Connecting The Dots of Healthcare

I’ve had a number of friends inquire… “Where have you been? You haven’t blogged in a while… are you O.K.???”

 I appreciate the concern and am flattered that you miss my blogging…

 But, sadly, it seems I’ve run out of ideas.   Can’t think of anything new.

 Everything I’ve thought of seems to have been thought of before. And with the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates running for office, obviously, they’ve already got things figured out.

 S0 I’ve been just hunkered in my bunker.

 Actually, that’s not really true. I’ve simply been incredibly busy. Here’s what I’ve been up to.

 I have just finished my busiest season speaking…. ever. October and November has had me visit New York, Kansas, Georgia, California, Michigan, North Carolina, (twice), Utah, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, and in between, two audio conferences.  From Keynoting for a Duke Endowment sponsored multi-state hospital meeting to a Dillon, Montana to speak at a fund raiser for the Barrett Hospital Foundation’s annual meeting.  A brand new keynote for a multi-state Hospice meeting and a (They wanted me to put the “fun” in FUNd raising.) I’m grateful that business has been bountiful and my messages have been well received.

 And really, I simply took a break from blogging. I know, I know, that’s not what you’re supposed to do… supposed to crank out a string of postings so the search engines know you publish frequently, but this blogger needs time to recharge. I don’t want to burnout… and I’m not talking work/life balance… (actually, I have a hard time deciding what I do is actually “work” or “life”… ) I have fun no matter where or what I’m doing… but with children, I know they’re not always going to be home… so I really enjoy my time with them. Even if it’s simply watching a late night movie.

And I’m gearing up for another busy season. This spring, Press Ganey, a long time client, has asked me to headline their series of spring conferences… so I’ll be all around the country from March to June with a program on customer, (patient), satisfaction, physician satisfaction, and staff satisfaction coupled with clinical excellence. New keynotes for homecare and medical sales are percolating along with my two columns for Caring and Respiratory Therapy and a new corporate keynote for not-for-healthcare audiences have consumed a fair amount of time.

With both college kids home for Christmas Break, and my eighth-grader getting finished with exams this week, we’ve put up the Christmas Tree and decorated the house. Here’s the house at night. 

 Jane wanted to go with a slightly less secular front door look so Santa has been relegated to the back porch.

And speaking of lighting, I’ve just put the finishing touches on my audio, and yes, VIDEO, podcasting studio. With the help of pvc pipes suspended from the ceiling of my office and a few par can lights, the project I began late in the summer is almost completed.

When I began blogging, I managed to crank out a new blog a day but it proved to be pretty time consuming. So one of my new year’s resolutions is to get out a blog no less than once or twice a week, but I doubt I’ll be a daily blogger since I now have three, count ‘em, three of them! And a good deal of the time will be spend with audio blogging, (www.mdpnn.com), for your listening pleasure.

Just thought you might like to know…

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