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There is a famous quote from Albert Einstein, “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” How tenacious are you? Do you give up when it gets rough, or do you press on? We are often tempted to throw in the towel when things are going our way. Sometimes the path to success and to reaching our goals are full of obstacles. Our business slows down, our biggest customer leaves, supplies become more expensive affecting our bottom line. You are just starting out and planning to launch your business, yet it may seem like the time is not right, you can’t find the right space to lease, or you have a dream but you don’t know where to start?
This is where being tenacious will help you move forward. How long do you sit with a problem? Part of being a scientist and in life is often trial and error. You plot a path forward, come to detour, re-route, and start again. If you don’t get it right the first time, you can take it back down to the basics and start over. I remember having an art project I had to complete for school once. I was drawing a picture of a model from a magazine. I was having problems getting her nose just right. I had to erase what I had done and start over to get it just right. You may start a business to only discover that it wasn’t what you thought it would be and, you may have to start over.
I had a conversation recently with a nurse business owner. She was successful in her business, had staff working for her, and yet, it was no longer as fulfilling as it had once been. Her interests were changing. She is thinking about starting a new business in a completely different field. That is okay. Sometimes you excited to do a project or career for a season, and then you may move on to something else. A new challenge is calling you. Being tenacious does not mean that you will never change course or choose a different path. Being tenacious means never giving up on yourself or your dreams. Being tenacious means being willing to see a problem through to the end.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox once said, “No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble disheartens the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.”
A synonym for tenacious is resolute. It is setting your face toward your desired path. It is the grit to keep going despite the obstacles. I Corinthians 9:24 (ESV) “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” Are you steadfast and resolute that you will not only run your race but to do so with the intention to win it? How tenacious are you to keep running when no one else is still in the race? I think of the people that I have talked to who had a vision for a business but never brought it into fruition. All they did was talk about it and then when someone else acted on it, they became bitter. Are running to win your race? Be tenacious. Write your statement of declaration that today “I am going the distance. I won’t give up and can’t go back. I am running for my life. I am tenacious.”
Nursing News
Current trends in the closing of hospitals are affecting the ability of the remaining hospitals to provide adequate care. In a recent article by NBC news, hospital ERs in downtown Atlanta are overcrowded with the closure of Atlanta Medical Center in 2022 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hospitals-strained-atlanta-medical-center-closing-doctors-rcna137451). Two rural hospitals are set to close in Wisconsin including a cancer center and one of the western side of the states adolescent psychiatric unit (https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/western-wisconsin-hospital-closures/). Steward Hospital in Massachusetts is threatening to close citing, “Dallas-based Steward has said 70% of its patients are covered by Medicaid or Medicare. The company argues its facilities face an unfair disadvantage due to the gap in reimbursement rates from public insurance for community hospitals, compared to larger academic medical centers” (https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/25/steward-talks-private-equity-hospital-closures). For more information about what’s happening in healthcare, tune into our news commentary show “Nursing News You Can Use @5” every Wednesday on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@thenursesharkacademy/featured.
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