Nurses, Are You A Lot Like Me?
You know, I think I am a lot like you
When I got out of nursing school in 1990, I really had this sense of adventure. I wanted a job that I did not have to work weekends, nights or holidays. I wanted a job with minimal stress, well paying job that I can express my life purpose, challenging and growth opportunities. I wanted to be able to work less and make more money, to have more time to spend with my family and more time to accomplish some of my life time goals like pursuing higher degree or some of my hobbies. I wanted to travel, see the world and visit exotic, glamorous places, and return to school two years later to become a nurse practitioner or train the new generation of nursing students as a professor. I had no intention of getting stuck in a rut or feeling trap on a job. I wanted to climb the clinical ladder and quickly become a leader in the nursing field. I did not want to be the nurse who spends her entire nursing career working the same unit, with the same employer, only a bachelor degree, a capped salary with more bills than I can handle, and a family to support. I was really after experiencing true success, financial freedom and recognitions. But instead, as I got out of college it seemed like every path I looked down just led me right into that same old path that everyone seemed to be taking. I got married a year after I got out of nursing school, and started a family shortly after that. I spent the next 15 years burying my dreams, raising a family, working full time, overtime, and accumulating more bills than I wanted to. After 15 years of living such a stressful and unfulfilled life, I began evaluating my life looking at my pass accomplishments and found none. After a long 60 hour week at the hospital one day, I just decided that was not for me, and I made up my mind that I was going to take charge of my life instead of living it to my circumstances and my environment. At one point I felt that my dreams were being killed by life, but now looking back I recognized that those years were not lost at all, and they were my preparation years for what I am free to do today.
I began to look around for opportunities for me to make more money, to be debt free, work less hours, spend more quality time with my family, travel, live a healthier life, find a less stressful job where I can have independence, autonomy, control of my time, my money and where I can use my skills, my experiences and my natural talents. After many years of research, I found the one opportunity that had it all. I found the career coaching industry, a billion dollar industry that is exploding. After being educated in the area of coaching, business and marketing, I am now in a mission to use my skills and knowledge to help nurses’ live extraordinary lives. As a coach I vow to help nurses to identify what is most important to them and help them to align their thoughts, their words, and their actions accordingly to help them achieve the life that they really want. My mission is to help nurses create a more balanced life, make more money, live the abundant life that they were created to have.
One of the things that I found that I am really good at doing is in the area of problem solving. I am good at problem solving, I am a good listener and passionate at helping people get what they want in life. I also believe in purposeful living. I believe that everyone came to earth for a purpose and also born with all the tools to live out that purpose successfully. Knowing that nurses are smart, flexible, resilient, and intuitive people of integrity, I believe that most of them are living way below their potentials. I also discovered in the past few years that nurses have treasures buried inside them, and behind their scrubs hide people with tremendous talent, knowledge and abilities, if applied systematically can produce success beyond what they can imagine or dream.
Let me know how can you relate to this story, email me: emmasoy@nursingshepherd.com
When I got out of nursing school in 1990, I really had this sense of adventure. I wanted a job that I did not have to work weekends, nights or holidays. I wanted a job with minimal stress, well paying job that I can express my life purpose, challenging and growth opportunities. I wanted to be able to work less and make more money, to have more time to spend with my family and more time to accomplish some of my life time goals like pursuing higher degree or some of my hobbies. I wanted to travel, see the world and visit exotic, glamorous places, and return to school two years later to become a nurse practitioner or train the new generation of nursing students as a professor. I had no intention of getting stuck in a rut or feeling trap on a job. I wanted to climb the clinical ladder and quickly become a leader in the nursing field. I did not want to be the nurse who spends her entire nursing career working the same unit, with the same employer, only a bachelor degree, a capped salary with more bills than I can handle, and a family to support. I was really after experiencing true success, financial freedom and recognitions. But instead, as I got out of college it seemed like every path I looked down just led me right into that same old path that everyone seemed to be taking. I got married a year after I got out of nursing school, and started a family shortly after that. I spent the next 15 years burying my dreams, raising a family, working full time, overtime, and accumulating more bills than I wanted to. After 15 years of living such a stressful and unfulfilled life, I began evaluating my life looking at my pass accomplishments and found none. After a long 60 hour week at the hospital one day, I just decided that was not for me, and I made up my mind that I was going to take charge of my life instead of living it to my circumstances and my environment. At one point I felt that my dreams were being killed by life, but now looking back I recognized that those years were not lost at all, and they were my preparation years for what I am free to do today.
I began to look around for opportunities for me to make more money, to be debt free, work less hours, spend more quality time with my family, travel, live a healthier life, find a less stressful job where I can have independence, autonomy, control of my time, my money and where I can use my skills, my experiences and my natural talents. After many years of research, I found the one opportunity that had it all. I found the career coaching industry, a billion dollar industry that is exploding. After being educated in the area of coaching, business and marketing, I am now in a mission to use my skills and knowledge to help nurses’ live extraordinary lives. As a coach I vow to help nurses to identify what is most important to them and help them to align their thoughts, their words, and their actions accordingly to help them achieve the life that they really want. My mission is to help nurses create a more balanced life, make more money, live the abundant life that they were created to have.
One of the things that I found that I am really good at doing is in the area of problem solving. I am good at problem solving, I am a good listener and passionate at helping people get what they want in life. I also believe in purposeful living. I believe that everyone came to earth for a purpose and also born with all the tools to live out that purpose successfully. Knowing that nurses are smart, flexible, resilient, and intuitive people of integrity, I believe that most of them are living way below their potentials. I also discovered in the past few years that nurses have treasures buried inside them, and behind their scrubs hide people with tremendous talent, knowledge and abilities, if applied systematically can produce success beyond what they can imagine or dream.
Let me know how can you relate to this story, email me: emmasoy@nursingshepherd.com
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