Fwd: Choices

[Guest guest]

>READ THIS LET IT REALLY SINK IN THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> 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,

>

> >> 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 and asked him, " I don't get it! You can't be a positive

>person

> >> all

> >> of the time.

> >>

> >> How do you do it? "

> >>

> >> replied, " Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have

>two

> >> choices today.

> >>

> >> 1. You can choose to be in a good mood or ...

> >> 2. 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, " 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 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 was involved in a serious

> >> accident,

> >> falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of

> >> surgery

> >> and weeks of

> >> intensive care, was released from the hospital with rods placed

>in

> >> his back.

> >>

> >> I saw 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, "

> >> 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.

> >>

> >> 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

> >> .

> >>

> >> " 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. "

> >>

> >> 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. " 6:34

> >>

> >> After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

> >>

> >> You have two choices now:

> >> 1. Delete this.

> >> 2. Forward it to the people you care about.

> >>

> >> You know the choice I made.

_________________________________________________________________

Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com