155 - Attending Planner: A Life-Planning App Made for Physicians to Cut Stress and Grow Wealth

Coach JPMD shares a quick update on the upcoming book and introduces the Attending Planner, a companion app designed to help physicians stay organized, reduce stress, and make progress toward their goals.

In this episode

• Coach JPMD shares that the book is with the publishers, with a release expected near the end of October
• He explains how his search for a planner that could support yearly, monthly, and weekly goals inspired the Attending Planner with tools that will help physicians thrive in practice
• Attending Planner app is the companion to The Independent Physician’s Blueprint: A Doctor’s Story and Your Guide to a Thriving Practice with Less Burnout and True Wealth.

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Coach JPMD (00:00.62)
Welcome back to another episode where I help younger physicians decrease stress and increase income by transitioning from corporate to independent practices, even without any business experience. Welcome to another episode of the Independent Physicians Blueprint, where we help you decrease stress and generate wealth in this crazy world we're living in. And today's episode is a quick update, an update episode on something I can kind of mention two weeks ago about the reason for the pause.

And like I said, part of it was that I wanted to write a book and it's getting close. It's getting closer and it's with the publishers now and hopefully we'll have something and some more updates in the next couple of weeks, but we're looking at a release date likely in at the end of October. But even before then, we've been working on a project and that project is something that has helped me in my journey in keeping myself organized.

Because I can be a little scatterbrained sometimes. And and if you have trouble focusing, if you have trouble kind of completing tasks, I actually went to I think it was Michael's with my two daughters, and I was looking for a planner that can mimic something I was using when I read the one thing book by Gary Keller and Jay Papason, where they described things that you can do to help focus your energies on your yearly goals, your monthly goals, and your weekly goals. And I tried to look for a planner that was similar, that had the things that I wanted to have in it so that I can

So that I can plan my life around the things that were important to me. And so that's how it came about. It came about because I said, you know, why why can't we have a planner that was custom so that I can write in it or I can type in it and it can and do what I wanted to do. So I went ahead and contacted our developer, a resident developer.

Coach JPMD (02:04.406)
called AI that helped me generate some prototypes. And for the past couple of months we've been kind of working on some prototypes, getting it tested. And I have to say that when you have the right tools and you have the right developers, including AI developers or AI tools that are out there, things can happen quickly. So what we've developed is called the attending planner and that planner is based on

The things that I think are important in focusing physicians weeks and months around a goal for the year. And so that's what it is. It's mainly a planner that you'll be able to put in tasks and you can complete tasks, you can create chief chief tasks of the week, or we call it chief concerns of the week. and you know, if I can go through the actual screens while I'm on recording this podcast. And so on the screen, it opens up to the focus planner, is what we call it. And on that same screen, you'll have the ability to perform weekly rounds on yourself. And those weekly rounds are geared to helping you develop habits and yeah, develop habits around things that you need to work on or that you've discovered that you need to work on based on your wheel of life.

And we talk about that in the book as well. I find myself also talking to a lot of residents, a lot of new, new grads, about how to get out of debt as quickly as possible. So in this planner, you'll also have a loan payoff calculator. And you can calculate how quickly you can get out of debt. My my my my suggestion is to get out as quickly as possible within three to five years of graduating residency.

And from there, you can then switch over to the wealth builder. So whatever you were paying towards your debt, you add to your wealth builder calculator, which is really a compounding interest calculator that you can play around with to determine how quickly you can save money based on and after you've paid off your debt. Then there's something that I do every day, and that's a gratitude exercise. And it's a gratitude prompt that allows you to put down what you are thankful for.

Coach JPMD (04:28.998)
there's a temperament test. And we've had a whole episode on actually two episodes on temperaments. And you can check out the previous podcast episodes on temperaments and how to identify the color or the temperament that you are, and then how to identify temperament in other people, and that way you can communicate better with your patients, your families, and your friends. And we talked about the wheel of life, and that's another assessment that you can do. And

For those that are wanting to keep this podcast in your back pocket or wherever you hold your phone, it's the the podcast episodes are right on this same app. You can also view the Lama course and check out the course on learn about Medicare Advantage, learn about Medicare Advantage dot com. And there you can

take some free courses as well. So that's it. That's the attending planner. There's some other resources here. The first chapter of the book will be in the app as well as a purchase links for the book. And you'll also be able to get notified of different things that you want to get notified on on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, so that you can keep on track with what you're trying to do in your life. So that's the attending planner. That's what I've been up to over the past couple of weeks and months.

And we hope to have that app out within the next couple of weeks because it is the companion app to the book, The Independent Physician's Blueprint, A Doctor's Story and Your Guide to a Thriving Practice with Less Burnout and True Wealth. 

We'll see you next week. 

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