Let This Sink In And Feel Good about Yourself
Read this short story think about it and then decide which
mindset you wish to adopt and which will bring you the success
you desire.
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 building 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 big burly nurse
shouting questions at me," said John. "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.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. You
have two choices now: 1. Disregard this. 2. Pay head and
succeed.
You know the choice I made.