01.11.11
Posted in getting started at 2:11 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Today is 1/11/11 (as it is written in the US). It is declared to be a day of new beginnings.
If you have been thinking about starting a nurse entrepreneur business but have not gotten around to it today would be the perfect day to revisit that plan. What step could you take today or the day you are reading this that would move you closer to your goal of being a nurse entrepreneur (Nursepreneur)?
Business and life coaches often have you start with the end in mind. What would your day look like if you were a nurse entrepreneur and having a perfect day? What actions would you need to take to be one step closer to having that ideal day? It may seem as though that ideal day is a long way off. However, it will not get any closer if you do not take action. There is an age old question that asks: “How do you eat an elephant? One bit at a time”. This is true for your business idea also. First you have to have an idea, then a plan, and then work that plan.
I would not be sitting here in my travel trailer in the dessert on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land if I had not decided almost 10 years ago that I wanted a nurse entrepreneur business that was not tied to being in a certain location in order to be able to work. While what I wanted didn’t happen overnight it did eventually happen. I am so thankful that I began to take action when I did or I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Even you have a business and you aren’t where you would like to be with your business try something new. Try a new marketing technique, try a different target market, or find something else new to try. Very few if any entrepreneurs go from beginning to end without a few missteps. Actually if you haven’t had a few missteps you probably aren’t taking enough risks or trying enough new ideas. Be BOLD! Just because no one else has ever done it doesn’t mean that your idea won’t work. Because no one else has done it might be the exact reason it does work!
Get started with you first step to your new business today or take the next step that is needed to grow your business even bigger. Don’t forget to have fun along the way!
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01.03.11
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 2:54 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I am sitting in a travel trailer in the dessert near Yuma, AZ as I write this. I am excited that we made the decision in 2010 to buy a travel trailer. We picked up the travel trailer in California in early December 2010. I have such a feeling of freedom to be able to work from whereever we are now that we have a mobile satallite set up. To me this is what being a nurse entrepreneur or nursepreneur is all about. I love being able to work where I want and when I want. It isn’t that as a nurse entrepreneur I don’t have to work or that I don’t have to work many hours, but I am in control or where and when that will be. Wouldn’t you like that also?
I am especially excited to be out of Minnesota for the winter since they have already gotten over 30 inches of snow which is not usual for Minnesota. Yes, it does snow but generally not so early and so much!
We are planning to be camped in the dessert on Bureau of Land Management land at least through the month of January. This is an absolutely beautiful place and typically the weather is very mild here. It has been cold here this week but that is a relative term since we are from Minnesota. It has been in the 30s when we get up in the morning and has been warming into the 50s or 60s during the day. How can one complain about that?
If you are not already a nurse entrepreneur when will YOU start?
LeaRae Keyes, RN
Executive Director
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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Posted in Blogging at 2:34 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once once a week for all of 2011.
I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
Signed,
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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