Musings from your friendly neighbourhood Pharmacist episode 1

Tuesday, 07 February 2017

Develop a website they said. Make it a fine representation of your brick and mortar store. Make sure you update your site regularly with fresh content - start a blog they said - its easy!

Ok - im up for it! Lets do a monthly blog - heck,  I might even have fun doing it!

In November the site launched. December was Christmas. January was holiday with kids....  I didnt have the time. No time to think about,  let alone even start typing.

But it was sitting in the brain. Something I had to do. All the time.

During our recent  (non-) summer I stumbled upon a TED talk on the internet  about time-management (remember i had no time for productive stuff - yet I was on Youtube for hours)

One message I received from the talk - was to take a sentence that contains - 'but, I dont have the time.' and change it to 'but it's not a priority' and step back and look at that sentence and see if it make sense.

So,  if I use the above sentence as an example -

I need to add fresh interesting content onto my website or it will get  stagnant and gather dust, resulting in a wast of $1000s of dollars and make our business look plain ol'boring... but its not a priority.

GULP.  Now that statement doesnt sit well with my DNA.  Better get cracking then!!

So here I am.

and here you are.

(rapid tapping of fingers on the desk)

(...awkward scilence)

Soooo my usual conversation ice breakers at the Pharmacy are the Highlanders (...not playing yet...) or the Weather (..far too depressing..)

So I need some inspiration to get this blog up and running. AND I think I have it!!

One of my favourite health quotes is 'Health is like money - we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it'

So often in pharmacy we dont see people until the illness has arrived - the ambulance is already at the bottom of the cliff.

Most health concerns are actually preventable and we need to look at certain risk-factors such as weight, that we can do something about.

But heres the thing - as Tony Robbins says 'Knowledge is not power, knowledge is only potential power - action is power'

So often we hear this statement  'I need to eat better food and do more excercise - but i dont have the time'

Now - if we take that sentence and change it up a little to this...

"I need to take the time to prepare real food, and do 30 minutes of excercise every day to prevent diabetes, heart attacks, stroke and cancer - but its not a priority'

Erm. THAT sentence doesnt work.

It makes no sense.

SO that what I want to blog about.

I want to make a real change in our lives in the community that I love.

AND I want to do it with you - I can be your guinea pig  - lets do this together!

Sure I will write about the knowledge that i have as a Pharmacist and the fun we have in our little Pharmacy (not to mention my interests, such as travel, food, tech and the Highlanders - did I mention I love the Highlanders??)

But lets make some changes together -

Lets commit to no sugar in our diet (actually done this - will write about this next month)

Lets commit to regular exercise.

Heck - lets try new stuff like meditation - there is some serious health benefits associated with this practice, but I never have the time ...

And ill report to you how we are doing.

Does this sound interesting? I hope you find it informative and entertaining - but please give us some feedback - either via Facebook, or call 03 4779793 or email roslynpharmacy@gmail.com

Till next month

Andy :)

PS here is link to that TED talk -