2016 Sunday Surgical Scrub Year In Review

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2016 Sunday Surgical Scrub Year In Review

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Ring out the false, ring in the true. -Alfred
Lord Tennyson   TASK AT HAND This week Im
looking back on 2016 and trying to learn from
error and success alike. It has been an
incredible year davidalmeidamd.com was launched
and the Sunday Surgical Scrub, an idea that has
existed for quite some time, was officially
started. Above all else, thank you for your
support and interest in everything that we do on
the medical, research, speaking and consulting
fronts.
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• Today I will look back on the Sunday Surgical
  Scrub and review some highlights of 2016 as we
  transition to 2017. Here are 7 highlights from
  2016.
• 1. Strategy It Has To Work! (From the 22 May
  2016 Scrub, you can find the original post
  here.) What makes a strategy successful? If it
  works, its successful! Ultimately, your strategy
  must work and you must achieve your goals
  otherwise, seriously consider switching
  strategies. The core of any successful strategy
  is the ability to plan and execute. I plan like
  an economist, but execute like a surgeon. In
  planning, you should employ some sort of analysis
  but then bring your decision out of your personal
  vacuum and into context and consequence. Then,
  when all planning is done, go out and execute it.
• 2. Minimize Cognitive Burden (From the 12 June
  2016 blog, you can find the original post
  here.) Minimize your cognitive burden both the
  extrinsic inconsequential happenings and the
  intrinsic personal trappings so that in clarity
  you can fulfill your potential. Cognitive load
  refers to the total amount of mental effort being
  used in the working memory. Cognitive burden can
  be thought of as an excess load on our mental
  effort. Minimize undue burden due to meaningless
  or inconsequential items.

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• 3. Passion Is Essential (From the 24 July 2016
  post, you can find the original post
  here.) Living with passion is to live days
  immersed in the strength of barely controllable
  emotion. Passion, as a source of energy, can be
  oppressed by the many tasks and distractions
  endlessly intruding into our lives. However,
  being reacquainted with your passion is a
  revitalizing elixir of energy, focus and
  determination that cannot be neglected. When you
  look back which we are doing here in this year
  in review you must recall a life lived with
  passion! Days filled with this barely
  controllable emotion that allows you to create
  and touch the lives of others in fantastical and
  wonderful ways. Find passion and Let us live so
  that when we come to die even the undertaker will
  be sorry (Mark Twain).
• 4. Be Careful of The Company You Keep (From 28
  Aug 2016, you can find the original post here.)
  If youre the smartest one in the room, youre
  in the wrong room (Richard Tirendi). Since you
  are a running average of the people you most
  interact with, you need to be cognizant of who
  these people and groups are. Seek to be
  influenced by the best, and you will find
  yourself in good company.

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• 5. Eliminated Fear of Failure (From 18 Sept 2016,
  original post here.) If youre not failing often,
  youre not trying hard enough. 2016 was the year
  we let go of the fear of failure. Failure and
  how we cope with its force is of crucial
  importance to our character development.
• 6. Choose Fulfillment Over Achievement (From 23
  Oct 2016, original post here.) Achievement is
  commonly confused for fulfillment. In the culture
  of 80-plus hour work weeks, dog-eat-dog cynicism,
  and the perpetual climb of the job ladder, one
  can easily place achievement as the ultimate
  external benchmark of success. This strategy will
  eventual burn out. Instead, the focus should be
  on the internal barometer of fulfillment, to
  guide our plans.

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• 7. Beat Your Own Drum (Originally posted 27 Nov
  2016, you can find the original blog here.) 
• Live dangerously. Embrace pain and take risk.
  Desire to beat your own drum. Embrace pain and
  risk for it is in these moments that we carve out
  character and define development.

GRATIS Be at war with your vices, at peace
with your neighbors, and let every new year find
you a better person. -Benjamin Franklin   My
best to you, David Almeida david_at_davidalmeidamd.c
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