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13Jun2014

Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi

Have you ever noticed that the more self-absorbed a person is, the unhappier they seem to be? I am blessed to have a great role model in Blanche, an 82-year-old friend, who is like my second mom. I call her the “Neighborhood Samaritan.” Since I was 15 years old I’ve witnessed how she loses herself in the service of others. Whether it’s her church, her friends or the neighborhood kids who visit every day, she always gives her full attention and passion to others in a selfless way. She tires me out just hearing about all of the good deeds she does for everyone on a daily basis. LOL!

6Jun2014

Thoughts for Success: CLNC^® Success Starts with a Promise

When it comes to ambitions, RNs come in all shapes and sizes. We all want something different from our lives and nursing careers and that’s okay. But what’s not okay is to give up on ourselves and our dreams, hunkering down into survival mode.

30May2014

Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: Every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Needs Deadlines – Just Ask Walt Disney

Successful Certified Legal Nurse Consultants know it’s as much, if not more, their responsibility to set deadlines with attorney-clients as it is the attorney’s. They also know never to agree to a deadline they can’t meet. But what about the deadlines you set for yourself to ensure you never drop the ball on a medical-related case? As Walt Disney said, “Everyone needs deadlines.” And not one of us is an exception.

23May2014

Thoughts for Success: Is It Time for a Stretch?

When we welcome change and expand our agility, we realize that what we thought of as our “natural state” will never return to its former stiff and monotonous self. We find ourselves in a new space, one of unlimited options.

16May2014

Vickie’s Favorite Quotes: T.S. Eliot

Caring is a beautiful quality, but as T.S. Eliot said it is equally important to know when not to care. One thing Certified Legal Nurse Consultants can’t afford to care about is the attorney who says “no” to you. Caring about the attorney who says “no” creates a fear mindset. Nothing good can come from fear when marketing your CLNC business. Care instead about sharing your expertise with attorneys and fear will lose its power over you.

12May2014

Happy Birthday Florence Nightingale!

For a woman who lived in the 1800’s Florence Nightingale was one tough cookie. Can you just imagine her bossing the doctors around? LOL! She lived in a time when, as she described, “society forbids a woman to live in the light of intellect.” Yet live in the light is exactly what she did because she never gave or took any excuse.

“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”

– Florence Nightingale

Are you letting excuses (yours or another’s) get in the way of your legal nurse consulting business?

I’m Just Askin’

P.S. Comment and share your favorite Florence Nightingale quotes.

9May2014

Thoughts for Success: The Gain of Passion Is the Passion Itself

RNs at LegalNurse.com’s CLNC^® Certification Seminar sometimes confuse my passion and enthusiasm as “Vickie’s had an easy life and growing her legal nurse consulting business was easy.” They think “After all, if she’d had a hard road she wouldn’t be so chipper and have so much energy.” Trust me, my life hasn’t been easy and in no way do I believe that being passionate about your CLNC business will make your life any easier than it already is.

Passion doesn’t offer any guarantees of easy victory, easy money or easy love. Yet it’s not surprising that the passionate are almost always rewarded with more of everything life, business and love have to offer.

Passion won’t always make your life easier. But it will make your life richer. Be more passionate today!

I’m Just Sayin’

P.S. Comment and share how passion enriches your life.

6May2014

Celebrate National Nurses Week

Most presidents only get a day, if any, but it’s no surprise that our nation needs a whole week to honor all of the selfless acts RNs engage in every day. Nurses make life and death decisions and you do so in the middle of the night. Not to mention you do things that make civilians (and some doctors) faint. You have the ability to quickly assess and take control of any situation.

RNs are found in every sector of the economy – corporations, schools, offices, insurance companies, entrepreneurs – not just hospitals. We come from every country on Earth. I’ve met incredible nurses and aspiring nurses from the Philippines, Rwanda, England, India, Canada and Russia, just to name a few. Whatever our nationality, education or nursing position, we all bring unique skills and expertise to our RN jobs.

Whether your role as an RN is Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (my favorite 🙂 ), hospital RN, long term care RN, RN educator, RN researcher or any other role, it’s our week. Let’s celebrate together and toast each other by appreciating our differences and recognizing our similarities. Happy Nurses Week!

I’m Just Celebrating!

2May2014

Vickie’s Favorite Quotes – M.C. Escher

One of LegalNurse.com’s directors says Escher’s quote defines our company. I fully agree. Attempting the absurd in your legal nurse consulting business doesn’t just help you achieve big – it also satisfies your cravings for creative expression. Creative expression is the endurance strategy for joyfully waking up to your CLNC^® business day-after-day, year-after-year.

25Apr2014

Thoughts for Success: Take Time for Living

Successful Certified Legal Nurse Consultants can work 24/7, but why would you want to? You launched and grew your CLNC^® business to have more, not less, life! You have to take time for living, or you’ll never find it.