You need to remember, that when you find
yourself at the beginning,
Just give hope a chance to float up,
and it will !!!
~{ This insert comes from the movie called "HOPE FLOATS".
If you have not already seen it, Take a break and go to your nearest video spot
and rent it you won't be disappointed.}~
YOU HAVE CHOICES
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 rely,
"If I were any better, I would be twins."
He was a natural when it came to positive motivation. 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, Mike 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 for 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 will affect your mood.
The bottom line: " It's your choice how you live life. "
I reflected on what Michael said: Soon thereafter, I left Tower 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 repied. " 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 chosing to live.
Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Michael Lived, thanks to the skill of these 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.
This story came to me over the internet one day, with the author being
unknown.
I felt touched by the meaning,
I hope you have enjoy it as much as I did.
HOPE FLOATS
