> > > > > > > > > >I wish I could be like this... > >Read this > >LET IT REALLY SINK IN... > >THEN CHOOSE . > > > >John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and >always >has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he >would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!' > > >He was a natural motivator. > > >If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how >to >look on the positive side of the situation. > > >Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and said >to him, >'I don't get it!' > > >'You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?' > > >He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices >today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad >mood, I choose to be in a good mood.' > > >Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose >to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. > > >Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their >complaining or...I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the >positive side of life... > > >'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested. > > >'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the >junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You >choose how people affect your mood. > > >You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice >how you live your life.' > > >I reflected on what he said...Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to >start >my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a >choice about life instead of reacting to it. > > >Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, >falling >some 60 feet from a communications tower. > > >After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from >the >hospital with rods placed in his back. > > >I saw him about six months after the accident. > > >When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be >twins...Wanna see my scars?' > > >I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind >as the accident took place. > > >'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be >born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I >had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to >live.' > > >'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked. > > >He continued, '...the paramedics were great. > > >They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the >ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got >really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to >take >action.' > > >'What did you do?' I asked. > > >'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John. 'She >asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses >stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, >'Gravity'' > > >Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live...Operate on me as if >I >am alive, not dead.' > > >He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing >attitude...I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. > > >Attitude, after all, is everything. > > >Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. >Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Matthew 6:34 > >You have two choices now: > >01. Delete this > > >02. Forward it to the people you care about. > >You know the choice I made... > > > >
