LET IT REALLY SINK IN - 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 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'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. '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.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!

As you all know my grandmother (one of the most important people in my life) has been extremely sick!!  I got a phone call yesterday telling me that she keeps talking about off the wall topics!  I left work early yesterday so that I could go and spend some time with her and when I got there she thought I was my sister!! That is probably the hardest thing in my life that I have ever had to face!! The person who means the most to be besides my son doesn't even remember who I am!! ( I am crying as I am typing!!)

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer.  From my understanding and research on this topic, the cancer starts in the lungs and then moves to the brain.  At this point in my grandmother's life, the cancer is eating away at her brain causing her to go brain dead!! I was sitting beside her last night at her bed and we were talking and she started to feel around in her bed. I asked her what she was looking for and she said "that biscuit that I was eating". She was not eating anything. I responded to her "you finished that a long time ago!" I didn't know how else to respond to her!  She has been asking about people that she was never really close to that are on my father's side of my family.  She wakes up in the middle of the night yelling for Robbie(my younger brother) telling him it is time to get up and get ready!! Also when I was sitting with her yesterday she told me that she was coming back home later to get dressed. She was already at home!! (more tears)  It is so hard to see one that you love go through something like this!!

I am asking for more prayers!! Please if you know me and love me, pray for me and my family!! Pray for GOD'S will and that hopefully he will take her from her misery soon!!