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You can’t always work at 100%

At placement months ago we were talking about fatigue and managing fatigue as a clinician and our supervisor said there are days we all have where we simply just aren’t all there. Whatever reason it is, be it lack of sleep, personal issues or just feeling a bit off, these days are inevitable.

No matter how well we schedule our lives or how productive our habits are, we all have days where we feel bad. Our supersivor said it’s important to permit yourself to give 70% some days, because that means you’re able to recover and get back to giving 100% quicker.

Today is one of those days for me, I’m just feeling a bit all over the place today and rather than beat my head against a wall trying to get stuff done, I’m just going to chill out and recharge for tomorrow. These days are important and shouldn’t be a source of angst or produce a feeling of failure

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’m still very new to the job and because of that I had what he called “new grad energy” and wasn’t jaded by the system yet. I don’t think that putting in effort to the patients and your job should be something out of the ordinary, it shouldn’t be something the diminishes over time, if it does you’re likely just in the wrong job.