Choose Positive
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 motivator. 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, 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 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. 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. Your bottom line: It's your choice how
you live life."
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. 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 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," 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, 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. After all today is the tomorrow you
worried about yesterday.
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