{"id":8766,"date":"2017-06-09T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2017-06-07T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T17:37:44","slug":"why-you-need-a-pre-performance-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/06\/09\/why-you-need-a-pre-performance-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you need a pre-performance routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As he moves toward the OR, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/why-you-need-pre-performance-routine-daniel-mcginn\">McLaughlin is running through a precise series of thoughts and visualizations<\/a>, which he calls the Five Ps. First is a <strong>Pause<\/strong>: He tries to forget what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happened earlier in the day and focus only on the present. Next, he thinks deeply about the <strong>Patient<\/strong>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a seventy-three-year-old man, and we need him to come out of this pain-free and able to walk more easily,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says to himself. He reviews his <strong>Plan<\/strong>, mentally rehearsing the surgery step-by-step. Then he offers some <strong>Positive<\/strong> thoughts: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You were put on this Earth to do this operation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says. Finally, as he steps toward the table, he says a quick <strong>Prayer<\/strong>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very ritualistic, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very focused,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back when I had to do Friday night maintenance work as a GeorgiaVIEW database administrator, I had something like this. I would do the Pause to quiet my mind to become fully present. Then I would think about the systems involved. Then I would mentally step through the plan for the maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he moves toward the OR, McLaughlin is running through a precise series of thoughts and visualizations, which he calls the Five Ps. First is a Pause: He tries to forget what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happened earlier in the day and focus only on the present. Next, he thinks deeply about the Patient. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a seventy-three-year-old man, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgiaview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2ho","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}