Perhaps you’ve thought about locum tenens practice as something you’ll try someday, when you have more time or are ready to make a change. After all, you understand the impact your services would have on a community in need of dedicated, qualified medical professionals. And you enjoy traveling to new places and having new experiences.
Sometimes, the only thing needed to make a dream a reality is a little inspiration to retool your outlook and turn your thoughts into actions. Here, we share 10 motivational quotes—some from locum tenens providers—to inspire you to follow your passion and live the locum lifestyle.
- “The most dangerous risk of all … the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
- “I’d had such a good experience in the past, I knew locum tenens practice could offer more of the mix I want when I feel the need to ‘switch it up.’” – Glynda Crabtree, MD
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I like the idea that I could return to locum tenens whenever I choose and even do it in addition to my regular job.” – Cindy Leiffer, NP
- “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away, from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
- “You will have freedom and the ability to practice. It is the best of both worlds.” – Ali R. Kavianian, MD
- “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw
- “You’re able to travel, see new places and work with a whole new group of people, which can be exciting. I choose my schedule, and I can choose where I want to go.” – Bruce Banwart, MD
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney
