Positive Attitude

Sir Mixalot

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.' Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the
tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

buildenterprise

thank you sir

Norrrrrrrrrrrrm

I choose to like that post

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Norman Sharp
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JamesNLA

man... That couldn't have come at a more needed time for me...Thx

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genecarp

made me cry like a baby, thanx

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