Somebody else' rant for today

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Subject: Somebody else' rant for today
 
Read this, and let it really sink in...Then choose how you start your day...

Jerry 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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 Jerry and asked him, I don´t get it! You can´t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," Jerry 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 will 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 Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the electrical 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 Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry 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 robbery took place. "the first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, 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.

Jerry 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 deadman´. 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 Jerry. "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, ´Bullets!´ Over their laughter, I told them, ´I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead´." Jerry 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.

Cheers

Bill

[09-11-2007,13:40]
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Bill
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
bravo
[09-11-2007,14:00]
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Sharon
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Very good story, moral booster.

Though didn´t quite get how it is directly related to somones else rant today. May be my intelect level is low.


[09-11-2007,14:25]
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Departed_Canadian
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)

LOL
DC,
I couldn´t come up with a story like this, I found it online and paste it on here.

I am not the author :)

Bill

[09-11-2007,14:28]
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Bill
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Who is the auther doesn´t really matter. Just curious about the relevance.
[09-11-2007,14:35]
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Departed_Canadian
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
consider it a good diversion from insanity.
[09-11-2007,14:42]
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Sharon
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Everyone can learn something about that story that Bill wrote.

I am wondering how these regular contributors here on this forum can get all the time, day or night to make such quick responses. Are these people on vacation like me? or are they working for themselves? No bosses to report to?
As soon as a posting is made, by the time you say hi, a response is being given.

I am amazed. I have to laugh too.

[09-11-2007,14:50]
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Balwant
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Very good story Bill!

Still I like to add that they are things in life that you do not chose, I mean you do not control, like the day you were born, the day you die, the day you get married.

Even though a lot of things in life is a choice, I think there are a lot of things that happen that we did not choose (i.e: I don´t think DC chose to move back from Canada after becoming citizen, you don´t chose these things they HAPPEN).

But the attitude you adopt to face the situation YES it is a choice. Positive attitude attracts positive things, for sure.

Finally do you know this quote:

"Experience is not what happens when you do something is what you do when something happens"

Have a nice day!

[09-11-2007,14:58]
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CBV333
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
if you are referring to me, I work a 50-60 hour week and I report only to myself. My time is flex and I spend 50% of it in front of a computer. It´s 10am here and I am on hold with City Hall.

next

[09-11-2007,15:07]
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Sharon
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Sharon,

I am not referring to you alone, I said all the major contributors here and that include you, myself, Roy, sutarb, DC, Bill and a few others.

I was just curious, no offence intended.

[09-11-2007,15:20]
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Balwant
(in reply to: Somebody else' rant for today)
Balwant, Same thing to me like Sharon. Though I have supervisor to report, but my work is very very flexible. They even don´t count if I step out of the office for half a day. This forum gets me a break from the usual work, a nice relief. Though sometimes it gets bitter, anyhow, that is the part of life.

CB/Bill or any:

If you can´t be positive then you won´t get success, we all know this basic from very begining of our life. As CBV says, I find most of the things in our life happen beyond our countrol or choice. Sky is the limit.

Like, if the robbers of that story would´ve caught, we definitely wouldn´t tell them to be positive and forgive them like Jesus Christ hoping they woudn´t do that again. Soceity has to be "negative" to them for the sake of bigger positve.

Sometimes no matter how you try to be positive you can´t make it. If you have a single bad apple in a basket, then the entire basket goes bad, not the opposite.

So, in short, my hypothesis is be positve, but at the same time be calculative & realistic.

Thanks

[09-11-2007,19:09]
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Departed_Canadian