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| Michael 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'd be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael 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 to Michael and asked him "I don't get it! you can't be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?" Michael replied "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two CHOICES today. You can either 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. Every time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victom or...I can choose to learn from it! I choose to learn from it. Every time someone somes 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." Michael said "Life is all about CHOICES. When you cut away all the junk, every situation has a choice. You can choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. Th botom line: It's your choice how you live your life." I reflected on what Michael had 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 Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from the communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intesnive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied "if I were any better, I'd bet twins! Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I asked 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." Michael replied "then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two CHOICES: I could choose to live or...choose to die. I chose to live!" "Weren't you scared? Did you loose you consciousness?" I asked. Michael 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 of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In there yes, 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 Michael "She asked me if I was alergic to anything. 'Yes' I replied. The doctors and nurses waited for me to reply. I took a deep breath and yelled 'Gravity!' " Over their laughter, I told them "I'm chosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have a choice to live fully, Attitude, after all, is everything! "Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day had enough trouble of it's own" ~Matthew 6:34 |
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