You become what you surround yourself with and it’s important to remember that if you can.
I’ve worked in many places throughout my career, some of them absolutely terrible and some better but never have I worked in a place like the place I work in now.
This week, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were mental clinically and even at the back end of the week I’m trying to catch up with the clinical notes from earlier on and all the admin and the tasks that are created with the amount and volume of work that we have to look after, but the back end of the week is non-clinical, with meetings and discussions and opportunities and any number of amazing things.
The atmosphere at our work is fabulous and is one of real collaboration and team engagement and friendship and fun and support and of course with all of that description, there is a danger that it will become even better than being at home.
The time we spend at home is a choice and the amount of time we spend at work is ultimately a choice.
While there are obviously many people in terrible situations who have no choice, the majority of people reading this blog absolutely have a choice about where they work and when they work and how they work.
Even if you think you don’t, it’s probably because you’re married to a lifestyle which you could obviously change or reduce or alter, to allow you to work in a different way or a different place.
When we make our work better than our home (or more often than that, build a narrative that our work is better than our home). There is a significant danger that we don’t want to go home.
It’s why I have all of these phrases and handles and hooks to hold onto, to try to maintain the principles that I set a long time ago.
“Your work exists to give you the life you want”.
When I began the project of building the new practice, I tried to be as open and honest as I could about what I expected it would take (although Alison will tell you that the sun always shines in my world), I didn’t build it to be here at the expense of my family or my wife, I built it to be part of the balance that I build between the two.
I’ll never achieve that balance, at least not for very long anyway but I'll never, never stop trying.
Blog Post Number - 2740
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