Happiness is a Choice

Be positive, Negativity breeds, Nobody likes to be around a negative person, Always focus on the postives first!

Who can I think of today and send out a prayer for?

These are contant reminders that pop up on my Outlook everyday. Why? Because I used to be so negative and negativity is a disease. And the other one, because I'm a selfish bastard who only thinks of myself 99% of the time.

I've been blessed. God has been really good to me in the area of joy. I am so happy these days and have been for awhile. I can say truthfully that I am the happiest that I have ever been in my entire life. I thank my beautiful, intelligent, and strong wife for this as well as my adorable, hilarious, and easy to take care of son.

But I give most of the credit to God whom I have been getting closer to this past year, who has been so faithful.

2 Peter says this:

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is a formula for bringing the presence of God into your life. Which in essence is the formula for happiness. It doesn't say you have to be perfect. It says "in increasing measure", that means you start where you're at and keep getting better.

I think I want to make this my life verse. Maybe I will get it tattooed on my back. =)

I have been chewing on this verse for over a month now and I love it. God has been helping me these past several months in areas such as drunkeness, patience, and tolerance. He has helped me to make a decision every day to be more positive and joyful. Somebody at work actually said that I am a bringer of joy and that there should be more people like me at work.

Me, Jin Choi, a man who used to walk around with a cloud over his head. A man when he entered a room used to bring the atmosphere down.

Happiness is a choice.

Chuck Swindoll says this:

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, or a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. Nor can we change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We also cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you—we are in charge of our attitudes.

Chew on that.

How Christian Spends a Lot of His Time

Rocky Choi

Cute

This morning I sneezed and Christian said bwesh you.

Some Family Photos Taken By Jonathan

Did I Call it or What?

Just saw the Brock Lesnar and Randy Couture fight. A while back I posted about Brock Lesnar being the next big thing in MMA and now he is the heavyweight champion. Although he had to beat Randy Couture a 45 year old man to do it.

http://jinchoi.blogspot.com/2008/01/mma.html

There's a lot of critics out there bashing on him. Dan Henderson, another very well repected fighter was quoted saying that it demeans the UFC belt by Brock Lesnar having it. He's a 3-1 fighter so he just a MMA baby. But I think it was a smart move on Dana White to give Brock the belt. The guy is very exciting to watch. He's as explosive as a 280lb man can be.

Although he's only 3-1, he's fought some pretty high quality guys. In my opinion I think he would have beaten Frank Mir if he didn't get caught in the foot lock. Again in my humble opinion, he is exactly what the sport of MMA needs. He's like Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan rolled up into one.

2009 Winter Retreat

We just came back from our winter retreat this past weekend.

It was a good time of eating

Praising/worship

Having fun at the beach

Praying

And listening to God's word

And see that guy in the red shirt? No not Christian the other guy. I saved his life. It took me some time to accept it, but apparently that's what I did.

I was cooking bbq outside with Jmo and Pdiddy, when Jessica comes outside to tell us something was wrong. 

Immediately I went into panic mode, all these thought popped into my head that something happened to Christian, Mary, or someone was getting violent. 

I came inside to see someone choking and his girlfriend trying to give him the heimlich unsuccesfully. I pushed her to the side and gave the guy a really hard squeeze, and out popped a chewed up steak as big as Christian's fist.

The guy was completely grateful and it was a very emotional moment for everyone. It didn't really dawn on me what I did.  I didn't really think it was that big a deal. So I went right back to cooking my steaks. 

The truth is, I was glad that nothing happened to my family.

But it was a big deal, and I am really glad that I was there and was able to help out a brother in need, right Christian?