Thread: Attitude Adjustment

God bless

George : Yeah. No, no, no, wait a minute, I always have tuna on toast. Nothing's ever worked out for me with tuna on toast. I want the complete opposite of on toast. Chicken salad, on rye, untoasted ... and a cup of tea.

john loves rods in his back!

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

READ THIS. 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! d. "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.











You have two choices now:











01 Delete this.







02. Forward it to the people you care about.






You know the choice I made.

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this is amazing. i was waiting for a punchline.

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i was waiting for a punchline.

as in you thought it was a joke?

yea i thought something bad was going to happen to him n change his attitude. i'm happy i was wrong.

Maniclions attitude is that he hates all the spaces in between. Maniclion is getting very upset!

yea the spaces were annoying.

Sorry, but that is a dinky story with a touchy feely message about the power of positive thinking.

I can choose to be depressed, or I could choose to be happy. Bullshit, I chose to smoke some pot and go workout.

Placebo only works on retards; I am too realistic to fall for self hypnosis.


I liked the racism thread you started rob, now that was a pure jem.

Great post, Rob

Awesome.

What would the world be without depression, anxiety, the blues like fucking Pleasantville on Zoloft and Valium. You wouldn't have manic depressives who crank out all kinds of beutiful art and music. It's great that some find being pleasant all of the time rewarding but honestly I'd feel cheated if I were pleasant al the time.

yea my heart is broken i can choose to laugh it off or feel it... i like me better because i do feel things.

Wells there three minutes i'll never get back.



----Anger is a gift my friend----

Three minutes?

Originally Posted by DOMS

Three minutes?

It takes 2 and a half minutes to scroll through the damned thing.

Originally Posted by maniclion

It takes 2 and a half minutes to scroll through the damned thing.

hey. one minute to read it and two minutes smashing my self in the groin with a ball pin hammer.

Originally Posted by FORKLIFT

hey. one minute to read it and two minutes smashing my self in the groin with a ball pin hammer.

I think you mean, Ball PEEN hammer

I think it's ironic you post something Rob with a scripture verse ending it.

Originally Posted by Witmaster

I think you mean, Ball PEEN hammer

well maybe mines filled down to a pin like shape. there

Originally Posted by FORKLIFT

well maybe mines filled down to a pin like shape. there

Then you would call it a pick hammer.

Originally Posted by maniclion

Then you would call it a pick hammer.

You so own me....you got me covered from every angle...kinda like an angle grider which I used to file the peen down into a pin like shape and there for if it started out as a ball peen hammer surley to call it a pick hammer would be obtuse. HAh I'm still master of the universe. I take back "you so own me". Now I am the jedi king.

Is this like the footprints thing I have seenin girls bathrooms ?

Originally Posted by FORKLIFT

You so own me....you got me covered from every angle...kinda like an angle grider which I used to file the peen down into a pin like shape and there for if it started out as a ball peen hammer surley to call it a pick hammer would be obtuse. HAh I'm still master of the universe. I take back "you so own me". Now I am the jedi king.

Welcome to IM FORKLIFT.

Originally Posted by FORKLIFT

You so own me....you got me covered from every angle...kinda like an angle grider which I used to file the peen down into a pin like shape and there for if it started out as a ball peen hammer surley to call it a pick hammer would be obtuse. HAh I'm still master of the universe. I take back "you so own me". Now I am the jedi king.

Why would you use a hand held angle grinder on a hand held tool, why not just use the bench grinder? Damn English and shop class must have kicked your ass pretty hard.

why not just get laid.....

Not bad