You have dreams. You have a vision for the life you want to be living.

We all do. That’s part of what makes us HUMAN!

But if we have these dreams, why are we so often not LIVING them?

Why do we keep striving for them and wanting them and wishing for them… and still not having them?

So often, we can see that life SOOO clearly… except we’re still not living it. Still not able to get there. Still stuck living the reality where we feel trapped.

But the reality is that ANYTHING is possible for you.

So why don’t you have what you want already?

Here are five common reasons I’ve found when working with my clients.

#1: You don’t really know what you want.

This was so true for me for so long. I THOUGHT I knew what I wanted, except that I wasn’t sure if it felt right still. This was true before I bought my practice, when I knew I wanted to be more in control of my life and thought...

Happy July!

Back when I first experienced burnout, one of the biggest feelings was that of being trapped.

I felt like there were zero options.

I couldn’t leave the field. I wasn’t even sure I could leave my job. 

I didn’t see any other ways out.

Ever felt this way?

So many of us have, it’s such a common thing in our field, especially with our high rate of burnout.

And when we feel like that, we ask ourselves questions.

“Why did this happen?”

“Why do I feel this way?”
“Why is it so hard?”

“How did this happen?”

“What can I do to change it?”

But the problem is… all of those questions have one thing in common.

They’re focusing on the wish that things were different.

But they aren’t. 

They are what they are, history has already occurred and can’t be changed.

So we feel trapped when we...

I hit burnout for the second time in 2015, only six months after I bought my own practice.

I had purchased a practice thinking that being able to be the boss, practice the way I wanted, when I wanted… would solve all of my problems after being in so many toxic environments.

Unfortunately, it only escalated the situation.

Instead of feeling like I had more freedom, I felt more trapped.

Instead of being able to enjoy the veterinary field again, I started hating it even more (at the time, I hadn’t known that was possible).

But then, in one second, my entire life changed.

During the course of our lives, there are moments where things happen.

Decisions are made. 

Experiences occur.

And in those seconds, we can look back and see a huge pivot in the direction of our life.

Up until then, I had been brainstorming ways to get out of owning a practice. Could I sell already? Except I had only just bought it. 

Just before my 30th birthday, I was still working as an emergency room vet at a crazy busy multi-doctor practice. I had just had baby number 2 and was already thinking it was time to find a new job where I wouldn’t be on call anymore. 

I was standing in the pharmacy one day talking to several of the other doctors. One of the doctors was an older guy (he kinda felt like a father figure to me some days). We started talking about retirement plans and the difference between Roth and traditional IRAs.

Long story short, I made the comment during the conversation that I intended to be a millionaire by the time I was 40.

The comment came out of nowhere. At that time, I had no intentions to leave the field. I knew I was burned out, but had not even begun to think about starting other businesses or do anything other than be a vet and someday a clinic owner.

I really had no context for that comment. No idea if it was possible. No one in my immediate life...