WORTH SEEING: Rebuilding at Ground Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yfivS8SWs
POSTER & POEM: True friends (more than A-Z)
TRUE FRIENDS … are good companions, people you enjoy doing things with, but they are also people you just enjoy being with. are who you want to be with to have a good time and the ones you have to be with when you are having a hard time. (Take our survey to find out whether you are a true friend.) …
We All Need to be Appreciated
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. – William James Expressing appreciation with words, a smile, or a hug costs so little and means so much. It can make a day or even change a life. — Michael Josephson
POSTERS: Ideal Employees and Employers A to Z. Take our survey and rate yourself.
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I’M A TEACHER: I MAKE LIVES By Michael Josephson
(Derived with permission from “What Teachers Make” a poem written by Taylor Mali. To see Mr. Mali’s original version visit www.taylormali.com) The topic of education came up and a business executive proclaimed the problem is with teachers, after all, “those who can do, and those who can’t teach.” A man next to him said, “I’m a teacher and you don’t know …
POSTER & QUOTE: What you allow, you encourage.
There are no limits unless you set them and if there are no limits, there’s no respect. This is a lesson every parent, teacher and boss ought to learn. — Michael Josephson
Be ready – Be strong – Be better
You will never know how strong you are or how strong you can be until you lose something or something you really care about. Adversity can bring out the best or worst in us.
OBSERVATION: A Note from Michael Josephson. It’s flag day!
A great time to think of the symbolism of the American flag and the rules and ritiuals (http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/flag-rules-and-rituals.aspx) that have developed around it. I wonder whether the new generation gets the same inner sense of awe and pride I still get when at the playing of the Star Spangled banner or the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. I didn’t …
Do Something!
No one can do EVERYTHING But everyone Can do SOMETHING Are you doing what you can? The world needs everyone to do their share
WORTH SEEING: My Daughter Abrielle
Okay, on Mothers Day I give all the credit to her mom, Anne, for her intelligence, talent and beauty, but I still think of this as a nice Dad’s moment: Daughter Abrielle was selected as the class speaker at her high school graduation. Look out world, another Josephson talker; and, last night, along with her writing partner Catherine, she won …
I Am Who I Am
I am who I am Your approval isn’t needed