Pursuing Your Saturday-Night Essence
If you followed some of the suggestions I made in my
last post regarding discovering your Saturday-Night Essence, you may have discovered that although you love your profession of respiratory care, there is still something missing. Perhaps it's something you have hidden in your mind as impractical and impossible to achieve and you slammed the door on that life you were meant to live.
Do you have a strong yearning to use your knowledge, training, skills, and experience to work in a NICU? Perhaps you have a passion to work in a PICU? Your excuse is that it is impractical or your facility doesn't have a NICU or a PICU. If that is your innermost desire, then it may require more education, new certifications, or maybe a move to another city or at least some additional travel.
There was an individual who was working as a senior executive in a successful company and one day he found his Saturday-Night Essence. He always wanted to be an artist, but his parents, siblings, friends, teachers, counselors, and relatives all convinced him that he could never make a living or support his family being an artist. He buried his Saturday-Night Essence deep in his mind as being impractical as well as impossible.
However, later in life he decided to pursue his dream of being an artist and continued to work for the same company during his pursuit. Soon, the company recognized his skills and they used his artistic talents within the company structure, which opened more doors and more opportunities. Within a short time, he left his position as a senior executive of the company to continue his Saturday-Night Essence. He was happy beyond expression and felt fulfilled and exhilarated about life again.
I have a classmate from respiratory school that is an excellent therapist and she actually worked for me for about a year, but her Saturday-Night Essence was something different: home care. She spent a couple years learning home care and decided to open her own business. Now, she has the only full-service home care company in town.
What a difference she has made in area patients with respiratory diseases. She has taken the time to teach them about their disease and medications. As a result, she has significantly reduced the number of ER visits and hospitalizations for her patients. She found her Saturday-Night Essence and has turned an impractical or impossible situation in her mind into a great love affair and a thriving business.
I had a former student who loved respiratory care, and he desired to work on a transport team. However, he could not see a way that his deep desire could ever come to fruition. I gave him some suggestions on pursuing his Saturday-Night Essence and he, his wife, and children decided to move to a city with several large medical centers. Over five years, he progressed from a floor therapist to his Saturday-Night Essence and beyond. He is now involved with surface and air transport as well as international transports.
Another colleague has discovered her Saturday-Night Essence, and with persistence, she has continued her education from an associate's to a bachelor's to a master's degree. She now enjoys her dream of still being closely associated with her beloved respiratory care but works at the level of a senior hospital executive as an associate administrator.
The beauty of your new adventure in life is this: It gets more and more exciting the further you go. Man was made to create. Creating value for yourself and others with your Saturday-Night Essence is far better then to stagnate.
Each day, each week, gets you more and more involved in the person you were meant to be and that's fun. There is nothing better than traveling through life on the path you were destined to travel and doing what truly impassions you. Suddenly, you are where you belong, and you know it. It is the love for your journey that will bring you major success. Once you're on your way, you know it, and nothing can stop you. Enjoy your journey!