Life Is All About Choices

After I met and got to know Joan she told me two very profound things. Joan has had a lot of tragedy in her life but those of you that don't know every thing about her would never know it. Always smiling, always positive.

Way back then she told me life is all about choices. She said it is up to all of us to choose if we want to be happy or sad. She said I choose to be happy.

I try to do that every morning but sometimes it is challenging. I was married to a woman before Joan that also chose to be happy.

So between the two of them I have spent over 50 years with two women whose choice was to be happy.

And at times I still struggle with it. But I keep trying. LOL

The other thing she told me was that she wanted to wear out, she never wanted to rust out. No chance of rust ever being able to settle on her, LOL

So when a friend sent me this E-Mail today even though I have read it before I am going to print it out and refer to it often.

Read this

LET IT REALLY SINK IN......

THEN

CHOOSE..

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 .

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.