Two Choices
- 1. You have two choices
- 2. Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.
- 3. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply: "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
- 4. Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs , so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant
- 5. Why ？
- 6. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation. Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
- 7. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him ： "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
- 8. Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood.
- 9. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it.
- 10. 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 always choose the positive side of life."
- 11. "But it's not always that easy,” I protested.
- 12. "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice.
- 13. 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. It's your choice how you live your life."
- 14. Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open
- 15. And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.
- 16. While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
- 17. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.
- 18. 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.…
- 19. 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. Want to see my scars?"
- 20. I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
- 21. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.
- 22. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live ."
- 23. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
- 24. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘ He's a dead man’.
- 25. I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything."
- 26. 'Yes,' to bullets, I replied.
- 27. Over their laughter, I told them: “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead .”
- 28. "Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
- 29. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
- 30. The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you – is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
- 31. Now you have two choices to make: 1. You can delete this message or 2. You can forward it to someone you care about. I hope you will choose #2. I did.