2024 BEST Resources for a Success Mindset for Specialist Practices

How to Have a High-Performance Success Mindset in Your Specialist Practice

If you feel happier and more positive – you’ll attract more success, better patients and positive people into your life. You’ll probably stay married and avoid a costly divorce. When you are highly stressed you make BAD decisions – you hire badly, attract negativity and attract more problematic patients. You make more mistakes that can affect patients too!

Techniques such as Meditation, Visualisation and Mindfulness can help you adopt a more successful mindset and have a better surgical practice.

There are now many research articles (listed below) on the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for Surgeons.

Top Tips for a Success Mindset

Hydrate well – drink water and avoid stimulants and sugar
Avoid Toxic people and situations
Raise awareness of your subconscious programming – rules & patterns
Create and repeat NEW habits
Change your MONEY beliefs and self-confidence programming
Manage your Little Voice – what are you saying to yourself
Practice Visualisation of positive outcomes – See the future you want
Define your Life Statements – your mantras or affirmations
Practice Your Affirmations – Early AM and Late PM – use your theta brainwaves – Saying It BEATS just looking at a Sign.
Design Your Morning Routine – time to yourself
Morning Routine Activities can give you more FOCUS, ENERGY and more TIME
Design your Evening Routine / EOD End of Day

Get Clear and Focussed – Setting Your Personal Goals

Set Goals for Family, Finances, Freedom and Fulfilment in your life
Define Your Values – Look at where you spend your money and time – What’s really important to you?

How to Manage Your Stress Levels

Adopt Stress Management Solutions to control your cortisol and adrenaline levels

Avoid Toxic people
Have a Social Media Detox
Sleep Better – No Electronic Devices in the Bedroom
Don’t start your day with the Phone – (Emails and SMS) – start with a Morning Routine

Your Dozen Daily Activities for Success

Walk with Affirmations or uplifting music
Finish your Shower with Cool Water
Meditation – imagine what you want to Manifest
Visualisation – See what you want
Time for Reading & Learning – SSS Stillness, Silence and Solitude
Blocking Your Time – Planning – Pomodoro Method
Exercise and Lift Weights
Better Nutrition and Intermittent Fasting
Work on your Top 3 Things – both ON the Business and IN the Business
Make an EOD – End of Day Report
Spend Quality Time with family – Be present when with them and on holidays
Sleep well

Five Helpful Methods to Boost Your Energy

Breathing – The Wim Hof Method for breathing
Breath Work Rhythms – CALM with Pat
EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique – Tapping Solutions App
Practice a 10-minute Meditation
Grounding – put your Feet on the ground in nature

Managing Your Mindset – Some Useful Mantras to Repeat

“Its NOT what I do – it’s the mental state that I do it in”
“Focus on having More Energy, Gratitude and Positivity”
“Be Present – enjoy what you are doing now”
“Eat to Live not Live to Eat”

2024 Performance Mindset Experts (Who are the Gurus?)

Dr Bruce Lipton
Dr Joe Dispenza
Dr John Demartini
Bob Proctor
Robin Sharma
Brian Tracy
Zig Ziglar
Kute Blackson
Carol Dweck
Chelsea Pottenger – Australian
See the 2024 list of BEST Workplace Wellness and Mental Health Experts

Useful Videos to Watch

Watch the Video of Dr Bruce Lipton explaining how to Reprogram your Mind
Watch the Video of Dr John DeMartini’s 10 Daily Habits
Watch Amanda Gore Videos

Best Books for Improving Your Mindset

The Mindful High Performer by Chelsea Pottenger

In “The Mindful High Performer,” Chelsea Pottenger offers a comprehensive guide to achieving success through mindfulness and mental resilience. The book is filled with practical tips and strategies to help readers develop a growth mindset, cultivate focus, and enhance their performance.

By incorporating mindfulness into daily routines and habits, Pottenger demonstrates how individuals can transform their lives, achieve their goals, and lead more fulfilling, balanced lives.

Life Force by Tony Robbins

“Life Force” by renowned motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins explores the power of energy and vitality in achieving personal and professional success. The book delves into the importance of maintaining physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being in order to unlock one’s full potential.

Robbins shares cutting-edge techniques, tools, and insights to help readers optimise their energy levels, overcome obstacles, and lead a more vibrant, purposeful life.

High-Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard

Brendon Burchard’s “High-Performance Habits” presents a powerful framework for achieving peak performance and sustained success. Drawing on years of research and personal experience, Burchard identifies six essential habits that high performers consistently exhibit, including clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence, and courage.

The book offers actionable advice and exercises to help readers develop and refine these habits, ultimately leading to a higher level of personal and professional achievement.

The 5am Club by Robin Sharma

In “The 5am Club,” Robin Sharma shares a revolutionary morning routine designed to maximise productivity, enhance creativity, and foster personal growth. By waking up at 5am and dedicating the first hour of the day to exercise, personal development, and reflection, individuals can tap into their full potential and accomplish more in a single day than most people do in a week.

Sharma’s book provides a step-by-step guide to adopting this life-changing habit and reaping the benefits of increased focus, energy, and success.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza

“Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” by Dr Joe Dispenza is a ground-breaking exploration of the power of the mind in shaping our reality. The book combines the latest findings in neuroscience, quantum physics, and epigenetics to reveal how our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs can influence our physical health, relationships, and life experiences.

By understanding and harnessing this power, readers can break free from self-limiting patterns, transform their lives, and create a more authentic, fulfilling existence.

Becoming Supernatural by Dr Joe Dispenza

In “Becoming Supernatural,” Dr. Joe Dispenza expands on the concepts introduced in his earlier work, offering a deeper understanding of the mind-body connection and our ability to transcend the limitations of the physical world. The book combines scientific research, personal stories, and practical exercises to guide readers on a journey of self-discovery and transformation.

By tapping into their innate power, individuals can manifest their desires, heal their bodies, and experience extraordinary states of consciousness.

Your Mess has a Message by Dr Arun Dhir

“Your Mess has a Message” by Dr Arun Dhir is an inspiring and practical guide to finding meaning, purpose, and growth amidst life’s challenges and setbacks. Drawing on his own experiences and the wisdom of ancient Eastern philosophies, Dr Dhir encourages readers to view their struggles as opportunities for growth and self-improvement.

The book is filled with actionable advice, exercises, and techniques to help individuals cultivate resilience, develop a positive mindset, and harness the transformative power of adversity.

Thrive – Pearls to prosper in any economy by Steven Dayan and Tracy Drumm

Thrive is a book by Chicago Plastic Surgeon Dr Steven Dayan and Practice Consultant Tracy Drumm that changes the way we view our personal health. In the book, the authors discuss the importance of nutrition and physical activity in helping us to lead healthier, happier lives. The book also explains how to use stress-reduction techniques and mindfulness to build a healthier lifestyle and improve overall well-being.

Dayan and Drumm draw upon their experience in nutrition and health to provide readers with powerful evidence-based strategies for improving both physical and mental health.

You will gain a better understanding of what it means to be healthy and how to make tangible changes to reach your goals. Thrive offers readers an insight into how to take control of their health while leading a more fulfilling life.

Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

Most Plastic Surgeons are BUSY and want to do more. In this book, Greg McKeown presents an alternative for a more balanced life. The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s not about getting less done. It’s about getting only the right things done. It’s about challenging your assumptions like ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing them with the pursuit of ‘doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’.

It’s about regaining control of our own choices about where to spend our time and energies instead of giving others implicit permission to choose for us.

This is a great read as well as his other book Effortless.

OTHER USEFUL BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE

Me First – The Guilt-Free Guide to Prioritising You by Kate Christie (Self care for Surgeons and their Staff)
Atomic Habits by James Clear (Change your Habits, Change your Life)
Tao Te Ching : The Book of the Way by Lao Tzu

2024 BEST Resources for a Success Mindset for Surgeons & Practice Managers