"One who seeks a
flaw will always find it. Just as one who seeks what is good will always find
it. What you seek will determine your path. Seek wisely...."
~
John Two-Hawks http://www.johntwohawks.com/
You Have
Two Choices
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 always 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.
'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.
…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 me curious, so
one day I went up 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?'
'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 victim or I
can choose to learn from it. I always 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 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.
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 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 situations.
You choose how people will affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life.'
You choose how people will affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
It's your choice how you live your life.'
Several years later, I
heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the
restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open And then in
the morning, he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry trying to open the
safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off 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 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 replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to 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, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I
had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to
live.'
'Weren't you scared' I
asked?
Jerry continued, 'The
paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
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 every day 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 else in life becomes much easier.
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have
set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you
and your descendants may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19
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