>  READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN.
> >  THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY TOMORROW.
> >
> >  Michael 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 natural motivator.
> >  If an employee was having a bad day, Michael 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 Michael and asked him, "I don't
> >  get it! You can't be a positive person all of the
> >  time. How do you do it?"
> >
> >  Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to
> >  myself, 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," Michael 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 affect your mood. You
> >  choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.
> >
> >  The bottom line: It's your choice how you live
> >  your life."
> >
> >  I reflected on what Michael said. Soon
> >  hereafter, I left the Tower 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 Michael was
> >  involved in a serious accident, falling some 60
> >  feet from a communications tower.
> >
> >  After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive
> >  care, Michael was released from the hospital with
> >  rods placed in his back.
> >
> >  I saw Michael 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 I did ask him
> >  what had gone through his mind as the accident
> >  took place.
> >
> >  "The first thing that went through my mind was
> >  the well-being of my soon to be born daughter,
> >  Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground,
> >  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.
> >
> >  Michael 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 dead man. 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 Michael. "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, "Gravity."
> >
> >  Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing
> >  to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
> >
> >  Michael 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.
> >
> >  "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
> >  tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
> >  enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
> >
> >  After all today is the tomorrow you worried about
> >  yesterday.
> >
> >  You have two choices now:
> >
> >  1. Delete this.
> >  2. Forward it to the people you care about.
> >
> > >
> > > You know the choice I made
> > >
> >
> >