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> > Subject: Attitude
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> >> > LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE .
> >> >> >> >> >> > 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?"
> >> > H! e replie d, "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 li! ve. Oper ate 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." Matthew 6:34.
> >> > After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
