The Money Blog

“Life either happens by design or default. You choose.” - Bob Proctor

Over the last few decades, I’ve come to embrace and believe this concept to be true in life, especially when...

I often reflect on how my life is racing by. I blink and it feels as though another year has passed.

Our children grow older and more independent. The “new” hospital that I started...

Every living organism, organ, or cell is either in the process of growing or dying, nothing in between. Even homeostasis is a balance of anabolism and catabolism.

The same holds true for us...

Survey after survey shows that physicians are chronically sleep-deprived. I used to measure lost sleep not in weeks but years. 

As I’ve gotten older and less tolerant of night...

One way to depict leadership is for the leader to take a group of people on a bus ride toward a destination. 

Here are the scenarios:

1. Right People, Right Bus: Great,...

In an earlier article, I asked you to calculate your net worth by subtracting your liabilities from your assets.

What is an asset? The simplest definition is an object or financial product...

Years ago, I attended a seminar on focus, wondering what the big deal was and how someone could be a “focus specialist”. 

The speaker started by asking how many key roles...

As I mentioned in a previous communication, many of us feel that we are “always on” and accessible to our personal and practice networks.

I love my smartphone and consider it...

I once had a nursing manager that started as an ideal worker whom I promoted up the ranks. As time moved on and I continued to expand and innovate the processes of the clinic, I felt more and more...

In an earlier post, I discussed taking stock of our current financial lives by setting up an annual calculation of net worth.

This week, I want to encourage you to glimpse at your financial...

In our daily clinical practice, we check our patients’ vital signs all the time. What about “checking the vitals” of your own practice? 

Just like for human beings,...

One of the central themes we cover at Physician Empowerment is the notion that many of us, regardless of practice background, always feel that we are “on”. 

Whether this is...