This 2-Minute Monday Mindset is about getting you and your team to consistent excellence.
We’ve all heard the saying, “practice makes perfect.” It’s an idea drilled into us from a young age – that if we just keep doing something over and over, we’ll eventually get it right.
But let me challenge that notion today. Perfection, first, isn’t attainable. Sure, you might hit things at its best once, maybe twice, but consistently? No.
Perfection is impossible.
So instead, I want to offer a better mantra: Practice makes permanent.
It’s the habits we find successful, tweak and improve, and repeat every day, that leads to permanence, which leads to excellence.
That’s excellence in patient care, staff relationships, being profitably paid, and business success.
So today, I’m going to challenge the way you think about your operational efficiencies, by changing the idea of “practicing.” Practicing doesn’t just make us better, it improves how we do it over time while also make better more consistent. And consistency is far more valuable than perfection, especially in the fast-paced, high-stakes world of healthcare. Consistency is the only way any business, medical or otherwise, can achieve excellence.
The point of practicing isn’t to be perfect—the point is to be consistently excellent.
Let’s all shift away from “practice makes perfect” to “practice makes permanent”, and you will transform how you lead your team, care for your patients, and successfully operate your medical business.
And I’ll see YOU at the next 2MMM!
