Thursday, April 26, 2007

Two Choices

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By : Stephen Edwards

How do we change the way we feel at any given moment? How do we generate powerful thoughts, emotions, and feelings consistently? We know what fear is and how we allow fear to negatively impact relationships, careers, and finances. We must find the courage, strength and determination, patience and persistence necessary to resolve these issues and create the life of our dreams and the life of fulfillment we truly deserve. How do we access our most resourceful thoughts and feelings, and how do we face our fear and feel our power? Well, let me tell you of such a person who's done just that. His name is Michael, a gentlemen I once worked with.

Now, 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'd be twins!" He was a natural motivator, and if an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look at the positive side of the situation.

Seeing him consistently having this type of attitude made me curious. So one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be positive all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael 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. 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. 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. "Yes it is," Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all of the junk, every situation is a choice. You can choose how you react to any situation. You can choose how other people affect your mood. You can choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. The bottom line is, it's your choice how to live your life." I reflected on what Michael said.

Soon after this, I left that company and started my own business – I made a choice about my life instead of just reacting to it. We lost touch, but I often thought about Michael and his advice. It helped me at several critical junctures of my life.

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 in intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident, and I asked him how he was. He replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins! Do you want to see my scars?"

I declined to look at his wounds, but I did ask him what was going through his mind when 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 I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Were you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Michael continued, "The paramedics were great; they kept telling me everything was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions 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 this big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael.

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