So, it’s Thursday 9th April and we’re getting towards the third week that the Clinic has been closed.
It’s only four weeks since we had our launch night to open the new practice with some friends and local practitioners, but that seems like a world away.
Myself and all my team have worked so hard through this period, to try to get to a position of stability and to try and make some sense out of the situation in which we find ourselves in, and as it stands today I think we’ve managed that, at least to a degree.
What we really need now is some space to sit back, reflect and think about what will happen next and how we might address that in a non-panic situation with consideration and clarity.
So, for that reason and to a small extent I’m going to re-enact my sabbatical footing.
I’ll do the Chris Barrow webinar tonight and then at the end of that I’ll shut down and I won't touch anything again until Tuesday.
I’m on-call this weekend so that will have to interrupt if necessary but it’s unlikely that there will be much of anything that needs to be done and there are two people below me in the triage rota, so I should be reasonably well protected.
I’m not opening my laptop and will certainly try not to look at anything to do with the news this weekend, knowing that my kids or my wife will probably give me info on anything I need to know in decent time.
The reason this is important is that all of us need a certain amount of time stepping back from where we are, to look wider and longer, to see what might happen or to see what we might have to do away from the panic and the urgency that we have been in for the past three weeks.
To try to do the right things to get sleep, to look after ourselves and to realise that everybody is in the same boat.
It seems over the last three weeks that almost everybody wants to be a webinar expert and if they’re not a webinar expert, they want to set up a different association to get people through this, some with good intentions and some without.
It seems that everybody wants to spend as long as they possibly can on Zoom and at the end of this it would be interesting to assess after these three weeks how much progress we have actually made from the point where we close our businesses.
One of the advantages (and disadvantages) of the long game, is that it’s long and does not lend itself well to reactions every day or every hour or every minute.
Time away and out from the chatter, the madness, the noise and the information gives you an opportunity to ask yourself the question ‘what would I like?’ and ‘what is actually the worst thing that could happen?’.
Once you’ve been able to answer these questions to yourself, there is peace and you can work towards some targets and some goals for yourself or your own small bubble, instead of just being a monkey with a much, much larger and more powerful organ grinder, pushing you in a direction that you didn’t really want to go.
So, it’s digital down this weekend for four days, away, as much as possible in these circumstances from anybody else’s input and just protected in my bubble with my family, with a little bit of exercise and a little bit of contemplation until it starts again on Tuesday.
Blog Post Number - 2332
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