Thoughts for Success: To Overcome a Fear, Move Toward It
A CLNC® Certification student who has 40 plus years of nursing experience shared, “Vickie, I’m afraid of attorneys. How do I overcome my fear?”
My response, “The only way to overcome any fear is to move toward it.” It’s the thinking that terrifies us. Our minds are adept at magnifying danger and rejection to a point where it freezes us in place.
Before my office staff and I went skydiving, I was terrified by the very idea of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Thinking about it accomplished nothing more than waking nightmares, and I certainly couldn’t let my staff see how terrified I was making myself. To overcome my fear of skydiving I had to move toward that fear – just step out the door three miles above the Earth and open my parachute (all while screaming like a little girl during the 60-second freefall).
Most fears that block success as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant are groundless, but unless you move toward them, they’ll keep you grounded, stuck and afloat in a perpetual state of fear. Like my skydiving instructor said, “When you find yourself thinking ‘no, no, no’ turn that into ‘go, go, go’.”
LegalNurse.com is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC®) is the largest and oldest association of legal nurse consultants.
Need tuition assistance? We've partnered with Sallie Mae to provide financing options.
*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.
