Virgie and Hoshi

>> >>READ THIS
>> >>LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE.
>> >>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.
>> >>  "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.
>> >>
>> >>You have two choices now:
>> >>
>> >>01. Delete this.
>> >>02. Forward it to the people you care about.
>> >>
>> >>You know the choice I made.
>> >
>> >
>>
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