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 asked
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.
After all today is the tomorrow you
worried about yesterday.
You have two choices now:
01. Delete
this.
02. Forward it to the people you care about..
You know
the choice I made.
Thank you!!
very inspirational! all should read this...
watchingwolf- now I know why I missed you when you were quiet for so long!