What Are You Doing?

What are you doing?

What are you doing with your practice?

What are you doing with your team?

What are you doing with your personal life?

Lots of questions, right? But there’s a reason for it.

When I sit across from clients, these are the questions I ask. Not because I need the answers—but because they do. Most people move through their days reacting to whatever gets thrown at them. The loudest voice, the latest crisis, the next “urgent” email. Before they know it, weeks or months slip by, and they’re no closer to their real goals.

Here’s the truth: if you don’t deliberately set your direction, the world will do it for you. And the world doesn’t care about your goals.

Rarely will someone show up and try to block you from success. Instead, everyone else is simply out for themselves—pursuing their own priorities, their own comfort, their own goals. If you don’t get intentional, you’ll wake up every day as a firefighter—putting out everyone else’s flames while your future smolders in the background.

Why the Questions Matter

Asking “What are you doing?” isn’t small talk. It’s the doorway to clarity.

When my clients sit with these questions—really sit with them—they start to see what’s been hiding in plain sight. They realize they’ve been busy, but not effective. Active, but not advancing. It’s not about doing more. It’s about doing the right things, with relentless consistency, so every day moves the needle toward their goals.

The Results of Deliberate Action

The clients who embrace this approach experience something profound:

• Freedom from chaos because their days have structure.

• More income because they focus on what produces results, not just activity.

• Earlier retirements because they have a strategy that compounds.

• Exit strategies because they’ve built practices that run on systems, not on them alone.

These outcomes don’t happen by accident. They happen because leaders learn to ask the right questions and then live by the answers.

A Challenge for You

So, here’s my challenge. Pour a cup of coffee. Sit down without distractions. And ask yourself:

• What am I doing with my practice?

• What am I doing with my team?

• What am I doing with my personal life?

Be brutally honest. If your answers are fuzzy, slow, or filled with excuses—you’ve just discovered your first problem to solve.

Better yet, take these questions to your leadership team. Watch how quickly the strength of your organization is revealed. Strong leaders answer clearly, with conviction. Weak leaders deflect, delay, or disguise.

The Cascade Effect

It always starts with the owner-leader. Your clarity—or your lack of it—cascades through managers, staff, and ultimately the patient or client experience. When everyone in your organization can answer these questions concretely and quickly, you’re off to a great start. When those answers connect directly to measurable outcomes, you’re in an even better place.

So I’ll ask you again:

What are you doing?

The future of your practice—and your life—depends on your answer.