This morning as I was drinking my
morning coffee I started flipping through posts on LinkedIn. I have a tendency
to do this in the morning as I find it a great place to find words of
inspiration from thought leaders.
Today I found quite the opposite. I ran across an article on the DVM360 website that talked
about “buyer’s remorse” in young veterinarians in regards to their veterinary
degree. The author stated that
most veterinarians feel remorse in the first 3-5 years of their working life. They feel a sense of disconnect between
what they THOUGHT life would be as a veterinarian and what life actually is. They are discouraged about their debt,
the difficulty of the job, and the work-life balance that they are trying to
achieve.
This is a narrative that directly
speaks to me. These negative
thoughts about our profession are a cancer that we need to cure and why I chose
to become a veterinary life coach.
Most of us do not know how to manage negative thoughts about veterinary
medicine when they occur. If we
can learn to manage the way we think about our career, we are well on the way
to feeling better about our veterinary life.
Let’s talk about some steps to coach
ourselves through this “buyer’s remorse”.
The first thing to think about is that
YOU are NOT your job.
Your job brings many difficult circumstances that have nothing to do
with YOU. There are negative clients, stressed team members, diseases that are
difficult to cure, and daily struggles.
There are also happy clients, cute puppies, talented team members and
successful surgeries. You have no REAL
control over most circumstances positive or negative. They are just life.
They have nothing to do with YOU personally. When you separate YOU from
the JOB you can see that you are 100% human and 100% worthy. You need to start from this place.
Realize that you have control over the
way you THINK about any situation.
You are in control of your thoughts. It feels as if you cannot control your thoughts, but if you
really sit down and look at them, you realized that you are able change them
and look at life differently.
You don’t have to think from a place of scarcity when looking at your
veterinary career. You can choose
to think of the abundance and the opportunity that you have to help people in
your work every day. Once you
start thinking about your scarcity thoughts and realizing that you can change
them to abundance thoughts, you will start to feel better about your career.
When you become more abundance minded you will more willingly take positive steps and actions towards making your
life better. You will take more
risks because you will realize that any action is better than inaction. Forward motion is better than procrastination,
always. You will be more willing to risk failure because you know that failure
is a steppingstone to future success.
The next time that you think about your
profession as a struggle or feel buyer’s remorse, remember that you have the
power to turn it around. You can
choose to be enamored with your life, not overwhelmed by it. Choose an abundance mindset over
scarcity. Choose to think of
yourself as 100% veterinary rock star, 100% worthy of a beautiful life. There is no situation that you can encounter that you cannot
handle, because you are a powerful, worthy veterinarian.
Let’s do away with buyer’s remorse.
Dr. Julie Cappel
“Everything you need you already
have. You are complete right now;
you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace
else. Your completeness must be
understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personally
reality.” – Wayne Dyer
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