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Staying Positive!!

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
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 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. They want? #123*+!@$%&*~ 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 going 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,' I replied. The
doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took
a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!'

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.

Courtesy: Venkat's - The Ultimate Reality

posted by Sach @ 10:40 AM