Noushin, you are a star! This is a salient lesson to all of us.....there
is always someone worse off than you!
Thanks for this and I will use it in my teaching sessions.
Happy New Year everyone!
Rita
Rita E Ogden
Specialist Practitioner/Clinical Team Leader,
Occupational Health Service,
St. James's University Hospital
Tel: 0113 2065228
Leeds General Infirmary
Tel: 0113 3923267
>>> "N. Rostami" <[log in to unmask]> 04/01/2008 09:16 >>>
*John 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, John 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 and
asked him, "I don't get it!
*
*You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"*
*He 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," he 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 he 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 he was involved in a serious
accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
*
*After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
*
*I saw him 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
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," he 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*
*He 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
John. "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."
*
*He 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**.
*
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