OT: Attitude

[Guest guest]

I have been feeling fairly down the last few days and ran accross this and

thought I would share it. I was a good reminder to me that I always have a

choice!!

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, Iwould 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.

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> 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.

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> '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 2

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.' 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

[Guest guest]

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> .... 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.

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AMEN!!!! That's exactly what I try to do; I may not always succeed, but I

always try! The only thing I would add is one more verse of Scripture from

Philippians 4:12 " I have learned the secret of being content in any and every

situation ... "

Regards,

Carolyn B. in SC