Have you noticed that in life you have two choices, you can choose to be sad or to be happy, to be in a bad mood or in a good mood, it all depends on what you want to choose.
Talking about having two choices in life, it reminds me of the manager of a restaurant close to my office, called Mike.
Mike is always in a good mood. When someone ask him, how he was doing, he would always reply,” If I were any better, I would be twins”, am doing great today, am happy was always his reply.
Mike was loved by everyone, to the extent that many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. Why? Because Mike was a natural Motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Mike was always there, tell him how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this motivating qualities in mike, made me curious, so one day I went up to Mike and asked him;
“I don’t get it, no one can be a positive person all the time, how do you do it?”
Mike replied; “Each Morning, I wake up and 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. He continued, I always 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 always choose to learn from it , every time some one comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complains or I can point out the positive side of lt. I always choose the positive side of life”
Hearing Mike’s statements, I said, “But it’s not always that easy I protested,
“Yes it is” Jerry said,” Life is all about choices, when you cut away all the junks every situation is a choice; You choose how you react to situation, 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” he concluded.
Several years later, I heard that Mike accidentally, did something you are not suppose to do in the restaurant business, he left the back door of his restaurant open and then in the morning he was robbed by three armed men.. He was asked to open his safe box, while trying to open the safe box, his hand shaking from nervousness, slipped off, the robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily Mike was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. After 18hrs of surgery and 8 wks of intensive care, Mike was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.
Recently, about six months after the accident, I saw Mike, when I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins, you want to see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds but I 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 would have locked the back door,” Mike replied “ Then after they shot me, 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, he said with a grin”
Where you scared? I asked, Mike continued,” The Paramedic were great, they kept telling me I will be fine, but when they wheeled me into the emergency room, I saw the expression on the faces of the Doctors and Nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read “ He is a dead man”, then I knew I needed to take actions.”
What did you do? I asked, Mike replied, “ Well, there was a big nurse, shouting questions at me said Jerry. “ She asked if I was allergic to anything, “Yes to bullets, I replied. They laughed, over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live, please operate on me as if am alive, not dead”.
Readers, this is the story of Mike the motivator. Mike lived, thanks to the skills of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that everyday you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from you is your attitude. So, if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier. You should always look at the bright side of every situation you find yourself, when ever you fail in anything, always try to make a success out of that failure, never give up, if you lost a loved one, come out of mourning, and do something that will make the deceased proud of you, if you fall down get up immediately and move on, make things happen for you. Now you have two choices to make.
Peace
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