Aligning With Values & Purpose

The Secret Law of Attraction Brought Me a . . . Bichon!

Ok, so I’m going to offer my two cents on “The Secret” law of attraction buzz. The law of attraction asserts that you will manifest that which your mind focuses on. Yes, it’s true, the secret does work . . . and sometimes in mysterious and whimsical ways. The phrase I use in my business [...]

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Cracking the Code to Your Physician Career

Are there codes and hidden clues that can guide your professional and personal life as a doctor? And if you looked for them, would that be a clear sign that you’ve gone off the deep end or have become hopelessly “woo woo”?

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A “Stand Up Doctor” Making His Career is a Laughing Matter

  Here I am with my Platinum Program client, Dr. Anil Maheshwari taking a break during our 2-day Client Strategy Meeting at my favorite neighborhood Tullys’ coffee shop. (Yes there ARE other coffee shops in Seattle besides the ubiquitous Starbucks!) Anil is from New Jersey, and besides being a busy Family Physician and weight loss [...]

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A Daring Doctor Explores Career Alternatives

Here is my Platinum program client, Dr. Scott Gebhardt, a successful and visionary Internist from Florida, and we are at the Range Cafe in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Scott and I are taking a lunch break during our Client Strategy Session that kicked off his Platinum Executive Coaching Program in March. New clients have the option [...]

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Physician Success Circle is Launched!

Finally, after 6 months of research and development, physician surveys on satisfaction, career aspirations and morale, the much-anticipated “Physician Success Circle” is launched!!! Here is free introductory telesemianr for physicians ‘Give Your Career a Kick in the Pants’ where you can learn 2 winning strategies for accelerating your career. This information call was also a [...]

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Living Your Values

Stop whining! Use “empowering language” to take personal responsibility for your situation and your choices. Do you want to be in the driver’s seat? Do you want to communicate with clarity, power and intention? Listen to yourself speak and choose your words carefully. Here are some suggested changes, from The Academy for Coach Training: Replace [...]

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How Technology Savvy Should Doctors Be?

  Here I am with my Platinum Executive Program client, Dr. Dana Carpenter (on the right), an Ob-Gyn physician and healthcare media advisor–”Dr. Dana”. She took our picture with the built-in webcam on her iMac notebook during our Client Strategy meeting last month. When it comes to technology, I find that physicians are “all over [...]

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Daring Doctors entering the blogosphere

Daring Doctors, a free monthly ezine by Francine Gaillour, MD, will hit the blogosphere big time on May 15th with the launch of the Physician Success Circle, a new members-only physician career development “institute.” Technorati Profile

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Physician Career Transition: The Three Dimensions of Fulfillment

For an audio discussion of the Three Dimensions of Professional Fulfillment, get my FREE Physician Career Management Toolkit   For physicians embarking on professional transition, a helpful model I have used with clients is the Three Dimensions of Career Fulfillment. Imagine three interlocking circles, each representing one of these three aspects: Vision-Values Skills Economic Engine [...]

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Physician Career Stability: What does it mean to you?

What keeps us from taking a career risk as leaders and business professionals? Often it’s a desire to maintain “stability”. As practicing physicians, we reasonably expected to set up a practice, build it over time, and derive a good income without a major interruption. For many physicians, the largest threat to that stability has been [...]

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