2. Remember back when?
Before cloverleaf on-ramps
drivers merged on to a busy
highway or interstate in
much the same way they
would any road.
Look to the left, look to the right, often more than once, and when
clear, at their discretion, enter the highway. Go on, get moving . . .
3. Some drivers misjudged, weren’t paying attention, made
mistakes . . . and consequences were serious.
4. Now, the cloverleaf on-ramps are designed to prevent us from our
human errors in judgment. They are meant to nudge us in the right
direction.
5. You no longer have to look
left and right (but you
probably should, just in case).
You just get in the right
lane, enter the cloverleaf and
it routes you in the only way
you can go, onto the busy
highway. (Can’t you just see
the metaphor here?)
There’s more . . .
6. Cloverleafs are a lot like wellness, or maybe like the way wellness should
be. Our wellness cloverleafs should be designed to save us from poor
judgment, mis-judgment and our own behavioral mistakes.
Put another way, they should save us from ourselves.
7. The trick in saving ourselves from ourselves is in finding ways to
create a forgiving environment, one that steers us in the right
direction. Every element of every design has the potential to
influence our choices. Do we close our eyes, cross our fingers
and hope for the best, do we believe every advertisement we
see, or do we take what we know and apply it to making
rational, positive behavior choices? If others are doing it for us,
shouldn’t we find ways to do it for ourselves?
A parable if there ever was one.
8. This is what the LoneStart
Wellness Team Esteem Challenge
is all about—sustainable behavior
change that moves us in the right
direction.
Let us show you how your organization can work its way through
the highway of self-imposed wellness roadblocks, on-ramps, off-
ramps, and even through a few places we just shouldn’t go. And,
that’s what a cloverleaf is for—a lot more than luck.
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