THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW...
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate.
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 of the time.
How do you do it?"
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.
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is,"Michael said. "Life is all about choices.
Each 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."
I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I
left the Towe 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 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.
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 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, " Michael
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. 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."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well there was a big burly nurse shouting questions
at me," said Michael. "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."
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors,
the grace of God, 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."
READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN...
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.
Matthew 6:34