just another fowarded email..
> John 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, John 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 John. "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: 1. Delete
> this 2. Forward it to the people you care about. You
> know the choice I made.