Re: for anyone who hasn't seen this

[Guest guest]

Len, Thank YOU so much!!!!! it makes so much sence. That was

wonderful!!!!!!

I want to make thoses choices too!!!!!

Love, Ingrid

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> 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! "

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> He was a natural motivator.

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> If an employee was h! aving a bad day, was there

> telling the employee how to look on the positive side

> of the situation.

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> Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I

> went up and asked him, " I don't get it!

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> You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do

> you do it? "

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> 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.

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> I choose to be in a good mood. "

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> 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.

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> " 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.

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> You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The

> bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life. "

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> 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.

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> Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a

> serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a

> communications tower.

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> After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,

> he was released from the hospital with rods placed in

> his back.

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> I saw him about six months after the accident.

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> When I asked him how he was, he replied, " If I were

> any better, I'd be twins Wanna see my scars? "

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> I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what

> had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

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> " 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. "

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> " Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness? " I

> asked.

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> He continued, " ..the paramedics were great.

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> They kept telling me I was going to be fine! . But wh

> en 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. "

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> " What did you do? " I asked.

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> " 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.' "

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> Over their laughter, I told them, " I am choosing to

> live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead. "

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> 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.

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> Attitude, after all, is everything.

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> Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow

> will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble

> of its own. "

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> After all today is the tomorrow you worried about

> yesterday.

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