4 Things You Don’t Want To Forget To Put On Your Chiropractic Office Calendar For The Year Ahead
If you’re a mom AND a chiropractor, you’re likely in one of two camps right now.
You’re either setting goals and making plans for the next 12 months ahead,
OR
You’re THINKING about setting goals and making plans.
In other words, you might feel a lot of pressure to be picking the right planner and creating the best marketing calendar ever.
It’s likely that your family life and chiropractic practice will both somehow survive if you’re not on top of goal-setting for next year.
So if you don’t have the time and energy for that right now, don’t sweat it.
But if you ARE in a place where you have the space to dig into some yearly planning, let me share with you now 4 things you don’t want to forget to put on your chiropractic office calendar for the year ahead.
No fluff and no filler here. Let’s just get straight to it.
THING YOU DON’T WANT TO FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR OFFICE CALENDAR #1 – An End-Of-Year Review
It’s really easy to dive into setting goals and making plans to smash those goals without taking the time first to reflect and review.
Don’t skip this step in your planning process!
In order for you to reach your chiropractic practice goals without getting overwhelmed or burning yourself out, you’re going to have to let go of what’s not working.
Letting go of what’s not working is an essential component of freeing up your most precious resources–time, energy, and even money–to direct those resources into new efforts.
But if you never give yourself the time to slow down to look back over your year, you won’t get this most valuable insight.
You’ll just add more to your plate trying to reach your next 12 months’ goals.
I know you’re busy right now with the hustle and bustle of the holidays, but could you take even just one hour alone to reflect and review this past year?
Make an hour on your calendar right now to review the year before it’s over.
THING YOU DON’T WANT TO FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR OFFICE CALENDAR #2 – Your Vacations
For chiropractors, vacations are not a luxury–they are a necessity.
Even if you just stay home in your sweats all day, it’s imperative that you take time off from practice often.
In fact, just like getting adjusted, you should be taking time off from your practice BEFORE you actually feel like you need it.
A lot of chiropractors think they can’t take time off from practice because they can’t afford it. But you don’t want this situation to turn into the opposite–when you HAVE to take time off from practice because you can’t afford the cost on your health or your family to keep up your office schedule.
Living the chiropractic lifestyle is about being proactive with your health and not waiting until you’ve lost it to take care of it.
Vacations (call it time off if that makes it seem more doable for you) are a necessary part of your practice growth plan.
Let one of Aligned Women’s Practice Coaches, Dr. Goldi Jacques-Maynes, be an example for you.
She takes off one four-day weekend every month and at least one full week each quarter.
Would you believe…. Since she started doing this, the revenue in her practice has gone up by $25,000 every year for three straight years.
Although she’s worked less, she’s earned more.
When you look at important information in your practice, this can happen for you, too.
So, if you want vacations to happen next year, go ahead and put them on your calendar now!
THING YOU DON’T WANT TO FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR OFFICE CALENDAR #3 – Quarterly Reviews
Much like the End-Of-Year Review, your Quarterly Reviews are an important time to pause and reflect.
You can’t expect to fly through the whole year without ever taking time to evaluate your progress and determine if you’re on track.
90-day increments are important because it’s a long enough time period for you to see positive progress on a goal, but it’s a short enough timeframe that there’s really no time to waste.
So, once a quarter (that’s every 90 days, roughly) you should have a mini-review session.
Quarterly reviews are most likely to happen if you put them on your calendar now for each quarter next year!
THING YOU DON’T WANT TO FORGET TO PUT ON YOUR OFFICE CALENDAR #4 – White Space
Now that you’ve made some important appointments with yourself and your practice for next year, I’m going to blow your mind with this last must-schedule thing.
It’s called White Space, and it’s the antithesis of productivity, planning and scheduling.
White Space is simply scheduled time that you have nothing scheduled.
You might go sit at your fave local coffee shop and stare out the window drinking your favorite brew.
Or, you might take a nap.
Or, you could zone out on social if that’s what feels in alignment with your needs at the moment.
However you choose to use your White Space, you do it guilt-free.
This time is immensely valuable for you as a mom and a chiropractor who’s always so busy doing all that you do.
White Space is the second-best way to overcome overwhelm and avoid burnout.
To learn the BEST way, go here.
White Space allows your adrenal glands to heal, your cortisol and insulin levels to normalize, and your autonomic nervous system to balance out.
White Space allows you to access your higher level thinking and your innate.
White Space is healthy and it protects your longevity.
And in most cases, White Space taken every week helps you make more money.
So as you consider all that should go in your schedule for the year ahead, ensure that you leave some White Space there.
Well, there you have it! The 4 things you don’t want to forget to put on your office calendar for next year.
I hope you’ll take what you’ve learned here to heart and really put it into action. These are tested and verified tactics!
In the meantime, if you’re overwhelmed and exhausted, and you want to learn how to make life and practice easier as a Mama Chiropractor, without settling for a part-time income (even if you do work part-time hours), then go grab the Mama Chiropractors Survival Guide–available for a limited time only!