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Vickie Milazzo Institute
5615 Kirby Drive, Suite 425
Houston, TX 77005-2448
www.LegalNurse.com
Phone: 800.880.0944
Fax: 713.942.8075
Email:
mail@LegalNurse.com
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Volume 16, No. 23
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November 11, 2005
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- NEWS FLASH – Las Vegas CLNC® 6-Day Certification Seminar Photo Gallery
- NEWS FLASH – GRAB THE LION'S SHARE - 3 Contests Could Win You FREE Registration for the 2006 NACLNC® Conference PLUS FREE Hotel Accommodations PLUS $500.00
- FROM THE EDITOR – Flex Your Agility to Become a Successful CLNC®
- THE SAFARI IS ABOUT TO START – Discover Your Natural Edge for CLNC® Success at the 2006 NACLNC® Conference
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NEWS FLASH
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Las Vegas CLNC® 6-Day Certification Seminar Photo Gallery
Congratulations to the new Certified Legal Nurse ConsultantsCM (CLNC®s) who just completed the CLNC® 6-Day Certification Seminar in Las Vegas. I enjoyed sharing 6 power-packed days with you. Check out the excitement from this career-changing week at the Las Vegas Photo Gallery.
You too can experience this powerful career breakthrough for yourself. Join me live and in person when you sign up for one of our 2006 seminars. In only 6 days, you'll be certified and ready to start your new career adventure fully prepared to succeed and grow as a CLNC®.
See the 2006 spring seminar schedule below, choose your dates and location and register now.
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March 25-30, 2006
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Orlando |
April 24-29, 2006
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May 15-20, 2006
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June 5-10, 2006
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Don't miss this opportunity to transform your nursing career. Be sure to register early because past seminars have SOLD OUT. Click for all the details on the CLNC® 6-Day Certification Seminar and to register now.
Check out the 2-Day NACLNC® Apprenticeship immediately following each seminar to expand your new CLNC® knowledge. When you attend the 2-Day Apprenticeship, you receive a FREE CLNC® Marketing LaunchBox that saves you thousands of dollars. You will be ready to start marketing to attorneys immediately with your personalized brochures, stationery and business cards developed by me and my team of professional writers and design experts.
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NEWS FLASH
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GRAB THE LION'S SHARE! – 3 Contests Could Win You
FREE Registration for the 2006 NACLNC® Conference
PLUS FREE Hotel Accommodations PLUS $500.00
As you start making plans for 2006, don't forget to put this roaring event at the top of your
to-do list: The 2006 NACLNC® 11th Annual Conference, "Discover Your Natural Edge for CLNC® Success." Make it the best ever when you enter our 3 exciting contests open to all CLNC®s:
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Register for the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC®) Conference in San Diego, March 10-11, 2006.
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Then take part in one of our contests – or try your hand at all three. Your entry could be a hit and win prizes galore! Feel free to enter as early and as often as you wish. If you're a real legal nurse consulting tiger, you could win FREE NACLNC® Conference tuition PLUS FREE hotel accommodations for three nights PLUS $500.00. And your entries may be included in one or even two of our nationally published books.
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Click here for full details about each contest including contest rules, word limits and required permission statements. Enter early and as often as you like.
Hurry – start planning for your 2006 CLNC® success by entering one or all three of our exciting contests today. But don't delay – all contests close December 30, 2005.
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FROM THE EDITOR
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Flex Your Agility to Become a Successful CLNC®
by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD
We all understand the significance of agility to grow a successful CLNC® business. But how agile are we really and how can agility in our personal life help us grow in our business life?
A near-drowning experience when I was a child left me wary of swimming and totally unwilling to go deeper than snorkeling along the water's surface on a trip to Fiji.
Before Tom and I went to Fiji, he had already been scuba diving many times during the preceding five years. I'd heard his fun stories, but I knew he still occasionally experienced anxiety due to a long-ago diving incident. Tom, the daredevil, with all his diving experience, having anxiety? That made it even harder for me to decide to go for it. The only way I would venture out on the dive boat was with the promise to myself that I could choose not to go into the water.
Upon arrival at the reef, the first thing the dive master talked about was sharks. "This is their world. They're in control. Don't approach or move toward them. Respect them. Respect their space." Actually, sharks didn't scare me at all. I was too afraid of the water to worry about sharks. First I had to get into the water. Then I'd think about sharks.
Several years earlier on Maui I had tried to learn to dive. On that first attempt Tom, my 14-year-old nephew Matt and I started our lessons in the pool. As soon as the water closed over my face mask and I struggled with the weight of the tank and BCD vest that threatened to drown me, I climbed out of the pool and didn't look back. Within the safety of the shore, I enjoyed a massage instead. While they took to the ocean like fish, exploring coral reefs, shipwrecks and the limitless variety of sea life, I clung to my beach chair with my self-help book.
On later vacations Tom and I worked out a compromise. He would dive, then return to snorkel with me. Although not much of a swimmer, I was a great flailer. I snorkeled in the shallows, where I could stand up when I tired from flailing or needed to adjust my mask. Yoga practice had prepared me for proper breathing and body control, and over time my confidence grew. So did the quality of my flailing. To this day my nephew calls me shark bait.
Back to Fiji: I watched a young girl with a mental disability go out doggedly every day learning to dive, while I stayed safely on the surface, afraid to leave my shallow comfort zone for the deeper unknown. I wondered who had the greater disability, she or I. Hers was real, mine only imagined. Who was more agile?
Every afternoon, Tom regaled me with stories of turtles, lionfish, hammerhead sharks and the vibrant coral he saw on his dives while I continued flailing about in the shallows. But each day I snorkeled into deeper and deeper water until finally, on day four of my vacation, I built up the confidence to approach the edge of a 300-foot wall. Looking into its depths I was suddenly no longer content to observe from the surface. My curiosity engaged, I longed to dive deep and envelope myself in the dark wonders below. I resolved to try diving again.
My first dive was in a shallow bay. I clung to the bottom, pulling up sand and sea grass at 15 feet down. Easy. Being close to the bottom gave me security and perspective, and the small success encouraged me to go for more.
On the second dive I dove longer and deeper to 25 feet. On my third dive, we boated to a sandy ledge that led to the 300-foot wall I was ready to explore. The boat rocked on five-foot swells. Tom and the dive master rolled off the side of the boat backwards – the standard diver's show-off entry. When the dive master instructed me to do the same, I said, "No way!" and headed down the narrow stepladder designed for deck shoes, not fins. No easy feat. Tom said it was typical of me to take the hard way down. Stepping from the ladder, I slid beneath the surface.
After the initial roller coaster ride associated with equalizing my ears and my anxiety, we swam along the shallow bottom to the precipice and slowly dropped into the 300-foot abyss. Surprisingly, the stability and quiet of being underwater was a wonderful respite from the swells that bounced the boat on the surface. Anyway, it does no good to scream underwater.
I was grateful that my beginner's depth was limited to 45 feet, but swimming along the side of the wall I was still clearly in another world, with nothing under my fins but darkness.
Soon I was keenly observing the sea life; coral heads, bulbs, fans and thousands of fish, all sizes and temperaments, from the diminutive clown fish bravely defending his anemone home, to the shy 35-pound sweetlips, who disappeared into his coral cavern at the first sight of us. My dive master floated serenely behind me, arms crossed, conserving breath and energy. Only his fins were moving, even when the menacing 10-foot reef sharks swam past us.
As my breathing became more relaxed and quiet, I began to hear the sounds of the sea life. Midway, Tom joined me, held my hand in celebration, and I lost all sense of time, depth – and my childhood fear. While I'll never be a fish in the water, I was now enjoying their world. Even more, I was enjoying my newfound agility.
Challenge a Fixed Viewpoint
Where would I be if I hadn't challenged my fear of water? Probably where I am now, but with less confidence. I believe the happiest people are those who are always growing and stretching. The only way to grow is to question, challenge, probe for new answers and be agile enough to try new things.
In a career, you grow or you die professionally. Most of us are willing to stretch when it comes to our careers. It's expected. You strive for a bigger paycheck, a bigger promotion, more influence or more power. Why don't we do the same in our personal lives? One always affects the other.
In life, as in your career, when you neglect growth, the passion inside you cools. Plan not only for a bigger house or an updated vehicle, but for inner growth. Try to reinvent yourself on a regular basis. You don't want to wake up five years from now and greet the same person in the mirror. You want to see a nurse who has transcended her former boundaries. Refusing to grow and stretch keeps you locked in a box of your own making, just as not taking that dive might have kept me out of the deep underwater world for the rest of my life. We set up our own failure when we believe those insidious mantras, "I can't.I don't.I wasn't trained for that."
A nurse in one of our seminars who was struggling with the fast-paced training became upset because she couldn't record the program. I offered to let her leave the seminar that day and take with her the DVD program to study at home at her own pace.
She refused the offer. Instead, she sat on the front row the entire six days talking to herself, escalating her frustration and not listening to a word of the seminar. At the end of the program, she was one of only a few nurses who failed the certification examination. Ninety-five percent of the class passed. She had sabotaged herself by self-talk. Perceiving her condition to be less than perfect, she created, then reinforced, those perceived conditions. Even if the class seemed overwhelming, she could have dramatically improved her experience by challenging her fixed viewpoint.
That's not to say we should shut our eyes to problems. Agility comes in recognizing what's not working and fixing it. But there's a difference between complaining or stirring up unrest and pointing out a situation that needs to be changed. When employees come to me with a complaint, I say, "Don't criticize – strategize and offer an alternative." I don't expect the perfect solution, but I do expect a suggestion.
I didn't always own a sizeable company. I grew up selling Avon, working at Burger King and then working as a nurse. Owning a growing company constantly challenges my viewpoints and has taught me this attitude: "Wherever you are, make the most of it by questioning, probing and challenging fixed viewpoints." Add a sense of wonder and curiosity. The more you open up to the amazing world around you, the more agility you will have.
I could easily have enjoyed Fiji without flexing my agility beyond snorkeling, but after I challenged my viewpoint, Fiji became an unforgettable, life-changing experience. Inside every nurse is the agility to be anything she wants to be and to do everything her passionate vision demands.
Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD is the founder and president of Vickie Milazzo Institute. She is credited by The New York Times with creating the legal nurse consulting profession in 1982. Inc. named her to the 2004 Top Ten Entrepreneur list. She is the recipient of the Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession and the Stevie Award (business's Oscar®) as Mentor of the Year. Vickie has revolutionized the careers of thousands of RNs. She is the author of Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now, coming March 2006 from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Preorder this anticipated best seller now at www.Amazon.com.
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THE SAFARI IS ABOUT TO START
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Discover Your Natural Edge for CLNC® Success at the
2006 NACLNC® Conference
The NACLNC® Conference, the world's largest legal nurse consulting conference, will be a San Diego adventure you'll never forget. Master teacher Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD and the CLNC® Pros will show you how to win the lion's share of success and satisfaction in your CLNC® career.
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2006 National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC®)
11th Annual Conference
March 10-11, 2006 – San Diego
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You'll sink your teeth into CLNC® opportunities as you discover a lifetime of breakthroughs for your legal nurse consulting practice:
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Choose from 3 tracks of 20 meaty sessions. Whether you are still a cub or are already a CLNC® tiger, you’ll capture all the secrets for more CLNC® success. You can select just the right workshops, panels and presentations to match your CLNC® experience and zero in on your CLNC® goals.
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Master tons of powerful new strategies. Expand your CLNC® practice immediately with new services, fresh marketing ideas and up-to-date practice management techniques. Even the most advanced CLNC®s will track down hundreds of tips to advance their business.
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Attend the interviewing workshop and you’ll walk into every attorney meeting with confidence and you'll be prepared to walk out with a new case.
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Go on a networking safari with more than 1,300 of the nation’s most successful CLNC®s at 2 FREE breakfasts, 2 FREE luncheons and the FREE networking reception.
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500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA 92108
619.291.7131 or 800.772.8527
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