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Becoming Invisible

One of the greatest things I might have learned over the past few years (and mostly from one particular individual who I can't name here because they are and choose to be invisible) is my impending desire and work related to becoming invisible in my work.

When I started this, when I was one of four or five people in the clinic, when we were driving things forward as far and as fast as we could to establish a brand and establish a business and establish a reputation, I felt it was necessary that I was front and centre visible all the time, taking all the flak protecting everyone else, making sure that I was the screen in front of everybody, making sure that I was the one that was seen that I was the one that was out, the one who was writing or speaking or on video or lecturing to groups of people or travelling or doing this or doing that.

Now, as we reach the size of business that we are with the aspirations that we have to move forward, it becomes more and more obvious that I need to be less and less of that.

One of the greatest joys I have is to come into the practice and to see some extraordinary things happening to which I have very little attachment or involvement, to hear about people going to speak here or there, papers that are being produced and published, lectures that have been carried out in the academy that I didn't realise or just projects of development within the work which people have decided to take on because they know it will make things better.

Make no mistake—it's a double-edged sword. It's hard for your ego to accept that you're not the one who gets asked anymore, but it is inevitable and essential to getting to a better place.

Finally, I am no longer responsible for the results; I'm just responsible for the people responsible for the results.