work-life balance « The Doctors Coach

Who do you get support from?

Counsellors are always supported by regular supervision form someone there to help them to sort out what issues come up for them are to do with the client and what is their own stuff. Once you’ve experienced this support, it is difficult to know how you managed without it. It is not to do with [...]

Doctor, start to look after yourself!

Now is the right time to improve the quality of your life so that you have time for family as well as patients. More time to enjoy being away from work doing things you haven’t done for years, like going for a walk, a cycle ride, reading a book, painting, writing, any other almost forgotten [...]

Look after yourself as well as your patients

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Look after yourself as well as your patients
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Time management tip: to-do list

Time management is one of the challenges of modern day living. One way to organise your time more effectively is by writing down your to-do list.
Notice I used the words: ‘write down.’ Some people believe so long as you keep what needs to be done in your head you can easily get everything done.
But you [...]

Stress management metaphor

Stress management is about lightening an unwanted heavy load. When you carry a lot of stress around with you all day you might talk of having a ‘load on your mind.’
Imagine if your worries were rocks which you carried in a rucksack on your back and every time you met put another [...]

Get things done

Sometimes you may feel as if you are being consumed by all the things you have to do: as if “Medicine’ is eating you up!
If you have a long list of things you want to get done on your ‘to do’ list, which never seems to get any smaller, you could try this easy way [...]

Prescription for doctors who want more time

Reclaim time for yourself, during evenings and weekends – you are important and having time for yourself is vital. So when you begin to free up time set goals just for you, and do things you’ve missed while you’ve been so busy.
Speed up tasks by making simple changes -even quite simple changes will make a [...]

Work life balance: what can you do?

Sometimes, being a doctor and trying to find a good work life balance can seem to be not only impossible to achieve but also very stressful. Both you and others may wonder how you keep going with so much to do and so little time to do it. It seems as though having managing [...]

Improve your time management skills

Are you overwhelmed with the amount of work you have to do in your day to day life as a doctor? Delegating is OK in theory but sometimes you find yourself doing jobs which are not really in your remit. It’s too easy to start to feel sorry for other members of the team who [...]

Stop Procrastination

Medicine can take over your life so that you find you are putting off doing important things in your life until some mythical time when you’re not so busy. However small the first step, decide what it is, and do it. Once you start a task it’s easier to continue.
Yes of course [...]

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