Diana Asberry

Just HAVE to share this with you.
Diana A.
"the world is our classroom"
READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN...THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START
YOUR DAY
TOMORROW...

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 would 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 a positive person all of 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
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," 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: It's your
choice how
you live life."
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.

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 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 be born daughter," Michael 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.
Michael 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
Michael.
"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'."

Michael lived, not just due 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. You have two choices now:
1. Delete this.
or
2. Forward it to the people you care about.

I hope you will choose #2. I did.