Redefining Work-Life Balance in a Canadian Private Practice | Ep 124

Fearless Practice

We always hear about “optimization”, and to the extent that many folks may be influenced to outsource everything possible so that they have more free time.

But imagine this; if you had all this extra free time, after the time to rest, exercise, and spend time with loved ones, what would you be doing? If you had more free time and the mental capacity for tasks that you enjoy, what would they be?

You don’t have to outsource all the parts of your private practice, maybe only the parts that you either need help with, or that you really don’t like doing. If you’re a great therapist, but you also love marketing or SEO (like me!) then there’s nothing wrong with structuring your tasks so that you still get to do these tasks that you enjoy doing in your practice.

Work-life balance is just that, a balance that you have to test out to discover where it lies for you. This is what I’ve done, listen in to learn more!

In this Episode:

• Some background on my experience so far

• The reality of my choices

• Do things because you love doing them

Some background on my experience so far

Sometimes therapists can only stay in the profession for a while because they can get severely burnt out, and I didn’t want that to happen to me.

When I started my Canadian private practice part-time, I was still working at university as a therapist. Even though I loved both jobs, I could tell that I was getting burnt out.

So, once I fully transitioned into private practice, things started to slowly get better! And I started to finally achieve some more work-life balance. I share more about this on this podcast episode; a 50/50 work week. Additionally, I share how having more free time helped me to overcome some obstacles that cropped up during this time.

The reality of my choices

At a time, this 50/50 work week split was great because it provided me with the chance to get to everything I needed to in my practice while allowing myself to rest on the off days.

However, with this additional extra time, I was getting a little bored.

I started to ask myself what fills my soul, beyond doing the therapy work that I love. I could sense that there was something more that I wanted to do and contribute to with my time and energy; I just had to figure out what that was.

What I came to understand was that by outsourcing everything that I possibly could, there were types of work that I was no longer doing that I did enjoy doing.

Do things because you love doing them

So, even though a business owner could technically outsource every single thing in their business to someone else - besides only what they can do - that’s not something that you have to do!

You can still find the balance between hiring outside assistants and help, and still doing the tasks that you enjoy doing!

Remember that you don’t have to follow everyone else’s example. Take advice and learn from other people’s experience, but at the end of the day, you are the one who can build a system that is best-suited for your needs and desires.

Some questions for you to think about could include:

• What do you enjoy doing?

• How do you make time for it?

• What can you outsource so that you have the time to do these things?

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Ep 123: Michelle Ham: Joining a Collective to Build a Successful Practice | EP 123

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