Avoiding Procrastination...The Secret to Success for Every Nurse Entrepreneu!

Avoiding procrastination can be your number one secret to having a successful nurse entrepreneur business. Whether you’re searching for the right entrepreneurial business or already have it up and running…you must stay focused. You’ll be vulnerable to distractions. Keeping a single goal in front of you, with a clear plan, will prevent leaving you open to procrastination and anything that suggests the grass if greener on the other side.

Define Procrastinate

To define procrastinate, simply look to Webster’s New World Dictionary, “pro = forward + cras = tomorrow. To put off doing something until later.”

Roget’s Super Thesaurus uses these words: “put off, stall, delay, drag one’s feet, postpone, dawdle and prolong.”

However you put it…procrastination will eat away at your nursing business.

Take This Procrastination Test

During the course of the day, have you…

• Been very busy, but at the end of the day you had accomplished very little
• Spent two hours clicking through email that was unrelated to your business
• Checked out some other course, program, webinar, or business “system”
• Thought about trying some other nursing niche that is not directly related to you current business
• Worked 40 hours but were only able to bill for 20

If you answered “no” to all these, then great. You are focused on a clear goal and plan for your nurse entrepreneur business. However, if you’re like most of us, and you answered “yes” to getting distracted from time to time…you need to pause and refocus.

Avoiding procrastination is essential.

Why do People Procrastinate?

You may have a list of great sounding reasons for procrastinating. But as the list grows longer, the success of your business grows dimmer.

Procrastination is usually a mechanism for coping with anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. The sooner you recognize this, the sooner you can take steps to combat it.

You convinced yourself at least once that you had a great idea. Focus on that and keep your goal and plan in mind.

Avoiding Procrastination

There is no magic formula for avoiding procrastination. Here is some advice that I’ve learned in my own struggles with procrastination. Some is also gleamed from other successful business entrepreneurs.

• 1. Become a successful nurse entrepreneur in you own head first. Convince yourself of the success of your business.
• 2. Stop perfectionism. Your business doesn’t have to be perfect. You’ll make adjustments and improvements as your business grows.
• 3. F-O-C-U-S: Follow One Course Until Successful. Pick one nursing niche and study up on it. Create a solid plan of action and stick to it
• 4. Directly contact people you want to work with. What is your ideal client and go after them.
• 5. Network with other nurse entrepreneurs. Hold each other accountable.
• 6. Hold your work time sacred. This can be tough, especially for work at home parents. You may have to start out on nights and weekends. But in the end it’s worth it.

If you want a straight line to achieving a clear goal, you can’t be weaving around without any idea of where you are going. It matters how you spend your time each day. Every hour you spend on distraction is an hour farther from accomplishing success in your nursing business.

If you had a clinical job, you bet you would be avoiding procrastination in patient care and documentation. You'd be accountable on a shift by shift basis for the care you gave. Most importantly, your patient would suffer from your lack of focus.

The same thing happens with you nursing business if you give into procrastination… it will suffer.

Don’t waste time wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere. Know where you’re going and figure out how to get there.

Then DO IT.

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