Working smarter not harder ✨

Radiant Business School 2025 this March

It feels like we are approaching spring after a cold winter, for which I am so grateful.

The longer afternoons are very welcome and I am enjoying seeing spring flowers popping their heads up. ☀️

February is always a busy time in my practice, and hopefully for you too.

If you are new here, welcome!

I’m Tracy Karkut-Law, I’ve been a homeopath in east London since 2007 and I’ve been sharing my practice through this newsletter since 2014.

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Radiant Business School 2025 🪴

Up-level your practice in 2 weeks

Now January is behind us, it’s a good time to start thinking about how to make your 2025 goals a reality.

a) Get ready to open your new practice
b) Attract and retain more people you enjoy working with
c) Set up new systems if you are feeling a bit stretched

With this in mind, I invite you to join me for Radiant Business School this March.

Backstory

Radiant Business School began as a 3-day seminar series in 2016, and evolved into a popular online course. Hundreds of homeopaths have completed it, some of them more than once!

This course distills everything I’ve learned in the last 17 years, through business coaching, marketing courses, dozens of books, and working with many other homeopaths to set up and grow their practices.

Course content

• Mindset and Attention - manage your time effectively

• Money and Finances - increase your profit margins

• Ideal client marketing - online and community marketing that works

• Systems and expectations - structure and boundaries that benefit everyone

• Workbooks and templates - hosted in an easy to use platform

• 4x 90 minute webinars - join live or on replay

• One to one mentoring session - for the first 10 people to join

Course dates

Monday 17th March – Friday 28th March

Webinar dates:

Tuesday 18th March 9am GMT
Thursday 20th March 5pm GMT
Tuesday 25th March 9am GMT
Thursday 27th March 5pm GMT

(I am hoping these times make it more accessible for homeopaths in the US 🇺🇸, Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿.)

All webinars are recorded, with unlimited replay.

Early bird: £110 (until 28th February)
Full fee: £210

If you need to pay in instalments, please reply to this email 🤍.

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Working smarter not harder ✨

1️⃣ Part 1 - Client Work

This is the first of a series of four short essays on working smarter, not harder.

A couple of years ago I read a book called Work Clean by Dan Charnas, where I learned about the practices of professional cooks and how they approach their work.

They plan out their time methodically and work on one thing at a time.

The daily plan for a cook is called Mise En Place, and is translated from the French, meaning ‘Putting in place’.

Here are some ways this book inspired me to be more organised, and work smarter, not harder with my client work.

1. Take digital notes 📝
   I use an iPad and pencil to hand-write all my notes, using a simple note making app. I don’t use this ipad for anything else. It is simply for client work. No more filing or storage for files. No more buying paper.

2. Use Timely for client records ⌨️
   All new clients complete a consent form sent through Timely, my booking system. This includes their postal address. Because I send invoices through Timely as well, it is a complete record of all my transactions with each and every client. So useful.

3. Set up a schedule that works for me 📅

   I see clients two days a week, including one evening until 8.30pm. I allow another day to finish all my prescriptions and one half day for writing blog posts or newsletters, email follow up etc. Two days is enough. Occasionally I do three. More than that and I find myself feeling drained, which doesn’t work for me or anyone else.

4. Book a date for the follow up during the consultation 📆
   Discussing the date for a follow up doesn’t take long and I like to get them booked in. If I run out of time at the end of the call, I send some date options with the prescription email and set a reminder on my email programme to if I don’t receive a reply after one week. If your email programme doesn’t offer this option, to one that does.

5. Posting bag preparation ✉️

   Once I’ve finished all my client calls, I use Timely to access all the addresses I need to write onto posting bags. I write all the addresses in one go, so I have a pile of posting bags which also serves as a physical to-do list.

6. Prescription notes 📧

   I make a note of prescriptions in the notes app, write a simple version on a postcard to go in each parcel, and also send an email with more detailed prescription notes. For each email, I cut and paste from my previous prescription notes email to this client and update it as needed. I use subheadings and keep the instructions simple.

7. Go to the post once a day 📮

   I stop preparing parcels at 4pm and go to the post office with whatever is ready. The other parcels will be prepared and posted the next day.

How about you? Do you do any of these things already? Or do you have other systems that work for you?

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Brain food💡

1. 3 simple steps to transform your metabolism
   So much science to learn from Tim Spector and guests.

2. What new skill are you learning right now?
   New year goal - don’t get stuck in a rut!

3. The joys of getting organised
   Great tips if you’ve let things pile up a bit.

4. How to be less distracted
   Podcasts with Cal Newport are always time well spent.

5. 10 gentle self-care practices
   Caring for others starts with caring for yourself.

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As always, thanks for reading.

I’ll be back with Work Smarter, Not Harder Parts 2, 3 and 4 in the next few weeks.

If you have any questions about Radiant Business School, just reply to this newsletter. ✨

Tracy 👩🏼‍💻