[LEFT]
LEFT]Jerry
is the manager of a restaurant. 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 always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed
jobs, so they could follow 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 always 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! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two
choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be
in a bad mood. I always 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 always choose to learn from it.
"But it's not always 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 mood or a bad mood. It's
your choice how you live your life."
Several years later, I heard that Jerry left the back door of his
restaurant open one morning, and was robbed by three armed men.
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 quickly and rushed to the hospital. 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. Want to 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, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I
remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or choose to
die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared?" 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,
read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big 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.
Please 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 you have the choice to either enjoy your
life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from
you -- is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything
else in life becomes much easier.
Attitude, after all, is everything. You have 2 choices now
1. Don't do anything, or…
2. Forward it to people you care about. Hope you will choose No. 2.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.