Spring Cleaning your Practice 🧽

Day 5 - Your Schedule

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

This is a short email course on spring cleaning your practice - and today is the last one!

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Your Schedule 🗓

We finish with a review of your schedule.

The goal: Create a schedule that works for your life/work balance

The strategy: Review, evaluate and reset

1. Review how you spent your time in the last month - diary, calendar, planner, booking system etc.

2. Evaluate and make notes - what worked? what didn’t? how do you feel looking back, and what can you learn?

3. Reset your schedule - create a schedule that works for you and your life, not simply one where you fit yourself in around other people

Our time and energy are interdependent. Your energy is not unlimited, and we all need plenty of sleep, rest and relaxation time so our practice doesn’t drain us.

An organised schedule helps us have energy for client work and time for our admin so things don’t pile up and overwhelm us.

Here’s what to do.

• Think about the different roles you have in your life.

• Think about how your energy changes through the week and the month.

• Try to ‘theme’ your days to match your energy whenever possible.

For example, I prefer to see clients just two days a week, on a Monday and Tuesday so I can get packages in the post in time to arrive by the weekend.

I sometimes see people on Wednesdays, but not every week.

For years, I’ve tried to keep my Sundays simple so I am always well-rested for Monday morning.

As I move through the week, I work on admin or writing blogs or newsletters so I can dress more casually on those days.

These days include more time for exercise or maybe meeting friends.

Here are some ideas for ways to review your schedule.

1. Explore different schedules using sticky notes or simply pen and paper. 🎨

2. Ensure you have allowed enough time for casework and posting promptly - clients appreciate this. 💖

3. When you have figured out your preferences, set up your new client times on your booking system. 🗓

4. Share your adjusted schedule in your newsletter and check it is up-to-date on any social media, website and Google Business listing. ✅

5. Block out one week every 6-8 weeks when you don’t see clients. Use this time to catch up with yourself, maybe for a financial day, to write content or even for self-care. 🛀

6. Consider your time and make space for things that energise you and help you switch off from work. ✨

Now you’ve created your new schedule, review it every few months.

Every Friday I look back through my week to see what went well and what I need to learn from.

Here’s what I do at the end of each month.

Tips for a monthly review

• Look back through the month on your calendar, booking system, journal etc.

• Make two lists - 1. What you accomplished. 2. What you learned.

• What would you like to stop doing?

• What would you like to start doing?

• What would you like to adjust?

• Check what you have planned for the month ahead.

• Write goals (not too many!), add things to your to-do list and put dates in your calendar.

• Check your booking system is set up ahead, with holidays blocked out etc.

• Rinse and repeat.

I hope you are inspired to create a schedule that supports your homeopathy practice and work-life balance. ⚖️

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This was the last of this short email series to support you with spring cleaning your practice! I hope there’s been something here to inspire you. ✨

Please feel free to share any thoughts, ideas or actions. I would love to read them!

I’ll be back with a regular newsletter with practice reflections and brain food at the end of the month.

Have a good week,

Tracy 👩🏼‍💻

P.S. My favourite all-time webinar Money Wisdom for Homeopaths is on Friday 19th May. 👛

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