layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: center, middle --- ## Managing Time and Expectations ### Short Quotes --- ### "You need to be a good at organising your time." --- ### "So you write it down on your agenda and you are going to do it and you need to commit to not stop doing it." --- ### "When I’m at home, I’m at home I’m not at work." --- ### "The … problem that you’ve got to do everything perfectly. Too much chase for perfection and not taking the average line." --- ### "We can’t be expected to have seen every condition." --- ### "You get more realistic as time goes on - some things are just not solvable. I think you get better at warning the client in advance, so their expectations are managed better." --- ### "… what would make a huge difference, that would not only manage our expectations, but we need to manage the farmer’s expectations as well." --- ### "If you’ve never made a mistake, you’ve never made anything." --- ### "If it’s good enough, it’s good enough. Farm animal practice is still a rough and ready business and perfection is not always necessary." --- ### "I think that’s what we’ve learnt in our office – it’s OK to say no. Like in the evenings if you have to go somewhere or a practice meeting and you’ve been on call and you’re tired, it’s OK to say no." --- ### "I don’t think you can tell someone not to take it personally, but if you are taking something to heart, then admit that you’re doing it, admit that it is getting to you and talk to someone about it." --- ### "So, my magic wand would be not making vets work half an hour after they’re supposed to have been at home or call them on their lunch break. That would alleviate a massive amount of pressure." --- ### "Being flexible, being able to manage your time. Being out and about in the open air and … I love being on farms." --- ### "I have a mantra – I’m an adviser, not an enforcer, not a farmer. And I compartmentalise that, and am able to say to myself, "well I told him". And then let it go." --- ### "Some of these young kids are sold the dream, the James Herriot dream and the reality is very different. We’re a private practice, money, people, death are involved!" --- ### "It’s just about trying to not blame everything on yourself. Because a lot of these welfare infractions are not directly our fault. We can only advise them – it’s up to them to actually do it." --- ### "… everyone should take an hours lunch and we finish at 5.30 unless there’s an emergency." --- ### "Be realistic about your expectations. Don’t have an idea that everything’s going to be perfect." --- ### "A lot of the stuff is intrinsic with the job, you’re out, lone working. So, if you’re a person who doesn’t really like being on your own, then that’s an issue." --- ### "I’d be happier to leave it at work and not worry about it because at the moment. I’m only two years graduated and I think I’m worrying about little things too much."