Jerry
This is an amazing story. After reading this , decide which choice you make !!
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. Discard this , and pretend like it did not make your day brighter as it
did mine.
2. Forward it to to everyone you know and bring some inspiration to their day !
“ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1 : 7
“ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. “ James 4 : 7