What is coaching?

Coaching is a process  which enables people to be more fulfilled in their personal and professional lives. Are you really clear what is important for your life? There is no right or wrong answer to this question. You can do what you feel drawn towards rather than what someone else has told you that you should do. Recognise that life is for living now rather than in some theoretical time in the future.

Coaching can be a useful tool to increase your commitment for change and increase your motivation. Continue reading What is coaching?

If you are considering leaving Medicine…

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Can you change your life?

After a busy night on call or an endless clinic with people making huge demands of you, you may be feeling a mixture of exhaustion, emotionally drained and wonder if you could ever make significant changes to your life and still be a doctor.

Think of your medical life as being like a spreadsheet. Just like a spreadsheet when you change one thing, since everything is interconnected and dependent on each other,everything else changes. However small the thing that changes there will be a ripple effect on other things because everything is interconnected.

Changing something in one area of your life will effect other areas of your life. You could change something at home or at work and the thing you change could be as simple as  tidying some cupboards and throwing away some clutter, those things you no longer need. Doing this  seems to create some space, not only literally physical space, but also metaphorically, emotional space. for new things to come into your life.

So if you are feeling frustrated by your lack of progress in achieving whatever it is that you want in your life, try a different approach: Continue reading Can you change your life?

Read the introduction to my new book

Read more about my latest book on www.lifeaftermedicine.co.uk For a brief taster right click here: Introduction to Life [...]

Is Medicine different?

Doctors are often told what to do next in their career progression.’You should apply for this job, rather than that job,’ colleagues may say to you, or ‘you should get that qualification, which means taking that training course,’ or ‘you won’t get anywhere these days unless you do some research.’ Continue reading Is Medicine different?