Ask Joe: How do I make a better schedule? | POP 812

A photo of Joe Sanok is displayed. Joe, private practice consultant, offers helpful advice for group practice owners to grow their private practice. His therapist podcast, Practice of the Practice, offers this advice.

Are you struggling to make time for your goals? Do you keep putting the things that you work on off to the next day, week, or even month? What can you do to shake up your schedule to get to the things that inspire you?

In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok answers the question about how you can make a better schedule.

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In This Podcast

  • Delay is information
  • Quiz yourself and reflect on these questions
  • What is going to help you?

Delay is information

Remove the emotional aspect, and look at the situation purely as data. What does this cycle tell you about your time, your schedule, and your energy?

What is the input and the output? Can you change something small to experiment with your energy, and see if it makes a difference in the way that you show up for yourself?

The quality of the energy that you have for that particular task does not line up with the energy that’s needed for that task.

Joe Sanok

Quiz yourself and reflect on these questions

Ask yourself:

  • Is this task needed for the practice?
  • Do you specifically have to do this task, or could it be outsourced or delegated?
  • Is this task aligned with the future goals and aspirations that you have for your practice?

Maybe you didn’t get the outcomes you wanted, maybe it didn’t launch as you wanted, maybe the topic doesn’t matter anymore to you, [and] that’s okay!

Joe Sanok

What is going to help you?

Sit with your schedule, and a pen, and work through it.

Are there things that you can reschedule, cancel, or delegate?

What do you know that you need to add in for your mental, physical and emotional well-being?

Are you making time for yourself?

Are your boundaries strong between working and unwinding?

Take the time right now to text the support [structures] in your life to say, “Hey, would you be up for watching my kids every Wednesday [evening]? I want to, for eight weeks, try to do something for myself on Wednesday nights where I can connect with people.”

Joe Sanok

Fill out your ideal life into your calendar, even if it’s not fully real yet, to sketch out what your ideal life would look like on paper. Then, take small steps to make it happen.

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Meet Joe Sanok

A photo of Joe Sanok is displayed. Joe, private practice consultant, offers helpful advice for group practice owners to grow their private practice. His therapist podcast, Practice of the Practice, offers this advice.

Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners that are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe.

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