Date: 11/26/2008

Choices!

READ THIS CAREFULLY, LET IT SINK IN!!! Rob 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, would reply, "if i were any better, i would be twins!" He was a natural motivater. If an employee was having a bad day, Rob 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 Rob and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Rob 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. 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. "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Rob 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 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 Rob said. Soon thereafter, 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 Rob was involved in a seriou accident, falling from 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Rob was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Rob 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.


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