Sam Hazledine

Find someone who sees your madness as magic.

People talk about platforms that lift all boats. But who is building the boats for those who don’t have one? What if you’re not nautical?

This is it… It is all the journey; every destination is merely a point on your voyage. There really is no question about whether it’s the journey or the destination; it’s all the journey. So, what if this is it? Because it is.

@jstrelou And when it rises xx

I think of you when the sun starts to set

The status quo isn’t fixed, unless we allow it to be.

The way things are done around here… ‘The way things are done around here,’ is only the start of the sentence. Some people finish the sentence with, ‘so this is how it is.’ Others finish it with, ‘isn’t good enough and we can do better.’

We’ve relied on the goodwill of the frontline and their commitment to their patients as a Band-Aid to systemic underfunding, but the Band-Aid has been falling off for years.

Steady state… If you ran the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen every time you used a single dish, you’re going to spend most of your life cleaning the kitchen.

I want to be very clear though, this is not the front line dropping the ball, they are the ones suffering. This is dropping the ball at the top for decades and not allocating the required funding and resources to the front line.

Waiting for a crisis, as we have done, is risky and comes with extreme consequences in a profession like medicine. We need to get clear on the triggers, which we didn’t, and we need to act accordingly before we reach breaking point, which we didn’t.

As a younger generation of doctors voted with their feet and left the profession rather than put up with inhumane hours, we didn’t act and instead just worked the ones who stayed harder.

Medical staffing has currently missed every trigger for decades. When burnout got to one in two doctors, we didn’t act, and it’s now at two in three. As the workforce has aged and is now retiring, we didn’t act, and general practice, in particular, is well past breaking point.

There’s a place somewhere in between those two extremes that is the optimal steady state. In any system, we need to set the triggers for action, then act accordingly.

On the other hand, if you wait until every dish you own has been used and they are piling up in the sink, and the kitchen is filthy, you’re going to spend most of your life living in squalor.

We all have good days and bad days, we just don’t know which is which at the time.

There was an idyllic dam to swim in. The forest was magical. The community looked after each other.   The past only exists in our minds. We get to choose what we focus on.   It’s never too late to choose to focus on what was amazing.    (That truth exists in the present too.)

It’s never too late to have a great childhood…   Recently I visited the commune just outside Nimbin that my partner Julia grew up on.   The toilet is a box outside. There were huge spiders on the wall. Everything was trying to eat me (that’s a leech on my foot!).   And…

(This is Josh, Zara’s pony, now marketing himself as a seriously good looking male model.)

When is it time to think about marketing? When building something new, often we get to a point when someone asks, ‘should we think about marketing now?’ At that point we’ve missed the point! I see this in business a lot, and even more in medicine.

Because marketing needs to be built into. How it looks, how it feels, how it’s supported… this all needs to be considered from the start. Because the best product in the world is useless if it never reaches the people you want to benefit.