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>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 wo uld 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 ca n
>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 bu siness. 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.
>always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was
>doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I wo uld 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 ca n
>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 bu siness. 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.