Starting a healthy routine as a physician is attainable and it requires consistency. A healthy routine is not just doing 10 tricep dips in your office chair or running to your next clinical duty. It’s taking a full “strategic” break.
What on earth is a “strategic” break?
A strategic break covers the following:
- Acknowledge what doesn’t work in your routine
- Identify the actions you can make to improve
- Continuous learning
While…
- Giving yourself a break
- Getting out of the “daily trap” – you know, the self-talk that delays what we really want to do; “I’ll go running before dinner.”
- Recharging your mind
- Crossing off a goal in your bucket list
You can achieve most if not all of these on a CME river cruise.
The Vacation [as cure] Fallacy
You can take a two-week vacation, hope to get something from it and disappoint yourself after. A lot of times, doctors fail to maximize their time away from the clinic because of:
A.) They misused the vacation and fail to 100% check out mentally from work and B.) They used the time away to catch up on work.
If you’re just planning to pause, go ahead — do something 100% offbeat, read that novel you have been putting off for so long, make plans with your high school best friends. But if you’re planning to make a worthy outcome off your vacation, consider doing these things on your vacation:
- Join a fitness program to enlighten the mind and body
- Indulge in healthy meals that amplify clarity of mind and aid good digestion
- Go on a luxurious vacation that offer to kick-start your health and wellness and still be able to gain CME credits you need. HealthyMD-CME does exactly that.
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