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You have two choices
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Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a
good mood.
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When someone would ask him how he was doing, he
would always reply:
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"If I were any better, I would be twins!"
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Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when
he changed jobs,
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so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant
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Why ?
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BecauseJerry was a natural motivator.
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If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation.
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Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him :
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"I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
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Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have a choice today. I can
choose to be in a good mood 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 bad
happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn
from it. I always choose to learn from it.
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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."
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"But it's not always that easy,” 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 a choice.
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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."
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Several years later,
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I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never
supposed to do in the restaurant business.
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He left the back door of his restaurant open
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And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed
men.
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While Jerry was trying to open the safe box,
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his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off
the combination.The robbers panicked and
shot him.
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Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the
hospital.
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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.…
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I saw Jerry about six months after the incident.
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When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd
be twins. Want to see my scars?"
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I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him
what had gone through his mind as the robbery took
place.
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"The first thing that went through my mind was that I
should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.
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"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."
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"Weren't you scared” I asked?
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Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
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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.”
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In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.’
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I knew I needed to take action."
"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, to bullets” I replied.
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Over their laughter, I told them: “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive,
not dead.”
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Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because
of his amazing attitude.
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I learned from him that every day you have the choice to enjoy
your life or to hate it.
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The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or
take from you –
is your attitude,
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so if you can take care of that, everything else in life
becomes much easier.
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Now if you enjoyed this little story, you have another choice:
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1. You can delete this message;
or…2. You can forward it to
someone you care about.
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I hope you will choose #2.
As you can see, I did.