Attitude is the Difference

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From: En Buenas Manos

Lucas was the type of person that you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone asked him how he was going, he replied: "If I could be better, would have a twin" (read: I can not better).

It was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed a restaurant in a restaurant. The reason that the waitresses followed by Lucas was his attitude. He was a natural motivator: if an employee had a bad day, Lucas was there to tell the employee how to see the positive side of the situation. View this style really caused me curious, so one day I went to pick up Lucas and asked him: I don't understand ... it is not possible to be a positive person all the time? How do you do?

Lucas responded: Every morning I wake up and I say to myself, Luke, 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." "Every time something bad happens, I can choose between being a victim or learn from it. I choose to learn from it."

"Every time someone comes to me to complain, I can accept your complaint or can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life." Yeah, sure, but it is not so easy, protested. "Yes it is," said Lucas. "Everything in life is about choices. When you take away everything else, every situation is a choice." "You choose how to react to every situation, you choose how people affect your mood, you choose to be in a good mood or bad mood."

"In short, CHOOSE YOUR LIFE AS A LIVING." Reflection from what Lucas told me. Shortly afterwards, I left the hotel industry to start my own business. We lost contact, but often thought of Lucas when he had to make a choice in life instead of reacting against it.

Several years later, I learned that Lucas did something that should never be done in a restaurant business, left the back door open one morning and was assaulted by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand trembling by nervousness, slipped from the combination. The attackers felt panicked and shot him. With good luck, Lucas was found relatively soon and taken to an emergency clinic. After eight hours of surgery and weeks of intensive therapy, Lucas was discharged even with bullet fragments in his body.

I met Lucas six months after the accident and when I asked him how he was, he replied: "If I could be better, would have a twin." I asked him what went through his mind at the time of assault. He answered: "The first thing that came to my mind was that I should have locked the back door. When I was lying on the floor, I remembered I had two choices: it could choose to live or die. I chose to live "Do not feel afraid," he asked.

Lucas continued "The doctors were great. Failed to tell me that not going to be fine. But when I was taken to the operating room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, really scared me. I could read in their eyes: it is a dead man . I knew then that it should make a decision. " What did you do?, Asked. "Well, one of the doctors asked me if I was allergic to something and screamed If deep breathing, to bullets ... and laughed, told them: I am choosing to live, so you oper to me as if alive, no Dead. " Lucas lived on the expertise of medicals, but especially for his amazing attitude.

He learned that every day we have the choice to live fully, the ATTITUDE, in the end, is everything.