Hey guys, welcome to Podiatry, practice Mastery down belt on here. What I'd like to go over today is my my hacks for efficiency. You see recently, I was interviewed by a podcast called Asian efficiency, it's it's this
gentleman. He talks about efficiency hacks and he says, a lot of people on his podcast, are our doctors and because they want to learn to be more efficient, this is something I've talked about a little bit in the past, but I I want to go do a little bit deeper of a dive on a few aspects that that might be beneficial. But before I do, I had a person asked me today. They were using my patient presentations.
So remember if you go to either patient presentations.com, or go to Podiatry, practice Mastery, you can get my my patient presentations tool. This is the same tool I use every single day in my office. It is a link tree. That's linked to Google slides in Full screen format.
That's basically what it is. Took a little bit of time to do and he said this gentleman said, you know, II like it, but I'd like to kind of modify it. So, I've got to make that easy for anyone that wants to modify it you can't use like mine. What you can do is, you can go to under coaching.
There is the private room at practice Mastery Academy and then you just sign up for a month and you can get access to all my patient presentations, make them your own, edit them, and then, you can kind of make your own linked real. Kind of explain a little bit about that when I talk about it. Isshin see things in this podcast. That's what I would recommend. I try to keep pretty reasonable, it's a monthly thing so you can use it as long as you need it. As long as you find it beneficial.
I'd love to stick around a long time, but as long as I'm giving you a value, that's all I want you to stick around. But let's let's get into this efficiency, efficiency, doctor efficiency. I was talking to my wife recently and she said, you know, Dad, I think you might have come upon you or your unique ability, that's what we call it in strategic coach. This thing I've been going to for a while, you see, I've been Interested in efficiency for a long time. And I'm not exactly sure why.
But like, some of the people I like to listen to our like Airy Meisner and he talks about kind of being efficient, and a lot of, a lot of other books that talk about efficiency. So let's talk about some of the efficiencies, that that seem to be working well and what you might want to consider. And I'd also like to know what some of the your efficiencies are in your Life and in your practice. Okay, so first of all, I'm going to talk about a morning routine
that I have. Then I'll talk about some of the efficiencies that I use in my personal life. Then I'll talk about some efficiencies in the practice and then I'll kind of talk about in evening routine, which are all efficiencies. So, all this goes back to, I remember when I was really young, I like to learn about mnemonics. So mnemonics are like memory techniques to make it more efficient to memorize. And then from there, I went to different Efficiency techniques
on how like not to spend money. I remember reading all these books on the tightwad Gazette and how not to spend money and how to be the most efficient person, then it got into studying techniques and how to study the most efficiently and I always joke with people. I think the main reason, I've enjoyed Podiatry school was not so much that content, what is it was learning and being able to teach others how to study.
I like learning how to study, it kind of got bored of the topic, but I like to learn and to be more efficient and do it as efficient as possible. Isabel. So first of all the morning routine that works well for me. So what is this? This idea of the morning routine. There's there's a lot of different books, one's called The Miracle morning. There's a book called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. A lot of books talk about having our morning as the most important part of the day.
And I remember I lived for much of my life in the morning, wasn't the most important part of my day. So what it was that that was like in residency where I had to be let's say at the hospital at 7 a.m. and I used to get up at like 6:45 Because I live five minutes away and then it was basically from there I was just like a, it was just a splint, a Sprint throughout the day to do everything that I had to do and I didn't really have any time and I was always kind of
stressed. I was I was kind of on edge. I was always kind of going going going. And from there then I started to read some other some other people and watch some videos. There's this guy named Wim Hof and he kind of talks about this with off breathing technique. He also talks about Cold exposure or cold showers. So my current morning routine. Okay, that works for me is two days a week. I do a boot camp.
So if you don't know what a boot camp is, it's basically where you work out harder than you could ever work on your own. And you almost kind of feel like you want to barf at the end. That's what a that's would really big boot camp is, so I do that mostly. It's because it's the most efficient way that I found to work out. I find that when I work out with a group of people and usually there's like 15 to 20 stations and we stay there.
So many times, it might be at the bottom might be something else, but I work out really, really hard, first of all. Because someone else tells me what to do and I always do better when someone tells me what to do versus going to the gym and you're just not sure what to do. Second thing is you're working, really intense and there's other people there so you feel a little bit of Shame. And then the third thing is exactly what happened.
This morning that I was actually got up a little bit late, I Why my alarm was set for 5:15 and I slept, I slept in, I must, I don't know, stop the alarm and slept little bit more, but I arrived about 10 minutes late and they were already about four stations in, you may ask why I went with the reason I went is because if I don't go, they charged me $30. So they already charged me. It's about $125 a month. That's how much I pay per month. And you, for some of you might
say, that's a lot. For some of you may say that's a little, but I have figured out What's the most efficient way for working out for me? Anyway, are these two workouts? I used to do three workouts but there wasn't enough recovery time. And frankly, I do not like to work out but I like the benefits of working out. So I do that Mondays and Fridays. If I don't go, they charge me and I pay by the month and you have to schedule a week in advance and all these other
things. So for my health that's that's what I do Monday and Friday for workouts then we'll get into like what's the next step? So my name is Friday, then there's another good book called atomic. Abbott's or talks about habit, stacking. So I have a jacuzzi and it came with the house that I bought, right? I didn't put in a to kuzey in but and I was upset that I wasn't using it. So then, when I started to do is I stacked my workouts into using
the jacuzzi. So, you know, 365 days a year or anyway, hath, are two days a week, Mondays and Fridays. That's when I go, and after that, then I go into my jacuzzi. So I can make sure I use it and then, then starts the rest of the routine that happens the other day.
So actually, the actually, the Mondays and Fridays, there's another part of Teen, which is, I do Bulletproof Coffee, which is two cups of coffee, MCT oil, which is like coconut oil without the smell and then two tablespoons of unsalted butter. I do salted butter and then I do cinnamon in it. So I do that Mondays and Fridays. You have to stay close to the bathroom when you drink that. But I do that Mondays and Fridays. And then what did I do the other day as well?
The other days I have my my routine. It's a reading routine that I that I use, I usually read. I'm reading through the Bible every single year or at least takes me a little bit longer. So I have this little checklist of the books that I read. So I read that first. There's a devotional time of prayer time and then I read an uplifting book and the one I'm reading right now is your future self. And then so I read a book and that's I read, 10 pages only, are we ten pages of a kind of
inspirational book? And the way I do that is I just flip through five pages because it's double sided and I put a little bookmark so I know how much to read and then I journal. And and I think This this journal is an important aspect in the morning. What I Journal are the three
things I'm grateful for. And I have this list of things like topics, like my family, different things that I have achievements, things like that, then I'm grateful for and then I write out the three things, actually the night before I write up the three things that I want to do and then I'll just Journal about my big picture goals. In my big picture goals are usually I have three main
focuses. Each each quarter each three Months. And so my main three right now are my family, my church and work, okay, those are the big three and then within there's there's other goals so I can stay focused and I kind of write about those for a little bit. Usually I'm pretty rushed in the morning, so I do that pretty quick. They that whole routine, if I'm not working out, can take me about 20 minutes to do that.
Maybe 25 minutes. Then I'm using making a coffee at that time and then that's all before my family wakes up. So my it's usually I'm usually done with that by about 7:15. Our 7:30, and that's when I leave for the office. Then on my, on my way to the office. I usually either listen to an audible book or I record a podcast. So I am recording one in the car
right now. So there's a little bit of background noise, but it's the only time that I have to do it and then when I make longer trips that I can do longer idea to podcast like the one I'm doing today can be a little bit longer but usually going to work it's about a 20-minute drive.
So I might try to bust out a couple of ideas For the four, different ideas that are in my mind, things I'm working through, and then I'll share that with everyone within Podiatry, practice Mastery. So, that is my my morning routine at this time, I've tried different things. I used to try some whim Hoff breathing, which is deep breathing for 10 minutes and you can put it on YouTube. And if you look up with cough and there's a breathing routine,
I'd like that. But I didn't find that all that all that, beneficial. So things. I don't want to continue the rest of my life. I don't do. I try to do these things and I'm going to continue the rest of my life. So that's, that's an idea. The morning routine. I have quite a few patients are kind of curious about my my eating routine. I kind of have a unique eating routine, because I've read a lot of different books on this such as the, the Obesity code, the complete guide to fasting.
There's an other others that talk about like the Quest for food and different things. So, I've looked at different types of eating Styles, and I've tried different things, my
partner. In the office Neil he has tried like vegan, a lot of different things and we tend to be a little bit more on the key do side so we do mostly vegetables and meat when I'm eating I do some carbs I'm not totally carb you know against carbs but I just eat whatever whatever I my wife makes but the biggest key for me. Has been doing this intermittent fasting. So if you haven't heard of that, it's something I recommend to my
patients. And something I personally been doing for about three years and I like to keep things really, really simple. And I like to do things that I'm going to do the rest of my life. And so, what I do right now is I eat one meal a day Monday through Friday. You know, it might be like a OMG, that's why they call it one meal. Oh, mad, one meal a day, but it's usually a little bit more than one meal.
It might be a four-hour window. So you might be I can look at 24 window, so 20 hours of fasting, and four hours of eating, I usually start eating at about 5:30 or 6:00 and then I may eat a meal. And then something before going to bed at 10:00, what do I drink during the day while Mondays and Fridays, a drink Bulletproof Coffee coffee, I know that's actually breaking the fast but that's just the way I do it.
And then I'll have coffee. I usually drink coffee till about noon or 1:00 and then I might switch till tea or water but I do a lot of coffee during the day and then I just that I eat the way I started that and this is the way I explain it to patients, as I didn't always do it this way and I thought it was impossible to do that, but it's the best way to lose weight in my opinion, for even patients. I think it's the healthiest the safest and the easiest to do for the rest of your life.
Long term meaning, I don't change what I eat. I just change one, I eat and if you want to see my philosophy behind it, can go to a doctor. Belted.com to my courses. There's one on on intermittent fasting. It's all the patient handouts that I give to my patients as well. And the way I did is I started
for 3 months. I just skipped breakfast every day until I got confident at skipping breakfast, every day, Monday through Friday. And then I picked one one day a week Wednesdays and I skipped lunch on Wednesdays and I thought I was going to die the first time but I didn't. And then I did that for three months, really slow slow change and then I did it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I skipped lunch, just Tuesdays and Thursdays, but breakfast and
lunch. I'm sorry. And I thought I was gonna die, but I didn't. And then I went to doing it Monday through Friday, so that's what I'm currently a tie. Monday through Friday when I'm at work. I just keep really busy and I drink a lot of coffee and I just eat dinner and it in the beginning. It's hard, right? Especially if I'm stressed, or if I'm tired or things like that, or if there's other things there, that staff or patients, bring what I tend to be really disciplined.
I just it's not an option of eating during the day. I just kind of push through the day, and if there is something that's brought to me, I'll bring it home and I'll eat it and I want to eat at home. I don't really restrict myself, I tend to eat, try to eat better like vegetables and meat and things like that. But I I eat whatever, I'm not really that strict and then the weekends, it's usually two meals but I'll eat two meals, usually breakfast and dinner or
breakfast and lunch. So that's that's the best like if most efficient way of eating that I found. I've tried multi-day fasts, I've tried eating ketogenic, I've tried food tracking, I tried cook days, where we used to do, six small meals and we had a whole cook day on Saturday and cooked everything and I've tried all these things but for me by far this is the easiest most Look at way to save money and slim down at the waistline. I found it very efficient for
that. So that's, that's why I kind of like my way to be efficient with eating and then it will kind of get into like personal development. I always like to talk about that. I'm a big advocate of developing myself and just working on my life. I think that's, that's key. I don't know how you guys do it but I find that reading that uplifting book in the morning is good and then the way I have automated it and that's the key. I think you want to improve
something. It's best to automate it and usually you automate it best when you pay for something. That's what I found. So I meet once or twice a month with a with kind of a coach kind of helps guide my schedule, make up my schedule for time planning to do. Keep me focused on what my goals are and I meet with her on Fridays from 12 to 1 during my lunch hour. And so that's the most efficient way because it Fridays is my
routine day. So it's my block day where i'm all I'm saying, is routine patients. And so I can I can knowingly be done at 12 and the other days are, no I can't. I'm usually done at 12:30 and I have a break till about 1:00. If that like most of like most everyone else and then so that's that's what I do in terms of coaching getting coached. I also go to something called strategic coach every three months where I sit down and I work out my next three-year plan, or a three-month plan for
my life. And then I also do that journaling activity, I say every morning where I think the three The things that I'm going to do and then the other thing is I do for that is I get two books on on Audible, so it automatically refreshes every month to month, two books. And so, it makes me really focus in those tends to be personal development books that I like to read. So it's really, really helpful for me to do that. That's why I can keep like reading the 5 Second by second
rule. Now these are the ones that I've been talking to you about and it gives me kind of fodder for what my hobby hobby is which is Podiatry practice Mastery. So that's what I like to do. And so I'm looking for Within Podiatry, those that are. If you got this far, I think my my goal and this year 2023 is to develop a group of people that want to do that together. So that would be a mastermind or a coaching group. And so there will be a link on Podiatry, practice Master with coaching.
So, having kind of a high level, how level coaching to be more efficient and have more of a balanced life. That's what I want to work with other doctors and helping them. So if this resonates with you reach out to me, there they'll be some options. You can do that and we can you can chat just ask me any questions. You might have. So that's in terms of personal development. What I found the most effective and then coming into the clinic. I've you've heard me.
If you've heard some of my podcast, I've have multiple ways of being efficient in the office and you might be wondering, why do I want to be so efficient. So my reason for being efficient is I don't like to waste time and I want to be with my family, not distracted. So I do no work at night time and I do no work on the weekends because I'm very involved in my Church nights and on the weekends and I don't want to be distracted. So I don't check email.
I don't do any work related notes, I don't do anything on the nights and on the weekends because I want to be I want to be freed from that so that's why I want to be so efficient during the work week. So during the work week, you know, like most of you I use a EMR Minds Athena, I have patients every 20 minutes, whether it be new or established patients, Friday is the only day I double and triple book and that's because it's my routine day.
So I put everyone and I really do that to restrict access as well. So if people, Only are available Friday. They can't see me. They can't, they have to go somewhere else, and it really just makes me Crews that day. And I just kind of get through, get through my, my Fridays with that.
And this the only day I do that the other days I'm doing, like all the other regenerative medicine, Shockwave heel pain, all the traditional stuff, ingrown toenails things that everyone else does a couple of other things for efficiency. The the newest one that I've been doing right now is using a scribe. And I know a couple of other podiatrist that do that there are a couple of companies if you
want to know which ones. It's just I'm using, you can reach out to me. Don at Podiatry, practice Master e.com, I'll be happy to share any of my thoughts. I'm going to eventually have a master class on training ascribe because that's been a month and I've been training them. And so that's where I get my content for this show is as I'm learning things I like to share it with others. So that's why I did one. Recently on biopsies, I've done one on on afos. I'm going to be doing one on
training ascribe. These are things that I'm learning that, I think, others might be right resonate with might be interested in. And so the scribes, my newest thing it's been about a month. His name is Chen Drew and I really like working with him and it's been made my life a lot easier. So, it's, I could, I can do the notes. I was very efficient with doing notes, but I find the harder notes are a little bit easier and I can focus much more on the patient.
Another are a few things, I have to learn how to do like I used to be looking at the chart all the time. So I knew what they were here for. I knew what they've been through, what Imaging they've had. So it takes a little bit to get used to, but I've really enjoyed doing the Scribe and it's pretty reasonable in terms of price. I think it's If you add one extra patient a day, it pretty much pays for it described, but
it says it's a learning curve. Take took me about a month because I have a lot of macros these like templates that I use. I had to teach him how to use that subscribes like for me the number one thing that made my life, good has been described in the number two thing in the office that makes my life good is having my patient presentations and I've talked to you at nauseam about these, but I'ma tell you again this is like the best thing I couldn't practice without them.
Basically, what they are is they are Google Slides of presentations and everything. Treat and I show that to every single new patient. It's not all the established patients but every single new patient, I'm going through a slide deck, the most common ones like the 80/20. The 80% that I use all the time are plantar fasciitis, and achilles tendonitis, and neuroma and metatarsalgia.
The typical things that we see that are a little more complex to explain and its really, really helped me to be more efficient in my, in my practice. So, the patient presentations, you want to see them, you can go to either patient presentations.com or just go right there and get my You can actually see the link tree. It's the links that I actually use, you can use mine, try them out if you want to modify and then you can just kind of reach out to me and I'll tell you how
you can do that, okay? But I like to give things away and I love it this, it's like, revolutionized my life, like the pre-surgical discussion, what I do before surgeries plantar fasciitis, it goes in depth and you can kind of learn how I use those. So like those are the two big things right now in terms of practice would be the Scribe and
my my templates. And then from there, like other things like Products and regenerative medicine like Shockwave, and am new and all these other types of things, but they all build on the presentations. If I didn't have the presentations would be a lot harder to do all of those other things. So, in terms of efficiency, those are the two things that work the best. And then also in terms of efficiency, if you guys want to know a little bit more how I
kind of produce content. So I produce content both for my YouTube page which I know there are a lot of podiatrist by Legs that have more subscribers. I have 15,000 subscribers, others, have a lot more. I don't do any like an hour, I don't any gross videos. It's mostly just educational videos and then I re utilize them without product called patient, education, genius. So, I put the YouTube videos on that and I dispense it to patients when they come in the
office. So that connects to my medical record, it's called patient education, genius. And that I probably couldn't live out with live with that. I live out with that a live without that as well because it just makes my life so much easier. And then I do make videos, I tend to record On Tuesdays. So these would be for Podiatry. Practice Mastery also for my YouTube and I have a virtual assistant that works with me.
Her name is Veronica. I pay her twenty dollars an hour and she does all of my video editing and all of like sending out the emails for Podiatry, practice Mastery, it may I love her. If you're listening Veronica because you listen to these. Thank you, thank you. She helps my life be so much easier and does these things that just like multiplies my hands. So I can do a lot more that I couldn't do by myself.
Elf. And so those are kind of the ways that I've become more efficient in the office, you know, having an assistant doing my, scribing have an assistant helping with my videos and content production and then having these other technologies that can make life, much more efficient. I do most of my idea ideation or ideas on Google Slides, so I have one, Google slide deck for dr. Pail toe, which my basically, those are pictures I take for my, for my EMR of patients.
When they come in without identifiers. And I talked about different Things that come in for Podiatry, practice Mastery. And this new thing that I'm doing, which is Podiatry management. Minute with them with Barry block. Those are my ideas just come. I put them on Google slides and I tend to record once a week, I record everything on Tuesdays. So I do that Tuesdays at lunchtime. So if you want to know about like my our meetings. So I said Monday and Friday, I work out.
Tuesday's. We have an office meeting in the morning on Wednesday. I have a meeting with my virtual with my virtual assistant on Wednesdays. Thursday's, I don't have anything in Friday's, I have that workout and then the noon time, what I do is I try to I try, I'm usually done by about 12:30 and I find packing my schedule. Makes it a lot easier to get
more done. So Monday, I don't have much, I might have a meeting once in awhile Monday during lunch at 12:30 on Tuesdays. When I record videos, Wednesdays and Thursdays is when I do my interviews with people for Podiatry, practice Mastery in the way. I schedule that is with something called calendly, and that's how I schedule give my calendar out.
So if you want to be interviewed and I've been interviewed The people that tell you see all the interviews, they come, I do those on Wednesdays and Thursdays and Friday, I'm either we doing with a coach. I'm, you know, working a deep dive on something. So, I try to be most efficient that I can, then when I go home, I'm done. I don't have to think about anything. I don't bring any business ideas home. I'm not worried about it on the weekend.
I try to avoid as much as I can business reading on the weekend. That's how I can have a balance, and I've learned this, not on my cell phone. I used to be really bad at this and I'm still kind of improving on it. But I learned this idea from strategic coach and dance. Sullivan and it's basically the idea of something called free focus and buffer days. And so you can Google that if you want, but basically my days at work are focused days.
I'm trying to be the most 100% efficient I can so that I can have better free days with my family and not be distracted. Buffer is something I don't have a lot of buffers. Like when you prepare to have good free days and prepare to have good Focus days. But I don't have much buffer usually, cuz I'm using others to do that. That kind of prep work that needs to be done. So I let me know if you guys found this beneficial.
I know, I went through a lot of things, but this is what I talked about in that interview with Asian efficiency and if you want to learn more, like how to implement some of these things in your office, reach out to me, go to Podiatry, practice, Mastery, there's a coaching area, there's the practice Mastery Academy and then they'll be a coaching thing there.
Soon. If you want to learn to be a couple of couple of options for you or just send me an e-mail, let me know what your thoughts are, what works for you things. I didn't mention that you really think are great. Please let me know. I'd love to hear back from you. Okay, thanks.