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Show April 14, 2011 The Garfield County Insider ver (Counts Self- alk rough Song I taught a recent training class. One of the topics discussed was self-talk. There were many people in the course who utilized self-talk; actually, everyone does it's just a matter of whether or not it's positive or negative. Hopefully, it's the former. So I shared with them one of my methods of selftalk. Namely, I pick a hymn I like (but it can be any type of music really) and I change the words. I don't write them down. This all takes place in my head. For instance, I might pick the hymn, "There is sunshine in my soul today." So, the hymn in my mind may begin like the actual hymn, but using the same tune, I soon add my own words. There is sunshine in my soul today, And there will be all day long You'll do great things today. Because that's who you are Oh, there's sunshine blessed sunshine, and God made you amazing When you do good, you feel good, There is sunshine in my soul Or, another verse might look like this: There is sunshine in my soul today, because you're on Heavenly Father's team You're one of His most valuable players, how can you go wrong being that? Oh, there's sunshine beautiful sunshine, help make someone's day today And in all things, don't give up, There is sunshine in my soul Okay, so now you know one of my tricks. The best part? It really does work. But, you'll have to try this out for yourself and find out. Yet, the most fun is to sing out loud in the car while driving. When I do this, before long I want to make up verse after verse after verse! And yes, I actually sang a couple of sample verses to my training class. And as I was singing —and definitely not American Idol or Mormon Tabernacle choir Licensed & Insured Professional, Clean & Reliable 25 Years Experience Now Serving Garfield County 4441 435-679-8842 material by any means-- my participants were actually smiling and shaking their heads in agreement. When I finished, they applauded. I even heard things like, "Wow" and "right on." Now, they weren't telling me I was "wow" but they were to this method. Author Ralph Charell said, "The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak." And Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh said, "If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.' Today's the day to begin. Drive along, pick a song and start singing positive words in place of the lyrics (i.e., who you want to be, what you want your life to look like, the good that you want to do, how you plan to change the world, etc.). After all said Chinese Philosopher Confucius, "The more man mediates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." Cynthia Kimball is a professional speaker, trainer and doctoral student in workforce development and organizational leadership. Her column, "Every1Counts," appears on deseretnews. com weekly. She can be reached at kimball@ every] counts .net. Safety is No Accident: Wear a Helmet Helmets can range from juries. $20 to $800 but are well In an effort to bring more worth it when compared attention to the issue of TBI with the cost of a traumatic prevention in our commubrain injury (TBI). Just ask nities, the Southwest Utah the Peterson family. At Public Health Department around 6:00 p.m. on June (SWUPHD) has been con26, 2008, Kyle Peterson ducting helmet observawas riding his longboard tions over the past year. at the intersection of 600 The data is clear that one of South and 1100 West in Ce- the reasons for our elevated dar City. He can't remem- rate of TBI is a lack of helber whether he swerved met use. On average, only to miss a car or hit an ob- 33% of motorcycle, motor stacle. What's clear is that scooter, and bicycle riders Kyle flew off his board, wear a helmet. The lowest hitting his head full force rate of helmet use is among on the pavement, causing a scooter riders at 15%. depressed skull fracture on "As the weather gets the right side. After his ar- warmer we understand that rival at Valley View Medi- more and more people are cal Center, Kyle's family going to be jumping on was informed that he would their motorcycles, scooters, need to be transferred by bikes, and participating in Life Flight to Salt Lake other outdoor recreation," City, and that 50% of these said Jordan Mathis, SWtypes of injuries ended in UPHD Director of Health death. Promotion. "Obviously "Safety is No Accident" none of us go out intending is the focus for this year's to get hurt, but it happens. National Public Health The fact is, no matter what Week (April 4 -10, 2011). you're riding, if you are Many of the injuries sus- wearing a helmet when you tained in accidents could go down, you will be in a be prevented by taking the lot better shape than if you proper precautions. One aren't wearing one." of the most devastating inAs for Kyle Peterson, juries physically, mentally, he survived but was in the emotionally, and financially hospital for a month and is a traumatic brain injury is still working towards a (TBI). TBI is defined as full recovery. However, his an occurrence of injury or life will never be the same. death resulting from trauma Kyle had hopes of going to to the head. According to a medical school to become a 2009 report, the Southwest doctor, but as a result of his Health District comprising injuries he opted to change Beaver, Iron, Washington, his major and will be gradKane and Garfield Coun- uating this Spring from ties have a higher rate (7.5 Southern Utah University. per 10,000) of TBI than Kyle's sister Aimee has the state average (6.7 per made it her personal cru10,000). Yet TBI is one of sade to "save the world... the most preventable of in- one helmet at time." Aimee willingly gives of her time to tell Kyle's story to school children, scouts, and youth groups. "The hardest part for me," Aimee said, "was how different Kyle was. It was like he was a completely different person." Although Kyle's tale has a somewhat happy ending, Aimee still wants people to know that, "In a split second your entire life can change, not only your life but the life or your entire family. The only cure for brain injury is prevention." For more information on Aimee's work, visit her blog http://beingheadsmart. blogspot.com/ the lAuGhiNg pOiNtl: Dig a Hole The boss ordered one of his men to dig a hole eight feet deep. After the job was completed the boss returned and explained an error had been made and the hole wouldn't be needed. "Fill er up," he ordered. The worker did as he'd been told. But he ran into a problem. He couldn't get all the dirt packed back into the hole without leaving a mound on top. He went to the office and explained his problem. The boss snorted, "Honestly! The kind of help you get these days! There's obviously only one thing to do. You'll have to dig that hole deeper!" Mom's Fish I took my mother on a fishing excursion yesterday. Nobody was having any luck. After drifting for hours without so much as a nibble, who should hook into one but my Mom. Everyone on the boat was excited, cheering the old woman on and telling her to take her time. Finally she lifted the fish into the boat, picked it up, removed the hook, looked at it up and down, and then tossed it back into the water. I was stunned. I said, "Mom, why did you throw that fish back into the water?" "I don't know. To me it just didn't look fresh." A Trip to the Park A police car pulls up in front of Grandma Bessie's house, and Grandpa Morris gets out. The polite policeman explained that this elderly gentleman said that he was lost in the park ... and couldn't find his way home. "Oh Morris," said Grandma, "You've been going to that park for over 30 years! So how could you get lost?" Leaning close to Grandma, so that the policeman couldn't hear. Morris whispered, "I wasn't lost ... I was just too tired to walk home." In the Band I was in the band at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Our group was required to play for all generals who arrived on our base. One morning, when our commanding officer heard on the radio that a General Frost was expected just after noon, he sent us scrambling to the flight line with instruments. One of the musicians had also heard the radio announcement. He took the C.O. aside for a whispered conference. When they returned, the officer told us the performance was canceled. There was no arriving general. We had almost played for the weather forecast. A Wrinkle in Time My husband and I both look very young for our ages. In fact, we've hardly aged a day since we first laid eyes on each other in college -- at least, that's what we tell each other. Our children have a way of bringing us crashing back to earth. Recently, my husband and I were discussing a man who was running for public office. "He's a Vietnam Vet," commented my husband. "What's that?" queried our young daughter. Trying to answer the question in terms a fouryear-old could readily grasp, my husband replied, "Well, Honey, that means that the man fought in a war that happened when Mommy and Daddy were little." Our daughter regarded us both thoughtfully for a moment, then asked "So, was he a Viking?" It Makes Sense...By Veda Hale If you have a well, one of our county water masters, Brett Chynoweth, told me it is wise to test it in June or July. Probably he said those months, because it is warm and bacteria likely grow best then. He said for Panguitch people to contact Dave Ownes, that Dave has bottles in which to put the samples from your water source. It costs just $20.00, which seems reasonable to me for peace of mind. Also of interest, it is Brett's opinion that Dave is "very particular about the water quality." If another water-tester says that, it must indicate that we are in good hands. When I think how water is the basic, number one thing we put in our bodies, we want to have it good. Thanks Dave Owens. Some crooks (or scheming people) are smart and some rather dumb. The ones who got into my email account and thought anyone I had in my contact list would wire money to Spain to help me get home, is dumb. It is a form of identify theft. This situation made me think about schemes to get us to do things that will benefit someone financially. I have heard about this smart housewife who figured out a way to get a good antiwrinkle treatment almost free. It involved going to two companies supposedly offering free trials of their product and then combining them herself. Likely it works to some extent. The two products are Radia Labs and Dermitage. Though it didn't say "free" on their web site, (I expect Ebenezer's Barn & Grill at Ruby's Inn Benefit Concert for the "Arts In The Parks: Everyone is Invited Come and enjoy an evening of German and American folk music selections.The orchestra features 47 members and are considered a "symphonic wind instrument orchestra". they make you pay shipping and handling) it did appear they would send you a 30 day supple. Which they probably would. But, I'm asking myself, what else then happens? Well, did anyone read the really fine print. I expect that after the first 30 say supply then you get another supply and a nice big bill. You probably signed up for the supplies to automatically come each month. Sorry, folks, I just don't trust that there isn't a catch.. Without even researching whether my suspicion is true or not, I'm going to drop it. If any of you have further knowledge, let me know. I did get a bit of information that could keep some scheming person from taking advantage of me. It concerns buying gas. I never noticed the clear button on a gas pump, let alone using it after I fill up. But a clerk inside could use that pump that isn't cleared to fill their own car. The charge would go on my card, that I might or might not notice when I got my credit card bill. So, it makes sense and cents to just always hit the clear button after using a credit or debit card at the gas pumps. I did finally get my hotmail account straitened out, so I'm back to using it for this column. Send suggestions to Veda Hale Box 956 Panguitch, Utah or email vedahale@hotmail.com ADVERTISE IN Orchester der Verbands emeinde Kell am See THE INSIDER 676-2621 to place ads. |