I received this from a friend and decided to pass it on!
You have two choices
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.
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
Why?
Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling
him 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 victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always
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
always choose the positive side of life.’
‘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 bad mood..
It’s your choice how you live your life..’
Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you
are never supposed to do
in the restaurant business.
He left the back door of his restaurant open
?And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.
While Jerry trying to open the safe box, 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 could 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 g oing to be fine..
But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the
expression 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 nurse shouting questions at me,’ said Jerry.
‘She asked if I was allergic to anything.’
‘Yes,’ to bullets, I replied.
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.
Now you have two choices to make:
1.. You can delete this message or
2. You can forward it to someone you care about.
I hope you will choose #2.
I did.
Always here for YOU!! Just call!!
Phil Austin—-905-336-0572
To Your Success!
Tony
P.S. I don’t know who Phil Austin is or
what he does but I decided to print this
in it’s entirety!
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