Life's Choices ... Thx Tom & C L.! Erie " Chip" Chapman, Riverside Hospital, had a TV show entitled "Life's Choices" in 1985

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.)