Patient #1.
That’s you.
The person you see in the mirror as soon as you get up in the morning and right before you go to bed at night.
You know this person, inside and out.
You know her history, her presenting complaints, her aspirations, financial situations and social complications.
Imagine if you weren’t allowed to treat patients 2 through 20 today, until you had completely taken care of the needs of patient #1.
What would that look like?
Maybe treating Patient #1 would require you to stop treating all the others.
Maybe taking care of Patient #1 would cause you to change your daily, weekly and monthly schedule.
Maybe taking care of Patient #1 would require lifestyle and career changes to give you the leverage you need to focus solely on helping Patient #1.
Maybe taking care of Patient #1 would mean changing your business model, where you don’t need to treat Patients 2 through 20 in order to get paid enough to kind of take care of Patient #1.
Maybe taking care of Patient #1 would mean that schools would have to focus on empowering their students with the skills, mindset and financial literacy to be able to take care of Patient #1 long before they leave school.
If you had to properly take care of Patient #1 before you were allowed to help Patients 2 through 20, how would you do it?
Take care of Patient #1.
Because when you do, you’ll find you’ve inadvertently helped take care of the rest of us who see the transformation in Patient #1’s life.
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