Josephism

Josephism

This is my list of Josephisms; many are my own, some are borrowed, and some are quoted. Years ago, an MS sponsor asked me to sign bandannas for a team event. The team had 25 riders. The sponsor requested that I provide each team member with a unique quote bearing my signature. He called the saying Josephisms. Over the years,  here and there, I started collecting Josephism quotes and thoughts,

Josephism Quotes 

• Wellness modifies yesterday. Connect by empathy. Grow with affinity. Live through change. Journey for oneself. Together, experience life. Remodel is an adventure.
• Time is a concept of the human mind. Rocks know not time.
• FIT - Fatigue Interloper Thrive
• The symptoms of a person doing something unselfish are a case of happiness.
• Living creates stories, life recalls stories.
• Peace on earth did happen, once. Our Challenge is to make it happen again.
• Live, Ride, Believe.
• HERO means Help Everyone, Respect Others—time, talent, treasure, and tenacity. Tenacity – never give up.
• Every step forward loses its way back to where it came from. 
• Even turning around to look behind is a different memory. 
• Every step forward loses time. 
• Turning around to look behind loses time.
• Every step forward is a new, precious present.
• Life's first principles to live by are love, faith, and honesty.
• Our challenges grant us the gift of many precious presents. So happy you are collecting them. 
• Thinking creates thoughts for stories. 
• You can only use one sense at a time.
• My brain is the perfect chaos engine, happily enjoying every distraction. 
• My writing, like my thoughts, is a scatter diagram of incomplete articles.
• My brain is happy as a chaos generator.
• Once I had a dollar. Once I wished for a dollar. Once I earned a dollar.
• The term "money" refers to title, value, use, and asset. In the bank (use), I have (title) 10 (value) dollars (asset). 
• An invoice is a demand for money; a payment is a transfer of title.
• Space and time are artworks of the mind. 
• Ideas are always ideas.
• A found penny is a treasure and a misfortune. 
• Family first. 
• A term is more than a language artifact. It is a stakeholder of ideas.
• A term is the end of a thought and the beginning of communication.
• Failing because of quitting is not the same as quitting because one has failed.
• I am me, an individual. 
• A horse may refuse water; my job is to provide the water.
• No one gets an education. Education gets you.
• To thrive is to change.
• The future and the past are stories.
• A life is many lives.
• Devote time to the people you love.
• Every intention is a precious present.
• Thrive with determination.
• When chasing rain mills, you know the direction of power.
• The universe of men and the universe of women are two dimensions.
• The mind's eye sees its heart's perspective.
• Only we can determine our fatigue.
• Three, one, two, one, three. 
• WWJD - What would Joseph do?
• Left, right, left; count, cadence count; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4; 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.
• Peddling up-hill is life-affirming. Peddling downhill is fun.
• A rock in the road is a signpost to a clear path.
• Don't look at the pothole.
• In every happy heart, there is love.
• Love is a great spin that lasts forever.
• Bikers ride in the sky because the sky starts at our tires on the road.
• Remember to breathe from the gut.
• The brain is a discrimination engine. The mind is a biased engine. 
• I do not accept racism. 
• The reason for war is economic power. 
• Tomorrow you may wake up dead.  
• Courage is only required for something you fear.
• Bicycles are Energy Star rated.
• Another name for the future is life.
• A bicyclist always has the wind in their face.
• I was disabled; now, I am adaptive.
• In every happy heart, there are beats for at least two people.
• Real men have happy hearts.
• To speak for itself, someone must hear it speak.
• Here in hell is the bathroom? I gotta piss.
• First, learn 3 words: "I love you." Then learn 2 words, "I surrender." And one word, "OK."
• Smile! Display your happy heart.
• Biking, like wisdom, is applying the right leverage in the right place at the right time.
• Sternum up, smile, see the world, shake it off, suck a gut, set intentions.
• SAFE: Strength, Agility, Flexibility, Endurance; the finite wellness elements of conditioning.
• Fatigue equals vigor minus endurance.
• What not-is the truth? What is-not is an opinion.
• Ability-to-thrive equals quality-of-life and quantity-of-life.
• We are eccentric beings in an eccentric universe.
• The mind is a bucket full of moods.
• To overcome one Challenge, challenge all challenges.
• When walking, which foot moves first?
• To see is the hardest part of the picture.
• "Last one, best one."
• All exist in the Goodwill Grant.
• Failure to thrive is not an option.
• I am this for now, and that already passed.
• Time is a learned concept of the human mind.
• Time is absent in nature. 
• Truth enables space.
• Not am I not.
• Honesty is the power of movement.
• I refuse to be depressed. 
• Respect permits identity.
• Trust is the first principle of a relationship.
• Love, faith, and hope bind a family together.
• The trinity of fatigue: physical prowess, neurological coordination, and cognitive planning.
• A broken stick has 3 parts: 2 pieces of wood and a break.
• When refueling, be sure to clean the headlights.
• 40 squats a day.
• The mind trains the brain; the brain, in turn, trains the body.
• I am what I see, I am. 
• Behind the mind of a great engineer is a great artist.
• Thanks for your service.
• The axle conquered the American West.
• Frustration is the grantor for inspiration. 
• A coin and a prayer are both collateral.
• When sitting, the toes are the first to stand.
• Federal and state civil statutes are business rules for contracts and the use of money.
• The word money means value, use, asset, and title. Payment is the transfer of title. -- I have (title) 5 (value) dollars (asset) in the bank (use).
• Fear threat reactions: fight, flight, freeze, fawn, fade, fold, forget, finesse.
• Volunteering is a coin with two sides. The head side is a risk to the organization. The tail side is a risk to the person. Volunteering for a charity is a risk for the organization. Volunteering for the draft is a risk to the person.
• Designer's Challenge: form, fit, function, finance, fabrication, family, fix, feature, fact, fear, fubar.
• Wellness modifies yesterday, connected by empathy, grows with affinity, lives through change, and the journey for oneself, together, is an adventure.
• A value is more than money: Abundance, Accountability, Achievement, Action, Adventure, Ambition, Awareness, Balance, Beauty, Being the Best, Calmness, Cheerfulness, Clarity, Comfort, Compassion, Competition, Connection, Contribution, Control, Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Determination, Discipline, Effectiveness, Empathy, Energy, Enthusiasm, Excellence, Fairness, Faith, Fame, Family, Flexibility, Freedom, Friendship, Fulfillment, Fun, Harmony, Happiness, Health, Honesty, Honor, Humility, Independence, Integrity, Intelligence, Intimacy, Inspiration, Kindness, Knowledge, Liveliness, Love, Money, Nature, Passion, Peace, Perfection, Persistence, Philanthropy, Power, Respect, Security, Simplicity, Significance, Spirituality, Spontaneity, Strength, Stability, Success, Status, Teamwork, Tolerance, Tradition, Truth, Vitality, Volunteering, Wealth, Wisdom.
• On a family member's death. My heart is sad and touches your grief as my grief too. Our family is blessed with many experiences of birth, life, and death. At each, we gather to sing a promise, a praise, and a memory. Each song is a prayer to each other and a whisper to God for His blessing. A touch of grief is God's whisper to spark memories of joy.