In other words, DON'T LET THE TURKEYS GET YOU DOWN. Justine M. Kalka
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>From: Carol Avery Nicholson[SMTP:cnichol@email.unc.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 1997 10:21 AM
>To: law-lib
>Subject: Attitude
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>I couldn't resist passing this on... I've been a firm believer for many
>years now. It's not always easy (or obvious), but it works!
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>ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING......by Francie Baltazar-Schwartz
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>Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good
>mood and always had 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!"
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>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 motivator. 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?"
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>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."
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>"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
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>"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!"
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>I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant
>industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about
>him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
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>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 gunpoint 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?"
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>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."
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>"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 emergency room 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."
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>"What did you do?" I asked.
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>"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."
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>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!
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