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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.

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"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.
! ;

At the end of the original e-mail it said you had two choices… I took a third and posted this message in my three favourite guilds ^__^

Yes it makes you think.. I'm gonna try to follow the 2choises-strathegy wink

every morning, i choose to be in a bad mood.

why not?

it arms me against a hostile world.

and if i were disabled, i would choose to die, too.