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. Then 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 complained
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, do
you want to 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.
Then, you have two choices now………….. IT’S YOUR
CHOICE……
Disclaimer…. Thanks for
this unknown author for a very inspiring story.
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