Beyond “Back to Baseline” – Your Vision for a Great Life After Your North Carolina Auto Accident
Your recent North Carolina auto accident has set you back in more ways than you care to imagine. You might simultaneously be suffering from:
• health problems;
• transportation issues;
• emotional problems stemming directly and indirectly from the crash;
• financial issues (e.g. how you’re going to pay for the surgery and medical care);
• and beyond.
If you look at your situation in one light, it can be pretty depressing. And you can, if you want to, look at everything that’s happened from a pessimistic perspective. You’ve lost property, time, health, et cetera, and now you’re going to have to spend time and energy “picking up the pieces” and healing to the best of your ability.
This all may be true! But if you look at the journey of the North Carolina accident victim as a journey to “recover to baseline” – that is, to recoup your losses only – then you’re creating a pretty ho-hum goal for yourself. It’s not very inspiring to think “man, if I work really hard at rehab and collect and win my North Carolina auto accident liability case, and if 10 other things also fall in my favor, then maybe in a year I’ll get back to where I was four weeks ago.”
That may actually be your reality. But this way of framing your goal is not very inspiring!
And because it’s not that inspiring, it might not motivate you to do the right things and to take the kinds of actions that you need to take to achieve your goals.
Why not reframe your problem, based on BOTH an acceptance of your current reality AND a crystal clear vision of an idealized future?
For instance, maybe your medical leave will give you some time off to reconsider your career. You might therefore explore alternative career options that will ultimately leave you happier and more fulfilled – and ideally making you more money, as well.
The following sounds like an audacious – perhaps even disrespectful – question to ask, but it’s a good question to ask: what positive “stuff” can you get out of this experience? How can you turn this catastrophe into something of an opportunity?
Yes, a lot of things have gone wrong. But by zeroing in on what’s gone right – you survived the crash, for one – you can open your eyes to new ways of solving your problems and new possibilities as opposed to the not-so-inspiring “back to baseline” mentality.
Things have changed. And when things change, a little out-of-the-box creativity can be useful. For help dealing with the nuts and bolts of your case – to obtain maximum compensation for what’s happened to you – connect with the team at Michael A. DeMayo’s law offices for a free consultation.
