Thanks for the thoughts from  _How to Become a Successful Consultant in Your
Own Field_ ,Terriann. I've been thinking about "compliance" a lot lately,
since I'm going through some physiotherapy for a shoulder and elbow injury.
The physio has repeatedly given me some exercises to do each day, and I'm
struggling to do any, let alone the number and frequency she's suggesting.
I'm simply not particularly motivated to do all these exercises, despite the
fact that I desperately want to start swimming again (but obviously not
desperately enough!). I'm definitely not drinking from the "stream of
expertise," and I AM having trouble with change, since the exercises take
too much time and are a hassle to try to do.

So, I guess I shouldn't be totally surprised when all my wonderful ideas and
suggestions to mothers having problems aren't seized upon immediately. This
experience has also told me that keeping ideas simple and having them
written down make a big difference, since the exercise routine that I
received with pictures and verbal descriptions are at least being done more
often than the ones that were just demonstrated and discussed verbally. I
need written back-up, and I think most mothers probably do, too.


>"* We are paid for advice given, not advice taken.
>
>*  We can only be running streams of expertise.  We can force no client
>to drink from that stream.
>
>* The most difficult concept for a client to accept is change: and change
>is what the consultant is retained to accomplish.
>
>*  Fifty percent of all clients take the advice they pay for.  Of that,
>only 50 poercent of the advice is implemented.  So consequence can only
>result from 25 percent of the consultant's total endeavor."


Leslie Ayre-Jaschke, BEd, IBCLC
Peace River, Alberta, Canada