Day 148/365 of my #365vocation journey. This is about integrating my work and social life with my values & creating a #career unique, and meaningful for me, for the rest of my working and personal life! Today I’m at the #gp annual #conference and met the legend herself Dr Clare Gerarda - the previous chair of the @royalcollegeofgps 🙌🏾 Dr Gerarda gave a great talk about EXPECTING #burnout in the course of your professional life, so that you can better manage it!
Day 139/365 #365vocation Incredible #plantbased talk. I try to be as #dynamic and #versatile of a doctor as I can, so that I can give patients ideas on how they can make #healthier choices. This isn’t about ‘becoming’ plant based / vegan/ vegetarian/ abstaining/denying. It’s about providing information and choice. I’ve noticed that the first step sometimes is just being mindful that you have #choice. If you can exert your will over that, in the direction that FEELS GOOD FOR YOU (and that will look different to everyone), now that builds #confidence and with that comes #power 🙌🏾
Day 138 or is it 139 😳 of my #yearlong vocation challenge..looking back at yesterday spending time with my #bestfriend, #family and #drinkingtoomuch 😂..cue #coffeeshop therapy for today. Lovey #brunch, now getting ready to go to a talk entitled: ‘can a Plant-Based diet save modern civilisation’. I’m going to this talk because I’m interested in lifestyle medicine, and ways that being thoughtful about how you fuel ⛽️ your body, engage your mind and move your body, can prevent and curb many diseases and conditions. I’m interested in what everyone has to say about the subject and also about acquiring information that helps create a niche career for me within medicine that helps me impart the knowledge i gain from everywhere and everyone to help in my small way. I’m a year and a day older and my path towards forging a career that is unique and fitting for me continues #365vocation 🙌🏾☺️
125/365 #365vocation Taking up new #hobbies 🙌🏾 Did you know that engaging hobbies in some studies have shown to help increase #productivity in some #professions at #work ? Check out #nature article for more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05449-7 Personal story: when I started my #medical #training @cambridgeuniversity (long story for another time) beforehand I bought this guitar from Brighton.. almost 2 decades later I’m picking it up! My brother Steve always said to stick at my instruments. I learnt piano and #flute in boarding school but when gcse exams came around, they were the first pastimes to go..I know he’d be happy to know I’m picking up the #guitar 🙌🏾❤️ #pasttimes #siblings 🎸
Day 98 #365vocation Really been struggling with my #energylevels post exam. Why is it that during times of low energy I just want to stay in bed, but when I do that I inevitably feel worst, but better when I #run, #walk a bit, #exercise ..tend to my to-do list 😱, meditate, do yoga 🧘🏾♀️, house chores, that new house that needs renovation 😱, sit (after getting myself off couch/bed) with loved ones - indeed, do ANYTHING that doesn’t involve lying supine? There’s levels to this tiredness stuff-sometimes it’s physical, emotional, avoidance, mental health, apathy..and sometimes laziness. I think the exam gave me some semblance of routine that energised me & now I have to re-jig things again. Will re-group with myself, keep #smiling & figure out what’s really needed in the moment. Xxx P.s. how are you guys? ☺️
Day 91 #365vocation. Ok, so I sat the exam. I can never tell how they go before you ask-BUT-I can say that as always I’m deeply moved by all the #wellwishes from you all. Ta very much! In the run up to said exam, I took a few short #walks, and these are some shots that much like yourselves, got me through. Hope your all well & like the #scroll through of random #pictures from the #streets of #london that I just happened to pound over the last 24 hours ☺️.
Day 90 #365vocation. Day before #exam. Felt this #coffee shot from yesterday was most apt. I haven’t had a cup yet and I’m parched for the #caffeine that only those coffee grounds can bring! Wishing everyone due to sit #akt exam (part of the exam process that enables doctors to become general practitioners/family doctors/community doctors-you get the drift) tomorrow #goodluck. Indeed anyone who has an exam coming up - all the bloody best 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. Keep cool headed-a few rounds of #deepbreathing really does wonders for some regarding this; get some sleep the night before (I say that wishing I could say ‘good sleep’ but I’ve sat enough exams to know I’m currently not wired that way but ‘ZZZZ’-up if you are!); eat slow energy releasing foods prior - especially for those long arse exams - my biggest worry is I’m going to get hungry half way through! #enjoytheride #doctorsofinstagram #doctors
Day 89 #365vocation. Can’t really enjoy the #fruitsoflife if your not taking care of your #body ! You don’t have to take care of it like this - you can choose what suits you, but choose! Pick one thing damnit! 😊 #physicalwellness #mentalhealth #physicalhealth #functionaltraining
Day 88 #365vocation. Finally made it out of the house. Struggled with momentum this weekend but thinking to myself - at least I had an epic night of sleep-better to have a slower few days now than in the 48 hours before the #exam ..forever the #optimist 😂..but seriously..there’s no point in my mind pursuing unhelpful thoughts -I’ve got nothing to lose about meeting everything with the #mindset of ‘how can I make this work for me?’. Focusing on my #hopes rather than my #fears ☺️ #sitwithit
Day 87 #365vocation. I’m ready for the #weekend 🙌🏾. What a week! Think I maxed my body out with #exercising (hard! 💪🏾) daily for the last 7 days so today was #stretching & just taking an incredibly ridiculous time moisturising my feet 🦶! I kid you not I must have been at it for an hour and felt heavenly ☺️. I think investing time moisturising my feet has been a trick I clearly missed. #selfpampering always-find the time to do likewise ☺️
Day 86 #365vocation 🙌🏾 This challenge so far is about integration-being able to navigate days where #work & #play can be achieved in the same day, the same breath even. With that said, it’s made me have an even richer experience of the work that I do. When I work, targeting the end goals & principles I live by through the work makes it easier & also more of an expression of what I bring to the profession. In addition it’s made me delve further into my own #wellbeing -both physical and mental & it’s actually made me have some semblance of a routine (I thought the day would never come! 😂). With that being said I found that linking timetabled fitness (eg through a class) to get up and out of the door is a more motivating factor than anything else so I’ve joined up for the 2 week trial @f45_training 🙌🏾. Thanks @realyogadoctor for introducing me to it! I have you to thank for any #gains I acquire 💪🏾
On my #walk today I passed this #park. It was opened in the 1990s to honour the life and work of Dr Harold Moody, a doctor and activist born in the 19th century, in 1882/thereabouts. I since read that after studying #medicine @kings_college_london he wasn’t able to secure employment - racism was particularly rife, & so he set up his own practice. His accomplishments and that of his family (his son became only the 2nd black commissioned officer in the British army) are exceptional at such a trying time to advance for minority groups. He not only campaigned for black individuals but also was vocal against the persecution of those of Jewish decent. Looking around there is so much to be inspired by. Every profession has people in them that go beyond their role/job & touch other areas. Part of having a vocation, to me enables your vision to have a wider scope that anyone of us can tap into when you find your work’s purpose unique to you. Suddenly things get done despite obstacles, ground is broken & ceilings are cracked. #365vocation #doctorsofinstagram #doctors @melanin_n_medicine @melaninmedics @acma_kcl
Day 85 #365vocation. It’s 5:59am in the 🇬🇧 and I’m already thinking of #homous #sandwiches & #cider 😂 Anyone else ruled by their #gut ? I swear my day is ruled around #mealtimes ☺️. I think I tend to eat more when I’m #working / #revising. Some people eat less..I gorge! 😂 Xx #food #foodie #eating
Day 82 #365vocation Yesterday work wise didn’t go as planned -rather than lamenting over it (as I have been 😂..) I’m going to make it work for me by going harder in these last 9 days before the next #examination. So it’s about:- -focusing on what I can do -focusing on what I’ve already achieved .. ..someone please remind me if I falter! Also #goodluck to everyone who is preparing for exams after Easter break! 🙌🏾🤓 #mondaymotivation #bankholiday
Day 81 #365vocation #spinach pancakes for #fuel today, which helped me grapple with #neurology study. #coffee & lots of #water to wash it all down. #walk (& #hiitworkout -photo not included, but I looked something like this: 😵.. & 😳) 😂. Keeping it well and truly ticking over. Enjoy the day! Xx
Day 80 #365vocation This is my favourite type of #advertising ..slopped on a mirror, wall, or tree - outdoors/in a cafe so I can stumble across it..call me #nostalgic ☺️. I also think the things I’m most attracted to will be found in these places-your more likely to hear about the #vinyl thrift popup, the walking meditation/local acoustic nights in the local cafe / along these walks (well in south london anyway). Thinking of all this as I glance up from my ‘access to health records act 1990’ #reading 😱. Did you know that in the access to health records act, access to medical notes should be provided within 40 days of a written request? Now if your talking medical reports eg for insurance purposes, the access to medical reports act of 1988 covers that & patients have 21 days to review the report.. oh sheesh..welcome to my morning! 😴🤪🤓. Hope your all well! ❤️
Day 79 #365vocation. If I’m not physically at my best I’m not going to do my best work, so this #vocation journey means a lot of physical as well as mental exercise. I have some time off for #exam preparation & I’m finding if I start my day with #exercise I’m going to be more in a headspace to do work. I haven’t always got the time to do longer runs so I’ve been doing shorter runs in the mainstay for the last couple of months. Going on short runs is great for that endorphin high and to get me more energised, but going on longer runs teaches me my limits and shows me whether I can breakthrough them or not. I nicknamed them ‘breakthrough opportunities ‘, where you don’t feel like going on but you do. Today I kept on when my body didn’t want to and a few minutes later I felt fine again-those few minutes of wanting to quit were just fleeting. So much about physical activity mirrors life and has a lot to teach us outside of the physical benefits. 🙌🏾☺️🏃🏾♀️💪🏾 #running #breakthrough
Day 77 #365vocation Whilst #studying to prepare for the #aktexam was a struggle this weekend, my partner clearly noticed and surprised me with this card and #fridgemagnet 🙌🏾 Such a #surprise - now have it around my laptop to keep #motivation high. The #littlethings scream loudest. Happy #monday 🤪☺️😊💪🏾❤️
Day 76 #365vocation Ok, so yesterday turned out to be a no work whatsoever day. Playing catch up, with a glass of Austrian #redwine & #noregrets re: yesterday. Happy #sunday. Rest if you need to, work if you should. 🤪☺️❤️ #weekend #studygram
Day 75 #365vocation #chocolate & #multicolorpens. Been a slow work day. Spent most of the day in bed with #rawchocolate ..and some #wine ☺️..going to put the pen to use later though-so a power hour before an early night, in preparation for an early start tomorrow. Onwards and upwards 🙌🏾
Day 73 #365vocation Woke up 5am ish, couldn’t get back to sleep and felt rested (who am I kidding 😏..no, at the time I did 😲) and just picked up a chapter on administration for general practice. Most (myself included) will tell you that that doesn’t make for hair prickling reading, but at that time cuddled up in bed, low lighting, birds waking up too with their chirps, my partner next to me snoozing still..it was palatable, quite pleasant. I didn’t feel the frenzied palpitations of ‘having to get down to it!’ and just did it. #meditated ..showered, opted to walk to the cafe to continue studying (‘day off’ - there ain’t none..) and just stumbled on loveliness along the way..these shots don’t do the perceived justice they deserve that my eyes saw, but just something to remember the day by. Feeling good. Mid afternoon and no afternoon slump as yet. Just sitting a bit before starting again. #studygram #breakitup #walks #vintagecars
Day someday #365vocation. Just saw #mid90s ..wanted to see it sooner but couldn’t. By chance showing tonight @picturehouses .. Catch this anywhere you can if your into #skateboard culture, #hiphop culture, #the90s / just movies with a gorgeous scenic city vibe, with a #comingofage nostalgic feel. @sunnysuljic is epic in it, as are all the young adults who make up the script. Na’kel Smith who acts as Ray is an effortless actor, who sensitively tells of grief and loss with no words. Just what I needed post endocrinology, haematology and some medical statistics thrown in for sauce 😬. Felt well deserved. What did u think of it?
Day 71 #365vocation Felt like a second cup of coffee, but instead went for an hour long #walk instead. Feel #exercised #relaxed and finally #awake 🙌🏾 Now for a bath then #renalmedicine and #haematology ..I’m going in 💪🏾
Day 70 #365vocation .. #goodnews .. I #passed my #csa🙌🏾 This vocation malarkey is working-putting in the time in your work and changing your relationship with how u see your work yields #results 💪🏾 #thankyou for all your well wishes. Still have one more exam to go in 4 weeks time-keep those fingers and toes crossed 🤞🏾 and the good vibes coming! Right back at yah! ☺️ ❤️
Today is day 67 #365vocation. This is my post #run #sweaty mug! Felt energised afterwards, and now having a lunch time energy low 🥴..was hoping to go for a walk but not wearing the shoes for the rain (and don’t fancy doing clinic in the afternoon in wet pumps 😂). After work will get a lie down before hitting revision-think that’s how I’m going to be kind to my body & mind today. Know when it’s time to #gohard and know when it’s time to #gohome ..both strategies in balance can secure the goal in the end <~~note to self (..and anyone else this resonates with.. ☺️). Xx
Day 59 #365vocation .. been awhile since I did a #throwbackthursday. This was last week. A good 30 minutes before I went in for the #csa #exam. Hands sweaty, and barely managing to keep my right hand straight for the shot 😆. The toughest thing about the exam was the time pressure-much like real life general practice.. can you achieve the clinical needs of the patient, as well as address their concerns, perhaps also unhelpful health beliefs, opportunistically see ways of promoting health appropriately, and manage them safely according to latest #guidelines, with compassion, in those precious 10 minutes?! Want to say a massive, humongous #thankyou for all your well wishes. Next exam some 6 weeks away. #itdoesntstop 😬
#365vocation .. #day who cares! Headed off to bed, making changes with how I react to perceived unpleasant things whether that be #feelings or #tasks, we all experience but would rather not. #feelsgood #healthylifestyle Caption courtesy of @headspace team, no afilli xx
Day 56 #365vocation 🙌🏾. Now #revising for next exam. Took a #stroll and #looked at the #moon from different #perspectives ☺️ #hospital #library is packed tonight..I counted 10 hospital #workers flicking through the books, preparing for various assignments and exams.. the #nhs stays working 🙌🏾
The eve before my #csa #exam. Here is the last 24 hours in #pictures 😆🥴😫😂😬. Here goes! #wishmeluck #365vocation (..day 50-something) .. #examfever .. Time for bed 🛌. Xx 😚
#monday #meditation Amazing how we can go through our days just reacting to feelings and thoughts and other people’s activities without having a handle on what specifically we’re reacting to within ourselves. 3 days until my #csa #exam, finding time away from specific revision, through eg #exercise, meditating, going for a walk, listening to other people’s battles, actually is part of my process of preparation as much as the formal revision. #slept a lot this weekend-saw it as part of preparing for the exam rather than ‘dead’ time. #thoughts ? Xx
Day 49 #365vocation #examfever in full effect.. looking at #diabetes #guidelines tonight. Thinking of how I can #improve my practice, the management of my #patients, and not just getting the #grades.. that’s the #motivation 🙌🏾
Day 45 #365vocation ..and this was #yesterday. Thanks @gpnotebook2019 for an informative course 🙌🏾 #passion #learning #growth #growthmindset #dyslexicdoctor
Day 39 #365vocation Thought I’d share this from my #meditation today from @headspace (no affili! ☺️). We all at some point get anxious-what we do with that feeling can be the difference between the feeling submerging us and sinking our day, or just a passing moment. Same with any feeling that may feel unwanted/undesirable-anger, frustration, sadness, etc. Of course when we feel these things we often feel overwhelmed by them. To be able to just take a step back and reclaim the moment takes practice and #awareness..and never appears to feel easy at the time dang it! 😫. That’s why, I’m trying (TRYING!) to have staples that keep me #resilient ..whether the day goes well or not, I’ve found that if I have certain routines that I do no matter what, whatever comes seems more manageable. Hope your all well! I’ve been fighting a cough and just starting to feel myself again 🙌🏾 So that means I have an evening planned with my books on my #csa #revision #mission 🤞🏾🤞🏾 #persistence
Day 34 #365vocation First #run of the week🙌🏾 Now for a shower, food, then #revision. #try #staypositive #sunday
Day 33 #365vocation On my way skulking around looking for somewhere to #study with #atmosphere (I’m a #cafe rather than a #library type for my place of preference to read/study in), I stumbled across this cool picture ( #hiphop at its finest 🙌🏾) and one of my all time favourite artists @bobmarley .. love the city for these things. ☺️❤️
Day 32 #365vocation. Some 27 days until one of my #exams and #distractions are everywhere 😱, and when they are few and far between I seem to seek them out! 🙄 #focusing on my #intention before I do an action will be my task today -whether before I see my patients/sit down to revise at the end of my working day - focusing on what I want to achieve, I believe is one of the steps that will help me not be at the total whim of distractions of my own making. Thanks to @headspace (no affiliation) for helping create the space for that process this morning. People..hoping we smash today.. (and hoping this cough shakes me loose 🤒...)
Day 31 of my #365vocation Yeah, I’m #stillhere 🙌🏾 Been working on #me and my #vocation which translates back to my #community (every person I have the pleasure of meeting outside of my professional life and within it).. but been unwell 🤧 though so something gave 🥴(social media 😮). Hope your in better physical health than me! 😆 This shot was from last week on one of my runs.. I forgot about this picture. Looking at it whilst I’m about to tackle revision put a smile on my face and reminded me to perhaps take a #walk later. #memories are always being made. On another note.. To any #gpregistrar who has the csa exam coming up and is on Facebook, there is a webinar on emergency contraception (just in time for #valentines ..) from ‘Meded go’ (search on Facebook). @meded__go Have a good Thursday.
Day 26 #365vocation Well.. I’ve got the #library to myself this #saturday 🙌🏾🙌🏾 I’m such a cat 🐱 (let me explain..) I’m currently taking a break from the screen hunched by the radiator, with legs out-surrounded by #books and #silence ..kind of peaceful. Once I’m done bonding with the radiator, I’m going back to the statistics video courtesy of @fourteenfish. Feeling tired post on-call yesterday but determined to get something done ☺️..momentum needs to be cultivated ..doing my best. 🥴😆
Day 25 #365vocation Just finishing #oncall as part of #outofhours. My last patient who happened to be a manager in a private surgery insisted on delving into her bag and giving me these #cookies. Couldn’t convince her to feed herself and take them with her..turned as I was packing my stuff up to leave and noticed she left them there on the table (accidentally on purpose me thinks !) Love how #caring our patients are towards us. #kindnessofstrangers.. Regarding revision, still fit in listening to an audio on all things musculoskeletal on my way home in the car.. trying to fit it all in around the day (and sometimes night) job. Sleep well. I sure as hell will. ☺️😴 Xx
#studying with another doctor for those #exams ..finally got up to leave at 9pm.. #westayworking 🙌🏾 #365vocation
Day 22 #365vocation #obstetricsandgynecology has never liked me.. #womens #medicine (despite being a woman) has never come easy. I start with my weak areas and work towards my strengths. It’s the #britishnationalformulary (our book of medicines and lotions..doesn’t get enough praise..saves me every day) that’s splayed open in the picture.
Day 21 #365vocation Been thinking about working, then working on not working, then finally #working it out again! Needless to say, the last 3 days I’ve worked on honing my craft, that I haven’t taken the time to take a snap of it. I’m just in it when I’m in it. On a related matter.. Sometimes other senior #doctors from other practices come and observe 👀👁 registrars. I had one such meeting today and was thrilled with the #feedback I got. I’ve come a long way my consultations are shorter and more focussed, without losing the rapport with the patient ..I’m being trained to become more skilled as a general practitioner but feel that it is also benefiting me as a partner, a daughter, a sister, an Aunty, a sister in law, friend..etc #workethic #perseverance
To hell with taking a #break with a kitkat, I’m taking a break with a new piece of #fruit for me 🙌🏾. One of my colleagues gave it to me (i love being given fruit as a gift).. it’s #persimmon also known as #sharonfruit . Packed with #betacarotene and #fibre ❤️, and just enough of a #sweet kick to get me through the working day and into day 18 (I may be wrong with my day count..) of my #365vocation ..doing all things genetics 🧬
Day 17 #365vocation Starting to feel #crazy 🤪.. in the #doctorsmess (where #doctors in the hospital tend to seek refuge (eat, glance at a tv screen if a break is managed, answer their bleeps from a sofa..that kinda thing, scratch their heads whilst discussing cases with colleagues, sleep after long long shifts)) OR as I’m exhibiting today..study for professional exams. The #struggleisreal 😅 ❤️
Day 16 #365vocation #stillatit ..once I finish with the #dayjob, I’m going to do my third set of miracle minutes on my #exam preparation. Enjoying the sense of #purpose. Push against what secretly terrifies you and watch it change before your eyes-more on this sometime soon.
Day 15 #365vocation Packed away work, and started #studying. Thought I wouldn’t faff around driving elsewhere to revise today after work, and so I just made a tea, mentally changed my mood and my intention (from clinician to student 😁) and just #started ..so here I am, still at clinic, but vibe totally different-the patients and the other doctors have gone and I’ve just got my index cards out (..I’ve grown to love an index card). Chipping away at #genetics tonight. Here goes. 🤞🏾
#oncall #doctor #heretoserve #365vocation ❤️
Doing a set of @headspace meditation exercises on #productivity.. ..pushes me to see being productive in a different way. The importance of #sleep and #exercise for production, but also the importance of self awareness, and #compassion for yourself with regards to what your choosing to focus your time on. Can’t believe it’s Thursday! This week has flown! Think it’s day 8 #365vocation. Have full day of clinical work today, then I WILL hit the library and finish off #genetics. I hope you have a happy Thursday x
Day 6 #365vocation ( yes VOCAtion not vacation 🙌🏾). This year long challenge is about integrating play and enjoyment as much as I can into my #working #life. Today and yesterday I attended a course @royalcollegeofgps geared towards #exam focussed consultations, but amid that I got to have lunch with a range of my peers across UK 🇬🇧. Consequently I made new connections, laughed, ate, honed my consultation skills to boot. Finished my day at 4pm. Got to peruse around the art created by doctors & others involving contraceptive pills..who’d a thought. Engaging, jostling, listening, laughing. Just a mixture of a day where I got to learn, work & laugh..oh and they had a gorgeous vegan and vegetarian spread today.
My #day.. Day 6 #365vocation. Trying to normalise my #working life into my non-working life. I can still have #fun in both (..I still swear by the fact that no matter how pants my day has been at work, someone/something still makes me crack the hell up! It may be a phrase a patient used/a look a colleague exchanged with me...but that happening will go in the memory bank, & I can then use it to inspire a smile/giggle later on. We all #smile and #laugh together, no matter how bad it gets (sometimes the laughs/smiles come days, weeks, months later..delayed gratification and all that 😆🤪), but come they do. Feeling grateful, smiley and quietly ..just quietly blissful. Xx
Day 5 #365vocation Sending love to my colleagues across the world who work hard to provide #patient #care 24 hours a day 365 hours per week. Proud to have been a part of that work today. Now off to see the family, listening to #clinical #medicine #revision audio along the way. ..thankfully it hasn’t stopped today. Grateful for that. Grateful to be able to do what I do. Hope you all have had a super day whether at work/home, enjoy where your at. ❤️
Morning guys! Find ways to get your frame (yes, your body beautiful 😘) moving today. You don’t need a #gym membership, just the #commitment to make small but significant choices throughout the day to move. #walk further to get into your car / walk to work; #household chores are a great way to also get the heart rate up a bit, so build that in as part of your workout routine! Be #creative , but most importantly, get moving. Much love as always x
I’m so #determined I’m getting #whitehairs 🤶🏾.. #loveit 💪🏾 So what’s on my menu today:- #admin at work, then #library, followed by a gastroenterology (gut/bowels) talk from 6:45-9pm. I’m carving out my best career within medicine 🙌🏾. You know what it is: day 2 #365vocation (take 3 🤦🏾♀️🤪😆).
Hello again! Anyone else feel like they lost the last 2 weeks, or is it just me?! You know what.. #falsestarts don’t get the love they deserve. This post is to all of you out there who have #goals (I ain’t talking #resolutions ..just goals) that you’ve had for awhile and then life took over, set you in a tailspin and you feel you have ‘lost’ days, weeks, months, perhaps years..you haven’t ‘lost’ a thing, you’ve just realised / remembered the direction your meant to be going in. When something isn’t going according to plan, choose to dig deeper, there may be a greater lesson there..or not..it’s all part of the process. No such thing as wasted time..just time, and what you chose to do with it. 🙌🏾 #revision #365vocation
#thinking ..when is it time for #bed ?! 😑 Mate! You can leave work at the office/clinic/lab..but the prospect/idea of studying is always prevalent..it follows you after work, on weekends, even in the mornings before work, asking : ‘couldn’t you just do SOME revision damnit?!’ To my #akt #csa #exam crew ..keep your head up and get some sleep at a sensible hour. ☺️
#fridaynight in with #varicoseveins 😁🤣😂 Day 4 #365vocation Stay #learning. #exams
Day 3 #365vocation To my left is revision, to my right is a crappy #netflix series ... real life revision #hack: if the studying is becoming arduous, simply add @netflixuk 😂🙌🏾
Day 2 #365vocation Catching up with some work before new year strikes at midnight. The #drinks are getting iced, my #family members are all catching their last snoozes, and I’m on call to wake them up at 11.30pm! Wish me hella luck! Trying to read up on causes of arrthymias (irregular heart beat/conduction) before that time.. the #hustle for my ideal career continues.. #grateful. It’s been awhile that I’ve seen a new year in with the family-usually with my partner or abroad. So so nice spending it with the family. One of my brothers has come from #nigeria -first new year with him for 18 years - couldn’t be anywhere else ❤️☺️. Happy. Hope you are all too. All love xx Music 🎵 courtesy of @earlxsweaat ‘Azucar’ 🎶
Working on my #vocation today 🙌🏾 Lots of false starts re: a daily practice of taking time aside, no matter how little, on my profession and where I want it to go. #exams can be less than inspiring to work on, especially after a working day, but #learning always pricks my interest, as does serving the community, so I focus on that. So today, on the eve of New Year’s Eve, I’ll start documenting my next project #forreal 😄..every day #365 vocation 🥳🥳. Lean into your fears and the places you don’t want to delve into when it comes to self development and realisation..the journey there is the reward. My day 1 starts today ☺️. What do your hopes for the new year look like? #365vocation
Our menus are changing! With the advent of #wellness / #wellbeing industries and people like myself more ready to see how adaptations to their #eating regime may help manage their energy, productivity, mood and sense of wellbeing broadly, companies, and industries alike can’t help but notice. Cue the menu in the shot (thinking 🙄..is it 👆👇🏾👈🏾👉🏾🤔..). Notice the ‘pb’ by the carrot 🥕 cake - that’s for #plantbased. Consumers drive change in industries. Always exciting to see.
If you haven’t done anything as yet that you wanted to today.. there’s still time. #time #starttoday #weekendmood #365vocation #itshappening
It’s #cold in London. I find myself psyching myself up to get out of the car ..just because it takes a certain kind of bravery to meet the elements ! I’m #grateful to not be without a home in this weather. It’s now 7.36 pm in my part of the world and the work #isntdone ..going to hit the books 📚 then open said —> 📖 , and read up on whooping #cough..that’s #365vocation in a nutshell ..I’m not feeling those apples right about now.. 🙄. If you guys are planning on going out..have a dance for me, a drink for me, and a damn fine night! #friyay and all that 😶 😁😂😊☺️🥰
Calling all #doctors #dreamers #gogetters and all that have stumbled on this video! I’m working on creating a sustainable career in medicine that I love! With that being said what has helped you create a great career whether that be a routine that’s worked, a principle, a mindset-let me know! To #students who feel they have really nailed their studying process, what has worked for you? I have professional exams coming up and I’m always keen to find new ways to revise. What’s worked for you? #365vocation
Well hello #monday ! 🙌🏾 Just keep doing you today folks. Think what you want to #achieve today. That one thing for you. Mine will be to do an hour of work for my best career #365vocation 🙌🏾 Stay well. #healthyliving #whatever that means for you right here, right now. ❤️
Day 3 #365vocation This is about working towards my ultimate #career in #medicine more #mindfully every day. Some days it will be about looming #exams, other days just being more aware about what consultation skills are working with my patients and for me as a doctor 👩🏾⚕️. Trying to be more clear about why I’m doing what I’m doing. #doctorsofinstagram #studying
The @brooksrunning #ghost 👟 were rubbing a bit on my left ankle after longer runs, they were super comfortable though otherwise and I could live with the colour ways. But, had to exchange them in the end ☹️. After meeting with @balavanthomas a #runningcoach and #chirunning trainer, he had me do #running drills 🏃🏾♀️😅, recorded them and worked on my alignment. I was pronating my left ankle and heel striking like a trooper-no wonder my ankle was feeling sore on the left. I tried out the @sauconyuk trainers that offered a bit more support (and were just in my price range)..and here we have them in the picture. Question: do you think I’ll be seen #jogging in these ? 😂😂 I’ve got these purely for their function..my partner cops a 👀 like 😩 then 😫 and finally 😖when they see them, but hey, the ankle pain so far is gone. Invest in good running shoes based on your gait and where your running. Road trainers food for roads, pavements; trail trainers good for tougher terrain such as over stones, rocks, etc. Don’t forget to be seen when your running. Sun is setting BEFORE 4pm at the moment in london, UK, so get that reflective gear. Now for some house renovation, then studying for that #365vocation 😛😬🙌🏾 #healthylifestyle
#reading before bed. Learnt so far that according to the #britishthoracicsociety (Brit-thoracic.org.uk) rebreathing from a paper bag is not advised as treatment for #hyperventilation ..so many think it is, but it’s actually not recommended by some of the highest organisations in the medical field. Let me know if you’ve read different. 🧐🤓 Official day 1 of my new challenge #365vocation (that’s VOCation, not vacation 😏🙂🙃🙄😊).