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This came from work and has some great positive points. Please share with
others
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To: AME2 Felix M Alberca@AIMD@Whidbey, PR1 Bjorn E
Bjornstad@AIMD@Whidbey, AMS1 John F Polm@AIMD@Whidbey, AD1
Stephen M Wood@AIMD@Whidbey, AD1 Armin Wolf@AIMD@Whidbey, AE1
William A Zerby@AIMD@Whidbey, AT1 Leonard J
Savoie@AIMD@Whidbey
From: AMH1 Dwayne E Bell@AIMD@Whidbey
Date: Friday, August 13, 1999 at 8:18:11 am PDT
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Read this, and let it really sink in...Then choose
>how you start your day tomorrow...
>
> Jerry 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 reply, "If I were any better, I would
>be twins!" He was a unique manager because he had
>several waiters who had followed him around from
>restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters
>followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a
>natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad
>day, Jerry 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 Jerry and asked him, I don't get it! You
>can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you
>do it?"
>
> Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to
>myself, Jerry, 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 from 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," 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 our mood. You choose to
>be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's
>your choice how you live life."
>
> I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I
>left the restaurant 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 Jerry did something
>you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business:
>he left the back door open one morning and was held up
>at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to
>open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness,
>slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and
>shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly
>and rushed to the local trauma center. 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. Wanna 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, as I lay on the floor, 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. Jerry 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 deadman'. 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 Jerry.
>"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, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,
>'I am choosing to live. 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 we have the choice to live fully.
>Attitude, after all, is everything.
>
> You have two choices now: 1. Delete this. 2. Forward
>it to the people you care about.
>
> Hope you will choose #2. I did.
>
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