Success is a Choice
Somewhere in between our youth and our
adulthood, we put aside our dreams and focus on the responsibilities
of our professions. As health care providers, we are particularly
trapped by the sheer necessity of focusing on critical details.
It's easy to lose sight of the global view, and often of the people
we vowed to help. A natural outcome of this process is that we end
up closing off a part of ourselves that is integral to the art of
healing, i.e., the art of being human.
Consider the power of emotion. When we
close off our willingness to feel, we close off the pathway to creativity.
In so doing, we limit our abilities to expand our perceptions and
to envision possibilities. We limit the boundaries of our own success.
Our patients respond in kind by following our leads. They shut off
their minds to the possibilities of their own success. When they
do that, everyone loses.
The part of our minds that is open to
emotion is the same part that enables us to overcome the pull of
the homeostatic mechanisms that force us to avoid change. Remember:
if you want things to be different, you have to do something different.
Perhaps that something, is to be different yourself. Begin now,
by letting yourself get excited about the possibility of greater
success.
Success is not an outcome.
It is a choice that must be pursued with enthusiasm and
purpose.
Thank you for permitting us the privilege of assisting
you in defining, enabling and enacting your choice for success.
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Wendy and Hal |