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mnko | 21:39 Wed 30th Aug 2006 | Body & Soul
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LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE .
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.
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Errrr right... ok?
Wow....

Wish I could be like that....
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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."

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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.


mnko - is this a True Story??
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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.

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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.

What Choice will you make ???????

Is this one of those crappy american or australian chain maily thingymebobs? Boll*cks, sorry. x
Are you alright today?
It's like in Trainspotting when they say "choose blah blah blah, choose Life"
rofl joby....couldn't agree more, I see this kinda crap in my email account and delete 'em straight away, they enough to make ya hurl aint they?
I couldn't read that it was too artificial
I actually found it to be inspiring, I was so impressed with it I chose not to read to the bottom!

:oP just kidding mnko. It is a nice story and for all we do and the choices we make in life there's still that little niggling part that's already mapped out for us, which sadly, we have no control over.
what a load of pish catch a grip
Apparently it is all a frame of mind - But personally I choose to live my life like every other day get up go to work make the little money I make to live/just scrape by and bitch about it along the way. Why because I am comfortable with it and I dont believe that me thinking every thing is gonna be great is going to make any difference to the events which have led me to this. Or that it will help my life be better in future - if this actually happened then good for him, I hope that every time something bad happens he can say sod it I choose to be happy - wish I had it in me but I don't.
I think John was definately a twin - John 2 told the same story as John 1 !!

Or did mnko post twice???
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mnko, are you still there?
By the way, it was WHAM that said CHOOSE LIFE!
Oh, I so had a Freedom T-shirt!

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