0d28you Have Two Choices

7/29/2019 0d28you Have Two Choices

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You have

two choices


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Jerry is the manager of arestaurant. He is always in a

good mood.


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When someone would askhim how he was doing, hewould always reply,


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"If I were any better, Iwould be twins!"


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Many of the waiters at hisrestaurant quit their jobs

when he changed jobs,


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so they could follow himaround from restaurant to

restaurant


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Why


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Because

Jerry was a naturalmotivator.


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If an employee was having abad day,

Jerry was always there, tellingthe employee how to look onthe positive side of thesituation.


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Seeing this style really made

me curious, so one day I wentup to Jerry and asked him


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"I don't get it! No one can be

a positive person all of thetime. How do you do it?"


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Jerry replied, "Each morningI wake up and say to myself,I have two choices today. I

can choose to be in a goodmood or I can choose to be

in a bad mood.


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I always choose to be in a

good mood.

Each time something badhappens, I can choose tobe victim or I can choose to

learn from it. I alwayschoose to learn from it.


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Every time someone comesto me complaining, I can

choose to accept theircomplaining or I can pointout the positive side of life.

I always choose the positive

side of life."


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"But it's not always thateasy, 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 situation is achoice.


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You choose how you react to

situations.You choose how people willaffect your mood.

You choose to be in a goodmood or bad mood.

It's your choice how you live yourlife."


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Several years later,


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I heard that Jerry accidentallydid something you are never

supposed to do in therestaurant business.


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He left the back door of hisrestaurant open


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And then ???


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In the morning,

he was robbed by threearmed men.


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They want?


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#123*+!@$%&*~


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While Jerry trying to open

the safe box,


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his hand, shaking fromnervousness, slipped offthe combination.

The robbers panicked andshot him.


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Luckily, Jerry was foundquickly and rushed to the

hospital.


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After 18 hours of surgery


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and

weeks of intensive care,


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Jerry was released from thehospital with fragments ofthe bullets still in his body.


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I saw Jerry about sixmonths after the accident.


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When I asked him how he

was,


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he replied, "If I were anybetter, I'd be twins. Want to

see my scars?"


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I declined to see hiswounds, but did ask himwhat had gone throughhis mind as the robberytook place.


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"The first thing that wentthrough my mind was that

I should have locked theback door," Jerry replied.


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"Then, after they shot me, asI lay on the floor, Iremembered that I had two

choices: I could choose tolive or could choose to die. I

chose to live."


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"Weren't you scared

I asked?


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Jerry continued, "Theparamedics were great.

They kept telling me I wasgoing to be fine.


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But when they wheeled meinto the Emergency Roomand I saw the expression on

the faces of the doctors andnurses, I got really scared.


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In their eyes, I read 'He's adead man.'


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I knew I needed to takeaction."


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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. "She asked if I

was allergic to anything."


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'Yes,' I replied.


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The doctors and nursesstopped working as they

waited for my reply.


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I took a deep breath


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and yelled, 'Bullets!'


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Over their laughter, I told

them,


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'I am choosing to live.

Please operate on me asif I am alive, not dead'.


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"Jerry lived thanks to theskill of his doctors, but alsobecause of his amazingattitude.


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I learned from him

that


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every day you have thechoice to either enjoy your

life or to hate it.


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The only thing that is trulyyours -- that no one can

control or take from you-


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is your attitude,


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so if you can take care ofthat, everything else in life

becomes much easier.

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