Our family eat a lot of fresh fruit, so, as is typical after a big shop at the markets the Esky came in as temporary overflow. I was digging through the Esky to find an avo for guacamole and saw that 4(!) punnets of raspberries which we bought for Christmas Day pavlova had quite significantlyContinue reading “Blame.”
My lessons from 400 hours of clinical placement
Last week I finished my final year placements, 400 hours of them. This was a massive relief and burden lifted off my shoulders because I was there from 9-5 four days a week, which is a lot when you’re not getting paid. During this time I learned a lot, and not just about being anContinue reading “My lessons from 400 hours of clinical placement”
Meditation and the half-life of your emotions
I’ve been doing Sam Harris’ Waking Up course on meditation on and off for several weeks but regularly for the last week and a concept that he has continued to return to is identifying your emotions and observing them. He does this by encouraging you to imagine a situation which made you angry, or sad,Continue reading “Meditation and the half-life of your emotions”
2020 in Review, A Great Year for Me
2020 has been a very tumultuous year, but it’s been a year of tremendous growth for me. The reason I’ve decided to share this is, it can be very easy to feel like you haven’t achieved anything, especially when looking at it day to day because you don’t see the progress you have made. RomeContinue reading “2020 in Review, A Great Year for Me”
The Yearly Review
I’ve talked previously about the power of the weekly review, looking back at your week and seeing how it was. Today I did my yearly review, looking back on my goals for the year and grading myself on how I went. I would also reflect on the goals and justify to myself the grade IContinue reading “The Yearly Review”
New Grad Energy
I was discussing with a friend about my time at one of my placements in a mental health ward and I was talking about how much I cared about the patients and was passionate about helping them and how it was sad to be leaving them. He mentioned that I was like that because I’mContinue reading “New Grad Energy”
Rain Drops: Prose
Just as rain does, a million small things by chance, combine with one another to create something new, something big. billions of tiny droplets swirl around in the sky. Thrust around by the winds and pressures, without any control over their fate. The droplets just float along as they must. Going up and down, leftContinue reading “Rain Drops: Prose”
Not drinking at parties
In the past I’ve often gone out to drinks with friends without the intention to drink and I’ll often get just one drink. I have recently been thinking about this and wondered why I just have one drink because I don’t necessarily really enjoy the drink. I’m not drinking to get drunk (obviously) but I’mContinue reading “Not drinking at parties”
Helping others
I was listening to episode 483 of the Tim Ferriss show with Jim Collins. They discussed how the best lives are ones with good relationships. Further than that, when talking about MBA’s and a group of cadet’s they mentioned (anecdotally) that the happiest people were those who helped out their classmates, and this really resonatedContinue reading “Helping others”
Social accountability
At the start of November I saw a friend post on Facebook and Instagram that he’d be doing a walk along the beach at a set time every morning, and anyone was welcome to come along. I saw this an my first reaction was wow that’s bold he’s going to be walking a lot onContinue reading “Social accountability”
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