“Successful people make it their business to hold ideals of the conditions they wish to realize. They constantly hold in mind the next step necessary to the ideal. Thoughts are the materials with which they build, imagination is their workshop, and mind is the moving force that brings together the people and circumstances needed to build their structure of success.” — Master Key, Point 24
When Calm Becomes the Strongest Driver
This week was full of events, yet I moved through each day calmly and deliberately the only approach that made sense. Any unrest would have disrupted the entire structure.
At work, I spent the whole weekend completing a project that started as nothing more than an idea last year: a fully photocatalytic-coated operating room. A wonderful opportunity and one that requires an enormous amount of work.
We are the first to coat an OR with photocatalytic pigments and to apply a self-disinfecting coating to all surfaces. The window coating lasts until the windows are replaced, the wall coating lasts five years, and the device coating lasts one year.
This brings massive resource savings and is naturally environmentally friendly. A true game changer in the world of hygiene.
Developing the product in Austria, convincing hospital management and the heart surgeon to test it, installing everything this weekend and now the measurements and analyses will follow. There has been plenty of resistance.
New approaches are often suspected the moment anything isn’t perfect. Groups behave much like inner systems: change triggers pushback.
Fortunately, I’m more relaxed now and can respond to concerns and accusations with understanding. The project is up and running and I suspect it can no longer be stopped.
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I’m practicing being present, which isn’t always easy for the ego, sometimes I would much rather hide. Whenever things get uncomfortable, I have to remind myself to stay with it until it gets easier.❤️
Thank you as well! With the MKE I’m much more in the flow, and I now understand why it’s so important to do the work and stay with it… wonderful!
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What an incredible achievement — and even more powerful is the calm, grounded strength you carried through it all Dorothea, bravo!!
Your steady presence didn’t just move the project forward; it held the space for it to succeed. That kind of quiet confidence is inspirational.
What great momentum you are creating.
Congrats on your project Dorothea! Any pushback gives you another chance for thoughts, imagination and mind needed for success.
Dorothea, your article gave me goose bumps as you are visibly achieving one of your dearest DMP goals, this is just fantastic! Your trust in Charles Haanel’s Master Key is a great investment (Haanel was a great business man too) and is obviously reinforcing your inner trust and self confidence. Keep your focus, you are on your way to greatness! Thanks for this inspiring post!
The ups and downs of growth haha 🙂 You are winning!
Thank you Candy! I am excited to be able to do this, but also a bit tired. In the meantime, I sometimes ask myself why I’m putting myself through all of this, with all the difficulties that are sure to come 😅…
You perfectly captured the challenge of introducing something new. Calm persistence wins. Congratulations on this amazing achievement.
WOW Dorthea, This is sooooo cool!! What an incredible forefront leading project to be a part of!! Fantastic to see it all come together now.