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Reveling In One's Saturday Night Essence
September 8, 2009 5:40 PM by Roger Berg
I was planning to write on a totally different topic for this post, but I received a very exciting telephone call a couple nights ago from someone who connected with her Saturday Night Essence. It wasn't from one of my staff or a respiratory therapy colleague Read More...
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Life Is Beautiful
July 24, 2009 4:23 PM by Roger Berg
I was listening to the radio the other day and I heard this on a commercial: "Are you having difficulty dealing with everyday problems? Life is dreadful at best." "Life is dreadful at best"? Oh my. I couldn't believe what I heard and then I wondered if Read More...
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Are You One in a Million or One of the Millions?
July 9, 2009 1:48 PM by Roger Berg
In my last post , I suggested that one must establish specific goals in order to become the person they were meant to be and successfully reach the impossible dream or one's Saturday-Night Essence. There is an old song that often keeps me headed in the Read More...
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Goals for Your Saturday-Night Essence
June 26, 2009 1:32 PM by Roger Berg
In the last several posts , I have been exploring the subject of one's Saturday-Night Essence or becoming the person you were meant to be and doing the things you were meant to do. This is an interesting subject as it seems that many people are stuck Read More...
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Pursuing Your Saturday-Night Essence
June 17, 2009 4:44 PM by Roger Berg
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 Read More...
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Discovering Your Saturday-Night Essence
May 21, 2009 11:36 PM by Roger Berg
After my last post, Finding Your Saturday-Night Essence , several people asked me: "How do I discover my Saturday-Night Essence?" I don't claim to be an expert, but perhaps I can offer a few suggestions to point you in the right direction. Consider the Read More...
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Finding Your Saturday-Night Essence
May 4, 2009 6:13 PM by Roger Berg
The other day, while I was listening to some "Timeless Favorites" on the radio, I heard "Whatever will be, Will be (Que Sera, Sera)" by Doris Day. Part of that song asks the question, "What will I be?" Back in the days before dirt and dinosaurs I remember Read More...
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Opportunity is Knocking!
April 9, 2009 2:54 PM by Roger Berg
It is the worst of times, it is the best of times. Even health care professionals have felt the effects of the latest economic downturn. I was reading news reports on the economy and noted that the unemployment rate nationally is over 8 percent and in Read More...
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In Ten Years…
March 19, 2009 5:44 PM by Roger Berg
Have you ever wondered what the profession of Respiratory Care will be like in ten years? As I meander down memory lane, I can hardly believe the tremendous changes that have taken place in our profession in just the last ten 10 years. Ten years ago, Read More...
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Employee Retention
March 3, 2009 8:16 PM by Roger Berg
In these challenging economic times-when many hospitals have imposed a hiring freeze, eliminated unfilled positions, initiated staff layoffs, increasingly restricted or totally eliminated travel and education budgets, and reduced or frozen capital budgets-I Read More...
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