When I asked him how he was he replied, "If I were any better I would be twins." At this point I asked him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intense care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something that you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up by three armed robbers. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Soon thereafter I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. "Yeah, right, it's not that easy." I protested. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. How do you do it?' Jerry replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry you have two choices today. You can't be a positive person all the time. "Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, 'I don't get it. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there, telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins'. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. ![]() It begins: "Jerry was the kind of guy you loved to hate. It is in this spirit that I wanted to share "Attitude is Everything" and I hope it blesses you as it has me. You may say, "How can you care about someone you don't even know?" To be sure, I may not like the attitude, behavior or actions of some people but I still have a genuine love and concern for every human being. As a reader of this column, I do care about you because you are very special to me. Either you can throw this away or you can share it with people you care about. At the end of the article were these words: You now have two choices. The other day a friend handed me something titled "Attitude is Everything," written by Francie Schwartz.
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