I am fortunate that I did a lot of training in the Hubbard Management System. It provides some tools that are useful in these times. Let’s talk about one of them. That is “control.”
We see people out of control We see people who are control freaks. That’s not the control that I’m talking about. I’m talking about good, positive, honest to goodness control, control of your life, of the people around you. People are looking to you for leadership right now. Why? Because they know that you are in control. After all, look at the position that you’ve achieved.
When you exercise good, positive control, you set an example for others to do the same thing. And you know what? You feel better too.
Here’s the exercise that I did today. We have a lot of maintenance (prophy) patients that we’ll have to reschedule once this is all over. And it will be all over. How do we reschedule them? Is it based on the date that they were originally scheduled? I don’t think so. It has to be based on need. After all, patients are seeing us for often for a chronic, degenerative disease (although we could argue that point. But let’s stay with tradition for now.) Some need to be seen sooner than others. Some are prone to breakdown.
So today, we made a couple of system changes to Dentrix to allow us to categorize each Preventive Maintenance patient (actually any patient) as “serious,” “moderate,” or prophy. I’ll be categorizing each patient that we have to reschedule in one of those three categories.When we reschedule them, the “serious” get first priority. It’s the same as triage in the medical field.
But here’s what’s neat. Rather than concentrating on the latest news or otherwise idly spending time, I was doing something. I was controlling something. I was making things better for my patients as I was designing a method for my staff. And as I categorized each patient, I started to feel better.
Control, as Mr Hubbard describes it, is simply a matter of Start, Change, Stop. You start an item, you change something about that item, and then you stop that item. And if you’ve made a positive change, then that item is better, and you’re better.
So pick a project, any project where you can create something that will be better. It may be cleaning your desk, cleaning the garage, writing an email or snail mail to someone that you haven’t contacted in a long time. Cook something. Help someone. And as you do that, you’ll do better.
I promised you some practical material. One of our charter members, Colin Richman, was privileged to have attended a worldwide banking conference a couple of days ago. The information from the conference should be comforting to all of us.
This morning I participated in a world wide financial overview of current conditions.Bottom line:Don’t panic or panic sell, especially if your portfolios where well thought out in the beginning.A recovery, relatively short term (months) will most probably occur. It is already reversing in Asia.Most wealthy world wide investors are following the above strategy, including, no panic selling.This has been my thought as well.Also read, some researchers in Melbourne Australia are making terrific progress with understanding the COVID-19’s pathogenicity helping them understand both future treatments and vaccination development, including immuno boosters.Hope all is well with you, your family and your colleagues. Colin R