Thoughts for Success Archives - Page 11 of 15

20Nov2015

Thoughts for Success: Choosing Happiness Stirs Us to Openly Embrace Growth Challenges

Recently I found myself making a difficult decision, and on reflection, recognized I wasn’t moving toward happiness as part of the decision-making process. I was instead moving toward the path of least resistance, one that would lead to the least level of dissatisfaction and stress. I wasn’t making the best decision, I was making the easiest. I resolved to instead choose happiness and openly embrace all of the challenges that go along with it.

6Nov2015

Thoughts for Success: Opportunity Presents When You Show Up

At the Friday evening reception before our Consultant 2.0 event with Stedman Graham, I was surprised how few Certified Legal Nurse Consultants initially approached Stedman – whether for a photo or to network. Many of them have worked on hundreds of cases, so I knew they had to be comfortable in business and networking situations. So what was up? The CLNC consultants were networking among themselves like crazy and the buzz in the ballroom validated they were capable of approaching just about anybody, including Stedman.

23Oct2015

Thoughts for Success: Worry Is a Useless Emotion

My office officially opens for business at 8:00am. In anticipation, by 7:50 there’s a hoard of marauders forming outside my office door; employees asking for my input on projects, directors telling me they can’t meet a deadline and the occasional random person who’s walked in off the street wanting to know if they’re in the right place for Cirque du Soleil tickets (I’ll be the first to admit my office can often be a circus, but not that kind of circus. LOL!).

9Oct2015

Thoughts for Success: If We Could See the Future We Might Never Go There and What a Shame That Would Be

People often ask me, “Vickie, if you knew then, what you know now, would you have started your legal nurse consulting business in 1982?” Depending on the day of the week my answer ranges from “Absolutely!” to “Absolutely not!”

25Sep2015

Thoughts for Success: Excess Is a Liability; Needing Less Is an Asset

There’s a famous quote “Nothing exceeds like excess.” At first it’s hard to grasp, but the more you think about it, the more relevant it becomes. Last week I was in a meeting with an attorney and he started to tell me about a wedding reception he’d attended that had shirtless male models wearing overalls walking around shucking fresh oysters for the attendees (Darn I’m upset that I missed that one!) and another that had monogrammed cloth napkins for the guests.

11Sep2015

Thoughts for Success: Honor the Past, Live in the Present and Create an Exciting, Imaginative Future

Take a moment today to honor the past, live in the present and think about how you can create a future we can all get excited about.

28Aug2015

Thoughts for Success: Shit Flows Uphill

Despite popular belief and the laws of gravity, shit really does flow uphill, at least for entrepreneurs. Own a legal nurse consulting business and you also own responsibility for everyone associated with you – employees, subcontractors and vendors. There’s a reason you get paid the big bucks – when someone fails you, the repercussions of said failure fall on your shoulders.

14Aug2015

Thoughts for Success: Success Is Inside

Success Is Inside! Need I say more? When I wrote Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman this was the most important message I wanted to convey, so I autographed every book with that thought. Thousands of autographed books later, I’m still in awe that my right hand held up to the task without any repetitive stress injury.

31Jul2015

Thoughts for Success: If You’re Not Your Own Critic, Someone Else Will Be

The business of being a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is hard so I’m always striving to make managing the business as easy as possible. How? By critiquing my own work and expecting my staff here at LegalNurse.com to critique theirs too.

17Jul2015

Thoughts for Success: Optimism Is the Oxygen for Your Success

Optimism is oxygen to successful entrepreneurs. I’ve owned my legal nurse consulting business for 33 years now and you might wonder what it is that gets me up and out of bed every day. The answer is certainly not escaping my share of a healthy dose of challenges.

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