This month marks nine years since I retired from practicing medicine.At age 54, even though my wife, an accountant, assured me we were financially ready for retirement, I wondered if we had enough passive income and retirement savings to meet our needs for the rest of our lives. I also wondered if I would miss … Read more
Burnout is very prevalent in the medical field. I have coached many physicians that feel burned-out. When I ask them what they think the cause is, 100% tell me it is due to something about their work. No one ever mentions their workaholic tendencies as being a contributing factor. Yet when we begin discussing the … Read more
When was the last time you asked yourself, “What is most important to me right now?” The most important thing in our live changes frequently. But if we don’t ask the question, we might not be putting our effort where it counts. A big component of burnout is realizing that we have filled our day … Read more
Work/Life balance is a common desire in the lives of busy professionals. All too often, we feel our job is the cause of the imbalance between our work and our home life. But the reality is our own behaviors are causing the imbalance. It’s not the job’s fault. Which is good news, since it means … Read more
(Are you interested in learning about financial freedom through real estate investing? Join me at the Physician Freedom Summit 2025, October 6-8, in Los Angeles. I will be speaking on purchasing property with no money down, which is how I started investing in real estate.) Physicians are in a constant battle to improve life at … Read more
The time has come for the next instalment in my award-winning Doctors Guide book series. Coming March 11th to Amazon is The Doctors Guide to Finding Joy in Your Work. Contained within the cover are the tools to not only find more joy at work, but also in all other areas of your life. Test … Read more
Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946, is my all-time favorite movie. I was discussing it this Christmas and someone asked my why it was my favorite movie. I had never thought of that before. Why was this my favorite movie? So this Christmas I watched the movie with that question in mind and I … Read more
I recently attended an investment seminar. The main premise of the seminar was to teach us to build wealth and be generous with our excess. They were very inspirational in teaching those two points. I left the seminar fired up to grow my wealth and give my excess (the income above what my family needs … Read more
(Next week I will be at the Real Estate & Entrepreneurship Conference for Physicians running from September 26-28, in Dallas, Texas. If you’ve been thinking about attending, stop putting it off and click on the link above and order the virtual option before it’s too late.) During the last few years of my career in … Read more
As years go by, we learn many lessons from the school of hard knocks. Although some of these lessons we could have learned from someone who had previously learned the lesson, such as don’t grab an electric fence. If we learn from someone else’s experience, we won’t get the hard knocks that come with learning … Read more