Money is often a source of stress for physicians, with high levels of educational debt, delayed peak earning years, and the impacts of social comparison. However, money can also be a means of enjoyment, connection, adventure, security, and service. In this article, we’ll discuss how to use intentional spending that aligns with your unique values to create a life of financial freedom.

For many physicians, the passion we felt when we chose medicine as a career becomes obscured after years of working long hours and suffocating under administrative burdens. In this article, we'll discuss practical and proven ways to find or reconnect with your passion so you can create the career of your dreams.

We tend to associate happiness with comfort, but it turns out that voluntarily doing hard things can also be immensely rewarding. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the mental and physical benefits of regularly engaging in a sufficiently difficult challenge, along with how you can personalize these principles in your own life.

Time is one of the most scarce resources for physicians. We learn to say yes to more work as part of our training, but this often becomes overwhelming and unsustainable if our time doesn't reflect what's really important to us. In this article, you'll take stock of how your time is spent and learn crucial tactics to protect time for the people and experiences you value most.

While we’re trained as physicians to provide holistic care for our patients, for a variety of reasons we sometimes neglect to take care of ourselves. In this article, we'll explore how to prioritize your physiological needs in a way that supports your health first and foremost, while also improving your personal and professional relationships.

As physicians who entered healthcare to make a difference, many of us have felt disillusioned by a system that feels ineffective and unrewarding. In this article, we'll discuss how to identify elements of your work that are the most meaningful and how to frame your own pursuit of purpose in a way that maximizes your fulfillment.

Motivation is often touted as the secret to accomplishing your dreams, but is this really true? In this article, I'll discuss why motivation may not be the cure-all you're looking for, and I'll share three key strategies you can focus on instead to start making effective strides in the things that are most important to you.

Some people find setting and tracking goals to be too tedious, but fortunately there are many other effective ways to create change in our lives. In this article, we'll detail how to build automaticity into your decision-making, allowing you to easily prioritize your values and promote your desired outcomes.

We've all seen new year's resolutions come and go, so what's the secret to crafting more effective goals? In this article you'll learn evidence-based goal setting techniques like mental contrasting to help you maintain motivation and overcome obstacles.

As physicians, we navigate difficult situations every day. While some stress is unavoidable, it can quickly become unmanageable when you're bombarded by distorted thoughts. In this article, you'll learn how to combat negative self-talk so that you're equipped to face each new challenge with resilience.

If you’ve ever met a physician who loves what they do, and you wondered how you’re in the same profession - this article is for you. After years of trial and error, I share some secrets I’ve learned from my own journey, and from the lives of other thriving physicians in my community, on how to practice without burning out.

With the frequent lack of work-life balance in medicine, a drastic move like early retirement might seem like the only way to regain control of your time and do what you want to do. In this article, I share my story of a mini-retirement and why I decided to create a more sustainable career.

When you’re in the depths of burnout, it can feel paralyzing to even think about how to start climbing out. Here you’ll learn about three essential components of your career as a physician and how you can use these elements to discover what needs to change.

Our fears are intended to keep us safe, but how do you know if your fears are keeping you from living a more fulfilling life? In this article, you’ll learn how to identify and overcome the assumptions that are holding you back, so you can move forward in designing and building the life you want.

For many physicians, work-life balance feels like an abandoned dream. Often the strengths that lead us into medicine are the same traits that make us more susceptible to burnout. Discover how taking one simple step - the next step - is your most important investment.