This is the way I have CHOSEN to live! This story is a great way to explain it! Thanks again! Do you remember Pollyanna? Well Lynda from AZ have a "polyanna suit" each...LOL
love & warm gentle hugs, Jo (Australia)
>From: "Helen Dynda" <olddad66@runestone.net>
>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: Attitude is everything !!
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:07:40 -0500
>
>There is a good lesson to be learned from this; and this is my reason for
>sharing it with you.
>
>[]] ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
>
>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 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, Mike, 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, 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.
>
>"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 will 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 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.
>
>Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious
>accident - falling some 60 feet from a communication 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 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.
>