Hi friends, and happy Sunday! 🍀
This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features:
✅ Tips on maintaining balance and productivity through 2025
✅ Resources for medical students who recently matched into residency
✅ Tools to empower you to get things done and feel fulfilled along the way
...and more!
First things first though...a big CONGRATULATIONS to those who participated in Match Day 2025 🎉❗️ I hope everyone was satisfied with their results and had plenty of fun celebrating with classmates, family, and friends 🥳.
Be sure to check out my FREE pre-residency checklist on my resources page...it's never too early to start getting prepared for your next chapter! 😸
With this edition being released at the end of March, that means we are already a quarter of the way through 2025 😱. Where has the time gone?! 🗓️
About now is when I typically do a quarterly check in 🤔. I set aside some time, pull out my planner, and start to go through all the plans and goals I set at the start of the year 💭.
For example, one of my goals was to say no to things that overcomplicate managing Med School Moose 🙅♂️. This is ongoing, but for the most part I think I've done that, cutting out unnecessary side projects and instead focusing on writing articles and creating more content for my YouTube channel 🤨.
This check-in tends to be really helpful in celebrating tasks/goals that are on track 🙏🏻 while making sure other priorities aren't getting left behind 🛟.
As I do this, I also reflect on resources that have helped me and lessons I've learned so far. I've shared some of these ideas below ⬇️
- Not every opportunity that comes along is the right one for you, or even the right one for you right now 🤷🏽♂️. It's okay to say no, and you might feel relieved once you do 😌
- Using a new free app I found called Superlist has helped me make progress on several different projects 📋
- I will never finish every single task that I have, so I might as well prioritize the ones that are important/I truly care about ✅
- Even on bad days there is some good ☀️, and even in failures there is a lesson to be learned 💭
- Take the time to appreciate the little things, even if it's something like a cool new desk mat 🤓
By writing this newsletter, it looks like I've already got a great head start on my check in 😄! That being said I encourage everyone, whether you're a medical student a few months away from graduation 🎓 or a doctor years into your practice 💉, to take some time and check in with yourself, whatever that may look like.
Talk to you soon! 👋🏽
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