Reflections.........

Bank holidays are wonderful, because they give you time to think. My life is so full, so hectic and so timetabled, that its great to get this extra day just to sit back and reflect.
I remember this bank-holiday last year, I was two weeks off opening my new practice, and had about 4 weeks of work to do to get it open!!!!!!!!
Beacause i am a contractor to the NHS, I had to have the practice inspected thouroughly, and i mean thouroughly, by two very learned NHS experts before i could by registered as 'fit to practice'. I can honestly say that the run up to this, and opening itself was the most stressful thing i have ever done. I was getting everything together on very little sleep (about four hours a night), caring for two children, training new staff, painting walls, and scourcing signs, whilst awaiting the outcome of an application for funding, which, had it not come through, would have meant that I couldnt have opened at all.
In time honoured tradition, it did all come together on time, the inspection went well, the funding came through (with only 7 days to spare though- tense stuff) and the store looked fabulous on the opening day. (And girls, every cloud has a silver lining, i lost a stone in weight due to all the stress!)
So now I'm thinking what a difference a year makes.
I am managing director of my own company, which looks set to show a profit in its first year of trading when i originally hadnt forecast that 'till year 3. I work 24 hours a week and am able to spend lots of quality time with my children. I have a wonderful team of employees who have really given their own hearts and minds into this, and are as passionate about what we do as i am. This reflects in our steadily growing patient base which has largely come about by word of mouth.
I am a finalist in a competition which gives credit to my achievements, and should i win, will enable me to take my dreams onto the next level of reality and start to realise the massive potential that my business has.
There is a line, spoken by Dougal on an episode of 'Father Ted' in which he says " The sun is shining and we're sitting in an opticians. Does life get any better than this, Father ?" Lets wait and see shall we, I'm hoping it just might.