READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN
CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW.
>Michael 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, Michael 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 to Michael and
asked him, "I don't get >it! You can't be a positive person all
of the time. How do you do it?" >Michael 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," Michael >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 life." > >I
reflected on what Michael 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 Michael was involved in
a serious >accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours >of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was
released from the >hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael
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, " Michael 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. Michael
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
Michael. "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." > >Michael
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: >1.
Delete this. >2. Forward it to the people you care
about.
I hope you will >choose #2. I did.
