Motivational Stories [EroZero]

Positive Thinking

By DrakefyllAceSaorei Requested Story ;)

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Vincent was the kind of guy you love to hate.
Siya ang palaging nasa GOOD MOOD at parating may baong mga positibong sasabihin.

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply,
“If I were any better, I would be twins!”

Isa siyang napakaunique na manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant.

Ang dahilan kung bakit  sinusundan siya ng kanyang mga impleyado ay dahil sa kanyang ugali.

He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Vincent 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 Vincent and asked him,
“I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”

Vincent replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Vincent, may dalawa kang pagpipilian ngayon. Pwede mong piliin ang pagiging GOOD MOOD o piliin ang pagiging 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, hindi nga naman yan madali,” I protested.

“Yes it is,” Vincent 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.”

I reflected on what Vincent 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. Several years later, I heard that Vincent 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, Vincent was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Vincent was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Vincent 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,” Vincent 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.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

Vincent 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.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Vincent.

“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.”

Vincent 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

"Think POSITIVE!" ~EroZero~

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Try to answer this :

*Are you in the situation that felt so much bad for others?

*How could you be a good example for them?

*If you are going to choose : Live for GOOD or Live FORSAKE, What would you choose?

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Thanks for reading!!

Hope you enjoy!!!

~EroZero~