Choose Your Attitude-
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>The Choice you make affects more than just you!
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>READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN.
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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.
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>"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 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."
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>I reflected on what he 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.
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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 from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
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>I saw him about six months after the accident.
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>When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd
>be 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.
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>"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,
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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.
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>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."
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>"What did you do?" I asked.
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>"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 a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."
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>Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on
>me as if I am alive, not dead."
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>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.
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>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.
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>After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.




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