Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America. He
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good mood and always has something positive to say.+ ~* y) B l# c) @! m: ]
When someone would ask
' h J' d; A+ E0 g! e6 F) w# |him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I
- ^& {, y+ D6 q2 c7 b2 }were any better, I 0 u. E. r9 B4 Z& P0 \
would be twins!"/ X8 i4 H c) {8 B' P
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs
$ u( d5 d0 a/ B" e y/ Nwhen he changed - r3 o. d5 ]+ r" g
jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant
) \! ?1 b! r2 b) @to restaurant.
' t, z( M% f) J3 Y- j1 r5 H7 H, uThe reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of& F# t! F6 t" m/ C9 R; N; s
his attitude. 1 y1 Y, Q, ]. _+ x
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having
% p5 D& u* g4 t! B9 d I; ea bad day, Jerry + ]& y8 `4 W4 v# H- A E8 N7 W
was always here, telling the employee how to look on
+ L6 ~6 d2 H' B/ u% tthe positive side + O* Q' e( `+ B# K" {
of the situation.
5 ^* q: U9 O) w$ }/ ESeeing this style really made me curious, so one day I
5 b0 I1 W5 x/ B% Lwent up to Jerry ' E( H4 z- w/ A/ l- A5 v9 y8 D* f7 o
and asked him, "I don't get it!
* w: A9 |) d' _& eNo one can be a positive person all of the time. How. R0 ?5 X, c( l7 R. W5 T+ w; ]5 {4 j
do you do it?"
8 Z4 E# a6 A% n" L6 H, b/ t; vJerry replied,
* O& I/ }: P8 `/ W. b4 t% I"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two
5 B# O" y& ]5 b5 q6 H- Ychoices today. I ; h$ J' b* D, H: n
can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be" K1 Z! k3 y ]) r! ~( c8 a
in a bad mood. I
! s# o. C' x, ]7 p) palways choose to be in a good mood. 3 x9 n7 p( X; V& V- k8 q' H) d
! u- U! V5 c/ [1 ]0 IEach time something bad happens, I can choose to be a6 g; }. i |* [
victim or I can : e+ i% _7 W. e. r7 G! K
choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from# k# S+ Z: r o( S: k
it. Every time
& f4 B- z8 ]: u. e- m. Z, Y5 bsomeone comes to me complaining, I can choose to
% `; L) y% f: Gaccept their . r/ N" @1 ~( d2 l7 S' E0 [3 P0 f
complaining or I can point out the positive side of
& W% C- [7 h! vlife. I always
3 Z2 o6 f5 c4 p" Qchoose the positive side of life."
1 Y0 y; w \$ K8 Q$ l8 E"But it's not always that easy," I protested. - W, C6 F4 \, X+ |4 H: N* I+ O. d; |
"Yes, it is," Jerry said "Life is all about choices. , _( }# ~& S3 B- L, e7 w% Q4 }
When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a/ R% U/ a6 f& M8 Z) s7 g, ~0 Q1 d
choice. You choose 7 M# H2 C$ E4 l3 z% \
how you react to situations. You choose how people
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mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.2 i" x- r r- {8 Z4 c7 O
It's your choice how
2 Z2 ^7 P& r% f7 ]you live your life." + F2 I0 p( R; x9 t B5 C
Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally 0 v, U* i/ ]' n% ?
did something you are never supposed to do in the
0 |0 ?/ A7 ~6 {7 H: l) Wrestaurant business: left the back door of his
! h1 @$ e2 b' m6 ?! N4 B9 lrestaurant open one morning and was robbed by three
( e7 ?7 j+ Z+ B" u' R- [armed men. While trying to open the safe, his hand, 7 C, ~7 n4 H: B3 R
shaking from nervousness slipped off the
0 a1 \+ g7 H* ~% i8 H9 @combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. ! L% P- M# |+ Y* R2 ]: n4 [$ b
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Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the
% B4 f8 W4 o2 \, n. Yhospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of
' J6 U, C- Y9 N6 k. p+ zintensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital 9 [) n' B ^! l8 H$ O8 h! Z- V
with fragments of the bullets still in his body. 1 k' v- y# p2 i0 G& s3 C
; ]& p+ D" c t. S u/ cI saw Jerry about six months after the accident.
" Y) H4 N. ^5 A5 y% i) I+ }When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were 6 n# S' ^ m# I8 a. \
any better, I'd be twins. 9 `. \% O' |2 h0 A0 }
. b5 g' y8 v) o; C, g" pWant to see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, ) S8 f1 A& U7 D0 a) a% d
but did ask him what had gone through his mind as 2 M) [9 F+ }" y* r1 n1 A
the robbery took place.
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"The first thing that went through my mind was that
& G# Q2 o" k5 H& BI should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.
$ ]% P) i$ @6 \, d' ^5 B) y"Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I
5 J1 [- c: X$ Fremembered that I had two choices: I could choose to
, W8 R7 q' E' wlive or choose to die. I chose to live."
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2 B1 m+ m* Y9 w6 O) h X8 h"Weren't you scared?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The ) u* N6 j2 N$ E; |+ t) i( r4 `
paramedics were great. They kept telling me. I was ; E! w6 Q# W a% R
going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the
9 y, k; E# @) m4 WEmergency Room and I saw the expressions on the
% ^4 J! \3 j; h2 Vfaces of the doctors and nurses, I got really 7 W/ R& O( z( h
scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I
' {/ ~* ?2 k: k; |4 {7 tknew I needed to take action." # a* K1 I3 I# r. u7 \1 a+ E* _
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big 1 P- O- \0 O1 Q; `8 j2 e1 Y
nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She
- ?" A5 r& ]3 @# b5 iasked if I was allergic to anything."
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% t P) y H1 P7 C j& g( h& @8 k'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped 5 O M6 V( L1 f- e6 l
working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep 1 b! G C! |; R) t# Y
breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I
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told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on ) d2 m0 d* S4 y8 E
me as if I am alive, not dead'." 2 ^' b" [ K+ h0 p2 k( o
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but
, C+ v- P3 u/ Zalso because of his amazing attitude. I learned from % }4 E2 z9 u$ D( Y& n/ F+ X
him that every day you have the choice to either $ j2 K% ^3 C! v, k3 @( b
enjoy your life or to hate it. ! P* P7 D/ _/ N$ G
The only thing that is truly yours that no one can . f' w7 L) c8 `; |% |2 v
control or take from you-is your attitude, so if you 4 `" u% n' i) q
can take care of that, everything else in life 5 \( t2 f7 x- }5 Z4 L- \
becomes much easier. , v( ?8 V1 f# M0 t8 \- j; s) R
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Now you have two choices to make: ' X W+ p7 Z6 K* r( S$ H! \2 m
1. You can just close the browser now OR 3 I/ k6 M5 e% c7 X
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2. You can forward it to someone you care about.
$ I( L/ n z7 i) j8 BI hope you will choose #2. I did.
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