Searching out information on a particular case you are dealing with, is not the same as organising your continuing education program for the year. Planning your budget is something separate from your business planning. Arranging time with your family, organising school activities and holidays, family and community interests is thought of as separate from your own personal hobbies and leisure time. However all of these interact and intertwine with each other, each activity or interest having a place of importance for you and each affecting and being affected by other things which you do. Seeing your professional activities as an integrated part of your life as a whole brings great benefits to you in keeping things in perspective and of recognising the interaction and interdependence which is an important and necessary part of living.
Nothing happens in isolation.
It is important therefore for you to include in your business plan all of those things with which you are involved. Your budget and your business plan must take account of time and funds for all your activities and for leisure time for you, your family and your team's families. Involvement which members of your team will have in community affairs is inevitably an important part of the operation of your own enterprise. The interchange of ideas and opinion between members of your team and the resources which they will need so that they continue to grow professionally and personally must be considered in the allocation of responsibilities in your own hospital. To some extent you live an independent life and yet at your most effective and most productive you become interdependent and synergistic in your interactions and in the organisation of your activities.