As my therapy winds down until Botox injections later this month, the neuropsychologist asked me how I felt about my accomplishments to date. I replied: “I hope that I have not plateaued because I have so much more to do. “ She wanted me to elaborate and I said, “I want to contribute to our family income by returning to a paying part-time job and get better.”
She asked me to think about my progress to date in another way.
Phase I: When fresh out of the hospital and rehab, your focus had to be on yourself and getting to independence. You broke this down into steps.
Phase 2: The next phase of your focus turned to your marriage and your family and how to reciprocate the many kindnesses.
Phase 3: In this phase, you are reaching out to the community and trying to help others through volunteer work.
She then asked me: “What does getting better mean to you?”
My response was:
Working, improving on navigational skills, vision improvement, maintaining a daily home therapy program.
She reiterated that it is a process. Everyday think about how you will accomplish your goals.
I related this to my former business world. The CEO at Compaq always clearly communicated our vision and strategic goals to grow our company. If we weren’t working on projects/tasks everyday towards achieving these goals, we shouldn’t be doing them.
The bottom line is I need to define what’s next and break that down into the tasks associated with accomplishing the next phase.
It is a process. Stay tuned.
