Sachin outlines 12 ways for holistic practitioners to start caring about themselves and their practices while helping patients to save money and time and face their health challenges for a better life in a smart way. Listen to this episode and start putting into practice these 12 easy ways for improving your practice as well as your patients’ lives:

1. 1. Listen to your patients
2. 2. Ask meaningful questions on surveys
3. 3. Discovery calls
4. 4. Transparent prices
5. 5. Thorough initial consultation and intake
6. 6. Right Lab Testing
7. 7. Reduce pill burden
8. 8. Address mindset and beliefs
9. 9. Host workshops
10. 10. Focus on lifestyle
11. 11. Fast, sleep, and time outdoors
12. 12. Encourage your patients to buy tracking tools
13. Key takeaways:
14. [2:08] Change starts within you.
15. [2:50] There is a lot of resistance in practitioners in investing in themselves.
16. [3:50] 12 ways to care about yourself
17. [4:28] Listen to find out what the challenge of your patient is.
18. [6:38] Patients like to be heard.
19. [7:27] Discovery calls: a way to meet and greet the practitioner and find if it is the help the patient needs.
20. [10:15] Initial survey
21. [12:12] Intake form that saves time and money
22. [13:14] Functional lab testing
23. [14:34] Eating super foods can replace supplements.
24. [16:35] Host community workshops.
25. [17:23] Focus on lifestyle.
26. [18:34] Intermittent Fasting
27. [19:50] Sleep to heal.
28. [21:10] Spend time outside.
29. [21:30] Get your patients a trackable device like OURA RING
30. [23:51] Summary of the 12 ways to improve your practice and save money
31. Mentioned in this episode:
32. Learn more about Sachin Patel
33. Perfect Practice: How to Build a Successful Functional Medical Business, Attract Your Ideal Patients, Serve Your Community and Get Paid What You’re Worth, by Sachin Patel
34. The Motivation Molecule: The Biological Secrets To Eliminate Procrastination, Skyrocket Productivity, and Get Sh!t Done, by Sachin Patel
35. “Become Living Proof,” Sachin Patel
36. Speak with Sachin
37. Designs for Health
38. Oura Ring get a $50 discount by using the code: LIVINGPROOF