Debbie Movsesian, Success Coach’s Post

This week doesn’t have to feel like last week. I'm talking to you, dear female doctor. You get so caught up in saying ‘yes’ to Anything and everything out of obligation, That you: > End up with an overstuffed schedule. > Run out of the protected time you had. > Can't get important tasks done on time. > Feel drained & demotivated all week. Today, you & I are going to change that. After months of trial-and-error in medicine, my big takeaway is that: “Deciding what NOT to do, matters Way more than deciding what to do” (Let that sink in) If you want to: — Have more protected time — Make daily progress on what's meaningful — And check off important tasks You need to get good at Filtering out “noise” from your schedule. I do it in 4 simple ways: 1. Practice the art of strategic refusal. 2. Consider what I will be saying ‘no’ to if I say ‘yes’ to a task. 3. If a task isn't going to help me get a grant or further my career, it's a “no” or “not yet”. 4. Remind myself that I can do anything. But not everything. Look, academia will always pressure you to: > Take on another task. > Join another committee. > Work 5 more hours. But only YOU are responsible for your career. Get selective. Filter out the “noise” To focus on what gives you meaning. Sometimes it takes small shifts like these, To completely transform your week (+ career) 💜 >> Take a moment to reflect and tell me: What one activity are you NOT going to indulge in this week?

What starts with a simple 𝒀𝑬𝑺 today? Imagine a 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 as an expert nurse or healthcare professional where you confidently say "no" to burnout and "yes" to your well-being. That life starts with one simple 𝒀𝑬𝑺 today. ✨ Identify one area in your life or career where you can draw a new boundary. Maybe it's dedicating time for a peaceful lunch break, or ensuring your evenings are free from work emails. ✨ By the end of this week, reflect on the positive impact this change has made on your mental and emotional health. 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓? ↳ Use my evidence-based 5 steps to reform boundary-setting in your life and career. ↳Get a free PDF of these step, using the link in my newsletter. ↳ Invest wisely, in yourself and your boundaries. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏,  ↳ Reap the rewards of your first step and each step thereafter to achieve true happiness. ---------------------- 𝐏.𝐒. When you began to invest in setting your boundaries - what did you learn? Share in comments. 👉 Follow me Dr. Kristi Campoe, PhD, RN, CMSRN, CPHQ, sMBA for evidence-based tips for a bold life & career. 📘My newsletter The Bold Brief publishes each Wednesday. Join 3000+ subscribers ⬇️ BoldNurse.com/subscribe

The phrase “follow your passion” seems very singular to me. The idea that you do something in your life that excites you. Often this follow your passion idea is tied to your life’s work. Ie peofession. I have always struggled when applying this idea to myself. See, I have more than one passion. I enjoy and appreciate many things in my world. I have pursued more than one thing throughout my life. I think “follow your purpose” is a phrase that resonates with me in a more meaningful way than “follow your passion”. When Inreflect I can look back and see how my core values ans beliefs helped shape my purpose and how it tied into my passions. What is my purpose you might ask? It’s taken a long time to actually define my purpose and connect all the things to understand and say it out loud. My purpose is multifaceted, though I have always felt my purpose is greater than myself rooted in the desire to help others in the world. How has this tied to my passions? I am a nurse. I didn’t set out to be a nurse all those years ago. I always have said I “fell into nursing” it’s been a rewarding career and looking back it totally makes sense; it is that nursing found me. I’ve been an educator working in academia and in my day to day life as a nurse. These two life pursuits are only a part of the bigger picture but they are very large parts of what I do that connects to who I am. I believe your passions are and should be tied to your core values and beliefs. When you define, understand what your core beliefs are, then it’s easier to make sense of how they into and feed your passions. So pulling it all together…..identify your core beliefs and values. Understand how they connect to your pirpose which feeds your passions.

A lot of mornings when I go to the gym, I see a friend of mine, who is the CEO of a life sciences company. I'm not saying this to brag about hitting the gym regularly (trust me, you wouldn’t think so if you saw me!), but to point out that despite my friend's high-stakes, high-stress job, he still makes time to prioritize his health. I do too. And so should you. Life’s growing complexity and stress are taking a clear toll on key health metrics like life expectancy, quality of life, and overall wellness. We all know the importance of caring for our physical, mental, and spiritual health, in whatever way that works for us. But when life gets busy, it’s easy to let those things slip. Take care of yourself first. You can’t show up for yourself or those you care about if you're exhausted, unwell, or worse. You don’t need a major life overhaul—just start small, start now, and focus on building consistency. Have a walking meeting instead of sitting in a conference room. Think about what you're grateful for. Learn something new. One little win, today.

My First Ambulance Ride and Embracing New Experiences Last week, I experienced my first ambulance ride. For about a week, I had been feeling a tightness in my chest near my heart. When the discomfort spread across my entire chest, I decided it was better to be safe than sorry and called for medical help. (I couldn't help but think: the last thing I wanted was to find myself knocking on the pearly gates, only to be asked, "Why are you here? We gave you enough warning!") Thankfully, all my vitals turned out to be fine, with no signs of any heart issues. I'm incredibly grateful for the rapid response of the ambulance paramedics and the care I received at the hospital. Despite the obvious strains on our overloaded and under-resourced health system, I'm thankful for the service they provide. 🙏 Heros. During the ride, I took a selfie and asked my darling wife, who accompanied me, to smile. I believed in us both staying positive rather than worrying unnecessarily – an attitude that proved to be the right one. After all, I believe in worrying only when it's truly time to worry. This experience got me thinking about "firsts" and how they continue to shape our lives, even as we get older. So, what new experiences are you having this week? As for me: - I'm meeting seven career transition coaching clients for the first time - I'm interviewing five people for a role, all of whom I've never met before - I'm visiting a new part of Sydney for the first time - I'm being pushed out of my comfort zone in two work-related areas and one sports-related area Here's to embracing non-routine activities and first-time experiences – even at my age! What new adventures are you embarking on this week? #FirstTimeExperiences #EmbraceTheNew #LifeLessons #HealthAwareness #GratefulForHealthcare #NeverTooOldForFirsts #PositiveAttitude #ComfortZone #PersonalGrowth #CareerTransition #WorkLifeBalance #SydneyLife #StayingPositive #AmbulanceRide #HeartHealth

No summer vacation will magically rekindle your love for a #job you dread. Holidays can successfullt take your agonizing current #role from ER to the ICU, it will linger on there though forever. Sure, you may have needed a break, but that “back-to-school” syndrome? It’s something else entirely. Here’s the hard truth you might not want to hear on a Monday morning, especially on the second day of September: You can’t thrive in a workplace that’s been pushing you to the edge of your sanity. Please take a few minutes to reflect. ⚠️What have you been tolerating for far too long? ⚠️What are you no longer willing to tolerate? Before you force yourself to swallow that bitter pill yet again, pause and assess where you’re at in your career. And now will you be enduring another full quarter until you numb your feelings during Christmas vacation? Or are you finally ready to take that leap of faith? #jobhunt #careertransition #careerdevelopment #executivecoaching #corporatetraining #leadershipdevelopment #keynotespeaker

Yesterday marked one year in the 'day job' alongside having my coaching business. My observations: I've only had 1 day off sick in the year versus 6 in the previous timeframe in the previous job, from recurring colds and stomach problems. (Highly recommend Zinc & Vitamin C supplements by the way!) Hybrid or fully remote works best for me mentally and brings out the best in me. There's no going back. Taking regular mini breaks such as long weekends or the odd day here and there is better for me than chunks of holiday. If I don't have flexibility and autonomy in my day job, it's not for me. In order for me to be fulfilled in whatever I'm doing outside of my business, I have to experience joyful, 'punch in the air' moments of achievement. I'm so grateful for that. Navigating menopause at work has been challenging, but having reasonable adjustments makes the world of difference. I can be a workaholic. This doesn't serve me well physically, so I've had to learn to get the balance right. Let's see what year 2 brings! If you have a job alongside running your business what have you learned about yourself?

Day 53/365 - The Secret to Never Feeling ‘Free Time’ Again When you feel like you have nothing to do, think of your goals. 🎯 Then, write down the 6 most important tasks for the next day that will bring you closer to them. 📝 That’s what I did yesterday, and today marks my first day practicing this method. By listing those tasks, I suddenly realized how much I still need to learn and do. 😅✨ Also, never say your work is perfect—there's always room for improvement. 🚀 Our work gets better as we refine it from different angles. The more we love what we do, the more we naturally find ways to keep improving. ❤️ For example, I’m constantly busy with Empowered Liion because I genuinely love it. 🔥 I always find more things to do when I have free time because I want to make it better every day. On the flip side, I don’t feel the same way about my nursing career. 🤷♀️ Sure, I complete what’s required during my shift, but I don’t have the drive to do more or improve beyond what’s expected. My passion in this field is nearly at zero, and I don’t see it adding much value to my life. This is the difference between working a job you love versus one you don’t. 💼 So, take a moment to reflect on your own career. When you finish your tasks for the day, do you feel motivated to do more? That initiative only comes when you truly love what you’re doing. 💡

Good pushes out bad Have you ever taken a vacation?  I trust you have at some point, and I hope you have recently (or will soon).  I will save the vacation talk for another time.  Today, I would like to focus on the time BEFORE vacation. Have you ever thought about your time before going on vacation?  What is it like?  If you are anything like me, it is some of your most productive time you ever have. The clock is winding down and somehow you find a way to get more done in less time than you typically do. Why does that happen?  It happens because good pushes out bad. As you move closer to something that is so important, you automatically eliminate things which do not support your good mission. In the pharmacy, we deal with many patients who have chronic conditions and take medications to control them.  What happens when the medications are taken? You guessed it! Good (medications) pushes out bad (uncontrolled condition). This happens all around us all the time.  Perhaps you have someone on your team who struggles with getting things done.  Your first thought may not be to give this person additional tasks or responsibilities. But it could be the solution. Why?  Because good pushes out bad. Perhaps additional tasks and responsibilities (good) will push out the bad things that prevent this person from getting things done. But there is an additional consideration to this principle.   If (when) good slips up, bad is right there to take the spot. Have you ever noticed principle in action?   What are some ways you leverage good to push out bad? #forpharmacy #forpharmacists #pharmacists #pharmacyleadership #leadwell #EveryoneDeservesToBeLedWell #KeepPharmacistsImproving

My mom loves to tell me the story of her friend that made a huge career change- leaving behind her “successful” corporate career to attend nursing school in her late 40s. She went on to have a greatly fulfilling nursing career until she retired. She’d say: “Jen- you can change your mind and do something different whenever you want.” And- she’s right. But more often than not, we become so married to the professional identity (and paycheck) we’ve spent time and energy investing in and creating that the very thought of changing that feels daunting. Impossible. And when the day comes that our identity doesn't feel like “us” anymore… when it feels like a dead-end, misaligned and/or wrong for what it is we truly seek, we become paralyzed. Heard of sunk cost fallacy? That’s exactly what’s at play here. We feel… stuck. One of my most favorite (and highly effective!) exercises to run with people “stuck”, feeling trapped or unsure whether they should stay or go is a cost-value analysis. It becomes really clear. What’s the value in leaving/changing? What’s the cost of leaving/changing? What’s the value in staying? What’s the cost of staying? If you’re contemplating a change (role, company or career) and want to explore this exercise, I’m offering up 10 30-minute slots to partner on this exercise together. If you need a little help figuring out what to do, grab a slot. All I ask is that you show up- for you. Life’s too short to be stuck. ⤵️ Link to schedule in the comments.