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Okay, it's an e-mail. But your life will be better for reading it. - JDW
by the way, new article appears here: http://www.grinderschool.com/poker-strategy-article-job-hunting-and-poker.shtml

He was the kind of guy some love to hate. Always in a good mood, always with something positive to say.

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he'd reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins."

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.

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 that 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 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.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

Matthew 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,

for tomorrow will worry about itself.

'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices.

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