Cognate

We cannot achieve external changes until we make internal changes.

We share roots. We’re one.

Becoming More Reliable

What am I being asked to show up for?

Who is counting on me?

What happens if I don’t make good on that promise? What happens if I do make good on that promise?

Can I think of a time when I was grateful for someone’s reliability?

The ‘I’m trying my best’ card can be pulled at any time. As long as there’s clarity.

‘For want of a nail, a shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, a horse was lost. For want of a horse, the battle was lost.’

Indivisible

The reason for our atomization is also the culprit for a sense of survivalism over citizenship.

We need to figure out a way to come together as one. Indivisible—come what may. Generosity over greed.

The resilience that emerges from such teamwork is what will save us. Teamwork like fire ants.

Becoming Free

Value-based contracting has shown up in journals for over a decade. Why are we still just talking about it?

We hand over our freedom to greed. It can be taken back with generosity. Ask the monkey whose fist got stuck in the cookie jar.

The time is calling on us to become fertilizers.

From Extractive to Regenerative

We’re destroying the source of our survival. No wonder we’re failing.

Don’t let a single patient fall through. Not a single one. They’re the subject of our gratitude.

The Point Is

If the goal is the point, it should be central in our message.

We risk misinterpretation, misguidance, and mistrust by misdirecting attention to the tool while sidelining the goal.

Tools: decks, memos, initiatives, drugs, presentations, meetings, us

Goals: cost-effectiveness, sustainability, resilience, well-being, improvement of health, convenience, seamless transition of care

Roots Predicate Resilience

Who knows the value of resilience better than those weathering a storm.

Macro headwinds are blowing around anything that isn’t rooted firmly. Look out below….

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

Tapestry In Health Care

‘Our kind,’ ‘those over there’ are words of those still inexperienced in striving for a grand purpose.

‘Break walls,’ ‘build bridges’ are words of honest seekers who’ve already started their journey toward a grand purpose.

‘Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.’ Gandhi

Fresh Powder

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

It’s Mine

When we step outside our home, we’re walking into what’s ours. It’s our Father’s.

It needs upkeep.

When we seek to align our role to our soul, we get to do art instead of work.

‘Ikigai’: my reason for being.