You have two choices : You have two choices
Jerry is << manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. : Jerry is << manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood.
Slide 3: When someone “end”would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply,
"If I were any better, I would be twins!" : "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, : Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,
so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant : so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant
Slide 7: Why？
BecauseJerry was a natural motivator. : BecauseJerry was a natural motivator.
Slide 9: If an employee was having a bad day,
Jerry was always 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： : 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?" : "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Slide 12: 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.
Slide 13: 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.
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." : 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."
"But it's not always that easy,“ I protested. : "But it's not always that easy,“ I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. : "Yes it is," Jerry said.
Slide 17: "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice.
Slide 18: 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."
Several years later, : Several years later,
Slide 20: 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 : He left the back door of his restaurant open
Slide 22: And then ???
Slide 23: In the morning,
he was robbed by three armed men.
Slide 24: They want?
Slide 26: While Jerry trying to open the safe box,
Slide 27: his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination.
The robbers panicked and shot him.
Slide 28: Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.
Slide 29: After 18 hours of surgery
Slide 30: and
weeks of intensive care,
Slide 31: Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.…
Slide 32: I saw Jerry about six months after the accident.
Slide 33: When I asked him how he was,
Slide 34: he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"
Slide 35: 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. : "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied.
"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." : "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."
Slide 38: "Weren't you scared“
I asked?
Slide 39: Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine.
Slide 40: 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.
Slide 41: In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.'
Slide 42: I knew I needed to take action."
Slide 43: "What did you do?" I asked.
Slide 44: "Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything."
Slide 45: 'Yes,' I replied.
Slide 46: The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.
Slide 47: I took a deep breath
Slide 48: and yelled, 'Bullets!'
Slide 49: Over their laughter, I told them,
Slide 50: 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'.
Slide 51: "Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
Slide 52: I learned from him that
Slide 53: every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
Slide 54: The only thing that is truly yours -- that no one can control or take from you-
Slide 55: is your attitude,
Slide 56: so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.
Slide 57: Now you have two choices to make:
Slide 58: 1. You can delete this message or
2. You can forward it to someone you care about.
Slide 59: I hope you will choose #2.
I did.