One Year of Daily Blogging: Lessons and Insights
Today officially concludes my one-year daily blogging challenge that I committed to a little over a year ago. I started on December 24, 2019 and have published a new blog post or video every day since them. So that’s 374 days in a row if you include today’s post.
As you can verify from the blog archives, I successfully completed the challenge.
I’ve been blogging every year since I started in 2004, but this is the first year that I’ve published something new every single day. This was an interesting experience, so I’ll share some thoughts about what it was like, some of which might surpri...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Congress Is Getting the Transition to Alternative Payment Models Wrong
By TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN
Alternative payment models (APMs) are a hot topic these days, and everyone seems to agree that we need to transition toward them and away from fee for service (FFS). But how should we do it?
First, let’s think about this task as government policy makers would think about it.
They would probably start by saying, “We need to find a way to give incentives to providers and payers to try out these different APMs.” This would be fairly easy to do through Medicare, so they would create some Medicare APM programs and structure them in a way that makes the benefits of joining large enough th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Alternative Payment Model TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN Source Type: blogs
Medical residents: How to avoid negotiating landmines
After ten grueling years of training to become a physician, you can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. You may be receiving countless emails that advertise amazing starting salaries, sign-on bonuses, and/or loan repayments that almost seem too good to be true. Dozens of calls are coming in on a weekly basis […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 18, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/todd-skertich" rel="tag" > Todd Skertich < /a > < /span > Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs
How to Pandemic-Proof Our Healthcare Payment System
By AISHA PITTMAN and SETH EDWARDS
The pandemic has focused many policymakers’ attention on strategies to make the healthcare system better. The obvious answer is one that we know is efficacious, if perhaps not the sexiest: value-based care.
The current healthcare payment system – built around the fee-for-service (FFS) model in which healthcare providers are reimbursed for the quantity versus quality of care – required $175 billion in bailouts and temporary modifications to remain whole during the crisis, a stance that’s unsustainable for both providers and payers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medic...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Aisha Pittman Pandemic Seth Edwards Source Type: blogs
How to Pandemic-Proof Our Health Care Payment System
By AISHA PITTMAN and SETH EDWARDS
The pandemic has focused many policymakers’ attention on strategies to make the healthcare system better. The obvious answer is one that we know is efficacious, if perhaps not the sexiest: value-based care.
The current healthcare payment system – built around the fee-for-service (FFS) model in which healthcare providers are reimbursed for the quantity versus quality of care – required $175 billion in bailouts and temporary modifications to remain whole during the crisis, a stance that’s unsustainable for both providers and payers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medic...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Aisha Pittman Pandemic Seth Edwards Source Type: blogs
Redefining Values in American Health Care
By RICHARD HOEHN, MD
Experts claim we could have been better prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020. With an annual budget of $400-700 million, the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is designed to respond to chemical, biological, and other disasters. Its $8 billion inventory included 13,000 ventilators and a limited supply of personal protective equipment, N95 masks, and medical supplies. This left state and local governments scrambling as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated and the capacity of many hospitals was overwhelmed.
Faced with immediate and visible death and suffering, leaders took drastic...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Healthcare spending Richard Hoen Source Type: blogs
Your Weekly Priority Card
When you have a lot of quarterly goals, it can be tricky to keep them prioritized, especially since priorities can shift as you go through the quarter. So it’s good to have a reliable practice to refocus your attention on your top priorities.
One simple practice I’ve been using lately is to create a priority card at the start of each week. It’s just an index card with my top priorities for the week listed on it. I keep it near my desk and normally review it to begin each workday, along with reviewing my other quarterly goals. This helps me see the week’s priorities in the context of bigger goals,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Stature Goal Alignment Checklist
For Stature course owners:
The new Goal Alignment Checklist is now available on the Stature Gifts page. Use this one-page checklist to review and improve the character alignment of your goals. Enjoy!
More Stature bonuses are coming soon…
Read Stature Goal Alignment Checklist by Steve Pavlina (Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog)
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: May 30, 2020
This week’s Psychology Around the Net highlights the current telehealth boom (and how some mental health professionals feel about it), ways to turn your self-criticism into self-compassion, the unique mental health challenges mission-driven work can bring, and more.
Stay well, friends!
Online Therapy Having Its Moment, Bringing Insights On How to Expand Mental Health Services Going Forward: Nicholas Joyce, a psychologist and counselor at University of South Florida, weighs in on his professional colleagues’ attitudes toward telehealth services in the past, how those attitudes are changing amid the COVID-19 pan...
Source: World of Psychology - May 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Discipline mission-driven work Online Therapy Parenting Self Criticism self-compassion Telehealth teletherapy Source Type: blogs
We Should “Confront” China by Liberalizing Chinese Immigration
Alex NowrastehThe Chinese government ’s crackdown on dissidents in Hong Kong is just another indication of that government ’s rising totalitarianism. Vox’s Matt Yglesiaswrote that the United States should let in any Hongkonger who wishes to leave – a proposal I agree with. However, the U.S. government is moving in the opposite direction. Not only has it virtually ended all immigration, including for those seeking refuge and asylum, but it will soon go further to limit the migration of Chinese students.Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) recently introduced theSecure Campus Act that...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
How to Overcome Financial Pressure
We just wrapped up the 2020 launch of Conscious Growth Club, and our next opening will be in April 2021. The launch did very well. We have 87 members enrolled in our next CGC year together. Financially this was our second six-figure launch of the year, the previous one being for the Stature course in January.
I received some feedback from people who really wanted to join CGC this year (some of them waiting months to sign up) but couldn’t do it because of financial challenges, especially related to the virus. Some had been recently laid off. Others have been reporting a business slowdown. Others are uncertain about...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Emotions Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Conscious Growth Club Is Open Through May 1st
Conscious Growth Club is now open for you to join, from now through May 1, 2020. First started in 2017, this is our most comprehensive personal growth program and support group.
We’re about to start our 4th year together, and you’re invited to join this week. This is the only week you can join CGC in 2020.
What Is Conscious Growth Club?
Conscious Growth Club is a private online club and coaching program to help you make faster and more consistent progress. It turns personal growth into a team game.
The essential purpose of the group is simple: We help each other grow into smarter, stronger human bei...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
Practicing the Art of Change
Every month in Conscious Growth Club (which will open for new members April 27 to May 1), we host a group 30-day challenge. Members can choose which challenges they want to do, and we share updates as we go through each challenge together.
Some challenges are to improve our habits or to test new habits. Other challenges are more exploration-based. Some are just for the experience.
Each challenge allows for plenty of customization, so members can adapt any challenge to fit their situations. In May 2019, we did a daily exercise challenge, and members decided whether to walk, run, bike, do yoga, weight train, etc. In Ja...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
All 65 Stature Lessons Complete
Yesterday I finished creating and publishing all of the lessons for the co-creative Stature character sculpting deep dive.
The full course is 16 hours and 20 minutes of audio, with the average lesson being 15 minutes. I wanted to keep the lessons for this course very focused and tight.
There’s also a 138-page workbook to accompany the audio lessons, including a one-page summary for each lesson and exercises to apply each lesson. That’s complete as well.
Additionally we have full text transcripts published for most of the lessons now, and the remainder will be done within the next several days.
And n...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Lifestyle Productivity Values Source Type: blogs
Sculpting Your Character
Obviously you’ve been through a lot of character sculpting already. You started as a baby, and you’ve grown into the person you are today. But much of that sculpting process was done to you, such as by your family upbringing, the culture you were raised in, and the education you received. Up to a certain point, you were sculpted by the world.
How well did the world do its job?
How do you feel about your character’s values, behaviors, habits, identity, lifestyle, and overall place in the world? How pleased are you with your internal state of being? How delighted are you with the results that are currently fl...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Emotions Health Lifestyle Productivity Relationships Values character sculpting stature Source Type: blogs
