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What is the stereotype of the person at the top of his/her game, in your profession?
What does that person look like?
– talk like?
– dress like?
How are they different than you?
What similarities spill over to you? What characteristics do you share?
The professional
The concept of the professional is a simple one – a person who does their job, day-in and day-out without excuses.
That’s the pinnacle.
It’s not the money, or the lifestyle, or the house, or the car.
It’s the person who you look up to, who does the thing that you emulate.
Can you envision that person in your mind?
Are they even real? – It doesn’t matter.
What is the stereotype bedside nurse? Physician? ICU PA?
I’ll bet that they all do the job in spite of the frustrations and the inefficiencies and the hassles and the minimal sleep.
They come prepared.
They hold themselves to a higher standard.
When they walk on the floor, into the ICU, or through the operating room doors – everyone knows it.
People who are completely separate from the medical world know it as soon as they see them.
They fit the description of the professional – the archetype – in their mind.
Who do you want to be?
The only way to be the best version of yourself overall is to be the best version of yourself at work.
That means doing everything you can to take care of your patients and do right by them.
You owe it to them.
The easiest way to do that – the easiest way to sleep soundly at night – is to embody that vision you have of ‘the professional’.
Whatever difference you have in your head between what that vision is and what you are – you need to change.
The whole point of these newsletters is to find a way to free yourself from the limitations of the standard work arrangement: the rough schedule and the limited pay.
It’s not to abandon your duty to yourself, to your family, and to your patients.
You fulfill that duty by being the best you can be.
The best version of you at work is as the pro.
So stop making excuses.
Stop venting your frustrations to anyone that will listen.
And stop floating through each week hoping to just get by.
Instead, start making a change with how you see yourself and with how you perceive what it is that you do.
Why can’t you embody that vision you have of the pro walking into the room?
Bridge that gap between the picture in your mind of the true professional in your field and yourself.
Be a pro.
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