>
> READ THIS;
> 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."
> 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.