迈克尔总是乐呵呵的，你总能听到他说些积极上进的话。他似乎
生来就积极进取。他这样告诉他的员工：“每天早晨醒来，我对自己说，迈克尔，今天你有两种选择，选择心情愉快，选择心情恶劣，我选择心情愉快；有不愉快的
事情发生，选择成为一个牺牲品，或是选择从中吸取教训，我选择吸取教训。”
迈克尔从60英尺的大楼上摔下，却活了下来，当有人问及他当时的想法，他是这样回答的：“我告诉我的手术医生，‘我选择活着，我愿意做任何手术。’”
选择接受生活的积极面也许是人生中最为明智的选择，其实，每个人都有机会充实、健康的活着，关键取决于你的人生态度。
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.
If an employee was having a
bad day, Michael 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 to Michael and asked him, "I don' t get
it. You can' t be positive all the time. How do you do it?"
Michael replied, each
morning I wake up and say to myself 'Mike, 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 choose to 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. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right. It isn't that easy." I protested.
"Yes it is, " Michael 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 will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good
mood or bad mood. The bottom line is: It's your choice how you live
life. " I reflected on what Michael said.
Soon thereafter, I left the
big enterprise that I had worked in for years to start my own business.
We lost touch, but I often though about him when I made a choice about
life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard Michael
was involved in a serious accident, falling off 60 feet from a
communications tower.
After l8 hours of surgery,
and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital
with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael 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 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-born daughter,"
Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, remembered 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.
Michael continued, "... the paramedics were great. They kept telling me
I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the operation
room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,
I got really scared. In their eyes, l 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 Michael. "She asked me
if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I said. 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'm choosing to
live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
I 1eamed from him that every day we have a choice to live fully. Attitude is everything.
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