I’ve been in healthcare for over 15 years in one way or another. Actually, if I think about it maybe closer to two decades. I’ve seen a lot of changes. One constant has been the need for to have to speak up on behalf of others who need the help. Advocacy and standing up for what is right got baked into my day-to-day work.
I have often found myself saying at an organizational level “if you are not at the table, you are part of the menu”. It’s true not only for organizations but for everyday personal life as well.
Just yesterday, I came across this quote from Michelle Obama that rung even more true to me: “If you’re afraid to use your voice, give up your seat at the table.” She said this statement in a CNBC interview about women in the workplace. I admittedly haven’t seen the interview. I’ve just seen this quote. Here’s the deal for me. Once you get that seat at the table you must speak up. Otherwise, you are cheating yourself of an empowering experience. You are cheating yourself of the ability to formulate and express thoughts and opinions to someone other than yourself. And, that skillset translates into other parts of your life.
Once at the table you can’t live in the shadows.
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SMiles My Air Force
Psychiatrist Way
Back in 2008
Before Social
Media Really Inundated
The World With Likes
And Shares And Few
Original Words If
Any Shared
Verbally For
More Than
About 3 Seconds
The Average Attention
Span Science Literally
Assesses Human With
Now Yes Less Than A
Goldfish Yes
He Mused Then
From His Practice
Then With The Military
And General Practice
Will Humans
Lose Their
Ability
To Speak
i Sure Did
Yet Not Since
i Became Human
Again
Lose it
Or Lose It
Matters In All
Stuff Life And If
We Can’t See This
Is Part of The Reason
We Can’t Vaccinate
So Many Folks Or
That We Really
Face Another
Potential
Trump
Presidency
And The Real
Specter Of Losing
Our Democracy We’ve
Lost
Our
Ability
To Pay Attention
To What Even Counts
In Life Each Other
And
Freedom
Yet Of Course it’s
What Happens
To Social
Animals
Who Take
So Much
More Than
They Give…
They Exhaust
Every Resource
And Eventually Go Away
Humans Aren’t Immune
To
This
Obviously 🙄
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This is true in principle, but difficult in practice. Perhaps, once you get to the table you are well-equiped and have the respect and kudos to be heard, but you still need to get to that point and therein lies my challenge.
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