TWO CHOICES

you have two choices



Jerry is the maneger of a retaurant. He always in a good mood.


When someone would ask him how he was doing, he always reply:
"if i were any better, i would be twins!"

many of the waiters at his restaurant guit their jobs when he changed jobs,
so they could follow him arround from restaurant to restaurant.

why?


because Jerry was a natural motivator.

if an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was alway 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 an asked him:
"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 an 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 someones comes to me complaining, i can choose to accept their complaining or i can point out 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 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 life 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 retaurant 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 an weeks of intensive care, Jerry was realesed 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 trough his mind as the robbery rook place.

"the first thing that went trough 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: icould choose to live or could choose to die. i choose to live."

Jerry continued,"The paramedics were great. They kept telling me i was going to be fine.

but when they wheeled me into the Emeergency 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 allegic to anything."

"yes, to bullets, "i replied

Over their loughter, i told them:"i am choosing to live. Pleas e operate on me as if i am alive, not dead."

"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also becouse 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 taht is truly yours-that no one can control or take from you-is your attitude,

so if you take of that, everything else in life becomes much easier..