Happy In Medicine with Dr. Christina Arnold

8: 1% Wins

1% better.
When your brain is distressed, change can feel next to impossible.
It's easy to feel stuck. No options. No choices.
When you are in this place, aim for 1% wins.
Make your workday 1% better: wear you favorite shoes, bring in your favorite snack, or treat yourself to mid-day neck stretches.
Make your evening 1% better: skip the laundry, put on your favorite show, or take a warm bath.
Make your connection with your honey 1% better: snuggle up on the couch, talk about something other than the kids, or share a piece of cake.
We don't have to make everything better all at once to feel better.
When we are stuck, 1% wins are actually the very best place to be.
They are small enough that the brain won't resist.
They seem doable.
You'll have instant wins. TODAY.
And over time, 1% wins each day create massive wins overall.
This concept was shared by the brilliant Martha Beck, Kara Loewentheil, and Candice Toone.
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7: CHOOSING NOT to Belong

NOT belonging can be POWERFUL.
This one concept was the most helpful concept that helped me retire from Medicine.
Here's what happened...
I was walking on campus and it struck me that I've never felt like I belonged in Medicine.
Oh sure, I could coach myself and create a sense of belonging but it never felt natural or easy to me.
It always required A LOT of work to get there.
Before coaching, I made this Not-belonging feeling mean that something was wrong with me:
I must not be working hard enough.
This thinking was so painful.
And sometimes I thought that maybe something was wrong with the job, the work culture, the people.
This thinking was so painful too.
More recently when I revisited this feeling of Not-belonging in Medicine, I didn't have any blame or shame about it.
Nothing was wrong with me; nothing was wrong with the job.
I just didn't belong in Medicine.
I know I could do the work to feel that sense of belonging in Medicine.
I just didn't want to do the work anymore.
I'd rather put all the time and energy into being a full time life coach where I am overflowing with belonging AND it takes ZERO effort.
Coming to this realization made retiring from Medicine effortless.
Where in your life do you NOT belong?
What if it isn't a problem at all?
What if it's simply a road sign pointing you to areas where you do belong.
AND you don't have to take drastic steps like retiring from your job-- this episode walks you through how tiny baby steps can have a massive impact AND go back to listen to episode 6 to learn how to create belonging 24/7 on demand.
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6: HOW to Belong

This week we talk about how to belong in any room, at any time, no matter what.
Imagine how life could be different if you felt true belonging.
Dinner at the in-laws could be pleasant.
Calling mom could be fun.
The long hospital days when volumes are doubled and staffing is halved could be easier.
Here's what you'll get in this podcast episode:
💗Where belonging is NOT
💗A process to generate Belonging anytime you want it
💗How to belong TO YOU first
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5: Your Breakthrough Thought

New clients often think that it’ll take months or years to feel better.
It doesn’t.
You are always EXACTLY one thought away from your next breakthrough.
That’s it.
ONE THOUGHT.
It’s not years of hard work or effort.
It’s one thought.
You’ll feel better as fast as you are willing to think it.
In this week’s podcast you’ll know how to find your one breakthrough thought.
Connect with your breakthrough thought TODAY.
You’ll also get the Redirection Compass to reliably, consistently, 100% of the time get to your one breakthrough thought in a flash.
You aren’t 1,000 thoughts away from a breakthrough.
You aren’t months, years away from feeling better.
You don’t have to work to find your breakthrough thought.
You don’t have to spend time creating your breakthrough thought.
It already exists.
It is with you right now.
Click the button below to connect with your one breakthrough thought Now.
 
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4: NotThe Boss’ Fav? It’s A Good Thing...

Sure, being the boss’ favorite has its perks.
Of course, it’s fun. Except when it’s not.
If we only feel good when the boss is gushing over us, we DON’T learn the skill of how to take care of ourselves.
It’s easy to feel forgotten when we aren’t mentioned at faculty meeting…when she does NOT stop by to say Hi…or when she stops nominating us to her friends.
The solution is NOT to work harder.
You work hard enough.
The solution is to become YOUR own favorite person.
You won’t learn this skill at your wellness trainings. You didn’t learn this in med school. No one is teaching this at your center.
You can learn this skill here in this week’s podcast.
When you have this skill, you’ll feel better.
Listen to this podcast TODAY and feel better TODAY.
I designed it to give you INSTANT wins.
When the boss gushes over the new hire at the faculty meeting, you’ll know how to take care of you.
When the boss doesn’t stop by to check in, you’ll get home faster and be glad for it.
When the boss doesn’t nominate you, you’ll find other ways to get invited speakerships.
This one skill will make your life better IN EVERY WAY.
Teach this skill to your partner and kids and their lives will be upleveled too.
HEAR THIS:
It’s a good thing that you aren’t your boss favorite.
Being your own favorite is WAY BETTER.
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3: When The Boss Has Favorites & You Aren’t One of Them

Your boss has favorites.
You aren't one of them.
All senior leaders are white men.
You aren't.
These differences CANNOT hold you back from asking for a better schedule.
You CAN ask for what you deserve No Matter What.
Start with agreeing with yourself: Your boss has favorites, you aren't one of them, all senior leaders are white men. These are FACTS. Don't make yourself wrong. Your brain is right about ALL OF IT.
Now we get to work on getting what you deserve.
Agree with yourself. Support yourself. Make yourself right.
This will create instant relief. This opens up energy that you can direct to getting what you deserve in less time than you think.
Action is so much easier when you are on your own side.
Here's another fact: you can get what you deserve no matter what.
It's all right here in this week's episode.
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2: How to Be Enough

Stop waiting on the boss to tell you that you work hard enough.
It's not happening. No matter how hard you try.
You could sleep 5h/night, go to all the grand round lectures, host all the faculty candidate dinners, go to each holiday dinner at her house, write 9 papers a year, miss your own colonoscopy to pick up a service day, and she will still have ideas on how you can do more. She might even suggest you delay your promotion by a year so your colleagues don’t feel jealous. True story.
Of course it would be amazing for her to say, “Congratulations you have done enough. You should slow down and rest- you earned it!”
BUT, since she won’t EVER say this, the solution is to DECIDE that you are enough.
“You ARE enough” is a DECISION you get to make.
You are enough.  Just as you are. Without any more papers or dinners. Exactly as you are right this second.
You get to believe whatever you want about yourself.
DECIDE that you are enough.
Believing that you are NOT enough, will have you waiting for the boss’s approval (it’s not coming), overworking, and skipping your own colonoscopy.
Believing in yourself is actually LESS work.
When you believe you are enough, you’ll feel better, lighter, and your mind will be clearer.
You’ll get more done in half the time.
You’ll have more time to snuggle the kids.
More time to do nothing in particular.
Empty, white space. Open calendars. NO meetings.
It starts with DECIDING you are enough just as you are.
From this place you can create more, if you want to. But this is where you start. This is where you bring your brain back to when you are feeling sad, defeated, or small. Come back to this place right exactly here.
You ARE enough.
Just as you are.
Just EXACTLY as you are.
Don’t miss this week’s podcast. You’ll learn how to do be enough WITHOUT working harder.
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1: Medicine is Broken, Win Anyway

Medicine is broken.
You didn’t break it.
It’s not your responsibility to fix it.
Between non-compete clauses, uneven schedules, ambiguous P&T processes, and “rules that only apply to certain faculty,” Medicine has insulated itself from radical change.
The solution is to stop waiting on Medicine to change.
The solution is to feel better first.
Feel better Now.
In this weeks’ podcast, you get an all-new 3-step protocol on how to win in a broken system AND how to integrate it Today without adding to your schedule.
In this podcast you’ll get….
✅How to get started
✅What exactly to do first
✅How to find all the answers
You’ll have results Today.
THIS is how Medicine changes. It won’t take a lifetime. It starts with us.
We become the change we’ve been looking for from Medicine.
First...we feel better.
Then... our patient outcomes improve. The whole system improves. We pass on this legacy to the next generation. And they create even more change. And so on and so on.
Don’t Wait for Medicine to change to feel better. Feel better FIRST.
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