My doctor, Steve Gordon is on a one year sabbatical and is writing about his doctoring and travels in a blog called Walkaboutdoc. Here's how he describes his blog:
"I’m a family practitioner in Sioux City, Iowa. I’m going to leave my job of 23 years. For the year that my non compete clause remains in force, I’m going to go to a lot of places, and so far I don’t have much agenda. The Australians call it “going walkabout.”
He has written many interesting posts since he started and I asked for and received permission to share this entry of his on my blog. I've included a link to his blog at the bottom of this post and I highly recommend checking it out for some entertaining and informative reading!
If you've read my blog much you've run across Dr. Steve before, he's the doctor that crossed the line of professionalism and became my friend when he told me concerning my morbid obesity: "Charlie I love you and want you to get better." Words that were just the right thing to compel me to do something about my weight...tho it still took 9 more months and being stuck in a snowdrift to get me started! (See my page: "How Did I Get Here?")
Thanks Dr. Steve!!
The stress of success can make life a mess.
Some people think their life is a mess
For some it is, I would guess
Things go bad to worst
If first things aren’t first
Because everyone’s bound to have stress.
In the last twenty-four hours I’ve talked with three friends dealing with problems related to success.
Some people stagnate because of fear of failure, but at least as many freeze up because of fear of success. Those who do get over that fear and find success realize it wasn’t what they thought it would be.
As a person’s time becomes more valuable, taking vacation becomes more and more expensive because of opportunity lost. Thus leisure time gets neglected, in general, in direct proportion to income.
I once took a vacation with a Wall Street wizard who made a great deal more money than I did. I watched with alarm at his purchases made to go fishing, and I finally said something. He replied, “When you go on vacation, take it out of your wallet, not out of your hide.” I didn’t understand what he said for a long time, but now I do: when the biggest cost of the vacation is the lost income and productivity, don’t sweat the smaller expenses.
A lot of people have asked me about dealing with stress in the last week. I give the following advice:
» Put first things first: those who fail to meet their needs for eating, sleeping, and human relationships will burn out.
» Do away with nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol: they murder sleep.
» Don’t let the negative moments spoil the neutral moments, and above all don’t let them detract from the good moments.
» Write a list of good moments, and add at least one per day.
» If worry keeps you up at night, schedule a twenty-minute worry session between supper and bedtime, and write your worries down.
» If worry still keeps you up, get up and read your good moments list. Or study a language.
» If recurrent negative thoughts keep running around in your head, put a rubber band on your non-dominant wrist. When the disturbing thought recurs, use your dominant hand to pull back the rubber band twelve inches, then let go (it’s called self-administered aversion therapy, and it works if you do it).
» Between supper and bedtime, write for twenty minutes. Start with the worst thing that ever happened to you. When that’s done, write whatever you like. Nobody has to read it.
» Take what steps you can to solve the problems that you face, and do your best to avoid the insoluble problems.
» Exercise. (Except that most of my stressed friends are getting plenty of exercise.)
» Don’t expect full effect of the program for six weeks.
So be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
http://walkaboutdoc.wordpress.com/
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