All of last week I was chasing my tail trying to finish loads of clinical tasks that have just started to build up over a very busy couple of weeks.
We have a truly extraordinary system at the clinic designed and concepted by Carl Dunstan who took some of the tech that we already had and just logically placed it in order.
And so, any clinical task that I have that I don’t get to immediately goes on the Dentally task list which is dated and prioritised and can be reallocated to other people.
Anybody that I need to talk to about that I can tell on Slack and I can dial in to my system easily from the shed in the garden and report scans or plan cases or finish case notes or letters or any of that stuff.
And so, on Thursday morning before I went out to watch the Tour of Britain, I emptied my list.
And so, although there were 1 or 2 things still sat in my list, they were dated for later and don’t have to be done now (and you never need to get to those early) and so it was clear and then I was anxious.
Over the past 30 years I have been conditioned to run behind with all my tasks all of the time while striving to develop a system where I was never behind on my tasks.
Now I find situations where if I’m not behind on my tasks I feel like I’m letting people down or I’m not busy enough or it’s too quiet or we’re all going to die.
It would take another half a lifetime to get used to a different set up, but I think it’s worth the attempt.
Careful what you wish for.
We have this extraordinary system which helps me keep up in a way that I’ve never been able to keep up before, but I evolved into a different being and now I have to evolve again.
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