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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jul 24
- 2 min
Science is for Everyone
As scientists sometimes we are wrong. Often we are so concerned with doing research in our ivory tower labs we forget whom we are...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Mar 7
- 5 min
Feeling Dumber? You Might be Stressed
Read the full article below or listen at http://bit.ly/3ZIglvI It's 5 pm after a day of endless calls and demanding clients. Your kids...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Feb 23
- 4 min
The Day I Smoked 15 Cigarettes as a Practice Owner
Have you ever had one of those days? The days where the appointments seem endless. The days where the requests keep coming. The days...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Countdown to Success On Stress and Cognitive Intelligence
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (December 22, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Nov 29, 2022
- 4 min
Countdown to Success On Gratitude
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (October 20th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
October 2022 Countdown to Success On Personal Growth Initiative
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges, and 1 Question (October 20th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Sep 28, 2022
- 5 min
Countdown to Success: Controlling Imposter Syndrome Using Prospect Theory
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges, and 1 Question (September 15th, 2022) _“Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.”_...
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- Aug 23, 2022
- 5 min
August 2022 Countdown to Success On Strengths in Practice
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (August 18th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jul 21, 2022
- 4 min
Countdown to Success: On microbreaks and stress management
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (July 21th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jun 25, 2022
- 4 min
May 2022 Countdown to Success On how your expectations affect client performance
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (May 19th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jun 18, 2022
- 4 min
June Countdown to Success On Metacognition and it's role in onboarding and professional development
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (June 18th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
April 2022 Countdown to Success: Strengths as a step toward self-awareness and better medicine
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (April 14th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
March 2022 Countdown to Success: On learning new skills 5-4-3-2-1 Countdown to Success: On learning
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (March 10th, 2022) “Helping you achieve high-performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jan 15, 2022
- 3 min
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (January 14th, 2021)
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (January 14th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 9, 2021
- 5 min
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (December 9th, 2021)
“Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this on OtOVets.com Happy December, Your journey of professional development is...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
November 2021 Countdown to Success: On ego depletion, decision fatigue and systems thinking
“Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this on OtOVets.com Happy November, Your journey of professional development is...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
October 2021 Countdown to Success: On stress and perceived workload
“Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this on OtOVets.com Happy October, Your journey of professional development is...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
September 2021 Countdown to Success: On broken windows and the matthew effect
“Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this on OtOVets.com Happy September, Your journey of professional development is...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
August 2021 Countdown to Success: On Creativity, Autonomy and Result Orientated Work
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (August 12th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jul 8, 2021
- 4 min
July 2021 Countdown to Success: On Habits and Motivation (July 8th, 2021)
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (July 8th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jun 10, 2021
- 5 min
June 2021 Countdown to Success: On Momentum and Work Mindset
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (June 10th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- May 14, 2021
- 3 min
May 2021 Countdown to Success: On Planning
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (April 8th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Happy May,...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
April 2021 Countdown to Success: On Self-Care and Your Well-Being
5 Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (April 8th, 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Read this...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
March 2021 Countdown to Success: On why you need to start a daily habit of learning
Inputs, 4 Quotes, 3 Thoughts, 2 Challenges and 1 Question (March, 4th 2021) “Helping you achieve high performance medicine.” Happy March,...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
February 2021 Countdown to Success: On impacting those you influence
5 Inputs to Inspire I. Sorry, Einstein: Hard workers may make better role models than geniuses II. Clinical communication patterns of...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jan 22, 2020
- 4 min
Making S.M.A.R.T Goals
Some of you may have heard me reference S.M.A.R.T goals in our latest podcast. If you didn’t, go checkout latest episode 3 Goals for Any...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jan 13, 2020
- 5 min
What is Your Why?
Every person on this planet has a why. Why do you wake up every day? Why do you do the things you do? Why do you serve clients? Why do...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Jan 5, 2020
- 6 min
Finding Clarity in 2020
Goal setting can be hard, very hard. What should you choose to focus on, who should you ask to help you and how will you make the goal a...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 25, 2019
- 4 min
3 Habits That Have Changed My Life
Today I want to share 3 Personal Habits that have changed my life. These are things that have positively impacted my personal and family...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 19, 2019
- 5 min
5 Habits for the Career Professional
In a 2018 interview James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, was asked what he thought the most important habits were for professionals....
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 17, 2019
- 5 min
The Habit of Positive Thought
"This then is your prescription. For seven days you must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 16, 2019
- 4 min
Habit Loop
How do we begin to formulate new habits? The first thing we must do is understand the psychology behind habit formation. Author James...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 12, 2019
- 1 min
Peer Comparison Heat Map Walk Through
Catch our latest Blog post where I walk OTO'ers through how my clinic's Peer Comparison Heat Map works and the power behind it! Please...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 11, 2019
- 3 min
Abundance in Business Part 1
Wednesday, the Thoughts from the Truck podcast gave listeners an example of a time where my clinic could have embraced a scarcity mindset...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 11, 2019
- 3 min
Gratitude Journal 101
Still struggling getting your gratitude journal started? Don't know where to start?! This small gratitude journal example is meant to...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 6, 2019
- 3 min
A St. Nicholas Gift for OTO'ers!
Today is St. Nick's Day, and one of the best gifts you can give yourself is a mind filled with positive thought! St. Nick, while a...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 5, 2019
- 4 min
Start Over-Delivering this Morning!
Want to begin creating positive thought today? Start by over delivering for your clients this morning! Over-delivering can be mutually...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 3, 2019
- 2 min
Are we destined to become a grumpy old vet?
This is one of my personal fears about practicing medicine too long. I don’t want to become the 70 year old vet that continues to...
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Dr. Eric Rooker
- Dec 3, 2019
- 3 min
10 Thought Control Tips from As a Man Thinketh
James Allen was a visionary when he published his 1903 manuscript on thought and its effect on men. What advice would Allen have for...
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