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Hi Everyone, just some food for thought!
>"Positive Attitude" (Author unknown)
>
> Jerry 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had
> followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the
> waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural
> motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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
>Jerry
> and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all
>of
> the time. How do you do it?"
>
> Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," 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. The bottom line: It's
> your choice how you live life."
>
> I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the
> restaurant 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 Jerry did something
> you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the
> back door open one morning and was held up at gun-point by three armed
> robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from
> nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and
> shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to
> the local trauma center. 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 was with 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.
> Wanna 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, as I lay on the floor,
> 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.
>
> Jerry 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
> was looking at 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 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. 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 we have the
> choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. >>
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>"Positive Attitude" (Author unknown)
>
> Jerry 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had
> followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the
> waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural
> motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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
>Jerry
> and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all
>of
> the time. How do you do it?"
>
> Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," 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. The bottom line: It's
> your choice how you live life."
>
> I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the
> restaurant 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 Jerry did something
> you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the
> back door open one morning and was held up at gun-point by three armed
> robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from
> nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and
> shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to
> the local trauma center. 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 was with 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.
> Wanna 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, as I lay on the floor,
> 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.
>
> Jerry 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
> was looking at 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 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. 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 we have the
> choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Now, you
> have two choices:
>
> 1. Delete this.
> 2. Forward it to the people you care about.
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