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POSITIVE ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING ( One of my friends has sent this
article and I don't know the author's name)
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a
good mood and always had 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who
had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the
waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural
motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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
Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person
all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake
up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," Jerry 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 will affect your mood. You
choose to be in a good or bad mood.
The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I
reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant
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 Jerry did something you are never
supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one
morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying
to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the
combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found
relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18
hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from
the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry 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 did ask him what had
gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing
that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,"
Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, 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.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was
going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room 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 then I
needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there
was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "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, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing
to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." Jerry 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.
Positive Mental Attitude, after all, is everything. You have 2
choices now: 1. save and delete this mail from your mail box. 2.
forward it to a friend Hope, you will choose choice 2.
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