This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F7955E3CDDD4E039A4A26743 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I HAVE HAD A HARD TIME TRYING TO GET THE INFO I HAVE ON MY ELLIS TO YOU. PLEASE HELP.SO I CAN MAKE IT AVAIBLE TO OTHER RESREACHERS. SINGED RHONDA KRECH --------------F7955E3CDDD4E039A4A26743 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail2.bellsouth.net (mail2.bellsouth.net [205.152.16.6]) by mail.jax.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA25899 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:59:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from solomon.wfic.com (mailer.wfic.com [209.149.221.11]) by mail2.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA16121 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:58:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from brenda ([209.149.221.206]) by solomon.wfic.com (post.office MTA v1.9.3b **** trial license expired ****) with ESMTP id AAA168; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:07:57 -0600 From: [email protected] (Sam & Brenda Wolfe) To: "Tim & Renee Tima-an" <[email protected]>, "Mike Tillman" <[email protected]>, "Marc & Ann Seymour" <[email protected]>, "Richard Ryan" <[email protected]>, "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Larry_&_K=E4ren_Mueller?=" <[email protected]>, "Oleda Monteith" <[email protected]>, "Linda Kimble" <[email protected]>, "Rhonda Krech" <[email protected]>, "Kevin Kidd" <[email protected]>, "Wanda Johnson" <[email protected]>, "Kim Johns" <[email protected]>, "Cyndi Jacobs" <[email protected]>, "Tony & Gail Faircloth" <[email protected]>, "Sue Cushman" <[email protected]>, "Daniel Creel" <[email protected]>, "Bill & Virgene Coursen" <[email protected]>, "Rick Buchanan" <[email protected]>, "Isaac Addison" <[email protected]>, "Stan & Carole Adams" <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: attitude Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:28:23 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >Read this, and let it really sink in...Then choose how you start your day > >tomorrow. > > > >Jerry 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around > >from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters > >followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivater. > >If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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 Jerry and > >asked him, I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. > >How do you do it?" > > > >Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," Jerry 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 Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant > >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 Jerry did something you are never > >supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one > >morning and was held up at gun point by three armed robbers. While trying > >to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the > >combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found > >relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of > >surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital > >with fragments of the bullets still in his body. > > > >I saw Jerry 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 robbery took place. "the first thing that > >went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry > >replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, 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. > > > >Jerry 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 deadman'. 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 Jerry. > >"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, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,'I am choosing to > >live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'." > > > >Jerry 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. > > > >You have two choices now: > >1. Delete this. > >2. Forward it to the people you care about. > > > >Hope you will choose #2. > > > > > > > > > > --------------F7955E3CDDD4E039A4A26743--