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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!'

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John 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 and asked him, 'I don't get it!

You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'

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

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,' 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.

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 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.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower..

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him 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,' he 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

He 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 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'.'

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

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.

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..

You have two choices now:

01. Delete this

02. Forward it to the people you care about.

You know the choice I made.

 

 Life is too short to wake up with regrets. ♥ So love the people who treat you right. ♥ Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

We’re Tired and We’re Not Going to Take This Any More: A Call to Arms

They Have Awoken a Sleeping Giant –

1. We're tired of politician's stealing our money in the name of social justice and we're tired of their programs that promote socialism which we don't agree with.
2. We're tired of being criticized and called selfish when we say that we would like to spend our money in the way that we wish and not give to government programs that support 'victims' who don't support their local communities, churches, schools and organizations like we do.
3. We're tired of being told that God should not be in politics in a world where selfishness and deceit are rampant and abortion is legal.
4. We're tired of the innocent killing of babies being promoted as a form of birth control and abortion being promoted as a right.
5. We're tired of being taken for granted and told that the politicians know what is best for us better than we do.
6. We're tired of being lied to by a media that only tells half a story – A media that produces untrue pictures in favor of those they love and in opposition to those they hate.
7. We're tired of a media who tells us that to be Christian or God loving is immature or silly.
8. We're tired of a media that tells us that our military are murderers and that we are causing terrorists to murder.
9. We're tired of being told that we are the evil ones when we don't accept the lies of the media or government.
10. We're tired of being told constantly why we should hate our great country, the most giving country ever in world history.
11. We're tired of being told that we are the ones who started wars and killed people without reason.
12. We're tired of being told that we should turn our heads and ignore the evil in the world and not protect ourselves from those whose goal is to kill us.
13. We're tired of a government that spends more than it makes (takes) without caring who ultimately is going to pay for it.
14. Were tired of politicians who lack the courage to do what is right and who only care about what is in it for them or what greater political position they can steal.
15. We're tired of federal system that encourages lobbyists to bribe politicians in order to get things done their way in Washington.
16. We're tired of attorneys who bring frivolous cases to our courts with money as their only motive.
17. We're tired of politicians passing medical legislation for us that they won't accept for their own families.
18. We're tired of being told that women are silly when they love their husbands and provide them safe and happy homes and families.
19. We're tired of being told that love is a sexual and selfish act and nothing more.
20. We're tired of being called callous and not compassionate when we don't agree with the creation socialist society.

We're tired of politicians who believe that we work for them when in all actuality they work for us.

We're tired of politicians who treat the American people as if they are stupid. Speaking down to us and ignoring our wishes.

We're tired of rampant and blatant corruption in our Government.

We're tired of suffering and sacrificing while our elected officials live the high life.

Yes, we're tired, but not too tired to stand up for what is right. Not too tired to walk in to the voting booth and pull the lever to end the careers of politicians who no longer do the bidding of the people. We are not too tired take back America!!!! Stupid? We aren't.

This is a great site with good suggestions for what we need to do this year to save our country:

http://stlouisteaparty.com/2010/01/01/name-the-problem-we-can-fix/