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This was a book about a restaurant owner, Jerry, who always chose to have a good day, even when bad things happened. He was held up at gunpoint by three robbers, shot and left for dead in his restaurant, and still chose to live.
Years ago, I had a book called Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work. You know how many of those there are, right? Chicken soup for the left-handed aluminum siding installers soul, right? There's a millio...
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This was a book about a restaurant owner, Jerry, who always chose to have a good day, even when bad things happened. He was held up at gunpoint by three robbers, shot and left for dead in his restaurant, and still chose to live.
Years ago, I had a book called Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work. You know how many of those there are, right? Chicken soup for the left-handed aluminum siding installers soul, right? There's a million of them. But this one was the soul at work.
He was always happy, always in a good mood, and people would be bugged by that. What is with you? Why are you always...
And he said, well, I just every morning remind myself I have a choice. I can have a good day or a bad day, so I choose to have a good day.
If somebody yells at me, I can take it personal, or I can put it in perspective. So I put it in perspective.
He's thinking, there's nobody here. Nobody's coming. And this one thought, I choose to live. So he focuses on, I choose to live.
He said, the ambulance dudes were awesome. They were going to get you out of this. He said, but when they wheeled me into the ER, I saw the looks on the faces of the doctors and nurses. And I saw them looking and shaking their heads. And they were like, he's barely conscious. This guy isn't going to make it.
And he said, it scared me. And they're running around. And he said, a nurse was barking orders at everybody. And finally, she looked down at him and yelled at him, sir, are you allergic to anything?
And he said, yes. And he said, the whole room stopped. They all stopped. And he said, bullets. And then they all cracked up.
He looked at the doctor and he said, doctor, I am choosing to live. So operate on me as if I'm going to live.