When things don’t go as planned - AT ALL 😱

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How can you react when things don’t go as planned - AT ALL?

We all have bad days, or series-of-bad days.

Everything just feels like it’s not working, we’re running behind, animals die that weren’t supposed to die, and we suddenly seem to have lost all abilities to communicate with owners.

So - you can beat yourself up and throw in the towel - or you can take a step back and realise this is how you build resilience as a person and as a veterinarian.

What they don’t teach us in vet school is that almost nothing in the real world actually happens as in the books we study so hard, AND all the kerfuffle around the whole

-taking-the-history

-diagnostics

-prognosis

-treatment

-communication-with-owners

.......process

SO many things can go wrong or at least not as we expected at each and everyone of these steps, and it’s only by going through them again and again that we learn, and build resilience so we are more and more prepared for anything, professionally and emotionally.

Don’t underestimate this process, and how much it builds us up.

Instead of focusing on how wrong everything is going, try to take a breath, write down what’s really going on, and how you’re going to deal with it, one step at a time.

Use all the “wrongness” FOR you, instead of using it to beat yourself up with, or as evidence that this profession is not for you (or for anyone, depending on your mood).

You got through vet-school, so per definition you’re a badass.

Anything difficult/hard/not working from here onwards is just the next step in the process and you can deal with it if you learn how to gain perspective and re-focus your brain.

In your corner,