December 2020

The new year is coming. So, where do you land? In the camp of excited anticipation? Or in the camp of dread, doubt, uneasiness, and a little bit of fear? No doubt, 2020 threw us a hefty dose of the unexpected… But… …not really more than any other year. Read that again… Not really more […]

The decisions we make exclusively from our emotional experience often do not create the results we ultimately want. We make decisions this way because we want to feel better. And when we make these decisions rashly. It’s simply evidenced that we want to feel better immediately. It works… for a while. When we change our

Thinking about quitting Vet Med? You aren’t alone. Thoughts of leaving this sh*twshow behind are pretty common for a lot of us. Ya, Really! But, why? Here’s where it gets interesting… Why are you thinking about leaving your job? Why are you thinking about ditching the profession altogether? My guess: the VMVs… Blame directed at the Vet

We put a lot of pressure on happiness. We’ve turned it into the measure of the quality of our life and career. Of course, we want to be happy! But in pursuit of that, we’ve turned the absence of happiness into something that it is not. Absence of happiness does not mean something is going

Some of the hardest components of a veterinary career are amplified by four things: Stressful Client Interactions Unexpected Patient Death Board Complaints / Negative Performance Evaluations Negative Online Business Reviews We try our best to avoid these things…  … to keep them from happening. And then when they do, we turn inward… > we blame