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According to yourdictionary.com, risk can be defined as “peril, danger, [or] the chance of loss or injury”.

The traditional scholastic education system discourages risk-taking by...

This post is the first in a series wherein I explore the effect of debt on our lives.

Debts can either be good or bad – depending on a few features that I will explore over the course of...

“Life either happens by design or default. You choose.” - Bob Proctor

Over the last few decades, I’ve come to embrace and believe this concept to be true in life, especially when...

I often reflect on how my life is racing by. I blink and it feels as though another year has passed.

Our children grow older and more independent. The “new” hospital that I started...

Every living organism, organ, or cell is either in the process of growing or dying, nothing in between. Even homeostasis is a balance of anabolism and catabolism.

The same holds true for us...

Survey after survey shows that physicians are chronically sleep-deprived. I used to measure lost sleep not in weeks but years. 

As I’ve gotten older and less tolerant of night...

One way to depict leadership is for the leader to take a group of people on a bus ride toward a destination. 

Here are the scenarios:

1. Right People, Right Bus: Great,...

In an earlier article, I asked you to calculate your net worth by subtracting your liabilities from your assets.

What is an asset? The simplest definition is an object or financial product...

Years ago, I attended a seminar on focus, wondering what the big deal was and how someone could be a “focus specialist”. 

The speaker started by asking how many key roles...

As I mentioned in a previous communication, many of us feel that we are “always on” and accessible to our personal and practice networks.

I love my smartphone and consider it...

I once had a nursing manager that started as an ideal worker whom I promoted up the ranks. As time moved on and I continued to expand and innovate the processes of the clinic, I felt more and more...

In an earlier post, I discussed taking stock of our current financial lives by setting up an annual calculation of net worth.

This week, I want to encourage you to glimpse at your financial...