5 Not-So-Obvious Habits of Practice Owners Who Actually Get Ahead

And I have spent the last decade consulting with hundreds of independent eye care practices across the country.

And somewhere along the way, I picked up this habit where I'm constantly going back through notes I've taken from books that I've read or podcasts I've listened to.

And something I'm always trying to do is pull out patterns that show up again and again in people who've actually attained success, not just in optometry, but everywhere.

I'm always looking at other industries outside of eye care.

Those might be other healthcare industries or just other industries altogether, restaurants, dentists, any entrepreneurial venture really.

And what I'm looking for are the patterns, the trends that seem to underlie success.

And what I find is that there's a within and outside of eye care.

And they're not always that obvious.

So what I want to do is share those with you today, what I've discovered, and maybe it'll help you identify some things that aren't so obvious about success habits of other people and how you might be able to implement those into your own practice.

So today I want to walk you through five of them.

And like I said, they're They're the not obvious ones that you'd expect me to say, like work hard or know your numbers.

I think we all know that, whether we do it or not, we know it.

But the ones that are a little less obvious and that I think matter more than most people give them credit for.

So by the end of this episode, my hope is that you'll know the philosophy that separates owners who actually scale from owners who stay stuck doing everything themselves.

And the most successful doctors you'll meet are usually the first to admit that they didn't figure any of this out alone.

And the one skill that I bet on over raw clinical talent every single time for long-term success is drumroll.

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