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----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Moloi" <linmol@hotmail.com> To: <ahallock@keystonepacific.com>; <ricksbratt2@aol.com>; <lodybaby@yahoo.com>; <palmers@hbeark.com>; <anglin@hbeark.com>; <Ginabeans07@aol.com>; <hildasm@yahoo.com>; <chillypowder@socal.rr.com>; <werejacobs@aol.com>; <jsmith@bscsystems.com>; <PastorHigh@aol.com>; <joyjean99@hotmail.com>; <cjstoocute@yahoo.com>; <KiKnight@yahoo.com>; <Lea00@pacbell.net>; <brains@goin.missouri.org>; <comandtalk2me@aol.com>; <klulu28@yahoo.com>; <mmckenzie54@yahoo.com>; <mkyle@lynks.com>; <MarkandMichele@aol.com>; <dolphin73us@yahoo.com>; <scshannon@uswest.net>; <cohrs143@earthlink.net>; <o2bygb@yahoo.com>; <Vickienorton@hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 18:52 Subject: Fwd: Be Like Mike > > > > >From: "Melinda Sandberg" <skyesmama@hotmail.com> > >To: dionner@surfcity.net, linmol@hotmail.com, McNeilM@casanova.com, > >Mikedchef73@cs.com, jksgram1@aol.com, ec4fun@yahoo.com, btanzo@hotmail.com, > >Bonny.Dean@West.Boeing.com, cababe4evr@hotmail.com, MOO2LAND@aol.com, > >Bree42499@cs.com, bdarby@800wedding.com, ckerestic@800wedding.com, > >ckssandtwin@aol.com, darrenllusala@hotmail.com, jennifer.billmire@atlp.com, > >sandy1954_2000@yahoo.com, jbillmire@ssi4power.com, TSANDKF@aol.com, > >llainoc@aol.com, nissil@aol.com, Dickfrench@aol.com, BertaBoop@aol.com, > >victoria2@quixnet.net > >Subject: Be Like Mike > >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:03:28 PDT > > > >>Subject: Be like Mike > >> > >> > >>READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE HOW YOU START YOUR DAY > >>TOMORROW. > >> > >>Michael is the kind of guy you love to love. 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, 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 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 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, " 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 > >>statements 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, 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." > >> > >>After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. > >> > >>You have two choices now: 1. Delete this. 2. Forward it to the people you > >>care about. > >> > >>I hope you will choose #2. I did. > >> > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > -------------------------------------------- Force12Talk mailing list provided as a service by Force 12 Antennas, Inc. 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