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âLife does not change if you only modify the content,
your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.â
âSantosh Kalwar
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Have you heard the commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace, called This Is Water? I hadnât. It isnât your typical commencement speech filled w...
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âTime is the most valuable thing a man can spend.â
âTheophrastus
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Fact: No one will value your time as much as you do.Â
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Time is undoubtedly our most valuable and limited resource. Every day, so many people and things vie for our time. Our families, friends, patients, hospital ...
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âMonday is like a math problem. Add the irritation, subtract the sleep, multiply the problems, divide the happiness.â
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Work dread. You know the feeling even if you didnât know it had a name. It is that sensation in the pit of your stomach when you realize that the start of...
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âAlone, we can do little; together, we can do so much.â
âHelen KellerÂ
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For all its traumas, one of the most incredible gifts bestowed upon doctors is the community created during medical training. When I think back to my Internal Medicine internship, I donât think about the grueling,...
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âTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.â
âRalph Waldo Emerson
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We are taught from an early age to avoid comparing ourselves to others. Then, we are sent off to school, where we are ranked, compared, and pitted a...
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âLife isnât about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.â
âGeorge Bernard Shaw
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Who Needs A Reinvention?
Everyone.
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Reinvention gets a bad rap. People hear the word and think it sounds woo. Or, they believe it means scrapping everything and starting over, like tor...
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âThe time to relax is when you donât have time for it.â
âSydney J. HarrisÂ
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During a recent conversation with my physician coach, I found myself reflecting on my favorite part of our family vacation to the Caribbean. We snorkeled, swam with turtles, rented jet skis, held starfish, and...
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âChange begins at the end of your comfort zone.â
âRoy T. Bennett, The Light In The Heart
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Before physician coaching, I did not believe that I had the capacity for change. I would dare say that I had a relatively dismal opinion of anyoneâs ability to change. Of course, we all have the p...
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âAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.â
â Anne Lamott
While coaching a physician, we started talking about his upcoming vacation. He and his wife had planned a two-week South Pacific trip, which sounded incredible. As he spoke about his break, he t...
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âSometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.â
âRuth E. Renkel
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It is incredible to look back at your life and recognize the critical moments that led you to become the unique human being you are today. Many people, places, and things needed to come together ...
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âThe word âshouldâ is an enemy of growth and a thief of joy.â
âKevin NgoÂ
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The first time I heard the phrase âshoulding all over yourself,â I laughed. As a gastroenterologist, I have a particular affinity for poop jokes. It might not be obvious when you read the phrase, but say it out l...
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âWeâre afraid that the feeling of joy wonât last, or that the other shoe is going to drop. We think, âIâm feeling good, this canât be right; something bad is going to happen.ââÂ
âBrenĂ© Brown
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Foreboding Joy. I didnât make it up. I had never even heard of foreboding joy until I read Dar...