Positive Thinking...

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I just got this email. I thought I'd share it with you. This is how I want

to approach my surgery, and subsequent weight loss!

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. 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, " 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 life. "

I reflected on what said. Soon thereafter, I left the company 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. " After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.