This week has been my ‘holiday week’.
I'm 54 now, though, and my youngest child is 18 and sitting his A levels.
I instinctively booked off a half-term holiday, where in fact I wasn't needed in any way for childcare or support or travel with the family or anything like that, and therefore I had some space and some open space that I didn't really know what to do with.
Going back to my previous blog recently about ‘wasting days’, I've been able to do a little bit of that, a lot of training (relative to me), and I've come and seen some patients on Wednesday.
What I've managed to do, though, is get ahead of myself just a little bit, and so the tasks that run behind, which need to be done and the lists which are there are now dropping down quite low, and now my world is open, at least for a few days, and so the question is what to do with that.
This is where the real discipline begins. I will have space tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, where I have just a bit of room to work on things that I really want to work on going forward.
This is the real work, this is the magic, this is the non-urgent, important.
The question is, will I be disciplined enough to do it, or will I sit in front of a box set, eat chocolate, or generally just waste my time?
Over the next 3 or 4 days, I could do some fantastic things, watch this space. I think this is the discipline of a professional (if I can possibly have it) to be able to use the space you've created to do something better.
Blog Post Number - 4556
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