On The Edge With April Mahoney

Youtube https://youtu.be/BepLMqM6J5w Meet Mel-https://www.melthackercoaching.com The Power of Belief When I was 13 years old, I decided I was going to become a surgeon. I knew it with such conviction that there was no other option for me but to take action to realize that dream. Despite having no exposure to the medical field, despite growing up in poverty reliant on food stamps and government assistance, despite finding myself temporarily homeless at age sixteen--despite all these seemingly insurmountable obstacles--I made it happen. Because the only things that mattered were my DESIRE and my BELIEF. I desired to become a surgeon, and I believed I could achieve that goal. Everything else was just drama and obstacles. For the first 7 years of my career I thought I was okay, but I wasn't. Burnout is an insidious thing, and surgeons are trained to tolerate prolonged discomfort. Part of the problem was that I hadn't defined “success” for myself. My automatic brain told me I should be satisfied with performing s