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"Richardson, Anthony AJ SHCAP" <AR200243@MSXSOC.SHELL.COM< on 04/06/2000
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Subject: FW: [Fwd: good story]

< < READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN.
< < THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW.
< <
< < Michael 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, Michael 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
< < Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a
< positive
< < person all of the time.
< <
< < How do you do it?"
< <
< < Michael 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," Michael 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
< life."
< <
< < I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left
< the Towe
< < 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 Michael was involved in a
< serious
< < accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
< <
< < After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
< Michael was
< < released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
< <
< < I saw Michael 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 accident took place.
< <
< < "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being
< of my
< < soon to be born daughter, " Michael 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.
< <
< < Michael 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
< < Michael. "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."
< <
< < Michael 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."
< < Matthew 6:34
< <
< < After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
< <
< < You have two choices now:
< < 1. Delete this.
< < 2. Forward it to the people you care about.
< <
< < I hope you will choose #2. I did