![]() ![]() Have a cup of coffee with a friend/colleague, at a place outside of work - on a day off - to discuss what is going on and brainstorm some new possibilities. You can't see what you can't see and your habits and blinds spots may be causing a lot of your struggle. The challenge with journaling is you still are only using your own perspective. Write notes about what is going on and how it feels and what you might change going forward - all while you are not at work and the whirlwind is a safe distance away. Journaling is the simplest way to examine your life from an outside perspective. Journal about your experience when you are not at work. note that all of them come with a Huge Caveat (see below): Here are common ways to shift your perspective You fly up to the 50,000 foot view to re-examine this whole reality regularly - constantly tweaking so that you are always moving toward a more Ideal Practice and a more Balanced Life. The healthiest doctors are ones who have a regular rhythm - a cadence if you will - of taking this different perspective on their life and practice. It is from this new level of consciousness - this different viewpoint outside the whirlwind - that you can see the new actions that will spring you from the Insanity Trap. You must step OUT of the whirlwind - to a different level of consciousness to be able to make out the patterns and potential strategy steps for a way forward. You are focused on just making it through another day. The whirlwind takes up every ounce of your awareness. ![]() What you can't see from this perspective - inside the whirlwind - is HOW to solve them. In the course of your busy day - when you are inside the whirlwind of your practice and home life - you can see the problems and things you want to change - you can feel and taste them too - clear as crystal. "No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it."įrom inside the whirlwind all you can do is survive. In some cases, years (even decades) of frustration and overwhelm can slide by - before you wake up, step out of the Insanity Trap and take your life back again. If you ignore its ever present wisdom, you will lose big time. The Insanity Trap is like gravity - or the sun rising in the east - or third grade math - it is true now and always will be. It is like watching someone drown in water that's only waist deep. Yet how often do you see doctors flailing away in the jaws of the Insanity Trap? Another frustration comes up, the doctor whines, commiserates, complains, pounds their fist in righteous anger - and then goes right back to doing what they have always done. "The only way to change anything in your life is to take new actions." Yes it is that simple. Here is another way to say the same thing: If you always do what you've always done - you will always get what you've always got. ![]() "The definition of insanity is - doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." If you want to lower your stress levels, build a more balanced life and an more Ideal Practice, remember these two quotes from Albert Einstein and there is literally nothing you can't change. ![]() How did Einstein get to be a physician burnout expert? ![]()
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