Interrupting Your Interruptions Can Take Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business to New Heights
Like any other Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, whether you’re working at home with family around you, in an office with other CLNC® consultants and attorneys around or camped out in a Starbucks with your laptop, I can guarantee you’ll be interrupted.
Nursing teaches us to handle interruptions with grace and aplomb and still keep our cool. Haven’t we all had that shift where everything happens at once and once it settles down, it all happens again?
But other than all those outsiders, there’s one person who is responsible for interrupting the work you’re doing in your legal nurse consulting business and keeping you from getting to the really big things you need to do – like that report for your favorite attorney-client or reading that boring deposition of the doctor who’s accused of implanting unneeded cardiac stents. That one person is probably responsible for more interruptions than anyone else. I’ll give you one clue – it’s not your significant other.
Who is the responsible party? That’s correct, it’s you. Today we live in a world where we are surrounded by a plethora of interruptions – there are emails, texts, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, voicemail, not to mention the latest news of interest to Certified Legal Nurse Consultants. Could you allow these communications to interrupt you? Yes, but you can train yourself not to allow them in.
It’s a matter of discipline. When we’re working on a difficult project we either get so immersed in it that we forget time, place and surroundings (once, just once, Tom had to remind me to come to dinner) or we find the project so boring that we practically look for interruptions (you click the refresh button on your Facebook wall and when nothing changes, click it again just to be sure). In the first state our focus gives us the discipline to work without interruptions. The second state is where our discipline gives us the focus to keep from interrupting ourselves.
In this world of unlimited distractions it’s more important than ever to work in as focused a manner as possible. If you can interrupt the interrupter you’ll get a whole lot more done and have time to truly enjoy the fruits of your CLNC success.
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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.
