Re: [Fwd: Subject: Attitude]

[Greg DellaCorte <gregandlorinda@xxxxxxxx>]

Greg wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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 your 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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