#117 - Finish Strong: How High-Performing Healthcare Providers Use December to Win the New Year

About this episode

In this episode, Jessica Riddle discusses how high-performing healthcare providers can leverage December to prepare for a successful new year.

Finish Strong: How High-Performing Healthcare Providers Use December to Win the New Year Most healthcare providers treat December like a throwaway month — a time to coast, slow down, and push everything important into January. But the truth is: January is too late. In this solo episode, host Jessica Riddle pulls back the curtain on how top-performing clinicians, practice owners, and healthcare entrepreneurs use December as their strategic advantage. Instead of waiting for the new year to start strong, they use the final weeks of Q4 to expand capacity, eliminate friction, reset systems, and set themselves up for their best year yet. This isn’t another “set goals for 2025” pep talk. It’s a contrarian, deeply strategic, clinician-focused blueprint for ending the year intentionally and stepping boldly into the next one. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: The real reason clinicians get stuck — and why it’s NOT a goal problem Why a Stop-Doing List will unlock more growth than any resolution The Pre-January Strategy: Your 2-week head start on the entire industry Why planning by energy — not time — will transform your productivity The identity shift required to hit your next level in 2025…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jessica Riddle, Todd Riddle

Topics covered

• healthcare
• productivity
• goal setting
• strategic planning
• December strategies
• high performance

Keywords

• healthcare providers
• December strategies
• goal setting
• productivity
• high performance
• Stop-Doing List
• Pre-January Strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FAKTR, FAKTRstore.com, Instagram, LinkedIn

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