the guy you love to hate

[hurt at work]

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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[monster]

Thanks for pposting this sweetie...I really needed the reminder right now

[hurt at work]

you are so welcome i know some times its easier said than done.i try to be like that but sometimes the pain gets the best of me.

[monster]

I know what you mean I have been going back and forth between grumpy and happy. I am driving poor BF nuts!

[hurt at work]

i think the wife was sending me a hint LOL.she forward it to me she thought she was funny i think.

[monster]

Sounds like she is a great motivator Better an email than what it could have been (I know this from experience) LOL

[Still in Limbo]

Thanks Hurt! As You stated it's hard to do sometimes, especially when the Pain takes Over! But You Sure are right about Choices: I was once told that "It's not the Situation You are Faced with that People will Remember, it's how You Reacted that will Stay in their Minds!!" That Saying sure Made a Lot of Sense to Me, and Made Me Look at Life in a Different Way. It's all about Situations (Some People Call them Problems) and the Reactions and Choices We make to the Situation that Make You Who You are. I'm Disabled, I have been through the Anger Phase, the Feel Sorry Phase, and I have come to the Realization that I have to Re-Invent Myself to Adapt to My New Situation. I'm Young at 46, and even though it's tough Sometimes, I am not going to let My Disability Define Me, I'm going to Adapt and Enjoy the Rest of this Life I Have!! It's a Work in Progress, but I'm Workin' on it!!!

[hurt at work]

you know limbo in my mediation the other side and even the medator were giving me a very hard time about not working and trying to get ssd.they acted like i was a lazy a**.when they let my wife come in the room after the opening statements and the other side went to there room i told her how they were acting she didnt believe me then the mediator started on me again i got the point acrost by being nice and to the point but i did what to rip his head off.but i was nice and didnt want to come off like poor me you know.then i told him untill he could live a day in my shoes he should not judge me.that put it to rest the rest of the meeting.like you said it how you present your self and people do remeber butt heads.thank limbo.