95 | Bought Too Many Courses? Why It's Okay to Let Them Go

0:00 Hi there. Welcome to In the Clinic with Camille. My name is Camille Freeman. I'm an herbalist and nutritionist, and in this podcast, I share little tips and tidbits that might be helpful for other practitioners. Today, I want to talk to you about something that came up while I was writing an email to people who were on the wait list for my 2026 supplement deep dive. Small side note, if you are interested in supplements, if your clients are taking supplements and it feels overwhelming, or you're not sure what is the latest on some of these popular supplements people are taking. Love to have you join us in the Supplement Deep Dive. You can check it out on my website. I will put a link in the show notes as well. But we're going to be taking a critical look at supplements to try to figure out which ones make sense, which ones are useful, which ones don't make sense, how to help clients streamline, all that kind of stuff.

0:44 Anyway, I was writing an email to people on the waitlist, and I found over the years that sometimes just writing an email or writing a piece for public consumption helps me to clarify my thinking. And I was writing an email about the idea that, oh, if you've bought a bunch of courses in the past and you haven't finished them, how would you justify signing up for something like this supplement deep dive? And this ties into one of my business care tasks from earlier this month. I have a sub stack where I send out a weekly business care task. And a few weeks ago, the business care task was to make a list of all the courses and programs that you've purchased and kind of get them all together, figure out which ones you've taken, which ones you haven't taken, which ones you still want to take, how to access them, when they expire, all that kind of stuff, just to get it together so you can see what you already have access to.

1:36 And as I was doing that for myself, I was like, oh, you know, I bought all these different things that I haven't finished. So why would I buy more things? And then I realized, oh, part of this has to do with the idea that just because you purchased something or signed up for it or whatever, that you are then obligated to finish the whole thing. And certainly if you are in a degree program or, you know, some kind of longer program where you, you know, that you only have access to it for a limited time and you need some nudges to finish, great if you need the CEU hours, amazing. But once you're out in business, I think it's also completely justifiable to sign up for a program to get what you need to get from it and then to let it go.

2:19 Like you don't have to complete everything just because, just because you signed up for it. And I realized as I was looking over my list that there are programs that I've purchased and signed up for, and I got what I needed from doing 20% of it. It changed something big for me. And I was able to be like, great, I think the rest of it is not really what I need or want right now. So I'm just gonna let it go. And to me it pulled up something about this need this kind of perfectionistic need to complete it to check it off the list as done as opposed to just saying hey it's kind of like a buffet, you can sign up for things get what you need from the parts of it that are helpful to you and then you're not obligated to do every single thing just because you one time gave somebody your email address to sign up for a free class or whatever it is.

3:06 So my point here is, A, if you have that same feeling where you've looked at all the different things and you're like, oh my gosh, I have to complete all these before I start a new one. No, when you are in business, what you need to do is the trainings that you need right now. If you signed up for 15 things that are sort of nice to have in the past that you might eventually need or want, they can be like a library. You can come to them when you need them, you don't have to do them right now just because you purchased them. I mean, if there's a deadline, great, do them, whatever. But what I'm saying is. Once you are in practice and you're doing things, you're going to be going along and be like, oh my gosh, I need to XYZ, update my website.

3:48 Look and see if you have purchased something about updating your website because you need that one right now. Let's start there and do the ones that are actively important to where you are in your business at this moment. And don't feel obliged to finish. Do them until you get what you need from it and then figure out what do you need next. Okay, I hope that is making sense. Just wanted to share that at the end of the year, I think some of us are looking back over what happened. And maybe, like me, initially feeling a little bit of guilt about signing up for things and not doing them. And certainly there's things to unpack. Like, okay, you know, if your eyes are bigger than your stomach in some ways, that is a thing to think about.

4:31 But it's also possible that you sign up for things, got what you need, or you scroll them away for later when you do need them. And that's okay. You don't have to feel badly about that. Now you have access to the things that you may need, but you don't have to do them all right now, just because. Okay, I hope that's helpful. If you are also trying to just get your head around all of this, I am doing a workshop in January. I'm forgetting the exact date right now, but I think it's the 7th. Anyway, I'm doing a workshop in January. It's free if you share it with somebody or $25 otherwise. And we are going to just talk about how do you prioritize professional development? How do you keep track of it? How do you make sure you're not spending too much time on it? But also not totally ignoring it and all that kind of thing.

5:13 So if you'd like to come to that, amazing. I'll put the link in the show notes. And similarly, if you want to come learn about supplements with us next year, I would love to have you. You can go to my website, camillefreeman.com slash supplements soon or just poke around. You'll find the supplement deep dive on there and hopefully we'll see you there. All right, have a wonderful end of your year. I think this is our last podcast episode of the year. So I hope your 2025 is wrapping up smoothly if you're listening to this in real time. Looking forward to what 2026 will bring, and I hope you're going to get some rest over these next few weeks.