I guess this is officially my last post for the year…

Reality check: If someone were to ask me again, would I ever imagine how the entire 2008 will be like one year ago?

It’s hard to say…

It’s been a VERY interesting year, I must say…

If I were to sum up the whole year, I’d say it’s more LEARNING than ever…

I don’t know about you, but I used to think that those who are out ‘fighting and battling’ it out in the big bad world of business was tough… I mean, I always knew it was tough… but honest to God I never realized how DIFFICULT it really is UNTIL the day I’ve experienced it MYSELF.

The sacrifices especially was something I never expected.. and til this day, I still feel it’s particularly difficult to swallow..

It gets one thinking sometimes, why go through it all in the first place when you see everyone else going with the easy route, playing it “safe”, slowly lurking, slowly looking around for that one “perfect” opportunity to strike gold.

It can be pretty disturbing sometimes, to sacrifice so much, not knowing whether this “decision” of yours will be the right one..

To lay out soooo many things on the table, to risk so much, without the slightest inkling of what might happen in the end…

Someone once told me that life is all about taking risk… I constantly wonder… is it really?

Worth it meh?

Honestly, I don’t know.

I’ve consulted a number of experienced old “war horses” on why it’s so… and usually their reply is “Aiya, normal-lah. This is where you’ll know what you’re made of. So you think so easy one ar?? If you want to play business, this is the game. If you scared of risk, if you want stability, go get a job”

Niama, char me until like that.

But I’ve got to admit, VERY true.

Whenever I run into crossroads like these, whenever fear strikes in, doubts, etc… I always remind myself of what Shifu Ooogway taught me…

“When you’ve crossed the bridge, burn it, and keep walking ahead. You die die also you must make it.”

Done.

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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 Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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. 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, it’s not 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. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.” I reflected on what Jerry 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 Jerry 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 gun point 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, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma centre. 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 said, “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,” Jerry 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.

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 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 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. 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 we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

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