goodness, we have touched tensof thousands of doctors and we
have books that have soldthousands of copies.
We have a podcast that is overhalf a million downloads half a
million.
Our company made it to the Inc5000 list.
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I have four wonderful children.
I have an amazing husband.
I have a home that I love.
I live in a state that I loveto be in.
I get to travel a lot, I havethe most dynamic friendships and
I'm healthy, and these arethings I can choose to focus on
in the midst of whatever it isthat seems overwhelming.
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I have clients who are gettingcrazy wild wins.
I have people who listen to thepodcast and it's changed not
just their businesses and theircareers, but their lives and I
I'm living life on my terms and,yes, there are challenges, but,
oh, my goodness, yes is magical.
You know what I mean and youcan choose.
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You can choose because, foreverything that is not going
according to plan there seven atleast that are you know what I
mean like you can stop and youcan look for them.
So, so number seven is reallyliving in that magic,
acknowledging those things thatare working, celebrating those
things that are working.
It makes those, it makes goingthrough the challenging times so
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much easier.
It is stopping to think of allthe challenges you had in the
past and how you overcame them,and this new challenge Is going
to be just like that.
Right, think about howoverwhelmed you are.
You you're tempted to feel now,and how overwhelmed you felt,
maybe, when you started medschool, when you started
residency or when you firststart your business, or whatever
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that is.
I overcame all of those.
This is going to be one of them, right?
So live in the magic that yourlife is right now okay.
So I want to invite you don'tfeel like anything is wrong with
you or anything is wrong.
This is something you're gonnago through many, many times.
You're gonna come to this pointwhere it seems like, oh, my
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goodness, everything's brokenand everything is overwhelming.
Are you gonna get over it?
Are you gonna get back to thatspot?
And so I want to invite you tolearn to build the muscle your
own two kids, your own D stress,but the overwhelm type of
toolkit, and then you can alwayspull it out.
It's a muscle you're building.
You can always use it wheneveryou need to use it.
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So I am sending you virtualhugs.
Entrepreneurship is not easy,but it is doable and it is worth
it, and the return oninvestment is a thousand times
worth it.
And if you're listening to me,you're a mom.
This is specifically for you.
Sometimes, in addition to allthis overwhelm, you have
feelings of guilt because you'relike this is a time I should
spend with my kids, but somekids are gonna need to go to a
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magazine to get a vision board.
You are being a vision boardfor your kids because you are
going the difficult, the moredifficult path of saying yes To
your dreams and say yes tobuilding a business and say yes.
Maybe it's like team membersyou're struggling with, but
you're, you're learning to builda team.
You're learning to be a unicornbecause, I mean, only two
percent of female ownedcompanies hit the seven-figure
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mark Right and and you're doingall of these things and you are
teaching your, your daughters,your, your sons, such valuable
lessons just by being and.
So, yes, you may have, yes,there may be this thing of mommy
guilt compared to some othermoms, but please understand,
there's so much value to whatyou're doing.
I was talking to a lady earliertoday and she said she made a
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statement.
She was like, growing up, Ihaven't.
I, I had never seen a marriagethat worked till I came to to
this church and I met you, and Imet your husband and and your
and some of the families in thechurch and all of those things.
Just, I just had no example.
So every time I think aboutmarriage, I'm terrified.
Well, for your kids, there maybe people like oh, business
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never works.
Bad business people are badpeople.
You can't make money, can't doall that, but you are being an
example for your kids.
Can you imagine the person I'mtalking to?
She's in her mid 20s, butyou're being an example of your
kid, for your kids, of what ispossible.
So I'm sending you virtual hugs.
You're doing it not to hurtthem, but you're doing it for
them.
You really are okay.
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So I just wanted you to knowthat.
So take these things, applythese things, build this muscle.
Please share this episode withanother physician entrepreneur
because these are some reallytrying times, but we can.
We can thrive through them.
Okay, and by sharing thisepisode, you'll be helping
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Hi docs, welcome to the EntremD podcast, where it's
all about helping amazingphysicians just like you embrace
entrepreneurship so you canhave the freedom to live life
and practice medicine on yourterms.
I'm your host, dr Ibnah.
Well, hello.
Hello, my friend, welcome backto another episode of the
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I just want to say a big thankyou.
I have gotten a lot of privatemessages on Instagram and
LinkedIn and Facebook of doctorseither sharing wins they've
gotten from the podcast orletting me know how it's made
such a big difference in theirbusinesses and their families
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been so heartwarming for me, andso I want to say big thank you.
And again, especially as we'recoming up on our fifth year of
EntremD, I really am all in myfeelings and grateful and
honored and humbled by theopportunity I have to be a gift
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to the physician community.
I don't take it for granted andI know none of this would
happen without you.
So I want to say thank you forlistening, for sharing the
podcast, for leaving us reviews,for buying the EntremD Method
book A really, really big thankyou to every doctor who's in the
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Today.
I come from a place of reallyinteracting with a lot of
physician entrepreneurs andseeing a lot of overwhelm, a lot
of overwhelm, and life can be alot and business can be a lot,
and especially if you're aparent, especially if you're a
mother, it's even morechallenging.
And so I want to come talkabout really how to rise above
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the overwhelm and some of thethings I've done and some of the
things I've helped my clientsdo over the years, and this is
probably one episode you'regoing to want to come back to
over and over again, but it willbe so worth it.
This is going to be like awhole masterclass, if you will,
and the thing about overwhelm isyou'd never really outgrown the
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feelings of overwhelm, or thetemptation to be overwhelmed, as
we like to say it in EBS, andthe reason for that is you'll
figure things out and kind ofget a good cadence and a good
rhythm and you decide that, okay, I'm going to do what I'm doing
on an even bigger scale and thethings that used to work will
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no longer work.
You're going to have to learnto do new things and you might
find yourself back up againstall these feelings of overwhelm,
or life may throw you acurveball or whatever it is, and
so this is something that isworth it to have it as a skill,
like when my life seemsoverwhelming, I have this
framework of things that I do soI can rise above the overwhelm.
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So this is not going to becompletely exhaustive, but it
will give you a good way ofthinking about it, a good way of
navigating it, and it's just atool you have in your toolbox
that you can whip out wheneveryou feel overwhelmed.
And so in the Entry intoBusiness School, we have this
saying, like we don't dooverwhelm and that's not to say
we don't feel feelings ofoverwhelm or that life doesn't
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show up in an overwhelming wayis that when that comes, it's an
invitation to do something else, so I can rise above the
overwhelm, right?
So there will be those feelings, but we can choose.
We can choose what we want ourstate to be.
And I mean, think about howmagical it would be if we
recognize those feelings ofoverwhelm, the way we recognize
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symptoms in our patients.
And so when somebody comes inand says I have a fever, we
don't just say, oh my goodness,you have a fever.
Now you're feverish, and thisis just the way it has to be.
No, we take a history, we do anexam, we come up with what
could be triggering this and wecome up with a plan of attack.
Right, that's literally what wedo with our patients, and when
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we have these feelings ofoverwhelm this what we're going
to talk about in this episodebecomes like a tool in your
toolkit, like a soap process andwhere you're like okay, this is
how I am going to run thediagnostics on this and come up
with the plan.
So that's what we're going tobe looking at for today.
So I'm going to give you seventhings and you can work through
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it, and I'm all about doingthings in community.
So, if you're in the on-chamdbusiness school, of course this
is something you can work inwith your classmates.
And if you're not, we've talkedabout the on-chamd podcast
accountability pods, where youcan just grab a group of friends
and you guys can go to aStarbucks somewhere and they'll
work through this, right, okay?
So let's look at seven things.
So the first thing here is andthis is really important is to
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acknowledge that there's nothingwrong with you.
Okay, I have had the gift ofbeing in some rooms is some of
the most powerful people, right,we're talking people who are
running seven figure, multipleseven figure businesses, nine
figure businesses.
Right, people are runningbillion dollar businesses, like
things like that, and in eachone of those rooms is very
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fascinating to see how similarwe are.
And so you think at that, atthat stage, they've mastered
team, they have the money tohire the right teams, they have
all the stuff so they don't dealwith overwhelm, and nothing
could be further than the truth,from the truth, and so there's
nothing wrong with you.
This is the path of anentrepreneur.
I mean, truthfully, it's thepath of a human being, and so
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feeling overwhelmed does notmake you this unique individual
who has these deep problems.
That there's no solution to.
This is what everybody goesthrough, right?
So there's nothing wrong withyou.
I almost wanna say there'snothing wrong, right, like when
there's nothing wrong with you.
They will work through it,right, and coming from that
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standpoint is really freeing andit really it just normalizes it
.
I'm not uniquely messed up.
This is just.
This is life, life is life-ing,and so there's nothing wrong
with you.
That's really critical, thatyou get that, okay.
So that's the first thing Iwant us to acknowledge.
The second thing is time.
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Your project and I call it aproject.
Same thing.
If a patient was gonna come toyou, you have a timeline, right.
You come in, you have the timewith the patient, you come up
with your diagnosis, you come upwith your plan and you may tell
them okay, did all of this.
Johnny has an ear infection.
I'm sending you a prescriptionfor homoxicillin and he's
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probably still gonna have feversfor another three or four days,
and that's okay.
Give him, like you, give him,tylenol, and we'll take this
long for it to go away.
And then follow up with me inanother 10 to 14 days.
Now, if you think about that,you're not saying everything's
gonna be fixed in two minutes.
So when you start working onthis overwhelm thing, it's not
gonna be fixed in two seconds,right.
And you can say you know whatI'm gonna work for the next 30
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days, to put myself in aposition where these things that
make me feel overwhelmed, theydon't overwhelm me anymore.
Or you may say this is what I'mgonna work on for the next
quarter, right, so for 90 daysor whatever, but kind of time it
.
It takes away this pressure ofI was like this yesterday.
I'm still like this today andwe have patients who do that to
us, right, where you're like,and you're like, wait a minute,
this is gonna take a minute,right?
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So just give yourself the spaceso you can relax, so you can do
this, and you understand thatI'm doing something that is a
gift I'll keep giving.
It'll put me in a much betterspace.
Now are you going to startseeing wins much sooner than the
30 days or whatever?
Yes, of course.
It's just like the mom withJohnny who has an ear infection,
right, like, maybe after 48hours, johnny no longer has
fevers and she stopped theantibiotic then, absolutely not
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because we're not done, but shestarted seeing results, right.
And so think of it that way youwanna time it right.
Give yourself two weeks, giveyourself a week, give yourself
30 days, 90 days, whatever, andyou're like I'm gonna work
through this stuff, okay, and soyou can decide on the time
after we're done with the seventhings.
But it's important that youtreat it that way.
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And so, day to day, you're notfrustrated because everything
did self-correct in 24 hours,okay.
So that's number two.
Number three.
Number three is you wannacreate your ideal work week Now
in the Uncharted Business School.
This is something we work on alot, okay, so we call it the CEO
calendar, and this is kind ofthe structure of your week,
because as you build yourbusiness bigger, as you cross
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the seven figure milestone, themultiple seven figure milestone
all of that, you're gonna havemore stuff, right.
You're gonna have more stuff todo and you're gonna have more
life stuff to do and there'salways gonna be more things to
do than you'll ever be able todo.
There will always be more booksto read than you can ever read.
There will always be morepodcasts to listen to than you
can listen to.
There'll always be more ways ofdoing your business than ways
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you can actually do yourbusiness.
There's always gonna be a lotmore.
And so your CEO calendar is allabout disciplining, like
reining in your time and usingit for the things that will get
you to where you want to goright.
And so let me talk about andagain, this is a document you
will work on forever.
You will use it, life willchange, it will break.
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Then you are gonna edit it andthen life will change and it
will break, and not bad changes.
This could be business growth,like, even with business growth,
the things that used to be veryvaluable use of your time.
It's gonna change and so you'regonna need to change your
calendar.
But we can't go into everythingabout your calendar, but I
wanna give you some things Likeyour ideal calendar.
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My ideal calendar I'll give you.
My method has three criticalcomponents to it, right.
One is my priorities.
So if you've heard me once,you've heard me a thousand times
talk about my daily five, okay,and this is me scheduling my
priorities, and so what it doesis it puts me in a position
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where, no matter how busy theday is, no matter how bad the
day quote unquote bad the day isno matter what happens, I did
stuff in the day to move myselftowards my most important goals,
okay.
So for me, yeah, I say dailyfive, but it's been six, and I
actually recently it's beenseven, but these are things that
I do every day, okay.
So, when I think about my lifein general, what are the most
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important things to me?
Well, my relationship with God.
That's number one, superimportant to me.
My relationship with my familynumber two, very, very, very
important to me my health, right?
Well, even before, my health isyou know, my legacy, the things
that I do to make an impact inthe world my health and all of
these things, right, okay, sowhat that means is I pick these
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little things I can do every daythat will move me towards them.
So I pray every day, I meditateevery day, I exercise every day
, I have me tweaks, mtwk, whichis meaningful time with kids
Every day.
I would review my goals everyday so that I make sure I'm in
line.
That's like my GPS, if you will.
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I read every day and I listento podcasts every day.
Okay, now, these seven thingsare things that are typically
done with in the morning, butthey're things that, even if
things are overwhelming and alot of things going on, I can
still go through an overwhelming30 days and my life still got
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better.
My health got better, myrelationship with my family got
better.
My relationship with God was somuch better Because I scheduled
these things and I prioritizedthem right.
I scheduled my priorities.
So the first part, when youlook at your ideal work week for
every day, the first thing thatneeds to be there would be your
priorities and the second thingwould be your focused work,
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which I say your focus workbecause day to day may be
different.
So, for instance, if you work ajob, you may work four days a
week, so Tuesday through Friday,and then Monday you work on
your business, and so your focuswork will be different on
Monday because it's yourbusiness work, and then the
other days of the week it may beyour job, for instance, right,
but your focused work, right.
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That will be the second thingthat will be there, and I'll
talk a little bit about whatgoes in there, and then the
third will be your rest, right.
So when does your work day endIf you do not have an end time?
As an entrepreneur, and youwill know this, you can work
till 1 am, right.
So when does your work day end?
And it doesn't have to be aspecific time.
You may be at a state where,like, things are crazy and I am
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working till 10, and you may sayokay, from today I'm going to
work till 8.
You may not be able to take itto 5.
And that's okay.
It's your ideal work week, it'snobody else's right, and you
can move it back to 8.
And then you can move it backto 7.
And this is a reason why yougive yourself time to do this.
Do you see what I mean.
But you own that.
But this gives you time to rest, this gives you time to relax
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with your family, this gives youtime to eat, sleep, all of
those things.
But you know, because as youstart growing as an entrepreneur
, your thinking work becomessome of your most valuable work,
and so you want to put yourselfin a position where you can
think best.
Right, Because your mind issharp, is rested and all of
those things.
So three things that go inthere your priorities, your
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focus work and your rest.
Okay, so every single day, youhave these three components and
then, in the things you need todo for your work, you put it in
your focus work time.
Right, but what does this do Inthe midst of all these
overwhelming things?
You're like what bucket does itfit in?
I didn't just put it in thebucket, you know what I mean.
But it still forces you toobserve your priorities and your
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rest, which are the two thingsthat go away when we allow work
to eat up all the time.
Right, okay, so that is numberthree.
Number four number four becomesreally important because we
talked about your focus work.
Now number four is definingyour 20% and your 80%.
This is work you will always dobecause it will change as you
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change, but understanding thisis the thing that would make you
get so much more done in alittle bit of time.
It will make it clear thatthings overwhelming you may be
things that you just need to notdo, or things you need to
delegate, or things that like,flat out don't matter.
If you don't have this 2080type of filter, you won't know
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and you may be stressed outabout things that just don't
matter.
Okay, so let's go over this.
We've talked about it manytimes on the podcast, but quick
refresher here 20% refers tothose 20% of your activities
that actually create 80% of yourresults, and sometimes people
are like well, I don't know whatthat is.
Okay, so when I talk withpeople, let me say I'm talking
to a coach and the coach has had100 clients.
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They've served 100 clients andthey're like I don't know how to
attract people.
Okay, for the 100 people thathave worked with you, what is
the number one way people foundyou?
And they're like oh, they findme when I go to speak at events
Wonderful, okay, other thanevents.
What is the second way peoplefind you?
Or they listen to my podcastand there I tell people to book
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a call.
And they book a call and theycome to work with me.
Outstanding.
What is the other way peoplefind you?
Well, I guess coach in othergroups and every time I do that,
people reach out, they bookcalls, they work with me.
Fantastic, okay.
Now, what are you doing now togrow your business?
Well, I'm doing ads, I'm doingsocial media.
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I just hired somebody for SEOand all this stuff.
I'm like, okay.
So how about events?
I'm not speaking out of eventsanymore, okay, okay, okay, cool,
cool.
How about your podcast?
I decided I don't want to besales anymore, so I don't ask
people to do discovery calls.
I don't invite them from thepodcast anymore.
Okay, all right.
How about guest coaching?
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I decided I wanted to protectmy time, so I don't do that
anymore and I'm like okay.
So what I hear you say is thethree things that have made you
super successful over the lastyear are the three things you
are no longer doing.
Right, and so if that person isoverwhelmed with the SEO, with
the ads, with the challenges,with all of that, what do you
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think I'm going to tell them todo?
I'm like squash all of those.
Or I mean you can still do them, but put them in their proper
place and exalt the 20% Likethey should be exalted, because
those are the things that gotyou the hundred patients in the
first, the hundred clients inthe first place, right, and so,
being really clear on the thingsthat are moving the needle, for
you are creating the resultsand doing those things.
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Those are typically the thingswe want to procrastinate on
Right.
Usually, usually they're thethings we procrastinate on.
So what is the 20% in yourbusiness?
I just pulled out an example.
But what is that?
So when you do your focus work,you're not filling it with 80%
activities that are only goingto give you 20% of the results.
You're filling them up withthings that will move the needle
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forward.
Now I'm saying don't try newthings.
Of course, try them, but wenever kill cash cows, we never
kill the things that are workingRight, except we don't want
that result anymore if we'redone with it, right.
So you want to be very clearDefine that, define that.
And when you start definingyour 20%, your 80%, it becomes
so much clearer.
What is the waste of your time?
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Become so much clearer.
There's something that you needto procrastinate on, become so
much clearer.
If I want to bring a rapidresult, what are the things I
need to do?
And it makes your life.
It makes it so much easier foryou to hear the noise, and you
know what I mean.
All the things around you thatare just noise.
You can hear them for what theyare, as noise, and you're like,
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yeah, I don't listen to that.
And you're able to with theprecision of a sniper.
You're just like, boom, let'sget what we need to get.
So define that that way in yourfocus work time on your
calendar, you're filling it withyour 20%.
Does that mean you don't do any80% activities?
Of course you do, but you dothem with only 20% of your time,
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not more.
You spend most of your timedoing the things that work Okay.
So that's number four.
Number five.
Number five is leverage yourteam.
Okay, I've done a lot ofepisodes.
I'm not going to go too deepinto this, other than tell you
this Leverage your team as yougo higher in business.
One of the fastest ways to livein overwhelm is to take on new
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things without getting off oldthings.
This is something you want toconstantly ask yourself.
Notice that I didn't say, get ateam.
Now, you're going to get yourteam, but leverage your team,
okay.
So I'm talking about your teamat home and I'm talking about
your team at your business andI'm talking about your team at
your job.
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If you're working a job Allthree teams Like I want you to
think about as a CEO of yourlife you have this massive team.
Take out like paper, write outall the people who are on your
team.
I'm talking people who arefamily members and people who
are not, people who are paid andpeople who are not paid, people
at your business, people inyour home.
Put all of it and ask yourselfare there any things on my plate
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?
Are there any things I make itto my to-do list that belong to
these people?
Right, are they?
So you want to pay attention,you want to pay attention and
you want to leverage them.
One of the habits I do is,after I have my ideal work week,
and so on Sunday Sunday is myplanning day I plan, I put
everything in all the spots theyneed to be in I start asking
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myself questions Is thereanything on here anybody in my
life can do?
Forget that.
Nobody can do it as good as me.
We're not.
We're very, very important, butwe're not that important.
Of course, somebody can do it,and B plus work or B work from a
team member is much more viablethan A work from me, if that,
especially if that's somethingthat's not in my 20% right, okay
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.
So leverage.
Look at it, what here?
And it's easy as go.
No, I have to do all of thesebecause you've always done them.
That's your default.
But you want to take a looklike one by one.
Do I need to be doing this?
So leverage your team.
Leverage your team.
Leverage your team.
Your team is giving you as anantidote to overwhelm.
Leverage your team.
Number six say no a lot moreoften.
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Say no.
There's some opportunities thatare good, but the opportunity
cost is so high.
Say no, somebody invites you todo something you don't really
want to do and you're, like me,a recovering people.
Pleaser.
Say no.
You're clear on your vision,you're clear where you're going,
you're clear on all of that andyou have something that's about
to come on your plate.
Say no, say no.
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Say no a lot, a lot more oftenthan you're saying okay.
As you become more and moresuccessful, as you build your
business, bigger and bigger, oneof the words you're going to
get.
You're going to need to getreally good at saying is no, no.
So look at it, think about it,the things causing me to be
overwhelmed.
How many of them, I just don'tknow.
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Forget that you said yes beforeright, but how many of them are
just, they're just a no.
Now, I am a very principledperson.
If I give somebody my word, asmuch as it's humanly possible, I
won't back down right.
But at least I know next timewhen something like this
presents itself, the answer isno.
And if it's something where Ican ask, I know I said yes and I
am not going to go back on myword.
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I am just asking in case thereis somebody else who could feel
this or whatever.
Is there any way I can be letoff the hook for this?
If they say no, I will do itand I'll do it with a great
attitude and I'll do it likereally out of the goodness of my
heart.
But I also know like when thiskind of thing happens, I just
don't say yes.
If you're a people, please are.
One of the things you can do iswhen people ask you for stuff
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you're like I'm not sure.
I have to look at my schedulefirst.
Can you send me an email?
I'll check it out and if I can,I will, and that gives you the
opportunity to then actually golook at your calendar.
Do I have the bandwidth?
What is the opportunity cost ofme saying yes to this right?
Okay, so say no a lot moreoften.
And then seven okay, seven isokay.
This is what it is.
Live in the magic of what yourlife is right now.
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Live in the magic of it when wehave a lot of things thrown at
us and business stuff is goingon and maybe a team member left
and you did this big launch anddidn't play out the way you
wanted, and you have to do thisnew thing you haven't done
before and speak on the stagethat's so much bigger and at the
same time, something happenedwith your kid and all of that,
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and life is just throwingcurveballs at you.
Just stop, stop, stop, stop.
It is always not the rightthing to do to focus on the
challenges and the problems,because your life is magic, like
stop to think about it.
If you don't stop and trainyour brain to think that way,
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you'll miss out on so manythings and you'll turn nine
years ago, like man, my life wasmagical the whole time, and I
missed it Like I didn't enjoyany of it.
So I'll use myself as anexample, and you can relate to
this, because it's all in how wechoose to see things.
It's not about the way they areSee.
Perception is stronger thanreality.
(22:51):
Things are the way we perceivethem to be, not the way they are
, and so I can have so manythings and please understand
this, everybody has a lot ofthings going on in their
businesses.
Okay, I told you, I've been insome of the most powerful rooms.
It's unbelievable.
All right, but at the same time, I wanted to be a doctor, and I
am.
I wanted to retire at 40, and Ihave.
(23:12):
I set out on a mission to helpa hundred thousand physicians
learn to build profitablebusinesses.
And, yes, we're not at ahundred thousand, but, my
goodness, we have touched tensof thousands of doctors and we
have books that have soldthousands of copies.
We have a podcast that is overhalf a million downloads half a
million.
Our company made it to the Inc5000 list.
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I have four wonderful children.
I have an amazing husband.
I have a home that I love.
I live in a state that I loveto be in.
I get to travel a lot, I havethe most dynamic friendships and
I'm healthy, and these arethings I can choose to focus on
in the midst of whatever it isthat seems overwhelming.
(23:55):
I have clients who are gettingcrazy wild wins.
I have people who listen to thepodcast and it's changed not
just their businesses and theircareers, but their lives and I
I'm living life on my terms and,yes, there are challenges, but,
oh, my goodness, yes is magical.
You know what I mean and youcan choose.
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You can choose because, foreverything that is not going
according to plan there seven atleast that are you know what I
mean like you can stop and youcan look for them.
So, so number seven is reallyliving in that magic,
acknowledging those things thatare working, celebrating those
things that are working.
It makes those, it makes goingthrough the challenging times so
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much easier.
It is stopping to think of allthe challenges you had in the
past and how you overcame them,and this new challenge Is going
to be just like that.
Right, think about howoverwhelmed you are.
You you're tempted to feel now,and how overwhelmed you felt,
maybe, when you started medschool, when you started
residency or when you firststart your business, or whatever
(24:59):
that is.
I overcame all of those.
This is going to be one of them, right?
So live in the magic that yourlife is right now okay.
So I want to invite you don'tfeel like anything is wrong with
you or anything is wrong.
This is something you're gonnago through many, many times.
You're gonna come to this pointwhere it seems like, oh, my
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goodness, everything's brokenand everything is overwhelming.
Are you gonna get over it?
Are you gonna get back to thatspot?
And so I want to invite you tolearn to build the muscle your
own two kids, your own D stress,but the overwhelm type of
toolkit, and then you can alwayspull it out.
It's a muscle you're building.
You can always use it wheneveryou need to use it.
(25:41):
So I am sending you virtualhugs.
Entrepreneurship is not easy,but it is doable and it is worth
it, and the return oninvestment is a thousand times
worth it.
And if you're listening to me,you're a mom.
This is specifically for you.
Sometimes, in addition to allthis overwhelm, you have
feelings of guilt because you'relike this is a time I should
spend with my kids, but somekids are gonna need to go to a
(26:05):
magazine to get a vision board.
You are being a vision boardfor your kids because you are
going the difficult, the moredifficult path of saying yes To
your dreams and say yes tobuilding a business and say yes.
Maybe it's like team membersyou're struggling with, but
you're, you're learning to builda team.
You're learning to be a unicornbecause, I mean, only two
percent of female ownedcompanies hit the seven-figure
(26:27):
mark Right and and you're doingall of these things and you are
teaching your, your daughters,your, your sons, such valuable
lessons just by being and.
So, yes, you may have, yes,there may be this thing of mommy
guilt compared to some othermoms, but please understand,
there's so much value to whatyou're doing.
I was talking to a lady earliertoday and she said she made a
(26:51):
statement.
She was like, growing up, Ihaven't.
I, I had never seen a marriagethat worked till I came to to
this church and I met you, and Imet your husband and and your
and some of the families in thechurch and all of those things.
Just, I just had no example.
So every time I think aboutmarriage, I'm terrified.
Well, for your kids, there maybe people like oh, business
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never works.
Bad business people are badpeople.
You can't make money, can't doall that, but you are being an
example for your kids.
Can you imagine the person I'mtalking to?
She's in her mid 20s, butyou're being an example of your
kid, for your kids, of what ispossible.
So I'm sending you virtual hugs.
You're doing it not to hurtthem, but you're doing it for
them.
You really are okay.
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So I just wanted you to knowthat.
So take these things, applythese things, build this muscle.
Please share this episode withanother physician entrepreneur
because these are some reallytrying times, but we can.
We can thrive through them.
Okay, and by sharing thisepisode, you'll be helping
somebody else thrive throughthem, all right, okay, go share
away.
Share it on social mediahashtag on trim these.
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I can shout you out and I'llsee you on the next episode of
the Entry MD podcast.
Hey, if you love listening tothe Entry MD podcast, I want to
invite you to join Entry MD ondemand.
It is my signature subscriptionprogram that gives you access
to a library of business coursesdesigned to help you do One
thing as a physicianentrepreneur, and that is to
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thrive.
Just head out to EntryMDcom Forslash on demand and I'd love to
have you join us.
See you on the inside you.
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