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False Perceptions

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 17/03/18 18:00
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I’m in the car driving to North Nottinghamshire for day 4 of a level 7 leadership course that I signed up for ages ago which seemed like a brilliant idea. 

It’s still a brilliant idea, it’s just I don’t have time for brilliant ideas at the moment.

Today’s session is Strategic Performance Review – god do I need a strategic performance review.

5 minutes ago, I finished a telephone call with a friend Jason Wong. Jason is one of the most altruistic, committed and politically active people I know in dentistry and it’s a pleasure to even get 5 minutes of his time to speak to him.

We were chatting about the usual stuff, how much, what we have, how difficult it is and how we can’t fit things in and Jason was saying that he felt that from the blog or the things that I write it looked like I had things ‘sorted’.

Believe you me, that is not the case.

My wife and I were so exhausted last Saturday night that we fell asleep on the floor of our living room and didn’t wake up until 1:30am only then having to go upstairs to the bedroom and make the bed after the sheets had been washed (don’t you hate it when that happens).

What I write about in these pages when I try to give solutions to the overwhelm, the strategies to survive and thrive, it’s never supposed to be declarations or proclamations of how right I have it because I don’t.

Following the completion of my second ‘sabbatical’, I’m now in the middle of a process of trying to lose as much fitness and gain as much weight as possible and if those are my objectives I’m doing that quite successfully.

I’m trying to balance the madness of my mind which insists on creating ideas and starting new projects left right and centre without any regard to the effect that has on my own schedule or even that on my team.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes there are flashes of light and gaps through the trees that show me just how far we’ve come and just how good things look, but most of the time it’s just turning up and doing the work hour after hour and day after day, one patient at a time, one crisis at a time.

As I was speaking to Jason this morning he was trying to get through the 200 emails that landed yesterday, and I was having a telephone call with my PA Hayley to try and ‘sort my life out’ to get the jobs off her that I need to get done by the end of the day, even though I’m supposed to be on a University course.

This is the game we choose to play.

It’s day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year and then we’re dead.

This is what we signed up for.

This is what I signed up for.

 

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