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Are You Like Bamboo in Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business?

Many of you know I like to start each day with a cup of healthy green tea. I especially like to enjoy that first healthy cup of green tea while comfortably ensconced in the recliner in my bedroom, drinking tea and looking out to the silhouettes of the giant timber bamboo that surrounds our home reaching heights of easily 60 ft.

During the week I’m up at 4:00am and I love that the bamboo is one of the first things to greet me (second to Tom of course) as I sip my tea and before I’m off to the gym. I love to watch the gentle ballet of the bamboo as it sways in the wind. Even the slightest breeze will set it moving gracefully, dancing in the dawn light. A strong wind makes it look and sound like giant wind chimes and I love hearing the clacking of the stalks through the stillness.

This morning, I watched the swaying stalks and I started thinking about how much Certified Legal Nurse Consultants can learn from bamboo. Bamboo is unnaturally strong – just the way your CLNC® business should be. It’s also flexible and will bend and flex a long way before breaking – just like your attorney-clients expect you to perform.

If its base grows weak and it begins to lean, it will rest against other bamboo and continue to grow, rather than become uprooted. A stand of bamboo supports each other just as CLNC® consultants do when networking and subcontracting through the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. There’s also safety in numbers as a forest of bamboo exhibits as it blocks the wildest wind. Rather than break in the face of a strong force, it bends and twists, reactively dealing with changes in weather and wind direction. After Hurricane Ike, Houston was covered with downed trees and broken tree limbs but almost no bamboo stalks lay in our yard. When was the last time you networked, collaborated and masterminded with three to five Certified Legal Nurse Consultants?

Though strong, bamboo is also thin and lightweight. It reminds us to keep our CLNC® businesses fast and agile – not becoming lumbering dinosaurs or institutionalized like hospitals. Bamboo thrives by co-existing with other plants just like your CLNC® business can thrive as you co-exist with other CLNC® consultants in the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants Association. In my backyard, some stalks of my bamboo have grown taller than my house and do so by growing through a 50-year-old oak tree that separates my home from my neighbor’s. I like to think that each are helping support the other, like we all do in our legal nurse consulting businesses but I also remember that like businesses, are in competition. The bamboo is in competition with the oak for the water and nutrient resources in the ground. After more than 15 years, both seem to be doing quite well together.

Bamboo can also be used for many things. Once hollowed out, I’ve seen it used in the place of pipe. Its shoots can be eaten. An enterprising bird has created a nest at a location where four stalks come together high in the air (it seems a bit precarious to me). In Asia, I’ve seen bamboo used as construction scaffolding. How many other plants or trees can you use for that? In Hawaii, I’ve hiked through a bamboo forest that was so thick I almost needed a flashlight in mid-day to find my way along the trail. In Japan, bamboo is sometimes treated with reverence and there are entire parks dedicated to its beauty.

This morning, there was an unnatural stillness outside my windows. There was not even the slightest trace of a breeze and the bamboo looked like a still-life or black and white photo in the early light. I can’t wait to see what it looks like this evening.

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*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.

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