There are lots of common sayings you hear in the OR. One is all bleeding stops eventually. Another one is the enemy of good is perfect. Trying to make things perfect we often screw up something really good. We take well-reduced fracture with plates and screws in place and take them all out to try and make it perfect, and we turn the bone to mush with too many drill holes.
As you close the uterus during a c-section, the uterus inevitably bleeds from the incision line. We put more sutures in to ligate the bleeding, but half the time you poke the uterus with a needle, it bleeds more from the new spot. Sometimes trying to make it perfect is a mistake.
Using perfect as a benchmark can cause lots of problems.
The other side of the coin is thinking, “If I can’t make it perfect why bother.”
Take your finances and your loans for example. Most people know that their finances are a mess, so they don’t even want to get started. They won’t even look at them. They can’t be perfect, so I won’t bother to make them good. Everything is all over the place, and it’s just too scary to get started because it can’t come out right.
On page 10 of the March issue of The Physician Assistant Exam Scholar’s Newsletter, I introduce a way to get ALL of your finances onto one clean sheet of paper so that it’s so clear a kindergartner could understand it. You could almost do it with a crayon. It takes a little work to set it up, but once you do it’s so obvious and clean. I’m not saying that your going to love the numbers on that piece of paper, but it will give a framework to start building real wealth.
Maybe my favorite part of this issue is on page 9 where I show you the equation for True Wealth, and it becomes a little more obvious how to get there. It also gives you a framework for how you can start the minute you read it, even if you aren’t making a penny.
Looking forward to getting this issue into your hands, but you only have until the 28th to sign up. Best get a move on.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian
