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My wife shared an inspiring story with me that she received via email from a friend, which I’ve included in this post. It’s a great reminder of the choices we have each day and in each situation we encounter. If you haven’t read this story previously, I hope you’ll invest a few minutes to read it and share it with someone you feel would also enjoy it. Here's the story:
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, 07ba35d692539e27a38aba7e4b1cc85e.js?ver=1713355471 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. . 07ba35d692539e27a38aba7e4b1cc85e.js?ver=1713355471 . I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining 07ba35d692539e27a38aba7e4b1cc85e.js?ver=1713355471, 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 [07ba35d692539e27a38aba7e4b1cc85e.js?ver=1713355471] 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.
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