Want More Time Freedom From Your Clinic? Make These 5 Changes | GYC Podcast 371

Well, Mick, do you want to open with this, this quote, um, that you've just sent through on the chat? Just help us understand the conversations that you're having, perhaps the thinking that you've also had when it comes to your own business and the freedom element to it.

Yeah, I was thinking about this episode and the thought that came up, which I've written here, is, "Freedom, a privilege to be earned first, or can we have it at the start of our clinics?" And I think the common mindset is when I get to, when I get to this rev, when I get to this profit, when I get to this team members, then I'll be able to work a four-day week, or then I'll be able to take holidays.

And maybe we can dig into doing that the other way around.

Well, it's interesting.

One of the things, J.O.B., you and I love talking about are, you know, definitions.

And so when I think of freedom, naturally I go to, well, once you've started your own business, there's a lot of freedom in your decision-making.

Like you, you are-- the buck stops with you.

You have the freedom to make a number of different decisions about who you hire, where you open, the types of service, what you charge.

What do you mean, though, Mick, when you talk about freedom? Is it purely like an hours thing?

Yeah, I think can you sleep at night, financial freedom, ATO freedom.

[laughs] And having, having the right finances allocated in the right spot, um, and being able to design your week, your business, your life with your family.

All of those things come into it when I talk about freedom, I think.

Well, it's interesting, right? 'Cause freedom is, uh, relative and subjective, and it's also fleeting.

You know, it's, it's kind of that pursuit of like, oh, I'll be rich when.

Yeah, like there's never enough as the, the book by Andrew Wilkinson or, or Enough by Jack Bogle.

Two of my favorite books, incidentally.

Yes, great.

Very similar topics.

Great books.

Uh, so, you know, free-- there's always more freedom to be had, whether that's financial or time or freedom of choice, freedom from responsibility.

But do we want freedom from responsibility? Uh, personally, no.

I want more responsibility.

That is freedom to serve and contribute, make a diff- so it's really interesting how it's-

it's-Fleeting and relative.