Hi, welcome to Podiatry, practice Mastery down here.
I want to talk today about a concept.
I was I was actually reading about this one of the books by
Benjamin Hardy and and the book was called the future self.
So if you're interested in any of these things, you could
Google his name, future self. It's a good book.
He's got some videos, but I like this concept, this is a concept
called imperfect practice. Okay, imperfect practice, let me
Give you an example. So, a surgical example would be
when we are treating. I so I helped a little bit with
residents and not too much, but I helped them with learning
their surgical skills. When I do surgery, it's
basically the resident that does most of them and that that
Resident is practicing it in the beginning.
They're imperfect. Their suturing is a perfect, how
they're doing it? It's imperfect.
Even when I'm doing it, this was not really perfect but it gets
better over time. Now, if the resident only reads
about, let's talk about a recent procedure.
We did today recently was one where there was an IP J ulcer,
and I had him, do a arthroplasty a killer arthroplasty, which is
done to get better range of motion due to hallux limit us.
He was doing it if he only read about that procedure red, red,
red, red, red, you know, you can read all you want, but if you
do, one of them, your confidence level goes up.
Its imperfect, but you're practicing.
And I think imperfect practice is key.
In this took me a while to understand, and I think it's
because of our tendency towards perfectionism.
Now, you may not be a perfectionist, but I, many of us
are perfectionist because we want to avoid looking funny.
We want to avoid looking bad, we want to avoid an all these
things and Ben Hardy, when he talks about this in his book,
he's talking about the difference between people
basically that our sideline Backs or, you know, Monday
morning, quarterbacks and those are actually in the game or in
the arena. What I want to challenge you to
do is to be in the arena and do imperfect practice, meaning
actually doing the work, making it making, getting it done, and
what we call shipping it, getting it out there, even
though it's imperfect. Now, let me give you a couple of
examples. In what I what I found in my
mistakes. Okay, so first of all, I was
playing around with doing a podcast for a long time for
years and I've tried and I tried different ones and they failed.
My first podcast was on healing. My heel is called heal my foot
wound fast. Okay, I tried to do a podcast
but it didn't really work that well, could have been me could
have been the rod Market. I wasn't really passionate about
it. Someone else wanted me to do it
but it was a good experience. I actually went and I made a
whole bunch of episodes. Thuds whole bunch of videos on
that area and but I actually made the progress that I did it.
It was painful, it was painful to record the videos, it wasn't
comfortable because I wasn't good at it.
I didn't know but more importantly it was imperfect
like they weren't perfect. They weren't as good as everyone
else. Is that I was I was watching but
it was done. Okay.
The key is having it done even though it's imperfect.
So another area was that then as I transitioned to this podcast,
I wanted to have all this time in the world to record this and
I never had it. And so I started to record these
when I drove when I was driving and it they're imperfect but
they're done. They're done each one's done.
There's another topic. And when you're producing
content, we're always looking for this one.
Perfect piece of content. This one perfect blogger.
This one perfect podcast. Or this one, perfect video.
We don't get it. It's through the Quantity, that
you're producing that you're going to get the get the one
that's good because it's not going to be not.
Everyone's going to be great, not everyone.
Everyone's going to listen to, you know, 500 times and share
with their friends and things like that, but as you continue
to do the imperfect and practice and share your philosophy, it's
going to get better and better as you do it.
So that's another area. Was that what's this podcast?
Let me give you another example in practice was with with my
YouTube channel and doing Videos in the beginning, they were
horrible. If you look at my initial ones,
I didn't have the best camera. I didn't have the best
microphone but but they were done and I took the time and the
Really, the had the courage to do that.
And so what is it in your practice that you've been
delaying because you want it to be perfect.
And this might be making your, I don't know.
Simple PDF download it might be making a YouTube video might be,
you know you wanted to start your channel just kind of start
it, just do it. Just get it out there because as
you start that's where you mess up.
You have imperfect practice but then you learn the key is
learning. So then as you learn as you do
it more then you get better at it, okay?
Whereas many of us we just think about these ideas and we don't
do it. We're not getting perfect.
We're not getting any better because we're not doing
anything. It's all kind of in our mind, we
have this. We have these were thinking
thinking thinking, we're okay. I'm going to first So for
example, if you wanted to start an email responder like let's
say you want to do something when someone downloads a free
book and you want to have all these emails going on to your
patients, you have to just kind of do it, just kind of it's
going to be imperfect the first time.
It's usually not the first rendition or the second
rendition. For example, these these things
that I've been working on these patient presentations, I've been
working on this for years and I present them every single day to
my patients on, I'm various conditions and and they're
constantly getting better and better because I'm because I'm
doing them because I'm learning how to talk to the patients
because I'm because I'm Actually going in the end, we'll call in
the arena and I am, like, trying these out on patient.
So, I would recommend whatever you've been, like, kind of
delaying. And we can tell is if you're not
doing imperfect practice, if you're delaying, okay?
If you're delaying, if you're not doing anything, and this can
be anything, this could be opening up a second office, this
could be hiring another another associate, this could be
developing training for your staff.
This could be anything like that, that can help you.
So what I want to talk, so what the whole Focus was on was on
this imperfect practice. So Practice something.
And you know the last thing is if you're wanting to do
something you have to do this imperfect practice like daily
Okay, so if you want to do a YouTube or if you want to do a
podcast or if you want to do anything, write a blog, you want
to kind of get better at doing it daily or weekly like right
one blog a week or one video a week or one podcast a week and
whatever that topic is that. That's how you do it.
You have to do this imperfect versus just thinking thinking
thinking and you never do it. Okay, let's get hope you guys
find that helpful. I have a new tool that I've been
working on called the, it's, from my patients.
Dacians. I haven't quite figured out the
name. I think I'm gonna call the
patient treatment tool, but it's a tool that I use.
This is what I practice every single day.
You can start practice using it. It's going to be imperfect.
The first time you showed to patient's, they're not going to
know what to do but I do have it there.
You can go to Patient present a patient presentations.com and
you can get access to its put your email and then I would
thumbnail or not. Thumbnail.
I would um, Save the webpage on your browser so that you can get
it other times and just show those presentations your
patients start using them learning how to fit it in your
workflow. If you want more help.
Reach out to me, Don at Podiatry, practice Master e.com.
If you want to kind of learn how to make your own, or my help, or
if I can teach you how to do it if you want.
Okay. These guys have a good day.