The Choice is Yours - a living from vision story

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 he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be
twins!"

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day,
Michael 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
Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all
of the time. How do you do it?" 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. 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 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,"
Michael 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. 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 Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the
Company 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 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. 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?"

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," 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."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Michael 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 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
Michael. 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."

Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate
on me as if I am alive, not dead."

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. Attitude, after all, is everything.

"Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." After all, today is
the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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Originally Posted by vivbass

HELLO CHEER,
VERY NICE POST