Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America.
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 always reply, "If I were
any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit
their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around
from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters
followed Jerry was because of his attitude.
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was
having a bad day, Jerry was always 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 Jerry and asked him, "I don't get
it!
No one can be a positive person all of the time. How
do you do it?" Jerry replied,
"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I
have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good
mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always 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
always choose to learn from it.
Everytime someone comes to me complaining, I
can choose to accept their complaining or I can
point out the positive side of life. I always choose the
positive side of life."
"But it's not always that easy," I protested.
"Yes,it is," Jerry 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. It's
your choice how you live your life."
Several years later, I heard that Jerry
accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the
restaurant business: left the back door of his restaurant
open one morning and was robbed by three armed men.While
trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness
slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to
the hospital.
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, 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 him what had gone through his mind as the
robbery took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was
that I should have locked the back door,"
Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I
lay on the floor, I remembered that I had twochoices: I could
choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared?" I asked. Jerry continued,
"The paramedics were great.They kept telling me. I was going to
be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room 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 need to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a
big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "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, 'Bullets!'
Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am
choosing to live. Please 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 you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to
hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours that no one
can control or take from you-is your attitude, so if you can
take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier
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