QUOTE & POSTER: It takes character to restrain our instincts toward anger or offense by acts and words that seem thoughtless, selfish, or mean-spirited and consider the possibility that the other person had good intentions or was distracted by problems that deserve your empathy. -Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: “My sun sets to rise again.” -Robert Browning

QUOTE & POSTER; I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear…that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. – Rabbi Harold Kushner

A Personal Note From Michael

It’s been an interesting and challenging couple of weeks with three major events taking place in my life: 1) I just returned from a 4-day trip to Hawaii. I was there to address the 4-H Western Regional Leadership Forum – about 300 staff, volunteer and student leaders of one of the oldest youth programs in the nation. 4-H has been …

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QUOTE & POSTER: We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. -Robert Fulghum

Butterflies

If things never changed, there would be no butterflies. Subscribe to a weekly newsletter featuring articles and quotes of Michael Josephson at www.whatwillmatter.com

Integrity: Paint in True Colors

“Integrity means you always paint with your true colors and live by your true values.”P –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: What others say about you says more about them than you. What you say about others says more about you than them. What do your words say about the kind of person you are? –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it’s a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it’s more stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet –he’d be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have, not by what you don’t. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: People of character do the right thing even if no one else does, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world. -Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: The choices you make in life will make your life –Michael Josephson

Change, Choice and Principles

Change, Choice and Principles There are three constants in life: Change, Choice and Principles. –Steven Covey Subscribe to a weekly newsletter featuring articles and quotes of Michael Josephson at www.whatwillmatter.com

QUOTE & POSTER: The best way to know your future is to create it.

Gratitude is a Happiness Strategy

Gratitude is a happiness strategy. Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

QUOTE & POSTER: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin

QUOTE & POSTER: It doesn’t make sense to run faster if you are running in the wrong direction. It doesn’t make sense to work harder if you are working on the wrong thing. Speed and diligence are only virtues once you have a clear and worthy goal.

QUOTE & POSTER: Before you Speak THINK Is it true? Is it helpful? Does it inspire confidence? Is it necessary?

QUOTE & POSTER: Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. -William Arthur Ward

QUOTE & POSTER: You will never know How strong you are or How strong you can be Until you lose something You really care about. Adversity will bring out the best or worst in you. Be ready. Be strong. Be better.

QUOTE & POSTER: The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance. –Victor Frankl

QUOTE & POSTER: If you want to know how to live your life. Just think about what you want people to say about you after you die and live backwards. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way you expected or hoped. That doesn’t mean you can’t be happy. If you don’t limit yourself to your first version of your life there’s always a bright future ahead. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: When bad things happen DON’T MAKE THINGS WORSE by starting to see yourself as a victim, or someone who doesn’t deserve better, or someone who deserves what you got. NONE OF THIS IS TRUE! What happens to you says nothing about who you are or what you deserve, but your response says everything about who you will be and whether the experience makes you weaker or stronger.

QUOTE & POSTER: Authentic constructive criticism must be motivated by a sincere desire to help, and delivered in a way that engenders gratitude rather than defensiveness or resentment. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Be cautious but not timid; believe you will succeed, but don’t be afraid of failing. Remember, every meaningful achievement is built on the foundation stones of false starts and failures. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Stop trying to fit in, when you were born to STAND OUT

QUOTE & POSTER: When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen. -Harley Davidson

QUOTE & POSTER: It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ― Confucius

QUOTE & POSTER: Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else. – Tennessee Williams

QUOTE & POSTER: I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre