You've already tried the advice.
Physicians are resourceful. When something isn't working, we look for solutions: dot phrases, charting templates, EHR optimization hacks, efficiency and resilience lectures, maybe a side hustle, or a shelf of books on parenting and marriage. Most offer a shred of something useful. Few solve the problem, because they were designed for someone else's life.
If there were one simple fix for burnout, we'd all follow it and the problem would be solved. There wouldn't be thousands of publications on any of these issues. The sheer number of solutions tells us there is no single best way for every person, every family, and every job.
The best way to shape the next phase of your life comes from understanding yourself and your options, then trying different pathways toward the life and career you want.
You already know more than you think.
Most of us know far more than we realize about what we want, and about how to shape the next stage of our careers. Those answers just need time and space to surface.
That takes three things medicine has trained us not to do:
Slow down.
Ask what you really want, not what you think you should want or what someone else wants for you.
Listen to the answers. This may take a while, because many of us are used to shutting down ideas that don't seem possible or right.
Coaching is structured time to do exactly that, with someone trained to ask the questions you haven't been asking yourself.
How it works
During your 50-minute sessions, we'll consider what your career and life are like now, and gradually build a picture of what you'd like them to look like. Then we'll start building toward it, one step at a time.
You don't have to wait for retirement to design the life you want to live.
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