I used to never outsource. Like anything. I grew up pretty humbly and living as a student into my early 30's further reinforced those thoughts.I had 2 misconceptions about outsourcing:I couldn't afford it and no one could do something as well as I could.

There is no secret process to staying motivated. Often times, people think I must have a super power to do all that I do. Or some supreme innate source of infinite motivation deep within. And nothing could be further from the truth.

Understanding the interplay of sleep and nutrition for our productivity is integral at maximizing our effectiveness. Because many of us can't even begin to think about the concept of work-life balance until we begin managing our energy levels. I talked with Dr. Amy Shah, author of the bestseller "I'm So Effing Tired" for this episode.

Failure has such a negative connotation for high achieving women. Join host, Dr. Rupa Wong, as she discusses why we need to stop avoiding failure and why we should embrace it instead. She opens up about her own educational and entrepreneurial failures and 4 questions to ask yourself when tackling failure so that you can use it as a foundation for future success.

Have trouble living in the moment? So do I. My mind is always going 100 miles an hour with things I should be doing, things I'm late doing and things I forgot completely.

I never thought that I had experienced burnout, when I was asked about it a few years ago. I love what I do. Sure, I have felt stressed and overburdened at times, but I didn't think the term burnout applied to me. I never felt like I needed to quit my job or leave medicine altogether. But that's where I was wrong. I had experienced burnout, but I just didn't recognize it.

Recently, a well known consultant in my field made some troubling comments about female ophthalmologists. Though, I do believe they were unintentional, he insinuated that women's desire for work-life balance leads them to work part time and therefore causes issues in succession planning for retiring ophthalmologists.

All too often, we pride ourselves on how much we can accomplish in a day. How busy we are and how many things we have still left to do on our task list. It's a cult of busy, as we rush from appointment to appointment, activity to activity. Dr. Wong discusses if this is really necessary and if there are alternatives to constant busyness, while still remaining productive.