To Listers,
An Item of interest and thought stimulation from my son
Robyn
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From: nic aulmann
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:50 AM
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Subject: God, I love these...It makes you a much better person!!!


***Ards, stop that retching - get control man!!***


READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE.
> > > > > > > Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in
>agood 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 said to 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 life. I reflected on what
>Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the company 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. Wanna see my scars?" I
>declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through this
>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 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."
>After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. You have two
>choices now: 1. Delete this. 2. Forward it to people. I hope you will
>choose #2. I did.
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