QUOTE & POSTER: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

QUOTE & POSTER: When being right is wrong (or irrelevant)

QUOTE & POSTER: What’s the use of a long life if it’s not a good life? The formula for a good life: Squeeze anxiety, jealousy and resentment out of every day and squeeze in something to be grateful for and proud of. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges. Whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities. The year is ours to make of it what we will. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Lying to avoid problems is like getting drunk to forget them. It’s a temporary solution with the worst sort of hangover. Your problems are still there, but now they are even bigger because now you can’t be trusted. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. –Jim Rohn

QUOTE & POSTER: I don’t know what the future holds but I do know I hold the future. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: I’m humbled to know I’m not all that I can be or all that I ought to be. But I’m proud that I’m better than I used to be and not as good as I will be. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: As you sail into the New Year, do so boldly and with enthusiasm. Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way. –Michael Josephson

When Being Right is Wrong (or Irrelevant)

As I reflected on the year gone by as a prelude to doing better in the year to come I realized how many times I (and others) have caused strife and sometimes done

WORTH SEEING: Poster – I don’t know what the future holds but I do know I hold the future. Michael Josephson

WORTH SEEING: Poster – Your childhood is not defined by what you did or what happened to you, it’s the memories you choose to dwell on. Banish ideas that darken your past and you will brighten your future. Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy … FIND YOUR BEST SELF AND BE IT.

COMMENTARY 806.2: Saying the Right Thing

When someone you care about is suffering greatly, what’s the right thing to say to make him or her feel better? There are all sorts of traumas that can send us to the darkest dungeons of despair – the death of a loved one, being raped, getting a divorce, losing a limb, seeing a child sent to jail or on …

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WORTH SEEING: Poster – What is right is not always easy and what is easy is hardly ever right, but the right choice today will improve your life tomorrow. – Michael Josephson

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Take Control of Your Life

You are what you are today because of the choices you made yesterday, and the choices you make today will make you what you are tomorrow. Take control of your life. Choose wisely. – Michael Josephson                    

QUOTE & POSTER: Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. “You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

QUOTE & POSTER: A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks. –from Love Quotes and Sayings

Gratitude: The Key to Happiness

Happiness is not getting what you want,  it’s appreciating what you have. Gratitude is the key to happiness. -Michael Josephson

QUOTES & POSTERS: Why is it that so many of us wait until it is too late to experience and express real gratitude to those who gave us the gifts of love, wisdom and encouragement?

Why do we wait to put our deepest emotions about someone who made a difference in our lives into eulogies? Everyone should have the pleasure of hearing the eulogies they have earned. The greatest gift you can give [click read more to see poster and remainder of comment)

QUOTES & POSTERS: Expressing gratitude to others is a gift to them. Experiencing gratitude is a gift to yourself. -Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision, to be the best person I can be. I don’t expect to be perfect but I know I can be better. –Michael Josephson https://www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter www.whatwillmatter.com

QUOTE & POSTER: Don’t do anything today that will darken tomorrow. – Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living with integrity. – W. Clement Stone https://www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter www.whatwillmatter.com

Michael Josephson on Ethics and Leadership (video)

Michael recently delivered a lively presentation at California State University, Northridge. The university has posted the entire one-hour-and-45-minute event, complete with PowerPoint slides. Watch video »

QUOTE & POSTER: HOPE- You have the strength you need to get through this. – Michael Josephson https://www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter www.whatwillmatter.com

QUOTE & POSTER: The choices you make in life will make your life. –Michael Josephson https://www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter www.whatwillmatter.com

QUOTE & POSTER: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. –Albert Pike We can’t live forever but what we do can change lives forever. –Michael Josephson

QUOTE & POSTER: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the week and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver https://www.facebook.com/WhatWillMatter www.whatwillmatter.com