Step #1

Discover why you really want to be an oriental medical practitioner (OMP) and get turned on about it.

Successful Acupreneurs are people who love the Tao and love the people and want the most for them.  An OMP, usually has a knack for recognizing the strengths and assets of another human being. 

Given this ability an OMP can listen, advise and treat people in a way that no other health care professional can!

Step #2

Get in a good space personally.  Your OMP practice can only be as good as your life is. 

The true physician teaches the Tao.  How to live---Between Heaven and Earth.

Intervening in other peoples' lives is a big responsibility. Your patients entrust themselves and their physical, emotional and spiritual health to you, either explicitly or implicitly.

Be in touch with yourself, clear of past traumas (or any other critical therapeutic issues).

Be in excellent health, free of addictions and attachments.

Step #3

Hire a professional business coach. 

The reality is you can not create a profitable practice by yourself.  You did not learn OMP in a weekend or a few hours all by yourself.  You can not expect to know how to start and create a private practice by yourself. 

Those that do hire coaches and consultancy are usually more successful and are able to achieve that success in less time. 

A business coach can help you create a vision and mission for your practice and help you create strategies, action plans and steps to put it into place.

A business coach is someone who is on the cutting edge of current times about what is necessary to have a successful business.

Step #4

Find a mentor. 

While your mentor may not be able to provide you with a current business model - they got into their practice at a different time from you - they can provide you with expertise and supervision as well as ongoing education and refinement of your ability to treat your patients.

Step #5

Get acupuncture treatments regularly and try different acupuncturists. Search out excellence.

As a coach I engage in two different coaching relationships.  You can not provide a service when you are not receiving that service.  It lacks integrity. Slippage shows!

It just doesn't work!

Step #6

Treat your practice as a business and learn to see it from an Acupreneural perspective, not just as an employee of your practice.

Seeing things from this perspective will help you make different kinds of business decisions.

Step #7

Deliver 120% and your practice will fill simply from referrals.

The most asked question by prospective members of the Acupreneur is "how do I get my clients?"

A great question with an almost-too-easy answer.  Deliver 120% of what the client expects and your practice will fill.

So how do you deliver 120%?

Here are a few ways:

1. Keep expectations low and clear
2. Be unconditionally constructive
3. Ask your clients to do more
4. Do not accept excuses
5. Expect a lot from them

Your clients want you to have integrity and be loving and relentless as it pertains to their goals.

Step #8

Know what you must know - and then master it.

After you have gotten clear about your niche or specialty, design a plan to learn and master everything about that area.

Enter into a program like "Fill your practice in days."  That satisfies your own integrity.

If your focus is on sports medicine, read, study, practice and interview.  If your area is women's health, then do the same for that area.

Step #9

Upgrade your practice - charge more than you think you are worth.

After you are in practice for a year, work with your coach on your next pricing step. 

Charge what you are worth and continue to train to be worth much, much more!