Work Life Balance
Are you living the life you intended? “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” (Emphasis mine) ~Charles…
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Are you ready to quit your job? “When people like their lives, and that includes work life, they’ll do a better job of taking care of themselves.”~ Jeffery Pfeffer IS IT TIME TO PULL THE PLUG? Our topic today will be one that hopefully you don’t get to this point, but we’re talking…
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How to change your habits for good! “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ~John Dryden What does burnout this have to do with habits? Well about 40% of your behavior and your actions throughout the day are controlled by habitual motion or habitual process. If we’re going to talk about…
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“First Principles of Burnout” Elon Musk is a smart guy, obviously, he thought a lot about spaceships and rockets and so the first principle for him was… Why can’t we have reusable rockets and boosters? So that’s what would radically bring the cost of spaceflight down for him. For example, he likened it to the…
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“How Medical Students & Residents Avoid Burnout” I think one of the giant drivers of burnout for medical students or residents, is the fact that this it is all external. You’re required to do X, Y and Z things in medical school. You’re required as mandated to work __ number of hours as a…
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The Benefits of Practicing Gratitude Be Grateful. You may say, “How can solving all my problems be that easy? I can recover from burnout by saying thanks enough? Just be grateful? I am grateful. I say thanks to my office staff at least once a month…But I am still burned out like crazy.” Being…
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How do we take care of the caretakers who are saving our lives? -by Vince Bzdek (Originally published in “The Gazette”) Dr. Jeff Moody, a urologist, at his home in Colorado Springs in April. Studies show burnout is very high for physicians, said Moody, “and it’s up another 20% to 30% since March”…
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“How you doin’?” ~Joey Tribbiani, Friends How are YOU doing right now? Joey may have had ulterior motives when he posed this question to others, but did have his interest and intention at heart. When you are having a bad day, wouldn’t it be awesome to have someone with the heart and interest of Joey…
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How can I stop my phone addiction? “It’s 100% easier to increase your time and freedom by eliminating the dumb things you do every day than to try to be 100% more productive doing more dumb things.” Let me give you one tip that will give you at least two hours and 22…
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” —Jerome K. Jerome The Clash asked a very important question, “Should I stay, or should I go?” If you are like more than 90 percent of physicians, your work environment may be a significant or even…
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