I love Robin Sharma.
I have read all his books, watched his videos and subscribe to his newsletters. His ideas are so simple and easy to implement.
This is his latest article: 7 Black Belt Insights for Elite Achievement
How can you apply those 7 insights to your veterinary career?
Here is my interpretation of the 7 insights & how to achieve what you want in your veterinary career:
- Do the work! You can’t expect to build an expertise without commitment and consistent effort.
- Go the extra mile. The extra mile is a lonely road! Decide your vision for your career, set goals, create the strategy and tactics to fulfil those goals and off you go! So many people never decide the vision for their career or set goals.
- It’s not failure, it’s feedback. We never want to fail or make mistakes but in trying to do that you aren’t willing to take risks or give things a go.
- Never give up!! Keep going!! Remember the ‘why’ of why you want to change. Get out of your comfort zone & apply #1 and you will wonder why your resisted changing in the first place.
- Don’t be all or nothing (I’m guilty of this!). Taking a step forward every day will get your further than a fast sprint, stopping and abandoning the new habit.
- You don’t know what you don’t know. Once you know what you need to know, go and gain that knowledge and experience! This is why networking, going to conferences and connecting with colleagues in important for learning and discovering what you can do differently.
- Ah, the big one!!! What have YOU settled for? Was it too hard, took too much time, cost too much or were you just worried about what others think?
Think forward to when you are at the end of your life… Will it be with regret for what you never did? If so, make a change now.
Start with #2, discover #6, then apply #1 while remembering #5 and never forget #4!
Not sure how?
I created the Veterinary Career Plan for this reason. I saw so many veterinarians having a groundhog year (remember the movie?). At the end of the year when they looked back to what they had achieved, it looked like every other year. Still in the same employment, earning just a fraction more and becoming slightly more dissatisfied that this is what their career and life had become.
If you are frustrated or unfulfilled in your career, only you can change that. I stayed at a lot of practices longer than I should have waiting for things to change. Heads up – they don’t! Either you change your expectations (which can be soul destroying) or you uncover what you want and go and create a strategy and plan to achieve it. It can be done!!
Learn more here.
Natasha
