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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, ‘lf 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 motivator. lf 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 moming 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 leam from it. I choose to leam from it Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to aocept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of Iife.' Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested. 'Yes it is,' Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cutaway all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose
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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: lt's your choice how you live Iife.'
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 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?' 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 ... continued > |
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