As you’re building your massage practice, you don’t want to burn bridges—with clients, referral sources and other health care professionals. But there may be a time when acting in your client’s best interest means that you must speak up. Here’s how I recently got my point across to my client without throwing the doctor under [...]
If you’re waiting to feel like a pro before you open your massage practice, you’re wasting precious time. Instead of waiting, think about doing the opposite: put yourself out there. Putting yourself out there means that no matter how uncomfortable you feel and/or how low your confidence is, you are in front of the people [...]
I like self experiments. But I have my failures—like the time in the 90’s when I didn’t wear my glasses for a year in an attempt to improve my distance vision. My eyesight didn’t improve and I spent a lot of time in my car lost. (Reading road signs was sort of important pre-GPS.) However, [...]
Robert was a retired business executive from corporate America who came to see me when his back acted up.At some point, he offered to be my business mentor and I took him up on it. Looking back, he helped me avoid some major business mistakes, like when I was neglecting my private practice as I [...]
