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Inspirations - All About Attitude
Author Unknown
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 Jerry
is the manager of a restaurant.
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.”
"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 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 a 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. He 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 two choices: 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
needed 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.
~Author Unknown~
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It's choice,
not chance,
that determines
your destiny.
Jean Nidetch |
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