This one is not a joke, but one of those things that you read and get new strength from...
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would 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 why??
Because-----Jerry was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made be curious so one day I went 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 some one 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 situation.
You choose how people will affect your mood
You choose to be in a good mood or in bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you never supposed to do in restaurant business .He left the back door of restaurant open .And then in the morning he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hands shaking from nervousness, slipped at 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 hospital with fragments of bullets still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the surgery. When I asked him how he was he replied"If I were any better I'd be twins". W ant to see my scars?" I declined to see his scars, 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 would choose to live or could choose to die. I choose to live".
Jerry continued,"The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to live. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression 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 to bullets, I replied. 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 everyday 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 in life becomes much easier…
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