What If You Obtain Some Workers’ Compensation Benefits… But Less Than You Want?
The quest for North Carolina workers’ compensation benefits is often sold as a binary proposition. Either you WILL get benefits, or you won’t.
Either you will obtain zero money to pay for your medical bills, surgery, and time off work; or you will obtain more than enough to meet those needs and then some.
Reality check: many Charlotte workers’ compensation cases wind up in compromise.
You might win some benefits — some money from the insurance company, e.g. — but not get everything you want or need.
On one hand, “half a loaf is better than none.” If you win only $300 a week in workers’ comp benefits, that’s still $300 a week more than $0 a week. You can still leverage the money to pay key bills and stay financially afloat.
On the other hand, a “half a loaf” resolution can feel like a Pyrrhic victory. You could
Framing the results of your North Carolina workers’ compensation case:
Pay attention! The following concept can give you critical leverage, whether you emerge from your workers’ comp quest empty handed, full-pursed or somewhere in between.
Will you be a “Larry David” about the results and see the glass as “ half empty”?
Or will you be an optimist and see the glass as “half full”?
The way you FRAME your results can have a profound, lasting effect on your degree of satisfaction. The good news is that you can control how you think about the situation. The bad news is that learning how to access that control is neither intuitive, nor simple. If it were simple to be an optimist, then the world would house far fewer cynics.
Becoming an optimistic does not mean ignoring reality; closing your eyes to real problems; and gambling despite dire odds.
If you commit to “being more sunshine minded,” you won’t change your attitude in days or weeks. Only slow, purposeful progress, when diligently pursued, will transform your pessimism.
Incremental progress adds up. If you drove 50 mph up a barely perceptible 6% incline on a theoretical highway that just climbed and climbed, within two hours, you’d be at an elevation equivalent to the top of Mount Everest!
Small differences in your attitude, when aggregated and persistently pursued, can change the way you think about your North Carolina benefits and leave you feeling more satisfied and in control of your life.
So start thinking positively, and get 2013 off to a great start. Connect with the DeMayo Law team now for a free consultation about your workers’ comp case.
