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Choices in Life <O:p></O:p>
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!" <O:p></O:p>
He was a natural motivator. <O:p></O:p>
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. <O:p></O:p>
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 <O:p></O:p>
person all of the time. How do you do it?" <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
I choose to be in a good mood." <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. <O:p></O:p>
I choose the positive side of life. <O:p></O:p>
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. <O:p></O:p>
"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 <O:p></O:p>
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: <O:p></O:p>
It's your choice how you live your life." <O:p></O:p>
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 <O:p></O:p>
about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
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?" <O:p></O:p>
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. <O:p></O:p>
"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." <O:p></O:p>
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. <O:p></O:p>
Michael continued, "..the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER <O:p></O:p>
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." <O:p></O:p>
"What did you do?" I asked. <O:p></O:p>
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' <O:p></O:p>
The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'." <O:p></O:p>
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
Attitude, after all, is everything. <O:p></O:p>
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34. <O:p></O:p>
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. <O:p></O:p>
You have two choices now: <O:p></O:p>
01. Delete this. <O:p></O:p>
02. Forward it to the people you care about. <O:p></O:p>
You know the choice I made.
Those that don't delete.
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!" <O:p></O:p>
He was a natural motivator. <O:p></O:p>
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. <O:p></O:p>
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 <O:p></O:p>
person all of the time. How do you do it?" <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
I choose to be in a good mood." <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. <O:p></O:p>
I choose the positive side of life. <O:p></O:p>
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. <O:p></O:p>
"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 <O:p></O:p>
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: <O:p></O:p>
It's your choice how you live your life." <O:p></O:p>
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 <O:p></O:p>
about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
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?" <O:p></O:p>
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. <O:p></O:p>
"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." <O:p></O:p>
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. <O:p></O:p>
Michael continued, "..the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER <O:p></O:p>
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." <O:p></O:p>
"What did you do?" I asked. <O:p></O:p>
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' <O:p></O:p>
The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'." <O:p></O:p>
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." <O:p></O:p>
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. <O:p></O:p>
Attitude, after all, is everything. <O:p></O:p>
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34. <O:p></O:p>
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. <O:p></O:p>
You have two choices now: <O:p></O:p>
01. Delete this. <O:p></O:p>
02. Forward it to the people you care about. <O:p></O:p>
You know the choice I made.
Those that don't delete.
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