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Choices

“You are the person who has to decide. Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind. Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.” – Unknown

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne

Today’s message is all about choices. Every day we make choices in life. From the moment that alarm goes off, we are making choices. Do I get up now? Do I hit the snooze alarm? Do I just stay in bed and forget the day is starting? And the day continues with choices. Even how we feel is a choice.

Years ago, I used to allow others to “make me feel” a certain way about myself. My then husband would often say “nobody makes you feel some way, you are the only one in control of how you feel.” At the time, that used to make me angry, of course others controlled that by their actions! Then one day I had an “aha!” moment and realized that while I could not control anyone else’s actions, I could certainly control my reaction to it. Ahh, choices once again.  Life does sometimes throw us a curve ball. Even then we have a choice. How we deal with it is determined by our reaction to things around us.

I am generally not a morning person, never have been. And yet, lately I find myself up early, looking at the day differently. There was a time when I lived on the East coast and would get up, turn on the news to see the weather and think “oh great, another HUMID day.” Coming from Colorado, humidity is NOT on my top 10 list of things I love. Then I spent two years living in Barbados, not the place one would generally choose if they didn’t like humidity. And yet, life there was so very good. I would rise early and here’s what the morning brought: The sun was shining, I could see the sea and feel the breeze off the water, even though my apartment was not right on the water, things were blooming and green, and it was all beautiful. Life is good. Was it humid? You know, I imagine it was, but I didn’t notice. Choices.

How do you deal with the choices you make in your life? In our day to day life, we all have those choices to make. Even when we work, and we get that horrible dictator who always slurs his words, never gives the patient name, never uses the right date, it’s so easy to get frustrated. Reframe it. Transcribing that note and doing the very best you can with it plays a very important role in patient care. Because YOU are there doing that work, the patient’s records will be as accurate as possible. Realize that even in the difficult times YOU make a difference.

Today, I challenge you to think about the choices we all make in life and CHOOSE to make this a great day! Happy MT Week Wednesday.

MT Puzzler: Remember, you can be eligible for our daily prize drawing by making a comment about this post and also posting a link somewhere inviting other MTs to join the fun! Good luck!

The doctor dictates “The patient is positive for Georgia law.” What does this mean? Is the patient from Georgia? Has the patient broken the laws in Georgia? Is the doctor from Georgia? Or does it have anything at all to do with Georgia? Good luck and happy hunting!

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  3. Happy MT Week Tuesday: What is Holding You Back?
  4. Happy MT Week Thursday: Values
  5. Happy Medical Transcriptionist Week 2011

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