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my response 2 all of this shiat:
> CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY.
>
> 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, 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 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. 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 Michael 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 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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