How do you become known as a thought leader — one of those doctors who create and lead the discussion, rather than simply follow? Thought leaders produce provocative, insightful, and impactful ideas — ideas that spread and often take on a life of their own. How do you know if you have big ideas? Or […]
Become an Authority
3 Hidden Mind Traps That Keep You Tied to Your Practice
Every doctor client I’ve worked with first came to me with one objective: to help them find more leverage outside their practices. And maybe you’ve toyed with many of the same goals: You want to work fewer hours, see fewer patients – or, at the very least, choose the types of patients you work with. […]
How to Be Remarkable
And why it matters. I think the purpose of life is, above all, to matter; to count, to stand for something, to have made a difference that you lived at all. – Leo Rosten Maybe you didn’t change the world, but you changed somebody’s world. – Brendon Burchard What does it really mean to ‘make […]
How to Grow More Fresh Ideas
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. — George Bernard Shaw Consider the story […]
Who’s On Your Side?
Last night in one of our mastermind calls, the group recommended I get a dog. I’m not sure what they were suggesting about my life, but I’m pretty sure our cats would disagree with this assessment (note hapless kitty in canine death grip.) This illustrates the kind of helpful recommendations one can receive in a […]
Is Guest Posting and Commenting Enough?
“It’s all in who you know.” We’ve all heard it: You have to know “the right people” or have the right pedigree to be successful. Upon entering college, I was told to network and create alliances with influential people. These people would be instrumental in creating my future. And so I kissed up to my […]
How to Beat The Number One Dream Killer
Have you ever known what to do next in your business, and still not done it? Have you had any of those days when you doubt yourself? Maybe you’ve even had those moments when you considered just throwing in the towel and going back to the 9-5. If you haven’t yet, just wait . . […]
Don’t Set Goals . . .
Without also making them automatic. Do you set resolutions for the New Year? I’ve become a bit of a resolution curmudgeon: and not only because I’ve set goals that went nowhere – although I’ve set plenty of those. A few years ago, I wanted a new goal paradigm, a new way of looking at getting […]
How to Get Noticed in the New Attention Economy
There’s a moment when an online authority platform reaches its first “tipping point;” that moment a well-placed guest post brings your website a surge of traffic overnight, or a single joint venture partner email adds 1,000 new readers to your list. It seems to be the single moment that changes everything. Getting this kind of […]








