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Choose How You Start Your Day
By: Author Unknown
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, Mike, 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 isn't 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 will affect your mood. You choose to be in a
good mood or bad mood.
The bottom line is: It's your choice how you live life.
I reflected on what Michael 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 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 face 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.


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Today's Story

If Tomorrow Never Comes
By : Author Unknown
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep, I
would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in
praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them
back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute or
two to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming, you would know
I do.
If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your
day, well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this
one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and
we always get a second chance to make everything right.
There will always be another day to say our "I love you's", And
certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do's?"
But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd like
to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget, Tomorrow is
not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last
chance you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, That you
didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you
were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last
wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their ear, Tell them
how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear, Take
time to say "I'm sorry," "please forgive me," "thank you" or "it's
okay".
And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

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Nothing Is More Important
By: Author Unknown
I sat next to the bed of old man, a friend for over twenty years, and
held his hand. Hal was dying. We both knew these next few days would
be his last.
We spent time reminiscing about his long and fruitful career as a
church pastor. We talked about old friends. We chatted about his
family. And I listened as he offered sage wisdom and advice to a
member of a "younger generation."
At a lull in the conversation, Hal seemed to carefully consider what
he was about to say next. Then he squeezed my hand, gazed intently
into my eyes and whispered, just loud enough for me to hear, "Nothing
is more important than relationships."
I knew that this was somehow near the pinnacle of his life's
learnings. As he considered all of his experiences -- personal,
professional, spiritual and family, this one ultimate observation
surfaced above the rest: "Nothing is more important than
relationships."
"Don't get overly caught up in your career," he seemed to be saying
to me. "Likewise, don't use people in order to achieve your goals,
then throw them away. No project, no program, no task should be
pursued at the expense of friends and family. Remember," I heard him
saying, as clearly as if he were speaking the words, "that in the
end, only your relationships will truly matter. Tend them well."
Writer Og Mandino puts it this way: "Beginning today," he
said, "treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead
by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding
you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life
will never be the same again."
At the end of a long life, my friend Hal would have agreed.
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The Butterfly
By: Author Unknown
A man found a cocoon for a butterfly. One day a small opening
appeared,
he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to
force its body through the little hole.
Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had
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restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get
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rom the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be
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for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.
If God allowed us to go through all our life without any obstacles,
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would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have
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Not only that, we could never fly.
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