Doctors excuses
When you complain that you don’t have enough time to do all the things you want to do what excuses do you make?
Maybe you say you have too much to do; you’ve just had a night on-call and you’re exhausted; there aren’t enough medical staff and you’re covering for your colleague on holiday; you just can’t get yourself and your work organised.
It’s a common challenge for doctors to find sufficient time time for all they want to do because Medicine has a habit of taking over your life and leaving very little for anything else.
So what can you do if you have a challenge with time management? You can make a huge shift and plan your day more effectively and efficiently by:
1. delegating more: those tasks that someone else could do if you teach them what to do
2. deciding to stop doing some things, for which there might no more be a need
3. doing what you have to do much more efficiently because many tasks can be streamlined.
The outcome of all of this for you will be:
• being able to leave work on time
• a greater recognition of the importance of self-care
• increasing the amount of exercise you take
• rediscovery of long forgotten hobbies
• stress levels will go down
• quality of life goes up.
You may have just read this and yet not actually do anything different and so you continue with all the negative effects of poor time management. However I’ve put together a package of audios and pdf information for you about time management called a ‘Timepack’ which can be combined with coaching sessions to really get you changing your life for the better and finding time to do so much more!!
Take a look at http://thedoctorscoach.co.uk/timepack
Plan your day and what you want to get done. Remember the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey: begin with end in mind. When you plan your desired outcome you are better abele to work out how to achieve it.
