Well, this week has been all about recovering from the last and getting ready for Ramadan. Due to staff shortages and sick leave my entire day of work was cancelled on Friday and I was ecstatic! 😀
I ended up drinking way too much coffee and having brunch before not being able to for a month during the day time. Also managed to go make a silly YouTube video and set up page for donations for the Ramadan 22 appeal.
They’re not particularly big things, but lately, I’ve realised that most of my time goes into the abyss due to the absolute ton of little things I’ve created for myself. Most are fun, like this newsletter, the podcast and every little thing that goes into making it, but a lot are like chores that eat away time.
For example, for this newsletter, this blog post probably takes the most amount of time: have to type out the weeks highlights by looking through the calendar, find photos if any from the highlights, ship it across and compress them so they down take ages to load and insert.
However, if you interrupt any of these things, like stopping writing in one block, it’s often the case that I’ll have to read through again to find the right photos etc etc and it can sometimes take over an hour! Now this isn’t some amazing work of art, but a simple weekly newsletter and blog.
Add the same for the podcast, instagram posts, my day job, calling up patients in private practice as well as day to day things and you end up with a lot of task switching which makes things even less efficient.
As a result, I’m going to try and offload a bit of my work if I can in the future and also focus on blocking time off to do each project in a bit of protected time. I’m sure this isn’t a unique phenomenon so I’d love to hear what you do to manage. I’m all ears for any other suggestions!
The concept of birthday month seems to be in full swing in my life with one of my closest friends taking me out for dinner last week. He picked Italian since normally I’m not a huge fan of all the carbs but as of recent I’m trying to give it a go. I was half delirious from the on call the night before so I wonder what kind of impression I made on his new partner? 🤔
I think I shared how Gary loved the laundry bag last week so I was quite surprised to see him attacking it this week. I wondered what the bag could’ve possibly done to him?! Turns out, his sister got curious and wanted to see what the fuss was about and he got annoyed at his bag being taken over…