Facts
Some easy to Accept and Some are Tuff or Hard
to Accept
Keep in Mind The MODERN SENSIBILITY.
This World is NOT the Past where You could
Leave Your door
Unlocked to go to the market.
Time
The Definition of time
an Element for keeping Everything from happening all at once
*Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now
Hard Work Pays off?
I Question This as Hard Work Only Pays off IFOther
Folks Know and
Applies HUMANITY in Work, Play, Friends and
Family
*A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good
*Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
This is True as Debters Dont Apply Humanity with a touch of Patience
*Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Trouble on a Landslide.
*Evil is that which one believes of
others. It is a sin to believe evil of
others, but it is seldom
a mistake. --
H.L. Mencken
" ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING"
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Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate.
He was always in a good mood and always had something positive
to say.
When someone would asked him how he was doing, he would
reply
"If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a unique manager, he even had several waiters on staff 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 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, but 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
your mood. You choose to be in a good 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 emergency
room 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 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.
(AUTHOR UNKNOW)