Hi everyone, my name is Jamie and I am a first year emergency medicine resident
Today, I'm going to talk to you guys about five habits that changed my life and these aren't necessarily things that came naturally to me
But rather they're habits that were developed in my adult life and I feel like they played a really big role in who I am
as a person now habit number one is
Exercise like most of you I was probably introduced to working out in Fitness as a middle school and high school student
I tried out for a bunch of different sports. I did swim team
I did soccer and I really wasn't very good at the sports. I remember in soccer team
no one wanted to put me in so I was always on the sidelines and that made me really mad and sad and on the
Swim team. I just couldn't figure out how to dive headfirst
So I was always kind of belly flop and that was just embarrassing
so I kind of grew up thinking I just wasn't good at fitness and I wasn't good at
Working out or sports and things like that right after college and before medical school
I was introduced to working out lifting and
Maybe even a little bit of running and I realized that Fitness really isn't about being good at it
but it's rather something that you do to better yourself and improve yourself and I think having this mindset of not
Having to be necessarily good at it, but just enjoying the benefits of fitness have been a really great change in my mindset
So now that I'm in residency whenever I'm stressed or whatever I am tired
incorporating Fitness into my lifestyle has been really beneficial and I'm really glad that this has become one of my habit because I know that
Even as I get older, this is something that I can definitely benefit from habit
Number two is cleaning and organizing as I go
so I wasn't the cleanest or the most organized child growing up and my mom used to give me a hard time about leaving my
Clothes everywhere and never making my bed and in general being a messy person
but something that I realized are in college and especially med school, is that if my
Environment is messy then
I have a hard time focusing
And I end up being more distracted and not making the most of my study time
so some of the habits that I picked up brought these years is
Really making the most of my scrap time and cleaning up and organizing as I go
so for example
If I'm doing a meal prep or making a big meal and there's dishes following up and the kitchen is a sturdy and whatever
Something that I'll do is while the food is cooking if there's any downtime
I'll do the dishes during that time so that it's not so overwhelming at the end of the cooking
Another thing that I do is making my bed in the morning
I think that does a great way to kind of
start your day off with
A positive mindset and also it helps you not go back into bed when you're not supposed to I think it's like one of those
small gestures that you can make that just put you in the right mindset and also just looks nice and
Makes you feel good. When you come home at the end of a long day to see it nicely made bed
So just spending five or ten minutes here and there to pick up after
yourself and cleaning up the house means that you don't have to spend a ton of time in one day to
Have a cleaning day
But you can have generally a clean environment for you to focus and do your best work in have it number three is time management
And especially writing things down
One of the first things that I do when I get my schedule now is putting everything into my Google Calendar
And every time I have a big to-do list
I like to write them down because I think having them in my head
does kind of clutters my mind and I
feel like I spend a lot of energy trying not to forget the things that I have to do that it's actually a waste of
My energy and once I write them down and cross them off as I do them
It feels nice because I feel like I've actually getting things done
But it's also helpful because I'm not forgetting anything that I have to do
And this is something that has come in really handy when I'm seeing multiple patients
I feel like there's so many things that are to be done and there's a lot of things that I often forget
So I started writing everything down on a piece of paper so that I don't forget
and I think it really does helps to clear your
Cognitive load so you don't have to spend any energy on trying to remember things
But you can focus more of your energy on actually getting things done
have it number four is having a selective memory and I know that sounds a little weird but what I mean by that is
Remembering the positives and learning from the hard times
so I think being
optimistic and having an optimistic
Look comes more naturally to some people than others and I think for me that's something that I need to actually explicitly think about
And try to do in something that I like to do when I'm going through a hard time is thinking back to another time in
The past when I had a difficult time and I try to bring those past
Experiences in a way so that I think mostly about all the lessons that I learned and how much I matured over
Those times an example of that is probably the third year of medical school
Which I think is probably the hardest year of medical school
And for me, especially my medicine rotation was the hardest time of my third year
and I know
from thinking back that I had a hard time and there were days when I really didn't like it but
remembering back to my medicine rotation now
I just remember how much I learned during those times and how helpful the residents were and how helpful the attendings were and how much?
Better of a medical student. I became because of those experiences
And I think framing your past experiences in this way really helps you be more optimistic and more
resilient when it comes to going through a difficult time now because you know that in the future you'll think back and you realize how
Much you learn through these experiences
Habit number five is jomo, or joy of missing yow
so in this day and age, especially with social media
I think there's a lot of FOMO or if you're missing out and I think everyone this looks like they're having so much fun
Out at a party or whatever it is that they're doing and posting on social media
But something I realized that in medical school is that there's actually a lot of joy to be found in doing things that you love
and
Prioritizing the people that are important to you in your life
So this may not necessarily mean you're going out to a party or some big event
But it might mean that taking time at home and making the most of the precious free time that you have
so I read this quote once that says stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there so I think
Eliminating that fear of wanting to be somewhere else and really enjoying the time that you have in the moment that you're in right now
Can eliminate a lot of stress and it can help you make the most of the time that you have?
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