AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY TO SHARE

LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE.
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> > John 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!"
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> > He was a natural motivator.
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> > If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the
> > employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
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> > Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and
> > asked him, "I don't get it!
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> > You can't be

a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
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> > He 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.
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> > I choose to be in a good mood."
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > "Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away
> > all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
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situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
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> > 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 he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry
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> > to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him
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> > when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
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> > Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious
> > accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
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> > After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
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> > from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
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> > I saw him about six months after the accident.
> >
> > When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be
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> >

twins...Wanna see my scars?"
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> > 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," he 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."
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> > "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
> >
> > He continued, "..the paramedics were great.
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> > 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
>John.
> > "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
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> > 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."
> >
> > He 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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> > Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
> > itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.
> >
> > After all today is the tomorrow you

worried about yesterday.
> >
> > You have two choices now:
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> > 01. Delete this.
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> > 02. Forward it to the people you care about.
> >
> > You know the choice I made.
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