JiscMail Logo
Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communities

Help for OCC-HEALTH Archives


OCC-HEALTH Archives

OCC-HEALTH Archives


OCC-HEALTH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK


View:

Message:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

By Topic:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

By Author:

[

First

|

Previous

|

Next

|

Last

]

Font:

Proportional Font

LISTSERV Archives

LISTSERV Archives

OCC-HEALTH Home

OCC-HEALTH Home

OCC-HEALTH  January 2008

OCC-HEALTH January 2008

Options

Subscribe or Unsubscribe

Subscribe or Unsubscribe

Log In

Log In

Get Password

Get Password

Subject:

Re: Friday's philosophical thought-read when have time- a good motivator for the clients on long term ab

From:

Rita Ogden <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Occupational Health mailing list <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:38:27 +0000

Content-Type:

text/plain

Parts/Attachments:

Parts/Attachments

text/plain (188 lines)

Noushin, you are a star! This is a salient lesson to all of us.....there
is always someone worse off than you!
Thanks for this and I will use it in my teaching sessions.
Happy New Year everyone!
Rita

Rita E Ogden
Specialist Practitioner/Clinical Team Leader,
Occupational Health Service,
St. James's University Hospital
Tel: 0113 2065228
Leeds General Infirmary
Tel: 0113 3923267

>>> "N. Rostami" <[log in to unmask]> 04/01/2008 09:16 >>>
 

*John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood

and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him
how 
he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be
twins!"* 

*He was a natural motivator.* 

*If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the 
employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.* 

*Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and 
asked him, "I don't get it! 
* 

*You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"* 

*He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two 
choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can
choose 
to be in a bad mood, I choose to be in a good mood." 
* 

*Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I
can 
choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.* 

*Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept 
their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I 
choose the positive side of life. 
* 

*"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. 
* 

*"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away 
all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to

situations. You choose how people affect your mood.* 

*You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
your 
choice how you live your life." 
* 

*I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry

to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him

when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. 
* 

*Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious 
accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. 
* 

*After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released

from the hospital with rods placed in his back. 
* 

*I saw him about six months after the accident.* 

*When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be

twins...Wanna see my scars?" 
* 

*I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through

his mind as the accident took place. 
* 

*"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my 
soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I

remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could

choose to die. I chose to live." 
* 

*"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked* 

*He continued, "...the paramedics were great. 
* 

*They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me

into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and 
nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I

knew I needed to take action." 
* 

*"What did you do?" I asked. 
* 

*"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said 
John. "She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The 
doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
a 
deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'." 
* 

*Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on
me 
as if I am alive, not dead." 
* 

*He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his

amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the
choice 
to live fully. 
* 

*Attitude, after all, is everything**. 
* 



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. 

OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html 


FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH 


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net 


OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk 






~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please remove this footer before replying.

OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html 

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS
http://OHJobs.drmaze.net 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION
http://www.aohne.org.uk 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please remove this footer before replying.

OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS
http://OHJobs.drmaze.net

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION
http://www.aohne.org.uk

Top of Message | Previous Page | Permalink

JiscMail Tools


RSS Feeds and Sharing


Advanced Options


Archives

April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
April 2015
March 2015
February 2015
January 2015
December 2014
November 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
July 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
January 2014
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
April 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
September 2012
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
April 2012
March 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999


JiscMail is a Jisc service.

View our service policies at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ and Jisc's privacy policy at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/website/privacy-notice

For help and support help@jisc.ac.uk

Secured by F-Secure Anti-Virus CataList Email List Search Powered by the LISTSERV Email List Manager