Attitude

  Read this, and let it really sink in... Then choose how you start your
day tomorrow...

  Jerry 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed 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 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! You can't be a positive person all of
the time. How do you do it?"  Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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,"  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. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said.
  Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant 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 Jerry did something you are never
supposed to do in a restaurant business:

he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint
by three armed robbers. 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 relatively quickly and rushed
to the local trauma center. 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.  Wanna 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, as I lay on the floor, 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.  Jerry
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 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. 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 we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after  all, is everything.
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