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What Legal Nurse Consulting T-Shirt Are You Wearing?

Tom has a T-shirt he picked up in Fiji a couple of years ago while on his quest to dive with hammerhead sharks. It says, “You can run out of air and die. You can get bitten by a shark and die or you can fall off the couch and die. Get off the couch and into the water!”

I love the pithiness of T-shirt philosophy – even when it seems that the same twisted mind writes them all. The slogans distill our thoughts, humor and fears into easy-to-laugh at sound-bites. “No matter where you go there you are” is an insightful reminder that external factors don’t control our happiness. I once saw a T-shirt with a seated Buddha, making a mudra with the same hand that was holding a hot dog, the caption – “Make me one with everything.” Cracked me up right on the spot. “Your mother was right about me” is one that always makes me nostalgic about the fact that Tom never got to meet my mom.

If I were to put my personal favorites on a T-shirt to wear for fun, they’d read, “Put down the phone and drive,” “Life is good all the time” and “Happiness is a choice.” The T-shirts I’d wear to work would say, “Today is the first day of the rest of the work-week” or “Just do it – NOW!”

What nurse, or legal nurse consultant, won’t crack up over a T-shirt that says, “Great veins,” “My catheter bag’s on the other leg,” “Rehab is for quitters,” “DNR (by popular request)” or “Nursing, it can make strong men weep.” Belly laughs all around.

I’m even thinking of creating my own line of CLNC® wear for my future Camp Buck-Up. They’ll have all sorts of catchy phrases like, “Lead, follow or get out of the way!,” “We were all born crying – time to outgrow it” and “Whining and complaining are NOT competitive sports.” If I get contemplative about business, perhaps I’d offer the Zen-like shirt “After the marketing, the marketing.”

T-shirt philosophy captures not only pop culture but also our 140 character Twitter/texting culture too. At the same time, it reflects our fears, our prejudices and sometimes our beliefs, all on a pre-shrunk cotton billboard that we can change as quickly, and as often, as we change our minds.

Tomorrow when you start working on your legal nurse consulting business, what T-shirt will you put on? What will be the first thought in your day, the one you’d want or wouldn’t want others to see and judge you by? Will it be positive or negative? Will it be something irreverent? That thought on your T-shirt tells you everything you need to know about the success of your day and the success of your CLNC® business.

Success Is Inside!

P.S. Comment and share your favorite T-shirt slogan or go ahead and make one up.

4 thoughts on “What Legal Nurse Consulting T-Shirt Are You Wearing?

  1. “My nursing job is in the toilet and that’s about to be flushed, get away from the crap and become a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant.”

    The T shirt would be tie dyed (confusion) with a picture of a white (or) black toilet. I’m really not sure where to put the words!!

  2. “If you want a ticket to nowhere, follow them. This bus is leaving!” This is directed to indecisive individuals who want to drag you down. I have heard something like this before, so it may not be original.

    “You have a house, go get in it!” This is directed to those who can’t live their own life and try to hold you back. I am pretty sure I made this one up; I haven’t seen it anywhere.

    My all time favorite quote is from John Wayne, “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

  3. There are so many serious things going on in our lives today. We are all affected in one way or another by our precarious economy. Personally I am losing my ability to walk. My ability to work as a nurse feels like it is being pulled out from under me like an old carpet being yanked up.

    It is so important for us not to settle in the gloom that can easily entrap us when we are beset by trials. We have to find humor in every day and figure out new ways to adapt.

    I love t-shirts that profoundly crack me up. If you are wearing something meaningful, yet funny, it gets positive attention and boosts your mood with every comment. If it is a motivator-even better.

    This one isn’t funny, but it works for me.

    “You can dream and never acknowledge your dreams. You can acknowledge your dreams and buy the books. You can proudly display your dusty books in your library and marvel over what you could have done – Or you can pull them off the shelf and figure out how to make them work for you, and actualize your dream.”

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