[Fwd: FW: We have two choices in life.]

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-- The Lord bless you and keep you:

The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Numbers 6:24-26

FW: We have two choices

in life.

Here’s a

thought for the day!

Melisse

I have received this before, but it bears

repeating. If we could all only live our lives this simply.

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 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 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, " 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 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 . " 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.

You have two choices now:

01. Delete this.

02. Forward it to the people you care about.

You know the choice I made.

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