What Direction Are You Moving?

Wanted to share with you a concept that came up during some great conversation last night. Most people in the world, and I'm certainly guilty of this as well at times, tend to think from these three areas:

1. What's wrong?
2. What's missing?
3. What we don't want.

But drawing back and really doing some soul searching about this worldview, you can see what it does for us...what we put out to the universe is what we attract to us. We attract the things that we believe are wrong, we attract to us the things we don't want (even though we say we don't want them!)

Extrapolate that to your practice...are you focusing on the things that are wrong, about what's missing, and what you don't want? Are you thinking about the insurance companies that deny or limit your care? About the patient or staff members that "just aren't getting it!" About the tax bill coming up? About the new health care plan?

If so, these thoughts can be so distracting that it causes you to lose focus on growing your practice. You lose focus on serving people and helping create a better world. Your philosophic and clinical intent becomes diluted and unclear. All of these things lead to an undisciplined environment where the systems that were once running at top notch efficiency begin to get loose and sloppy.

You see the slippery slope right? Instead of focusing your thoughts in that arena, how about this:

1. What's right?
2. What do we have to be grateful for?
3. What we want.

You want to make it even more impactful? How about journaling? Kevin Donka suggests writing the answers to these questions down, every single day. He calls it a Focus Journal in which you answer what's right in your life a.) personally and b.) for the world. What's right in your personal life and what's right for the world? What do you have to be grateful for personally and what do you have to be grateful for in the world? What do you want personally and what do you want for the world?

There's something special about writing it down, it lends something tangible to the experience of creating what you want.

Now isn't that a better direction to be moving?