The doctors told my wife that life as we knew it was likely over. If I lived through the night, my odds of surviving increased dramatically. BUT - given the severity and location of my TBI, the odds were VERY high that I would only have the cognitive skills of a 7-8 year old.
Needless to say, they were wrong.
Thanks to my wife's awareness and our prior training in the power of the mind, she began telling me that I was strong, capable, heal quickly, and would fully recover. She repeated these affirmations throughout the night, even though I was totally unresponsive.
During the next few weeks, she constantly spoke to me telling me what happened, the current date, how quickly I was healing, how strong and powerful my brain was, and how it was repairing itself and fully recovering. She continued with positive thoughts throughout the entire process - almost endlessly.
She repeated this countless times throughout the night. From that point forward, she didn't allow any negative conversations in my presence.
The recovery process took many years. Initially, my memory was extremely poor, my speech was slow and very broken - the words I wanted to speak would get hung-up in my brain. I suffered from diagonal diplopia - a fancy medical term for double vision. I saw 2 images - one horizontal (normal), and the other was displaced diagonally from the normal image. My brain was incapale of merging the two images as is normally done. I had to walk around looking out of the top of my eyes to see a single image. The doctors said there was nothing they could do about this, and sometimes in the healing process it cures itself.
On a day I was particularly conscious and aware, and nearing the end of my rehabilitation at Craig Hospital, I declared to my wife, I wasn't going through life "brain injured". I committed to a complete and full recovery. My mantra was "I am going to fully recover and NO ONE will ever know I had a TBI."
I'm happy to report this has been successfully achieved!!
As Coach Prime says - "Ya Gotta Believe"!!
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Besides my wife, I credit a lot of my recovery success to my training and belief in the power of the mind. My corporate training in meeting commitments, leadership, lateral thinking (creativity), and being impeccable were also instrumental. As I have always been fascinated with warriors and what they've accomplished throughout history, I created the Warrior Within crede and logo. When you adopt the warrior mindset, you will succeed in your mission/vision, or die trying - there is no half way.
After my full recovery, I was inspired to share my story and success tactics with others. Throughout the day, I would hear people putting themselves down, saying they're stupid, inept, incapable, etc. They didn't feel worthy of all the great things life offers. This was the motivation for my coaching/consulting/speaking career - I want to help people understand our thoughts and words have power! We can change our lives by changing our thoughts. I decided to provide the necessary tools to help them create their own great life, and do my part to make this a better and happier planet.
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