你有两个选择
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捷律是餐馆的经理。他的心情总是很好。当人们问他过得怎么样，他总是这样回答：
“如果我再更好的话，就成了双胞胎了！”
许多在他餐馆做过事的服务员，在他换工作的时候，都会辞了工作，要跟着他走，
从一家餐馆到另一家餐馆跟着他工作。为什么呢？因为捷律是一个天生的鼓舞者。
如果有哪个雇员哪天心情不好，捷律总会在他身旁，安慰那个雇员如何往好处想，
积极对待情势。
看到这样的处世风格，使我非常好奇，所以有一天我问捷律：
“我不明白，没有人可以时时刻刻都是积极的，你是怎么做到的？”
捷律回答，“每天早上当我醒来的时候，我会对我自己说，我今天有两个选择。我
可以选择有好的心情，或者坏的心情。我总是选择有好的心情。
每次有什么不好的事情发生，我可以选择成为受害者，或者选择学到教训。我总是
选择学到教训。
每次有人来向我报怨，我可以选择接受报怨或者我可以向他们指出生活积极的一面。
我总是向他们指出生活态度积极的一面。”
“可是不会总是那么容易。”我反驳。
“是的，就是那么容易。”捷律说。
“生活到处都是选择。当你排除所有不必要的东西，每一个情况就是一个选择。你
选择如何应付情况。你选择人们如何影响你的情绪。你选择保持好的心情或者坏的情绪。你怎样过你的生活是你的选择。”
几年以后，我听说捷律意外地做了一件在餐馆行业里绝对不该做的事。他把餐馆的后
门开着。结果那天早上，他被三个带武器的人抢了。他们当然是要钱了。
当捷律试
图把保险柜打开的时候，他的手因为紧张的缘故，滑脱了密码锁。盗贼慌张起来，开
枪射伤了他。幸运的是，捷律很快被救护人员发现送到医院去急救。
十八个小时的手
术和几个星期的密切护理之后，捷律出院了，身体里还带着子弹的碎片……
发生这件意外大约六个月以后，我遇到捷律。当我问他过得怎么样，他回答说：
“我如果再更好的话，就成了双胞胎了！要不要看看我的伤疤？”
我婉拒了，没有看他的创伤，但是我问他，当抢案发生的时候，他的脑子里在想着
什么呢。
“第一件经过脑海的事是，我应该把后门锁上的。”他回答。
“然后，当他们开枪打伤了我，我躺在地板上想起我有两个选择：我可以选择要活
还是要死。我选择要活。”
“你不害怕吗？”我问。捷律继续说，
“护理人员太棒了。他们一直告诉我说我会好起来的。但是当他们把我推进急救室
时，我看到医生和护士脸上的表情，我真的害怕极了。从他们的眼神里，我读得出来，
‘他是个死人了’。我知道我必须采取行动。”
“那你做什么了？”我问。
“嗯，当时有个护士对我呼叫着，”捷律继续说，“问我有没有对什么东西过敏。
‘有啊，’我回答。医生和护士停下工作等我说话。我深呼吸了一下，然后喊着说，
‘子弹！’在笑声中，我告诉他们，‘我选择要活着。请把我当做活人来做手术，
不是死人。”
捷律康复了，感谢医生的医术，也是因为他那令人惊叹的心态。我从他那儿学到了
‘每天你可以有喜爱和憎恨生命的选择’。唯一真正是你的，没有人可以控制或从你
那儿抢走的是你的处世心态，如果你能调整好你的心态，其他人生中的每一件事情
都会变得简单多了。
You Have Two Choices
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Author Unknown
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When
someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were
any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,
so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. Why, because
Jerry was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry
was always 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! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do
you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself,
I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose
to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose
to learn from it. I always 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 always choose
the positive side of life."
"But it's not always that easy. “ I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry 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. It's your choice how you live
your life."
Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you
are never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door
of his restaurant open And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed
men. They want money of course.
While Jerry was trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness,
slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. 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. Want to 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, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had
two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared“, I asked. Jerry 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 expression
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 nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry.
"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. Please operate
on me as if I am alive, not dead'. "
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice
to either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours, that no one can control or take from
you, is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else
in life becomes much easier.