How to (almost) never have a bad shift
Walking through the sliding glass doors at 10:55pm on a Monday, I found myself wondering if it would be a good shift or a bad shift. In Emergency Medicine a “good shift” has to strike many delicate balances. It can’t be too busy, but it also can’t be too Q-Word-That-Must-Not-Be-Named. It should have some high…
How to persevere
The end of COVID is in sight but there are still months to go. Maybe you have been struggling with getting things done while working from home and de facto homeschooling your kids. Perhaps you’re feeling cooped up after a year of going only from your home to the grocery store and work. Or, maybe…
The Joy Quest
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Helen Keller At the start of this year, I decided to go on a Joy Quest. Too often, we rush from one mental worry to the next and we don’t take the time to notice, experience, and create the joy that’s…
Time management strategies with a new baby
Each of the four times I brought home a new baby I found myself wondering: What did I used to do with all my free time!? As I adjusted to the new baseline of sleepless nights and a constant awareness of “who’s watching the baby?” I wondered at how it was always possible to insert a…
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How to do things when you just don’t want to
What is it for you – the big, daunting projects, or the boring, mundane tasks? Those are the two most common things that professionals I work with procrastinate on. Sometimes it’s because they can’t muster the motivation, other times, it’s because of the fear of failure, or an avoidance of the emotions the task will…
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New Year’s Revelations
It happens every year on January 1st. We join the ranks of the New Year’s Resolutioners who sign up at a gym, vow to stop eating sweets, promise to pay our bills on time, and cross our hearts that we’ll never procrastinate again. Then by February 20th, the gyms are back to their usual patronage,…
The magic of willpower and habits
Do you ever feel so exhausted after making difficult choices or doing unpleasant tasks all day that all you can do is sit on the couch and ‘veg out’? That is a state called ego-depletion. Willpower, it turns out, is a limited commodity. When you resist temptations repeatedly, you use up your willpower. In the…
“I’ll feel more like doing this later” and other lies we tell ourselves
Procrastination means postponing things when we expect to be worse off for it. We know it would be better if we just started the report, studied for the test, sent the email, did the homework, or made the difficult phone call now. But we put them off in large part to avoid the negative emotions…
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Are you being lazy or running on empty?
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot” – Michael Altshuler Sometimes it can be hard to tell whether we’re being lazy and need to get into gear, or whether we’re truly running on empty. When you have a task you’re avoiding, and you find yourself yet again distracting yourself…
Don’t die before your time
“Despair over the brevity of our chaotic lives is common to us all, even the rich and the famous.” – Seneca What makes life short How often do you notice that minutes or hours have passed and you have wasted time that you can now never recover? How often do you listen to yourself and…
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