Inspiration

                           
Read this and let it really sink in ................
Then choose how you start your day tomorrow

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 whom
had followed him from restaurant to restaurant. The reason
waiters followed him was because of his attitude. He was a
natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry
was there, telling the employee to look on the positive side of
the situatiaon.

Seeing this 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 the good
mood. Each time something 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 complaints or I can point out the positive side
of life. I choose the positive side."

"Yeah right, it's not that easy." I protested.

"Yes, it is," Jerry said, "Life is all about choices. When you cut
away all of 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 a bad mood. The
bottom line : it is your choice how you live your 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 of him when I had
to make a choice about life instead of just 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 and was help up at gunpoint by three armed robbers.When
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 saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked
him how he was doing, he replied,"If I were any better I'd be
twins! Want to see my scars ?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask what had gone through
his mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind is that I should have
locked the door,"  Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor I
remembered 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?"

Jerry continued, "the paramedics were great. They kept telling
me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into ER
I saw the expressions onthe faces of the doctors and
nurses I got really scared. In their eyes I read, 'he is a dead
man.' I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?"

"Well, there was this one burly nurse shouting questions at me,"
said Jerry.  "She asked me if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I
replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they wanted
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.

You have two choices now:

1. Delete this.
2. Share with people you care about.

Hope you choose number 2.

I did