Laura Motes - Healthy Living and Positive Rituals

Laura Motes has been working as a police officer for a long time and she knows about the power of positive rituals.
Great athletes, CEOs, and doctors all rely on positive rituals to structure their lives and achieve their goals. The same is true of people who ground their lives in certain values, such as healthy living.

It is easy to dismiss the idea of rituals because it may seem that they would make your life rigid and extreme.
At the same time, if you observe the areas of your life where you perform exceptionally well, you will notice that you already have a lot of rituals around it. These rituals may include a morning routine of getting ready, a planning session for the day or week ahead, or the time that you spend with your family.

Rituals do not preclude spontaneity. On the contrary, they provide a level of security and comfort that allows us to try new things, take risks, and improvise. They provide a stable, predictable environment where breakthroughs and records can happen. Think of a great athlete establishing a new record or an executive making progress by coming up with a highly unusual structure for a deal that works for all the involved parties.

Rituals can also facilitate recovery and renewal. By their nature, rituals conserve energy. Will and discipline are resources that have very limited reserves. The unfortunate truth is that we have very little will power, and can control our behavior consciously for only short periods of time.

This is why rituals are so powerful. If you want to take your health to the next level, don’t hope that you will have enough will power. Create rituals that will help you accomplish your goals. As someone who worked as a police officer for twenty-one years, Laura Motes has created a number of rituals for herself, including spending time off on Broad River.
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Laura Motes - Tips For Preparing Your Home For A Flood

Laura Motes lives in rural Northeastern Georgia and is keenly aware that her home is in an area that is at risk of flooding, should weather conditions become particularly adverse. As such, she has taken a number of measures to prepare her home in case of such an emergency. These pointers will prove useful to anybody who is in a similar predicament.

 Establish An Evacuation Route
You should always plan for the worst possible outcome when considering flooding, which means that your priority should be you and whoever else lives in the home. As such, when preparing your plan, you need to map out an evacuation route that will take you out of the at-risk area as quickly as possible. You may want to conduct a few drills as well, to ensure you keep the route clear in your mind.

Establish Contacts
It is important that people are aware of your situation should you ever have to deal with a flood, so it is a good idea to establish a primary contact who you will be able to call in cases of emergency. This person should ideally be out of the area and can act as a central point of contact for all of your family members and friends so you can focus more of your time on dealing with the flood.

Pack Supplies
By keeping an emergency kit of supplies handy, Laura Motes notes that you will be able to survive should a flood leave you stranded. Pack long-lasting food, some basic first aid equipment and some useful equipment, such as multipurpose tools and portable phone chargers.
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Laura Motes - Fervent Supporter of the ASPCA

Laura Motes grew up with animals all around her in her parents’ home in rural Georgia. She knows how to properly care for and treat them and she wants everyone to have the same knowledge and caring nature that she does. Unfortunately, the United States is still a long way from being completely educated of the proper way to take care of domesticated animals. Pets still go neglected and get abandoned all the time. Motes, a former police officer and current nursing student, wanted to join the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

The ASPCA has two main causes that it as an organization works hard to fight for: the end of animal homelessness and the end of animal cruelty. Laura Motes works closely with her local animal shelters near her home in Watkinsville, Georgia, but across the country animal shelters are routinely stretched thin because their budgets just don’t do enough to place animals in good homes. With 2.7 million animals being euthanized in the United States every year, the ASPCA works to provide alternatives to euthanasia for shelters throughout the country. The ASPCA also works to help abused animals find new homes and to educated people about the causes and effects of animal cruelty in our society, as well as the signs to watch for. Laura Motes is a vocal advocate of all of these issues.

Laura Motes plans on beginning her Master’s degree in Nursing in the fall of 2016 at Georgia Regents University.
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Laura Motes - Career Progression from Law Enforcement Officer to Nurse

Laura Motes isn’t a nurse yet. She has completed all of the prerequisites to begin her Master’s degree in nursing from Georgia Regents University and plans on starting classes in the fall of 2016. She is prepared to enter the medical profession on the strength of her sense of duty to her community and her experience working for the Athens Regional Medical Center and Managed Medical Transport. Motes has always been committed to helping her community by keeping it safe as a police officer, now she hopes to help the community by keeping the people in it healthy.

Laura Motes spent 20 years working for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. She started as a patrol officer in the Athens area, helping to ensure that crime is prevented whenever possible and that the streets and residents of the area are as safe as possible. Motes left the police force as a Sergeant in the West Precinct administration. She helped coordinate crime scene investigations, manage office personnel and officers on the street, and work with department leadership to ensure that all rules and regulations are being followed by all officers on the streets at all times.

Laura Motes then left the department because she wanted a more hands-on experience. She found said experience while working for six months with Managed Medical Transport and the Athens Regional Medical Center. Motes learned much from her time there, including how to serve and assist doctors, physicians, and other medical professionals in their duties and responsibilities to their patients with all kinds of medical conditions and ailments. She plans on using this experience during her studies as a Master’s degree candidate at Georgia Regents University in the fall of 2016.
                                              

Laura Motes works hard to keep herself in shape and healthy. Her passion recently has been distance runs of five kilometers or more. She has competed in several 5Ks in the area in the past and she plans on continuing her training to run marathons in the future. Motes hopes that her expertise as a nurse will put her in a position to help instill healthy habits in patients that could prevent serious medical conditions like heart disease and more. With too many Americans suffering from preventable diseases like adult-onset diabetes and obesity, especially in rural Georgia, where she lives, the more healthy habits she can instill in people around her community, the better.

Laura Motes believes that her calling is in the local healthcare system because she cares about the health and life of everyone around her in her community. She has always been there for her neighbors, protecting them from crime and investigating. She also helped keep the police force itself honest during her time in the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, reporting on alleged incidents of officer misconduct and other issues frequently besetting all police departments around the world.