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I’m up way earlier than usual. That’s because I had surgery scheduled – but it’s postponed… because the patient’s family couldn’t locate a blood donor!
On hearing the news, we had no choice but to call off the proposed operation for now. 15 minutes later, I get a phone call from one of the family. It appears they have found a donor who is willing to give a unit of blood!
Here’s the interesting bit. This patient has been waiting for an operation for over a week. But until now, no effort had been made to find the single donor required.
But when surgery was cancelled, they swung into action – and produced results in just 15 minutes!
Only when something important to us is at stake do we get moved into shifting inertia.
Inertia is the happy state of things as they were – at rest or in constant motion. Change out of inertia is painful, disruptive.
So we resist making it.
Until inertia itself becomes more painful – and change, painful though it is, seems the better alternative.
Are you going to go out and find your ‘blood donor’ today? Or will you wait until ’surgery is cancelled’?
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