Be sure you are there when your class graduates. Education improves your life.
Never Stop Learning
As long as you can think, you can learn. As long as you can learn, you can get better. As long as you can get better, you can be happier. NEVER STOP LEARNING.
Say THANK YOU!
Memorial Day Weekend is not just a three-day weekend for vacations and picnics. It is a dedicated opportunity for us to experience and express appreciation for those who have and are servicing on our behalf. Be sure to take some time to say THANK YOU
Giving Thanks on Memorial Day
THANK YOU For your dedication, your duty, your unwavering loyalty and most importantly your unbelievable sacrifice. Americans have to freedom to be Americans because of you.
The Honor Comes in Giving
“It is your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion — these are the things that count in a life. When you give purely, the honor comes in the giving, and that is honor enough.” Scott O’Grady, Air Force pilot (1995).
What You Can Do For Your Country
Ask not what your country can do for you Ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
Stop Looking for Happiness
Every now and then it’s a good thing to stop looking for happiness and just be happy.
Happiness is Fulfillment
Things You Can Do To Improve The World Thing of happiness in terms of fulfillment, not fun. Indulge yourself in the pleasure that comes from living a worthy life in the company of people you love and in the service of something bigger than yourself.
Those Who Wish to Sing
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. Optimism is a choice. Happiness is a choice.
One Good Mother…
“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.” George Herbert
Home Is Where Your Mom Is
A little girl, asked where home was, replied “Where mother is.” – Keith L. Brooks
Character & Personality
Personality can open doors. But it takes character keep them open. – Elmer Letterman
Your Character Determines Your Destiny
Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes. Watch your attitudes; they lead to words. Watch your words; they lead to actions. Watch your actions; they lead to habits. Watch your habits; they lead to character. Watch your character; it determines your destiny.
Make Your Character Your Masterpiece
Make your character your masterpiece. All men and women are entrusted with the task of creating their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. – Pope John Paul II
Character is Always a Work in Progress
The choices we make shape our character and our character determines our choices. That’s why our character is perpetual work in progress. – Michael Josephson
All The World Is Watching
Whenever you are to do a thing, ask yourself how you would act if all the world were looking at you, and act accordingly. – Thomas Jefferson
VIDEO: The Parable of the Cracked Pot
Each morning, a farmer went to a stream to fill two large clay pots hung on each end of a pole, which he carried across his neck. While one of the pots was perfect, the other had a crack in it causing it to leak during the entire long walk to the house. The perfect pot always delivered a full …
Do Not Spoil What You Have
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among things you only hoped for. – Epicurus GRATITUDE – All you really need for happiness
Worth Watching: Louie Schwartzberg – Gratitude
Louie Schwartzberg’s time-lapse photography shows us how grateful we should be for nature and the world surrounding us. Enjoy!
Worth Reading: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life
Yes, I used to think that gratitude was cheesy. Then this happened. How gratitude can change your life. My family emigrated from Russia to the United States when I was 13
Improve the World
Be honest, keep your promises, and meet your responsibilities, even when it costs more than you want to pay. – Michael Josephson
Play The Game
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost — but that you played the game! Grantland Rice
What Lies Within Us
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop Self-Discipline
Develop self-discipline. Self-discipline is the power to say no to yourself, to give something up now so you will get something you want even more in future.
Begin Again from Failure
Failing is the opportunity to begin again wisely.
You Are Braver Than You Think
You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think. – A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Be Better Than You Used to Be
“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.”
Bringing the 6 Pillars to Policing
Last week It presented the Josephson Institue’s new exemplary policing framework to California Police Chiefs. It seemed to go really well.