I’ve been reading a couple of interesting books. One, which I’ve read a couple of times before, is called The Diamond Cutter, which elaborates a Buddhist view on business and life management. I’m not done with it, yet, but it is subtly shifting my consciousness in a new direction. Actually, it is more accurate to […]
3 ways defining a niche for your acupuncture practice will improve your quality of life
One of the things that my Chinese medicine business students struggle with most is defining a niche for their practice. This isn’t a problem unique to Chinese medicine students and practitioners, of course. Bookshelves are filled with authors desperately pleading with their audiences to narrow their marketing to a discrete group of people. What’s a […]
Honoring the complexity of running a Chinese medicine practice
I’ve been wanting to teach on CMC about acupuncture practice management for a couple of years. I have been actively running a practice for almost 6 years, and shadowed people running different types of practices for 2 years prior to that. I’ve undergone numberless hours of training on the huge variety of topics related to […]
Making a living doing what we love : Chinese medicine and business
I teach the business curriculum at NCNM to all the Chinese medicine students. I’m currently preparing to revise my previous curriculum in preparation for the next class this summer. At the same time, I am fielding a *lot* of personal questions from people in all phases of their careers about how to do various things […]
Making the medicine our own
I teach about business to Chinese medicine students at NCNM. As is typical, I’m learning more from them than they likely learn from me. One of the things that continually inspires me about these students is the way they feel utterly free from the trappings and expectations of the received wisdom in the business world. […]
Collective wisdom about Chinese medicine business realities
As many of you know, I teach the business course at NCNM. We just finished up with our first term together. It was quite an experience. We dug into our feelings about money, the global economic system, the realities of being in private practice and plenty more. Next term, we’re getting a little more acquainted […]