Archive for January, 2011
We cannot go back and start a new beginning, but we can start today and make a new ending.
Posted by Sean on January 31, 2011
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A True Nurse Champion
Posted by Sean on January 30, 2011
It’s been a long time coming. I should have wrote this blog post a year ago honestly (or close to it). I’m talking about Dr. Dean Burke. I stumbled upon this fine gentlemen many months ago through the oh-so popular Twitter.
I wish I could tell you how long ago, I can only tell you we crossed paths. Ever since then I’ve been following his plight. His love of nursing is only bettered by his love of his family, his profession and his passion for financial freedom. And quite honestly, the three coexist on such high level of play. He is a 25yr veteran OBGYN who is married to a fellow nurse. In his ‘spare’ time he has written the book "The Millionaire Nurse". A book on how nurses can utilize their professional skills to maximize their financial management. It teaches nurses, step by step, how to reach financial freedom without bending over backwards and losing their mind in the process.
I was lucky enough to have read his book this past summer, and sadly I never really blogged about it. Everything from post graduate planning, work, family and then pre-graduate school jitters took up most of my time this past summer. Of course I’ve been drowning in grad school work since fall season of last year.
I just wanted you to know that his book has a plethora of vital information that can help all nurses loosen the ‘noose’ we call debt. Everything from daily tips, sample worksheets, step-by-step planning guidelines, how-to tips, and of course what not to do when it comes to sealing the ‘deal’ of better financing. There is information on buying and selling stocks, bonds, big ticketed items like homes and vehicles, to little money saving tips on the everyday things we take for granted.
Finances and me are on decent terms these days, but once school is finished I can tell you that me and Dr. Dean’s book will be re-visiting each other. I’m going to need the help.
I only bring this to your attention because Dr. Dean is out to help all nurses. Either by his book, through is positive words on Twitter or his millionaire nurse blog that he maintains here: Millionaire Nurse Blog. He is always putting in the good word for us, and I just want him to know that I appreciated it.
Not to mention he always has nice things to say about me and my social presences (Twitter, My Strong Medicine blog, and Scrubs Magazine).
Here’s his latest kind words:
One story by Sean- who works out, writes as The Male Nurse at the Scrubs website, has his own site, is going to graduate school and has a real job, is the poster-child for burnout. But, best I can tell, he is just writing about it, not living it. Don’t miss his post below.
So this is my thanks to him.
And this is my nudge for all of you to seek this fine gentlemen and proud professional out, you won’t be disappointed.
Dr. Dean:
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Ohhhhh Sugah….
Posted by Sean on January 30, 2011
I just had to share this one. It struck me as funny as H-E double hockey sticks.
Hee Hee
sugar honey iced tea
Honey – H
Iced – I
Tea – TIt means “SHIT”, you just say Sugar Honey Iced Tea when you can’t openly swear.
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Does Unfit = Unhappy
Posted by Sean on January 30, 2011
This is a very interesting (yet disturbing) article. It of course has to use the late Jack LaLanne as the subject of discontent.
The article claims that we as a society have labeled ‘fit’ as being ‘happy’ and that if you are not ‘fit’ you feel unhappy and because of the ‘craze’ that Jack LaLanne started you have some sort of ‘guilt’ for not being ‘happy’.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this article and the notion of being ‘guilted’ into thinking that unless you exercise and strive for better health the public views you as a failure of some sort??
That some how we ‘fit’ individuals are a part of some ‘cult-like’ organization that is attempting to ‘out’ anyone who won’t follow.
Hmm.
Seems a bit extreme thinking.
I for one promote healthy living for the reward of improved quality of life and to decrease the ‘pain’ that goes along with unhealthy choices. I for one don’t believe in the extremes of this thought process. Any level of improved health is good in my book.
It is Jack LaLanne you can thank, or curse, for all the gyms: in exurban strip malls, suburban manses, downtown hotels. The health club he opened in Oakland, Calif., in 1936 was one of their seeds and templates, an endorphin emporium that pointed the way.
But that’s not the whole of his legacy, or the most interesting (some might say insidious) part.
That sense of failure you feel when you haven’t exercised in days? That conviction that if you could pull off better push-ups, you’d be a better person through and through? These, too, are his doing, at least in part. What he left behind when he died last week, at the toned old age of 96, was not only a sweaty culture of relentless crunching and spinning but also the notion that fitness equals character, and that self-actualization begins with the self-discipline to get and stay in shape. In the post-LaLanne landscape, it’s not the eyes but the abdominals that are windows to the soul.
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An Idea…
Posted by Sean on January 29, 2011
(OK. Who here has seen the movie Inception)
An idea.. is the most powerful thing a human can posses. It can change worlds and impact lives in a way that no other ‘thing’ can.
An Idea:
- creates change
- pushes limits
- requires you to step ‘outside the box’
- breaks ‘the ice’
- influences ebb and flow
- starts time
- stops time
- is virtually infinite
- is free of charge
- soft enough to catch but strong enough to brake
- is the key to almost all locked things
Why not make one today? Are you interested in having any of things touch your life? What’s stopping you?
I urge you to create the idea that starts breathing ‘life’ into your life.
What’s your idea?
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OK. So it's not 'trenta' worthy. But it will do.
Posted by Sean on January 28, 2011
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Blog Burping Boo Boo
Posted by Sean on January 28, 2011
Sorry about the post regurgitations lately. I use Amplify to clip webpages and post articles to this blog and for some strange reason Amplify has been taking a single post (clipping) and ‘posting’ it 7 or 8 times here?
I’m in the process of trying to figure out why, whether it’s my blog’s fault, or maybe a glitch with Amplify.
I hope it can be resolved; I rather like using that website.
As always, thanks for stopping by and reading my shtuff.
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What’s crack-a-lackin’ my heckler-like Tumblin’ fitblrs??
Posted by Sean on January 27, 2011
“It’s been a while”….
There’s a song there somewhere?
School is ruling my life once again. Not much time for focused time wasting on Tumblr these days. I must say I think about my fellow fitblrs just about everyday though. You have officially become that ‘voice’ in my head. The ‘heckler’ that keeps me in check when all I wanna do is become a lazy slobbery-slug.
When I moan and groan waking up to head to the gym at the beginning of my day, I often remind myself that there are others out there fighting the good fight and not complaining about it!
So this is my thank you for becoming the heckling voice in my head. I needed it.
Stay strong everyone.
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Eat Your Fruits/Veggies – Prevent a Heart Attack
Posted by Sean on January 27, 2011
OK.
Maybe not an actual heart attack, but it will decrease your risk of heart disease at the very least! And the last time I checked that was nothing but a good thing.
I guess I’m just wondering how much ‘evidence’ does the public need to catch on to the idea of a healthy diet?
Maybe if we invested as much into health promoting activities as we do detrimental health activities we just might get somewhere.
Ahh… dare to dream huh?
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Pain is temporary. Pride is forever.
Posted by Sean on January 27, 2011
Yes, a borrowed term from my military days.
Put it into perspective ladies and gentlemen. Pain is just your body letting you know your still alive.
It’s also weakness exiting.
It’s truly amazing how ‘it’ stops hurting the minute you’ve accomplished your goal?
What are you waiting for?
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