I was on Erie's show with my friend Mike Berres that year after we each had by-pass surgery. SamKat
READ THIS, 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?'
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
thereafter, 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.' Matthew 6:34.
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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