I’m grateful that I left my hospital job in 1983 to pursue my legal nurse consulting business full time. After reading the heart wrenching stories and experiences of stressed out RNs from LegalNurse.com’s National Nurses’ Stress Survey and the deplorable, dare I say Dickensian, conditions they suffer in healthcare facilities, I shudder at the thought of who I would have become if I had chosen to stay put in the hospital, so many years ago.
But the fact that I created a happier life for myself hardly means that I never experience stress. Like me, every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant, experiences their share. But when I experience stress, I think of Blanche’s (my sage 82-year-old friend) advice – “When I have tension in my life, I call it excitement.”
Simply reclassifying a stressor can transform how it impacts you and your CLNC® business. Thanks to Blanche’s advice, some of my biggest stressors treated as excitement have created the most profound advances for LegalNurse.com. It’s all in your perception – problem or opportunity. Now that’s exciting.
I’m Just Sayin’
P.S. Comment and share situations where you have treated tension as excitement and how this strategy worked for you.
