{"id":304,"date":"2024-12-05T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/?p=304"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:54:16","slug":"attitude-two-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/attitude-two-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude Two Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-304-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Attitudesmall.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Attitudesmall.mp4\">https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Attitudesmall.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Michael is a kind of guy you love to hate. He&#8217;s always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, \u201cIf I were any better, I would be twins!\u201d 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, \u201cI don&#8217;t get it. You can&#8217;t be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?\u201d Michael replied, \u201cEach 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 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.\u201d \u201cYeah, right. It&#8217;s not that easy,\u201d I protested. \u201cYes, it is\u201d Michael said. \u201cLife 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&#8217;s your choice how you live life.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, 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. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Several years later, I heard the Mike was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods\u00a0placed in his back. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, \u201cIf I were any better, I&#8217;d be twins. Want to see my scars?\u201d I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cThe first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter,\u201d Michael replied. \u201cThen, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I can choose to live, or I could choose to die. Well, I chose to live.\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWeren\u2019t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?\u201d I asked. Michael continued, \u201cThe 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, \u201che&#8217;s a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d I asked.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWell, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,\u201d She asked if I was allergic to anything. \u201cYes, I replied.\u201d The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, \u201cGravity.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Over their laughter, I told them, \u201cI am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.\u201d Michael 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. Attitude, after all, is everything.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0We read in Matthew chapter 6 verse 34, \u201cTherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\u2019 After all, today is the\u00a0tomorrow, you worried about yesterday? <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So, what choice will you make today and every day you live? <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael is a kind of guy you love to hate. He&#8217;s always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. 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