Hi, welcome to Podiatry, practice Mastery down here. I want to talk today about a concept. I was I was actually reading about this one of the books by Benjamin Hardy and and the book was called the future self. So if you're interested in any of these things, you could Google his name, future self. It's a good book. He's got some videos, but I like this concept, this is a concept called imperfect practice. Okay, imperfect practice, let me
Give you an example. So, a surgical example would be when we are treating. I so I helped a little bit with residents and not too much, but I helped them with learning their surgical skills. When I do surgery, it's basically the resident that does most of them and that that Resident is practicing it in the beginning. They're imperfect. Their suturing is a perfect, how they're doing it? It's imperfect. Even when I'm doing it, this was not really perfect but it gets
better over time. Now, if the resident only reads about, let's talk about a recent procedure. We did today recently was one where there was an IP J ulcer, and I had him, do a arthroplasty a killer arthroplasty, which is done to get better range of motion due to hallux limit us. He was doing it if he only read about that procedure red, red, red, red, red, you know, you can read all you want, but if you do, one of them, your confidence level goes up. Its imperfect, but you're practicing.
And I think imperfect practice is key. In this took me a while to understand, and I think it's because of our tendency towards perfectionism. Now, you may not be a perfectionist, but I, many of us are perfectionist because we want to avoid looking funny.
We want to avoid looking bad, we want to avoid an all these things and Ben Hardy, when he talks about this in his book, he's talking about the difference between people basically that our sideline Backs or, you know, Monday morning, quarterbacks and those are actually in the game or in
the arena. What I want to challenge you to do is to be in the arena and do imperfect practice, meaning actually doing the work, making it making, getting it done, and what we call shipping it, getting it out there, even though it's imperfect. Now, let me give you a couple of examples. In what I what I found in my mistakes. Okay, so first of all, I was playing around with doing a podcast for a long time for years and I've tried and I tried different ones and they failed.
My first podcast was on healing. My heel is called heal my foot wound fast. Okay, I tried to do a podcast but it didn't really work that well, could have been me could have been the rod Market. I wasn't really passionate about it. Someone else wanted me to do it but it was a good experience. I actually went and I made a whole bunch of episodes. Thuds whole bunch of videos on that area and but I actually made the progress that I did it.
It was painful, it was painful to record the videos, it wasn't comfortable because I wasn't good at it. I didn't know but more importantly it was imperfect like they weren't perfect. They weren't as good as everyone else. Is that I was I was watching but it was done. Okay. The key is having it done even though it's imperfect.
So another area was that then as I transitioned to this podcast, I wanted to have all this time in the world to record this and I never had it. And so I started to record these when I drove when I was driving and it they're imperfect but they're done. They're done each one's done. There's another topic. And when you're producing content, we're always looking for this one. Perfect piece of content. This one perfect blogger. This one perfect podcast. Or this one, perfect video.
We don't get it. It's through the Quantity, that you're producing that you're going to get the get the one that's good because it's not going to be not. Everyone's going to be great, not everyone. Everyone's going to listen to, you know, 500 times and share with their friends and things like that, but as you continue to do the imperfect and practice and share your philosophy, it's going to get better and better as you do it. So that's another area. Was that what's this podcast?
Let me give you another example in practice was with with my YouTube channel and doing Videos in the beginning, they were horrible. If you look at my initial ones, I didn't have the best camera. I didn't have the best microphone but but they were done and I took the time and the Really, the had the courage to do that. And so what is it in your practice that you've been delaying because you want it to be perfect. And this might be making your, I don't know.
Simple PDF download it might be making a YouTube video might be, you know you wanted to start your channel just kind of start it, just do it. Just get it out there because as you start that's where you mess up. You have imperfect practice but then you learn the key is learning. So then as you learn as you do it more then you get better at it, okay? Whereas many of us we just think about these ideas and we don't do it. We're not getting perfect.
We're not getting any better because we're not doing anything. It's all kind of in our mind, we have this. We have these were thinking thinking thinking, we're okay. I'm going to first So for example, if you wanted to start an email responder like let's say you want to do something when someone downloads a free book and you want to have all these emails going on to your patients, you have to just kind of do it, just kind of it's going to be imperfect the first time.
It's usually not the first rendition or the second
rendition. For example, these these things that I've been working on these patient presentations, I've been working on this for years and I present them every single day to my patients on, I'm various conditions and and they're constantly getting better and better because I'm because I'm doing them because I'm learning how to talk to the patients because I'm because I'm Actually going in the end, we'll call in the arena and I am, like, trying these out on patient.
So, I would recommend whatever you've been, like, kind of delaying. And we can tell is if you're not doing imperfect practice, if you're delaying, okay? If you're delaying, if you're not doing anything, and this can be anything, this could be opening up a second office, this could be hiring another another associate, this could be developing training for your staff. This could be anything like that, that can help you. So what I want to talk, so what the whole Focus was on was on
this imperfect practice. So Practice something. And you know the last thing is if you're wanting to do something you have to do this imperfect practice like daily Okay, so if you want to do a YouTube or if you want to do a podcast or if you want to do anything, write a blog, you want to kind of get better at doing it daily or weekly like right one blog a week or one video a week or one podcast a week and whatever that topic is that. That's how you do it.
You have to do this imperfect versus just thinking thinking thinking and you never do it. Okay, let's get hope you guys find that helpful. I have a new tool that I've been working on called the, it's, from my patients. Dacians. I haven't quite figured out the name. I think I'm gonna call the patient treatment tool, but it's a tool that I use. This is what I practice every single day. You can start practice using it. It's going to be imperfect.
The first time you showed to patient's, they're not going to know what to do but I do have it there. You can go to Patient present a patient presentations.com and you can get access to its put your email and then I would thumbnail or not. Thumbnail. I would um, Save the webpage on your browser so that you can get it other times and just show those presentations your patients start using them learning how to fit it in your workflow. If you want more help.
Reach out to me, Don at Podiatry, practice Master e.com. If you want to kind of learn how to make your own, or my help, or if I can teach you how to do it if you want. Okay. These guys have a good day.