What does it take to become a successful Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC)? A little determination, some drive and a few tools. We'll help you with these.
Let's start with determination. Make this the time you get your career in gear. Not PLNC certified yet? Then get certified. No excuses. There are four ways to get certified as a PLNC: Live Course, Video Course, Audio Course or E-Course. And, there are four live Spring 2011 courses - Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Already PLNC certified? Register for the Unlimited Mentoring Program where you can get help with your questions.
Put some drive into the equation. Do something. Get a 2011 calendar and write down/enter what you're going to do first. For example, if your'e already PLNC certified, you're going to post your Profile Listing on the Jurex Expert Directory. Not PLNC certified, you're going to register for a live course and get $50 off for early registration, PLUS until Jan. 15 we are giving a New Year's discount of an additional $20 off. So, you're saving $70.
A few tools are all you need now. 1. Read, or reread, the PLNC textbook. It's written in an easy-to-understand manner and contains lots of helpful information and tidbits. 2. Take a Jurex e-course. For example, take the e-course "PLNC Practice Basics" or "Practical Technological Solutions". 3. Vow that you're going to do one thing this month to further your Professional Legal Nurse Consultant career.
Go on and take one step. We're here to help you.
Showing posts with label Time Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time Management. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Time Management for Every Legal Nurse Consultant
As a Professional Legal Nurse Consultant running your own business, you will find that time often gets away from you. This being the case, you may be tempted to buy a fancy planner and start rigidly scheduling your time. This is not a good idea.
Here are our interpretations of some thoughts from Steve Pavlina, http://www.stevepavlina.com/. He believes that our concept of time is similar to our concept of money. We have a specific amount and we spend it. But that this concept is mistaken. Rather, time is independent of what we do. Whether we work or play, are asleep or awake, time keeps moving. You can spend the next ten years doing nothing and that ten years will still have passed. In other words, you cannot control time, but only how you use time. And the only time you have is this very moment.
Time is not a commodity but rather is a tool. Something to use to benefit yourself and others. So, how does this apply to your Professional Legal Nurse Consulting business? That’s easy. You have to ‘wear many hats’ as a business owner and in order to do so successfully, you must optimize your use of time. So, how?
Everyone will manage their time differently based on their personal and work needs. If you only need to work part-time, then you will have different time management needs than someone who works full-time.
So, begin simply by figuring out how much time you have to devote to your business per day, per week and per month. If you don’t know, keep a time diary for one week. As you begin and end an activity, note the time and the nature of the activity – eat, sleep, commute, phone call with mother, etc. At the end of the week, break down your days by type of activity and figure out how much time you are using on each. It might surprise you to learn that you are watching eight hours of television a week when you thought you only watched one or two.
After you have grouped the activities, look at them and find any places you can change what you do or how long it takes. This is particularly handy if you are trying to ‘make’ time for a new activity or increase time spent on an existing one. This may well mean giving up a favorite television program, or recording it to watch on the weekend.
Now, figure out where in your day your business activities can or will fall. Pencil in that information onto your calendar. Don’t worry right now if you don’t know exactly what you will do during that time. As your business grows, that time will fill up more quickly than you can even imagine.
Here are our interpretations of some thoughts from Steve Pavlina, http://www.stevepavlina.com/. He believes that our concept of time is similar to our concept of money. We have a specific amount and we spend it. But that this concept is mistaken. Rather, time is independent of what we do. Whether we work or play, are asleep or awake, time keeps moving. You can spend the next ten years doing nothing and that ten years will still have passed. In other words, you cannot control time, but only how you use time. And the only time you have is this very moment.
Time is not a commodity but rather is a tool. Something to use to benefit yourself and others. So, how does this apply to your Professional Legal Nurse Consulting business? That’s easy. You have to ‘wear many hats’ as a business owner and in order to do so successfully, you must optimize your use of time. So, how?
Everyone will manage their time differently based on their personal and work needs. If you only need to work part-time, then you will have different time management needs than someone who works full-time.
So, begin simply by figuring out how much time you have to devote to your business per day, per week and per month. If you don’t know, keep a time diary for one week. As you begin and end an activity, note the time and the nature of the activity – eat, sleep, commute, phone call with mother, etc. At the end of the week, break down your days by type of activity and figure out how much time you are using on each. It might surprise you to learn that you are watching eight hours of television a week when you thought you only watched one or two.
After you have grouped the activities, look at them and find any places you can change what you do or how long it takes. This is particularly handy if you are trying to ‘make’ time for a new activity or increase time spent on an existing one. This may well mean giving up a favorite television program, or recording it to watch on the weekend.
Now, figure out where in your day your business activities can or will fall. Pencil in that information onto your calendar. Don’t worry right now if you don’t know exactly what you will do during that time. As your business grows, that time will fill up more quickly than you can even imagine.
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