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	From:  Maria Sandoval                           04/06/2000 01:36 PM
	

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	From:  Definia Richardson                           04/06/2000 01:02 PM
	

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"Richardson, Anthony AJ SHCAP" <AR200243@MSXSOC.SHELL.COM> on 04/06/2000 
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>  >        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
> life."
>  >
>  >      I reflected on what Michael said.  Soon thereafter, I left
> the Towe
>  >      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.
>  >
>  >      Wanna see my scars?"  I declined to see his wounds, but 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.
>  >
>  >         I hope you will choose #2.  I did