Top Highlights

• I realised that ‘nothing will change unless you do’. Unless I could fundamentally change how I approached living my life, nothing was going to improve.
• I was able to set boundaries, saying ‘yes’ to those things that really mattered while giving a firm but polite ‘no’ to things that didn’t.
• Surgical disciplines attract those with certain personality traits: motivated, focused, disciplined, high-achieving and driven by the practice and perfection of their craft. We are intrinsic perfectionists who must reconcile that we will never truly be perfect.
• The path to wellness is different for everyone, but you cannot successfully walk that path alone. Change requires a supportive team environment.
• Beating burnout requires a deep root cause analysis including paying attention to symptoms (mental and physical) and having them evaluated. Beating burnout involves recognising when feeling unhappy or overworked and examining reasons as to why. Some issues can be controlled, others cannot.