Read this… Let it really sink in. Then choose how you will start your day tomorrow…. <\/p>\n
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 would be twins!” He was a natural motivater. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.<\/p>\n
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 of the time. “How do you do it?”<\/p>\n
Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Mike, 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.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.<\/p>\n
“Yes, it is, “Michael said. “Life is all about choices. When you cutaway 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 life.”<\/p>\n
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, 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.<\/p>\n
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident.<\/p>\n
When I asked him how he was, he replied. “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”<\/p>\n
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.<\/p>\n
“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 emembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”<\/p>\n
“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.<\/p>\n
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 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.”<\/p>\n
“What did you do?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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 the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.<\/p>\n
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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