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THEN CHOOSE .


John 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, John 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 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 overcome it and 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 and give encouragement. I choose the positive side of life.

'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.

'Yes, it is,' he 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 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 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 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 "Hell 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.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You have two choices now:

01. Choose to be a victim.
02. Choose to be victorious.

You know the choice I made. Attitude, after all, is everything.

That sounds like the way my mind set is since my wife always ask me why nothing seems to bother me and it drives her nuts. I have always just told her that worrying about everything just isn't worth me stressing out about stuff that I can't control.

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Though I've heard that story before, I could here it every day and not get tired of it, because it's a good reminder to us all. It's pertinant to life and pertinent to prepping. Call it black and white, but it is just that simple. Boil down everything to it's basic level and you just make a choice.
We simply must choose...choose to survive or choose to suffer and perhaps die. That is the basic question. We choose to learn and impliment what we know or we choose to just talk about it. While we can waffle about the mini details such as whether to store kidney beans or pinto beans, whether to have a shot gun or a 22, in the end it is a choice...do it or don't do it. Act or don't.
The attitude, as mentioned above, is part of that choice. Choose to be a survivor or choose to be at the mercy of questionable strangers. Choose to worry or choose to do something that relieves you of that worry burden.
Many say preppers, news followers and economy watchers are just full of "gloom and doom". I don't see it that way. We choose to know/learn the truth of what is around us (situational awareness) and do something to protect ourselves. It's all in the attitude choice that YOU make each day.

I choose to survive and thrive!

having Jesus Christ in my life and a personal relationship with my God makes it easier to stay positive. you might be able to do it without Them but it'll be an uphill battle.

Just in case you had a bad day.