I had the day planned out. I was going to work on recording and cleaning up TFS 2.0.It’s coming along really well. It’s slow, but I’m thrilled with what I’m finding.
Sadly, there are more typos than I was hoping, but I’ve yet to find an issue with content (which is the really important part).
When I came down the stairs this morning, I saw a weird three-digit code on my refrigerator. It read F E 1.
I looked it up on the amazing internet and found out that the fan to my freezer was probably iced up. When I pulled the freezer apart, the back wall was a sheet of ice. When I pulled the refrigerator out from the wall, I found about 15 placemats (we keep them on top of the fridge) back there. I’m sure a few them covered the vents in the back and caused the problem.
So rather than get started on PAER work, I unloaded the entire freezer and refrigerator.
I have two mentors who have quotes that help me get through times like this.
Dan Miller, founder of 48days.com, career guru and all-around great guy, has a line, “What does this allow me to do?” In other words, “Is there an opportunity here?”
Jacko Willink, decorated Navy Seal and author, has a similar attitude but he sums it up in one word:
“Good.”
That’s his mind set when catastrophe falls.
Rather than getting frustrated this morning, I thought, “Great, we haven’t cleaned the fridge out in a ….. very long time. Now we have too.”
The fridge is currently cycling into start up mode and hopefully we solved the problem. I’m a little behind on my work, but the fridge is spic and span.
Not too long ago, I interviewed a student who was asked to repeat her first year of PA school. It took her a long time to get there, but in the end she told me, and she’d tell you, that she’s happy it happened.
She took hold of that opportunity. She upgraded her skills. She and another student who repeated the year with her wound up mentoring most of her new cohort. You could hear her beaming when she said, “and not one person in that cohort had to start over.”
She took that terrible situation and made herself and everyone around her better.
Have you been struggling on a test or two? Are you exhausted from staying up to late and crashing during the day?
Good.
If you get close enough to the bottom, maybe you’ll give up the way you’ve been doing things and try something new.
I’d like to show you a way you might be able to do better than you are. I’d like to show you how you can upgrade your skills just like my friend in the interview. Come and join me for the August issue of The Physician Assistant Exam Newsletter.
We’ll be upgrading study skills in this one if you’re interested.
But it goes to the printer on Sunday. Better hurry. Here’s the link:
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace
