It seems like lately on Sorta Random Sunday, I’ve been recapping interesting ideas and concepts from the books that I’ve read. Anyway, I think it’s really fascinating stuff so I’m going to keep up with that trend for this week’s post too. I talked a recent Sunday about the book The One Thing. And now I’d like to talk about another incredible book, Who Not How.

The main concept of “who not how” is one that I was not very good at before. Like a lot of doctors, I’m very collaborative. But I am also a very “do-it-myself” type of person. I think we all can relate.

But over the past year, I’ve instilled the concepts of who not how into so many aspects of my life with amazing results! That includes with this blog.

The Who Not How philosophy

The whole concept of this book is that we ask ourselves the wrong question when we face a challenge.

We ask, “How can I do this?”

The premise of the book is that we should be asking, “Who can do this for me?”

At first glance, it sounds kind of manipulative. Like you are just looking for people to do your work for you.

But that is not the idea at all. In fact, we are all somebody else’s Who. And the idea is for the relationships to be mutually beneficial.

And it all ties in really nicely to the concepts that I spoke about before from The One Thing. By having Who‘s, we can outsource certain tasks so that we can more fully concentrate on our One Thing, whatever it is that we are most passionate about and will make the biggest, best difference in our lives.

Who Not How is a really great concept

Especially for doctors. If you are like me, you want to do it all. But we need to focus for success.

This is how you can navigate these competing ideals!

Examples of how I use Who Not How in my life

• My sister, Alli, helps me manage this blog and my social media
• Selenid and I send our laundry out to be cleaned and folded because we hate doing it
• We use an awesome handyman, Mike, to help fix things and update our rental properties
• We use Hemlane as an online platform to help us manage our rental properties
• Recently, we hired a part time nanny to help with childcare so Selenid and I can focus more on well-being and our businesses
• I have an awesome scheduler and patient coordinator, Jessica, at my office who maintains my daily schedule and patient communications

It’s one of my secrets

Using Who Not How strategies combined with my 4 secrets to perfect time management is how we work to align out life with our values and ideals every day!

What do you think? How can you incorporate Who Not How into your life? Have you done this already? Let me know in the comments below!