Success in work isn’t complicated, but it is hard. Not because the principles are confusing, but because they require clarity, courage, and discipline. After years in healthcare, leadership, ownership, coaching, and life… I keep coming back to four simple truths.
They aren’t flashy. They aren’t tactical hacks. They’re foundational. And when you violate them, you feel it.
1. Lead With Your Heart… yeah I went there
Your thoughts change, your fears fluctuate, and your feelings rise and fall all based on sleep, stress, who’s around you, and circumstances.
But your heart, your core values, your deeper convictions is solid, it’s steady.
When you make decisions based on fear:
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You say yes to things you shouldn’t.
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You hold onto people too long.
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You avoid hard conversations.
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You build a business that looks good but feels wrong.
When you make decisions based purely on emotion:
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You react.
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You overcorrect.
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You burn bridges.
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You drift.
But when you lead from your heart, from who you are and what you believe, your decisions become aligned. It isn’t always easy, but it’s clean. It resonates with what you are building. You and your team will feel it, see it, and move it forward.
2. Be True to Yourself
This sounds obvious right, but It’s not. In business it’s easy to become who others want you to be. It happens quietly and blindly, and it takes awareness to not be that person. Whether it is the “grow at all costs”, the “people pleaser”, the “I will just work harder”.
When you start bending to fit other people’s expectations, something subtle happens: You lose clarity, your energy drops, resentment builds, your brand becomes diluted or something you don’t even recognize. You cannot build a fulfilling career pretending to be someone else. You can imitate someone else’s tactics, you can learn from someone else’s strategy, but you cannot borrow someone else’s identity.
The most successful people I know are not the loudest or the most aggressive…. They are the most aligned.
They know:
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What they believe.
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What they stand for.
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What they will not tolerate.
- Who there customer is
3. Do What You Love (and/or What You’re Good At) & Get Help With the Rest
One of the fastest ways to burn out as an owner is trying to do everything. Especially in heathcare private practice, but in all entrepreneurship.
You are not supposed to love:
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Billing.
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Marketing.
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HR.
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Negotiation.
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Systems.
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Documentation.
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Compliance.
You will love some of it… or be naturally strong at some of it. Your job is not to become a superhero and do it all…
Your job is to build a team.
Believe it or not, here is always someone who:
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Enjoys spreadsheets.
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Loves compliance.
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Thrives on organizing.
- Get’s excited about bookkeeping
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Loves social media.
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Loves operational details.
SO LET THEM DO IT. It will empower them, and help you.
When you stay in your zone and truly lead:
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Your energy increases.
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Your performance improves.
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Your creativity expands.
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Your business becomes more efficient.
Delegation is not weakness, it’s maturity. Success is never easy alone, it takes a team.
4. Don’t Underestimate Your Relationships (All of Them)
This might be the most important one of all. You will never outperform the quality of your relationships. this is true for all aspects of life
Not with:
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Your spouse.
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Your children.
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Your team.
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Your partners.
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Your patients.
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Your referrals.
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Yourself.
Without strong relationships you can be talented and lose everything relationally. You can be intelligent and still create tension everywhere you go.
But when relationships are healthy:
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Work feels lighter.
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Hard seasons feel manageable.
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Feedback becomes growth.
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Conflict becomes constructive.
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Success feels shared.
Relationships are not a “soft skill.” They are the infrastructure of your success in all aspects of life. Trust me on this. I have been around and have had some great relationships, some bad relationships and every shade of it in between.
When relationships are strong and important the other person trusts you, feels seen, feels heard, feels validated, feels connected and there is resonance in the relationship.
The quality of your life and work will mirror the quality of your relationships every time.
Final Thought
None of these truths are complicated, but they require courage to know yourself, to ask for help, to invest in relationships. If you get these four right, everything becomes easier because there is clarity and alignment.
