Most of this weeks blogs have been written while I’m on holiday in Northumberland at a place we know very well, staying in a house with 12 of our family with all mod cons including a hot tub and a gate onto the golf course at the back. It’s funny though how it takes ‘getting away from it all’ to re-set your focus and realign your dial.
Why should it be that way? Why can’t we do this when we’re at home?
It seems easier this time for me to just switch off entirely and I think that that is a residue from the sabbatical where I now have a place in my head that allows me to creep into and forget everybody else. Callum and I arrived on Friday afternoon but Alison and the girls won’t make it here until Saturday night (a major horse event getting in the way) but we’ve had the perfect day today, walking the dogs on the beach, chilling out, playing a little bit of golf and sitting in the hot tub chatting to each other.
The problem is that even though i’m relaxed and feel great already after 24 hours here I have one eye on next week which is utterly mental. Bank Holiday Monday - ride the bike a long way, Tuesday - an all day surgery session at the practice which inevitably will have cases that are very difficult combined with a marketing meeting in the practice into better order. Wednesday – an all day Master Class with Prof John Gibson on medicines related to dentistry with an ITI Study Club in the evening on consent in implant dentistry. Don’t forget that night we also have a friendly with the 9 year olds football team that I run for Callum which I have to sneak in between the Master Class and the ITI Study Club. Thursday is a full day in the practice with second consultations which are really important and when patients either take their treatment on or don’t. Friday is teaching all day on cadaver heads in Coventry on our sinus grafting course followed by two pretty difficult live surgery cases on Saturday. Somewhere along the line I will have to ride my bike and on Sunday I need a decent bike ride. Alison’s week next week will be no less mental.
These rough weeks come; it’s not that anything in that week is bad; it’s just too much of the good. I am not filtering out the opportunities well enough and not controlling the diary from a longer way out.
It’s become totally apparent to me that what I need to do from now on is look at a week that I think is reasonable and take 25% off it. It’s like booking trouble appointments into your book or admin sessions into your week. 75% of crazy is a lot less crazy than 100% of crazy.
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