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.