Handling The Lows
Every medical professional has experienced highs and lows and peaks and valleys. The trick is to minimize the lows, continue to work, and take advantage of the highs.
We’ve all experienced negative gravity-pull. A state of inactivity due to a lack of motivation. Breaking gravity-pull is tough and continuing to sit and worry is the worst possible thing anyone can do. Conversely, anything that produces activity is the answer. Here are some ways to help get back on track:
• When you lose your momentum, you can usually trace it to the fact that you’ve lost track of your goals. Maybe your goals were too large and too long-range and you simply have lost faith in your ability to achieve them. Reset your goals. Break them down and create short-term goals.
• Accept responsibility for your life and future. Say to yourself, “I can do this. It’s up to me!” An attitude of self-responsibility is a quality of peak performers and high achievers.
• Enlist the enthusiasm, effort, goodwill, and support of other people. Avoid negative people who seem to take pleasure in dragging others down to their level of accomplishment.
• Go back to the basics: Review your past three month’s activities objectively. What was working? What stopped working?
• Review your customer records. Were there any significant changes in the buying patterns of established accounts? What new trends are you seeing?
• Change your routine. Reinvent yourself.
• Travel. Go to the field and stay out of your office for three or four days.
First and foremost, protect your self-esteem. Don’t view life’s inevitable setbacks and typical periods of feeling low as some kind of psychological proof of a hidden inadequacy. When a true professional has healthy self esteem, breaking the gravity pull and handling “the lows” are viewed as nothing more than an inevitable part of the game.
S.Chesterfield,
Brava Medical In-House Reporter
