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Main Boards => Prayers/Concerns/Honors/Ailments => Topic started by: trad_bowhunter1965 on March 21, 2010, 04:26:00 PM
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My Brother sent this to me I thought You all might like to Read this.
LET IT REALLY SINK IN......
THEN CHOOSE ..
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 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.' Matthew 6:34.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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This probably ought to go under prayers/concerns, but i appreciate you sharing it here. i'm printing it out to share with my employees to start their week off on a positive note. :thumbsup:
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Thanks for the very good sharing. I am motivated by this.
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A great reminder of how to approach every day with optimism. Thanks for posting!
Claudia
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Great Post . I will try it out tommorrow. Take care Randy
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Amen! Every day is an opportunity and life is one long series of choices. I have not had a bad day since I got home from Iraq and don't see one coming any time soon.
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Attitude is everything.....Great Post! Thanks for sharing it.
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I have been trying that same thing everyday and have had some success.It's worth the effort to try it.Thanks for the post.Every day is a blessing even the bad days! :)
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I chose to read it and glad I did! Thanks... :thumbsup:
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From someone who just finished battling with Leukemia for the last year I can tell you from first hand experience that attitude is key to handling 6 months of intensive chemo. You can choose to lay on the porch like an old dog or you can choose to grab a hold of each day and be positive. Good stuff
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Thank you for this. I needed to read this today.
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Another "Thank you!"
I've read that many times over the years, but if I could be read that several times a day, I'd be a better witness to His Glory, peace and joy.
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When I was a boy my Grandma use to tell me you can be fifty percent of the solution or fifty percent of the problem I think this is what she was telling me,
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I have a habit of deliberately smiling at myself in the mirror every morning when I get up. It helps to put me in a positive frame of mind before I deal with whatever the day brings. It sure helped today, when I got an early morning e-mail message from a customer who was P. O.'d at me over a misunderstanding, my fault. Fortunately I have an understanding boss... after my apology to both the customer and the boss (we may have lost two accounts over it), he pointed out that everyone who does anything makes mistakes once in a while. The rest of the day will be fine.
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Great post
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Absolutely all about choices........
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I wish I had this in front of me yesterday...
The whole day would have alot differant....
Thanks for posting this...
Later....Buzz