Non-compete clauses?
In healthcare, why are there non-compete clauses?
What are we competing about?
Is there a winner?
Cheers
If it wasn’t already a habit?
Eating well, hitting snooze, exceeding my allocation of time to social media, exercising, prioritizing work over health, being kind.
All the things I do every day are habits that consume a lot of time.
All the things I don’t do every day likely take a up very little of my time. Perhaps very little time even thinking about them.
Am I choosing my behaviors every day (see first line) or on auto-pilot?
If I weren’t doing them, would I think about starting?
How am I using this minute?
Related to choice, sunk cost, agency.
Cheers
Becoming Unaware
Once I have become aware of a growth area for myself (exercise, smoking, diet, social connectedness etc), I don’t think I can become unaware.
I think I can go into denial, rationalization, or just admit that I’m lazy.
I don’t think that makes me unaware, just uncommitted.
Better to remain committed, recommit every day (or minute).
I will have ahead days and behind days. I will have success. I will have failure.
And I’ll never be unaware again.
The Path to Misery
Thinking I’m so special that I can grow without discomfort.
Feeling that life’s unfair. My feelings being valid in that regard don’t influence the path to contentment.
Observing that it’s easier for other people. How could I possibly know that? And even if it were true, how does that apply to me?
When I’m looking for a compass to help me find the path to misery, I’ve found nothing better than my own entitlement.
I was so creative as a child.
I know this because my mom showed me some of my Kindergarten art.
I'm not creative anymore:(
Which is nonsense of course.
I didn't lose it. I just suppressed it, or stopped working on it, or devalued it.
It may be true, but it’s also a metaphor of course.
Why do I need to label myself as "not-being" something?
Why can't I just choose to work at something, or not?
Point of view
Is my point of view correct?
What if I step to the left or right a few feet? Is it more, or less, correct?
Is there any evidence that what I see from my point of view represents what is actually out there?
If I think, talk, or listen, it will change.
If I know mine is the correct point of view, I'm not on a team.
Listening for Solutions
Am I not listening to someone with the solution because they don't have the position (or education, or age, or gender, etc)?
What can that possibly have to do with having a great idea?
Great podcast on not listening to the person who can solve the problem because they are 6 Levels down. Motley Fool Money: Michael Lewis on Stock Market Overconfidence and Revisiting Moneyball on Apple Podcasts
Going with the goers
For years I worked with teams who very clearly knew their role was SUPPORT.
Almost all of the levels of authority were built to be in SUPPORT. SUPPORT of the next level.
Confidence was high that everyone would complete their SUPPORTING role.
My role was to deliver the actors to a location within 30 seconds.
I was in SUPPORT of the actors but wasn't one of the actors.
I was SUPPORTED by a communication team that relayed the progress of the overall mission.
I was SUPPORTED by maintenance teams that made sure that my equipment was operational.
I was SUPPORTED by drivers who accepted my input on changes to the route and speed to make our arrival on time.
The understanding that almost everyone's role was SUPPORT was critical to getting each component objective met.
In my current role the actors are the caregivers. And even they are in SUPPORT - SUPPORT of the patients who are in need.
What are the barriers to embracing my role, being accountable to the next level BELOW me, suborning my ego, and fostering an environment of trust so that the mission (patient care) is successful?
Biases and heuristics
Biases and heuristics are formed through slow analytical thought from a lifetime of experience, both personally and clinically. Biases (and heuristics) run in my fast intuitive system and help me make a lot of efficient decisions every day. When they are not working for me, I move back into the slow analytical system which is more effective, but less efficient.
I have a bias towards the truth.
Most people do. Most believe others are telling the truth more often than they actually are.
How often do I question that bias when listening to others? How often do I question that bias when I am listening to myself?
The hard right
Am I just complaining about hardship, the unfairness in life?
Do I have the courage to do the hard thing, to deal with life as it comes instead of how I wish it were?
Important and hard often go hand in hand. In the military it has been called Embracing the Suck.
Are you drowning?
I can drown in an ocean or a puddle.
What is healthy/safe/effective/good enough for my team?
What I would do is…..
Really?
When faced with reality, a plan is widely known to get thrown out the window.
Or as Mike Tyson said.
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
Do you care enough?
Do you care enough to make a difference?
Feel like you’re alone?
Highly unlikely, isn’t it?
And you can make a difference on your own.
Not as much as if you were on a team that cared about the same thing, but more than if you wait until tomorrow.
This story is all over the place; here’s one place.
Focus and Process
Narrowing my focus can be clarifying.
It’s powerful if I’m a process person.
The process is about becoming better.
Trust the process! Great coaches instill this in athletes.
Great teachers guide students with this same philosophy.
My narrowed focus must be about becoming better for the process itself to have value.
The process has value despite the outcome.
Sure, winning an event is better than losing. And it is for one thing – the outcome of one event.
There’s one valedictorian.
Only one team in a playoff ends the season with a win. And the opponent has a vote.
The process has only one participant – me. And it is ongoing. Win at that!
Holes (in accountability)
Do I get to pick and choose when to be accountable?
What’s that all about?
Holes (in application)
I have a Why. To help others be better versions of themselves so that excellence can scale.
My Why is what gets me out of bed in the morning, excited to interact with the world, and go home fulfilled.
Of course, I'm not for everyone and there's the rub.
Can I see more in others than they see in themselves? Is it even appropriate for me to see it?
When should I lean in and when should I just watch?
What is your Why?
What is your friction point for living it out in your world?
Disagree with an idea
Have I ever disagreed with someone before they even spoke?
Ideas are very useful to disagree with - they lend towards conversation.
People are less useful to disagree with, they tend towards right and wrong.
I could have saved a lot of time by not spending time with them and wasting their time.
Suffering or Leveraging?
I'm feeling anxious - paralyzed or incentivized?
I feel afraid - confront or flee?
Physical Therapists are great at leveraging our patient's pain to fight back with exercise when opioids would solve the pain problem.
What am I missing with the chance to decide how to dance with dopamine, adrenaline, cortisol, serotonin, oxytocin........