I am accused regularly of enthusiasm. I am accused often of over enthusiasm. I love enthusiastic people.
I tend to see the good in everybody (well almost everybody) and I see the opportunities in everything. Sometimes that drives the people around me nuts because it means that I run from here to there and everywhere. I love enthusiastic things and enthusiastic people.
I encounter these people everywhere and they inspire me completely. My wife is a paediatric outreach oncology nurse (poon) this is similar to a Macmillan nurse and she deals with children who are very poorly and sometimes terminally ill. She is brilliant at her job: she exudes enthusiasm, she is passionate about looking after the people she cares for and the money that she gets for her job is entirely secondary to the level of expertise and service she provides.
Recently we were able to treat ourselves to a meal at Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’ restaurant in Cornwall when we were on holiday. We were served that night by a waiter called Alex, he exuded enthusiasm about his job. He was absolutely passionate about what he was doing and we entered into a wonderful conversation about his work. As he presented the things we were eating to us he was hugely energetic and passionate about what he was doing and I love to see that.
I always like to take these experiences and see how I can bring them back to the business that we have and the most important enthusiastic person we have at the practice should be the TCO. The treatment co-ordinator will be the first point of contact for many of our patients as we move into a new era of dentistry and they must be as enthusiastic as Alison my wife, or Alex at ‘Fifteen’.
As I get older and suffer fools less gladly, I gravitate towards enthusiastic people.
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