Post by Diana on Jan 14, 2004 22:27:30 GMT -5
>Came to me from a very dear friend (she knows I have changes to
>make):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, 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. 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 your 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." 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. You know the choice I made.
>
>Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly--each and every friend.
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>make):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, 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. 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 your 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." 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. You know the choice I made.
>
>Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly--each and every friend.
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