Two choices so be POSITIVE

You have two choices!!!!
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> Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is
> always in a good mood.
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> When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would
> always reply:
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> "If Iwere any better, I would be twins!"
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> Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when
> he changed
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> jobs,so they could follow him around from restaurant to
> restaurant
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> Why?
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> Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
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> If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always
> there, telling
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> him how to look on the positive side of the situation.
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> Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went
> up to
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> Jerry and asked him. "I don't get it! No one can
> be a positive person all of
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> the time. How do you do it?"
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> Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to
> myself, I have two
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> choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can
> choose to be in a
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> bad mood.
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> I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something
> bad
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> happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn
> from it. I
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> always choose
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> to learn from it.
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> Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to
> accept
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> their complaining or I can point out the positive side of
> life. I always
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> choose the positive side of life."
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> "But it's not always that easy," I
> protested.
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> "Yes it is," Jerry said.
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> "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the
> junk every
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> situation is a choice.. You choose how you react to
> situations.
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> You choose how people will affect your mood.
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> You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
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> It's your choice how you live your life."
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> Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did
> something
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> you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business.
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> He left the back door of his restaurant open in the
> morning, he was
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> robbed by three armed men.
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> While Jerry trying to open the safe his hand, shaking from
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> nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers
> panicked and shot
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> him.
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> Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the
> hospital..
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> After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
> Jerry was
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> released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets
> still in his body.
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> I saw Jerry about six months after the accident
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> When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were
> any better, I'd be
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> twins. Want to see my scars?"
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> I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone
> through
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> his mind as the robbery took place.
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> "The first thing that went through my mind was that I
> should have
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> locked the back door," Jerry replied.
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> "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I
> remembered that I
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> had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to
> die. I chose to
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> live."

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> "Weren't you scared I asked?
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> Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept
> telling me I
was going to be fine.
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> But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw
> the
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> expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got
> really scared.
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> In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man. I
> knew I needed to take
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> action."
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> "What did you do?" I asked.
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> "Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at
> me," said Jerry..
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> "She asked if I was allergic to anything."
> "Yes, to bullets," I replied.
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> Over their laughter, I told them "I am choosing to
> live. Please
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> operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
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> Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also
> because of
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> his amazing attitude.
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> I learned from him that every day you have the choice to
> either enjoy
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> your life or to hate it.
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> The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can
> control or take
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> from you, is your attitude, so if you can take care of
> that, everything else
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> in life becomes much
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> easier.
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