Greetings,
Hope you enjoy the story. It has been given to me and I hand it on to you.
Clerical-types will find "homily food" in this.
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood
and always had 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 his 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 to live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant
industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but 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 gun point by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe,
his hand, shaking from the nervousness, slipped off the combination. The
robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly
and rushed to a 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 said, "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 whelled 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, 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.
You have 2 choices now: 1. Save or delete this mail from your mailbox or 2
. Forward it to people you care about. Hope you will choose No. 2.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching. Its gotta come from the heart...if you want
it to work.....
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