Got this in an e-mail and it is pretty good!

[Spoonallard]

READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE.


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, 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 affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what Michael 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.

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.

A Christian 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." Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You have two choices now:

01. Delete this.

02. Forward it to the people you care about.

You know the choice I made.


May God Bless you, and smile,it could be contagious

[peewee]

There is just something about that bird that frieks me out.

[duck_nutt]

good'un

[RLJames]

good read....I agree 'bout the bird.

[Spoonallard]

There is just something about that bird that frieks me out.

Ain't he cute!

[MySocks]

"If I were any better, I would be twins!"

I am a twin and it's not perfect enough to have two of me!!

[mudsucker]

Delete it as I do not do chain letters!

[crow]

Dont' do chain letters, either.

But, the best advice I ever got from an employee was a principal who, when I talked to him about a perceived emplyee "morale" problem, told me, "Bobby, you have to be in charge of your own morale. You are doomed if you let anyone else decide that for you!"

That's been my attitude and advice ever since! I will not conceed my morale to anyone else. Even if I'm in the toilet with my own feelings, I will "fake it till I make it."

Hey, who, exactly, is in control of your life, anyway?

crow