READ THIS..... LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE

My Friend 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 nurse shouting questions at me,"
"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.


You know the choice I made.


The choices I make today will determine the rest of my life!