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Today's Inspirational Quote:

Our friend Ken Evoy included this in his recent newsletter. It's longer than usual, but very special. Enjoy: ------Choose------Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always ina good mood and always has something positive to say: Whensomeone would ask him how he was doing, He would reply, "IfI were any better, I would be twins!"He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a badday, Michael was there telling the employee how they couldlook on the positive side of the situation. Seeing thisstyle really made me curious, so one day I went up toMichael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be apositive person all of the time. How do you do it?"Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself,you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a goodmood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to bein a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I canchoose to be a victim or I choose to learn from it. I chooseto learn from it. Every time someone comes to mecomplaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or Ican point out the positive side of life. I choose thepositive 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 awayall the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose howyou react to situations. You choose how people affect yourmood. Your bottom line: "It's your choice how you livelife." I reflected on what Michael said.Soon after, I left the company to start my own business. Welost touch, but I often thought about him when I made achoice about life instead of reacting to it.Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in aserious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communicationstower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensivecare, Michael was released from the hospital with rodsplaced in his back.I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When Iasked him how he was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'dbe twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds,but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as theaccident took place."The first thing that went through my mind was the wellbeing of my soon to be born daughter," Michael replied."Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had twochoices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. Ichose to live." Weren't you scared? Did you loseconsciousness?" I asked.Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They kepttelling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled meinto the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of thedoctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, Iread, "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 shoutingquestions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was allergicto anything. "Yes, I replied." The doctors and nursesstopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deepbreath 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 alsobecause of his amazing attitude. I learned from him thatevery day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, afterall, is everything."Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow willworry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

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