READ THIS LET IT REALLY SINK IN...THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY
TOMORROW...
Michael 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 havinga bad day, Michael 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 to Michael
and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the
time.
How do you do it?"
Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'Mike, 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 isn't that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," Michael 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 will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood
or bad mood. "The bottom line is: It's your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, 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 Michael was involved in a serious
accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours
of surgery
and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with
rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael 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 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," Michael 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.
Michael 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 Michael. "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'."
Michael 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.
You have two choices now:
1. Delete this.
2. Forward it to the people you care about.
I hope you will choose #2. I did.
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