I recommend you spend at least 4 hours per week working “on your practice”.  that’s 2-2hour meetings or 4-1 hour meetings.  Decide what your weakest area is and make that your focus for these meetings until that area markedly improves.
Here are some questions to ask yourself in the meetings:

1. What could be the problem?
2. What else could be the problem? (10 answers)
3. What changes or assumptions led to the problem?
4. What are 10 possible solutions to the problem (once you have clearly defined it)?
5. What resources will we need to solve the problem?

Most practicecs suffer from what I call “muddy thinking”.  Don’t let that be you.  Poor planning leads to poor execution 100% of the time.  Strive for excellence in your processes, including the process of problem solving and planning.

David Zahaluk, MD is a practice optimization expert and the author of The Ultimate Practice Building Book.  His firm, Ultimate Practice Builder, takes physicians to the top 10% of their specialty – in income, time off and quality indicators - within 3 years… guaranteed.  Learn more at www.UltimatePracticeBuilder.com.

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