Use Your Intuitive Vision to Grow Your CLNC^® Practice
by Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD

StartupNation.com, a popular online community for entrepreneurs and small business owners, interviewed me for an article on intuition. In the article, "Basic by Instinct: Making Intuition Work for You," I shared how following my intuitive vision was the key to creating legal nurse consulting – a profession that did not exist 24 years ago and is now considered one of the hottest jobs for 2007.

Creating my business was all about using my intuitive vision. When I invented the field of legal nurse consulting, most attorneys were hiring doctors to interpret the medical charts for their cases. Attorneys didn't even know what a legal nurse consultant was, much less realize that they needed legal nurse consulting services.

When those first attorneys said "no" to me, I could have become discouraged, but trusting my intuition set me on a new and exciting career path. Consulting on my first cases with attorneys validated what I knew about RNs – no one else could provide an attorney with such a cost-effective, detailed understanding of their case.

To achieve the CLNC^® success you desire, you have to trust in your intuitive vision enough to show up and invest the full effort with no guarantee of the result. That might feel scary, but the only thing certain is this: If you do nothing, you'll achieve nothing.

To conceive any vision you must first get quiet. Remove the clutter and turn down the volume. Silence arouses imagination. Make it your goal to eliminate clutter from your day and your life.

• Unclutter your physical environment at home and at work. Take 10 minutes every day to file that stack of papers that's been sitting on your credenza for months.
  
  
• Unclutter your mind. Eliminate one outside stimulus, one chatty phone call or one TV show. CSI will solve that crime whether you're watching or not.
  
  
• Eradicate one area of procrastination each week. Schedule it in your calendar, as you would any important appointment, and when the time arrives, do what needs to be done.

Vickie L. Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD is the founder and president of Vickie Milazzo Institute, established in 1982. The New York Times credited her as the pioneer of legal nurse consulting, and Inc. named her to the nationwide list of Top 10 Entrepreneurs. She received the Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing the Profession and the Stevie Award (business's Oscar®) as Mentor of the Year. Vickie 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 (published 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). Now in its fourth printing, this business bestseller ranks in the top 10% of all business books being sold and is being published in five additional languages.

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