One practice every morning, for a year.
Under two minutes a day. Written by an emergency physician, between shifts, for people whose work matters.
Under two minutes a day. Written by an emergency physician, between shifts, for people whose work matters.
I have never met that person.
I spent my career in emergency medicine, making decisions with incomplete information, limited time, and real consequences. What I learned there is easy to say and hard to practise: the condition of the person being asked to act is not a detail to manage later. It is where the decision starts.
Everything here is built on that one idea.
The course. Nine modules, one for each part of the SAPIENT method, plus a start and a close. Fifteen minutes each, ending in a worksheet you can finish in one sitting. Yours as a PDF to keep.
Both books. SAPIENT Daily, the full year of 365 practices, and A Life You Can Sustain, the method behind it. EPUB, yours to download and keep.
The daily practice. One reflection, one question to carry through the day, one small action, and a prompt for the evening. It arrives every morning for as long as you stay subscribed.
You do not start at day one on your own signup date. You join the cohort where it is.
That is deliberate. A shared cadence is what turns a private habit into something people talk about. Your colleague reads the same practice on the same morning you do. It comes up at handover.
Most things built for depleted people ask depleted people to find time. A workshop assumes an hour. A journaling habit assumes a quiet morning. A meditation app assumes you remember it exists on the day your shift ran three hours long and you ate standing up.
Two minutes survives your worst week. A practice you keep on your worst week is the only kind that changes anything.
It will not fix a broken schedule. It will not repair a department run by someone who should not be running it. It is not therapy and it is not treatment. If you are struggling in a way that frightens you, please speak to a professional. I mean that as a physician, not as a disclaimer.
What a daily practice does is smaller and more real. It gives you one place each morning that belongs to you before the day starts making demands.
Clinicians. Residents. Nurses. Founders. Anyone carrying decisions that affect other people, on a schedule they did not fully choose.
You do not need to work in medicine. You need to be someone for whom a bad week has consequences beyond yourself.
The daily emails stop and the online lessons close. Every file you downloaded stays yours. Nothing you have already read is taken back.
Cancel in one click, any time, no conversation required.
Residency programmes, nursing units, and health systems can run a cohort together, with reporting on engagement. Seats start at 25.
Write to harveycastro4@gmail.com and I will send the details.
Harvey Castro, MD, MBA is a board certified emergency physician, healthcare AI keynote speaker, and author.
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