Thoughts for Success: Wait to Be Ready and You’ll Never Be Ready

When I started my legal nurse consulting business I was working overtime at my RN job at the hospital just to pay my mortgage on my tiny one-bedroom condominium. I didn’t have time to start a business no one else had ever done before (consulting with attorneys on medical-related cases), but I did it anyway and the intellectual, emotional and financial payoff was huge.

My first media interview was with a reporter from the New York Times. I wasn’t ready to meet with the press, especially a media outlet as influential as the New York Times, but I did that interview anyway and the payoff was national exposure for my business and for Certified Legal Nurse Consultants at large. An extra bonus – the Times put me in the history books of legal nurse consulting by authoritatively stating, “Vickie Milazzo crossed nursing with the law and created a new profession.” Perhaps it’s a good thing I wasn’t ready. LOL!

A chance encounter with an editor from a notable New York book publisher landed me a contract and just four months to write and deliver my first book, written for the national woman’s market, Inside Every Woman. I didn’t have the time to write a book, but I wrote it anyway and the payoff was the satisfaction of helping women worldwide (The book was translated and sold in five other languages.), plus making the USA Today and Wall Street Journal best seller lists.

For my next woman’s book, Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman, I didn’t have any more time to write, but I did it anyway and the payoff was reaching even more women, plus having the book make the New York Times and other notable best seller lists, which then led to the opportunity to reach even more women through numerous national TV and radio appearances.

Trust me, you’re never ready for the big thing when it enters your life. Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Michelle Neal built her legal nurse consulting business while raising two-year-old twins. Do you think she was ready?

I believe that it’s because we’re not ready that big things enter our lives to challenge us to a new level of readiness. When opportunities present we have to transform ourselves from a state of “not yet” to a state of “I’m ready.” If we wait too long to be ready, we never are. Successful people keep themselves in a perpetual state of ready, and being in that state, they’re ready for anything (almost) that comes along.

We’re 15 days into 2016. Are you ready?

Success Is Yours!

P.S. Comment and share what you’re doing today to be ready for what’s next in your legal nurse consulting business?