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Fearless Medical Coach, Storyteller. Getting to Yes.
We are not our behaviors, diagnoses, or symptoms, but tellers of our many stories & owners of our health. Wisdom from fearless master medical coach, Siri ben Arzi
Proem (Preface)
My mother had eyes in the back of her head. I heard that and thought about it throughout childhood. I’m not a mother. I don’t have eyes in the back of my head. I do know that I am a force, and I create a wake. Think a speedboat, a ship, with that V of water behind it. I’m aware that I have a wake. Sometimes, I can pause during my headlong forward movement and look back and check my wake. What kind of impact did I have? Was it the intended impact or unexpected? A kind, warm reflection of my wake from trusted friends, colleagues, coaches, mentors is priceless. That’s reactive, after the fact.
Proactively, looking forward, I’m a change agent, an activist, a reformer, and a patient. No matter how full of myself I can become, I seldom lose sight of the need for coaching. Coaching to clarify strategy, consider and prioritize tactics, and then to look back and study the wake I created, the impact I had. I view my health team as coaches with expertise greater than mine for specific topics and skills. I’m the boss, the CEO of my health, but I definitely need coaches.
