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Hi, docs. Welcome to the Entre MD Podcast, where it's all about helping amazing physicians just like you. Embrace entrepreneurship so you can have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on your terms. I'm your host, Dr. Umna. Well, hello. Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Entre MD podcast. We are going to have an absolute blast because I am going to be talking about something that I've known but maybe I lost track of and I rediscovered it. And it is so powerful and really it is around how to declutter mentally. But this is something that a lot of times gets missed. It's not obvious, it's not glaring, but it's a big issue. Okay. And so the background of this is I found myself in a situation where I was feeling more stressed than I usually am. So for the most part, I have internal peace. Like, I am cool. Like, really cool. And I've built a lot of habits, you know, to support that and a lot of principles that I observed to support that. And so when this started, it was really subtle. It wasn't anything drastic or crazy. Nobody would have looked at me and said, I'm stressed out. But on the inside, there was just this internal stress and I'm like, what is it? I tried to figure it out. I couldn't figure out what it was. You know, a lot of times I didn't pay it any mind because it Wasn't obvious. I just knew that I don't walk around like this. I walk around at complete peace. What is going on? And so I started digging into what exactly was going on. It was really bad. I started praying about it. I'm like, what is this? Right? And there's one thing that came to mind, it was so powerful because it occurred to me that this was what I was doing and. And I fixed it. And right away I went from sub underlying lack of peace that had been there probably for months, really. But that's what I'm saying was so subtle that I didn't pay too much money because I wouldn't remember. But going from that to boom. Right now, of course, there are other things, right? This is not the only thing, but this is a big thing, and it's a hidden thing. And that thing is indecision. Indecision. I had all these big decisions that I had to make, fairly big decisions I had to make. And I was like, eh, I'm not sure, you know, I'll think about it later. And I didn't realize this, but I had stacked up a number of things that I had made no decisions on. And so this started creating all this stress, because if you make a decision, you can move on. If you don't make a decision, then you're walking around with it, right? It's kind of like there on your to do list in your mind and filed away. And so it was all this indecision. And so I literally got out my journal, got my pen, and started writing all those things I had not made decisions on. And I made decisions on them, put dates by them and all of that. And I went from stressed out internally, even though subtle, back to complete peace. It was so amazing. And I figured, you know what? I'll come share it with you. Okay? So the thing about this is it's really sneaky because you don't really. I mean, who wakes up and says, I'm just not going to decide on anything, right? And so I said, you know what? Why don't I pull out 10 things that you could potentially not be making decisions on? And you maybe you've had these things for months and you're just walking around with them, and it's creating all this tension on the inside, right? And we want to have lives that we love, right? Entrepreneurship is all about, you know, living life and practicing medicine on your terms. And there's a lot of peace. It doesn't mean you don't work hard and all that. But then there's the peace and enjoying life. Right. Okay, so what are some of those things? And this is no particular order, it's just random. Okay, all right, so the first thing, for instance, like, what software? Something as simple as what software am I going to use? And that could look like if you're in private practice, you know, I really want to change my ehr. Which one is it going to be? Or it could be, you know, I'm a course creator. Am I going to use Kajabi or am I going to use Kartra or, you know, which, whichever other searchy, whatever platform that is. Or. Or you're like, oh, I need a email service provider, you know, am I going to do Mailchimp or ConvertKit or I'm going to do Kajabi with the all in one, or am I going to do flow desk? What am I going to do? Right? And the longer you kind of let that sit, like you've collected the information, but you're like, yeah, I'm not sure, you know, and all that you're walking around with it and walked around it for months. It is a source of stress. It's like, decide already and move on. It could be that it could be hiring and this could be, what role am I going to hire for? And for the last three months, four months, six months, you're still thinking about the same thing, right? Or you're like, I have interviewed people, I've interviewed these three people. So who's the person? I don't know. You know, I'm kind of thinking about it all now. Am I saying you don't think about things? No, we're going to talk about, you know, how to approach these things. But if you've been thinking about it after doing all the interviews, you like you did three interviews with everybody and you know, three weeks later, four weeks later, you're still thinking, that's a problem. Right. And that's going to create all this mental tension for you. Number three, something as simple as I want to hire, what is the person's job description going to be? I have seen doctors who four months later, five months later, they're still working on this job description. I've done something like that. Maybe not four months, but you know, where you're just sitting on it like, decide, decide what it is. Number four could be your next offering. Right? Like, so if you're a private practice, maybe there's a new vertical you've wanted to bring into your. Your business. You kind of been playing around with it for months and months and Months and years and stuff like that. Or maybe you're a coach and you've been doing the one on one. You know it's time for a group, but you don't know where to start with a group or you're doing a group and you know it's time for you to create this other experience for people, and you know it. And your clients have been asking for it, but you're kind of like thinking about it, and you've thought about it for three months, six months, 12 months. Now is different. If you decide you made an executive, I'm not going to do it now. But if you're walking around with the indecision of do I do it, don't I do it again? That's mental clutter. Number five. Let's say you wanted to do an event. Where are we going to have the event? Where is the location of this event? Right? And for months you've been, you know, every, every evening you come in and you're googling, you know, best retreats in the United States and you're still thinking about it, but you haven't done anything right? Or it may not even be the retreat, it may not even be the location. It may be the date. What day are we going to do this? Months later? What day are we going to do this in this indecision? So just, you know, thinking about it and thinking about it, what date are we going to do that? What date are we going to do the open house? What date are we going to do the retreat? What day are we going to do the conference? What day are we going to do the walk with the doc? What day? What day? What day? Just walking around, you know what day number? Number seven. Maybe you've decided, you know what, I want to put my, my brand out there. I want to put my business out there. But I don't know if I'm going to do a Facebook live every week or I'm going to do a podcast. I'm going to start a YouTube channel. I'm going to start a blog. Okay, which one? But you've thought about it. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August. Eight months, maybe two years. And you're just walking around with that, right? Because it's undecided. It's not checked off. It's not. There's no date to it. There's no decision on. Just. Is just mental clutter. Number eight. Maybe you know, okay, so you're, you're in this space where your life has changed. Okay, so maybe you are running A private practice. And, you know, you had been an employed physician, but now you're running your own. And what that means is that you also have a CEO role and you also have a manager role, but your schedule hasn't changed. Like, you. You haven't. You know, you're like, I know I need to block off time when I'm going to do these certain things. I'm gonna look at the profit and loss statement, the rest of the financials, or I'm gonna do the training for my staff, or I'm gonna do some marketing things for the practice. But there's no schedule, you know? Right. This is not about you not knowing. You know, you're like, I really need to tweak my schedule. I really need to block off some stuff. You've thought about it since the beginning of the year. You still haven't done it. Right? And again, I'm not judging. I'm telling you that I was facing stress because I found out there were all these decisions I just hadn't made. I knew I needed to make them. I had the information to make them, but I just didn't make them. Right. Okay, so. So maybe, you know, it's time to tweak your week. And as long as it's not tweaked, guess what? Not only do you have the mental stress, you also have the stress of that's created because time is being mismanaged. Right. Number nine, vendors. Vendors like, oh, who are we going to buy our vaccines from? 10 years later, you're still thinking about it, right? Who are we going to buy our office supplies from? Who are we going to buy that from? Who are we going to use as our Facebook ads guy? All of that. And you, you've looked at many people, you have the information, but you just have not made the decision. Number 10, deadlines. And so think about it. You have. You're supposed to do a presentation. You have to turn in PowerPoint slides. You're going to be speaking at an event, right? They give you. They give you a deadline. But of course, you know, not to work with their deadline. You work with your own deadline. So when are you going to make those slides? When are you going to do that? No decision is made. So what's floating in your head the entire time? Oh, yeah, I have to do the slides. Oh, yeah. Two hours later. Oh, yeah, I have to do the slides. But if you schedule them, every time that thought comes, you're like, oh, yeah, I'm doing that on, you know, Thursday the 14th. You see what I mean, and so it's just the indecision. So think about all these things. Think about of the 10, how many you, you've identified that. Wait a minute, I have not made a decision on that in forever. And this is not a, this is not an all. This is, this list doesn't include all the options. There are other things and these are just business things. Think about in your personal life and all that. Just one decision not made after the other. So if you want to be a person who's going to live about above stress and mental clutter and you're deciding one of the things, one of the habits I'm going to have to do that is I'm going to be this person who is decisive, right? Which is one of the traits of the ultra successful. I'm decisive. What does that look like? That looks like there's a decision that needs to be made. You get the information you need, right? To make the decision. This does not take forever. You get the information you need, you need to take. So if it is an emr, for instance, that may look like you're getting a demo and all of those kind of things. If it's should I do podcast, YouTube or blog? There are studies that compare the three of them, the pros and cons and all of that. If you are deciding you want to do an event, well, there's an information on the event location, stuff like that. If it's a date, you can look at the date. Is my family office, any national holiday around there? Do all the schools get off at that time? Like you can look at that, that you can get the information. So that is step one. Step two is you can consult people, right? And that could be people who have used what you're trying to use, done what you've tried to do, or their vendors for that thing or whatever. But you can do ACT consults, you can get actual reviews from actual people who have used this service or have done things like that. So you can talk to actual people, right? And so that is one of the things that for instance in the entrepreneur business school, a lot of the doctors in there will do because hey, I was thinking about this and there will always be someone who has either had that experience, wanted to do that thing, use that thing, made a mistake with a date and all of that. So that's all consulting. That's what they're doing in the context of this private Facebook group for the business school students, right? So you're going to consult, which is fine. Look at reviews as part of consulting. And then number three, once you have the information and the console, it's time to make a decision. What if I make the wrong decision? Make it already. There's nothing wrong with making a wrong decision, right? Making a wrong decision. Now, I don't want to say this casually because they're there. You know, there are other aspects to it, but I mean, like if you were going to do an event and six months later you haven't decided on a date, it's almost better. You pick a date and it was the wrong date and you learned the lesson, you keep it moving. You see what I'm saying? Like, you don't want to be that person who's not making decisions. So you get the information, you do the consult, you make a decision. You make the best decision you can make, you make an excellent decision, which means the best decision you can make with the information and resources you have at the time, right? Okay. So make the decision. When you're done making the decision, take action, right? And when you're done taking action, get feedback. Was this, this was a great decision. Would I tweak it differently? Would I do it differently the next time? And all of those things. And you cannot get feedback, which is so valuable, except you make a decision and you take action. I'll give you an example with the Entre MD Business school. When we first launched it, you know, there are so many reasons I could have not done it, right? I could have not made the decision because one is a business school. And what I know is you, Harvard has a business school, Emory has a business school, Stanford has a business school. Like, what in the world, right? And so I'm like, what? What are you doing? Right? And so there was that doubt there. I could have said, you know, this is not the right time. Let me go back, get an mba, let me do all of that stuff, right? And I was like, okay, this is the pathway I'm going to help people go through. I'm going to help them find their message. I'm going to help them, you know, put that message everywhere. So build a really visible brand, convert that to revenue, impact of revenue. And I'm going to teach them to build systems around it so that I, they can enjoy, you know, business is a means to an end, so they can enjoy the life that their business supports. And then I put that out there. Well, let me tell you, that was a quote unquote mistake in the sense that so many people in the audience are like, well, I'm not even ready for that. I Know I want more. I just don't know what more is. I don't know if my business idea is the right idea. I have too many ideas, all that stuff. And so that was me getting information, consulting, making a decision, taking action, and getting feedback. So what did I do? I didn't have to burn the whole thing down. I just had to add something else for the person who is like, well, I want to make sure my business idea is the right idea, that it can be profitable and all of that. Right. And so was that process perfect? No. Did I have many reasons to stall in that decision? Yes. But I got information, I got consults, I made a decision, I acted, and I got feedback. And. And I continue to get feedback, and I continue to modify it based on feedback. So the entrepreneur business school is a living. Is a living organism, right? Because it's not. It's not the same as it was a year ago. It's not the same as it was six months ago, because we continue to work on it. But if I did not make the decision in the first place, I would not be here. And so because I made the decision, the business school is over 2 years old, has served over 200 doctors, has created many docs who have, you know, started businesses, surpassed six figures, surpass multiple six figures, surpassed seven figures, surpass multiple seven figures. Right? Because I made a decision. Okay. Was there some fear that, what if this doesn't work? Well, I think that goes with any new thing, but we can't let it stop us. Okay, so after. If we go back to my story, after I realized this, I took the time, I made all these decisions, I put dates on, all these things I needed to put dates on, and I went from, what is this stress, no inner peace thing going on to USA inner peace. And I would love the same for you. So identify those areas where you have all these decisions, especially bigger decisions that have not been made. Get the information if you haven't already, get the consult if you haven't done that already, and then make the decision, take action, get feedback. Okay? But that process will bring you to this place where you get a lot of clutter, a lot of clutter out of your mind, and you can have peace and you can enjoy your journey as an entrepreneur. Okay. I would love for you to have the experience that I have, and that experience is that I am an entrepreneur. I work hard on my business. I am so grateful that I have the privilege of impacting a lot of lives. And I'm grateful that, you know, our businesses generate significant revenue. But in the process of growing that business, I am enjoying my life. And I'm not just talking about vacations and all of those things. I'm talking about day to day. I'm talking about peace. I'm talking about that inner happiness and all of those things. And you can have that. But indecision is something that can destroy that. But now you know what to do. And as you do it, you'll be well on on your way of having more peace, enjoying your day more, enjoying your family more, enjoying what you do more. Because you're not walking around with 10,000 undecided things on your to do list. Okay? So on this one I would really be excited to hear how it helps you. You can send me a private message on Instagram or Facebook. I am Dr. Una Chukwu on Instagram. I'm Nekauna Chukwu on Facebook. And you know, let me know and definitely share this episode with another doctor in your life. It will absolutely change their lives. 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