Striding into Your Future with Confidence: Leading from Within

Abstract

Our personal and professional satisfaction and fulfillment hinge on our being ourselves, which requires knowing how we as individuals function optimally. As physicians, we are highly skilled, highly educated, and trained to think for ourselves. Are we acting as authentic autonomous individuals in dealing with patients and other relationships at work and at home? Are we honoring and respecting others who are being themselves? Physician leaders should examine whether they are following their own inner authority in their professional and personal lives, or simply doing what they are told to do.