Charlotte McCourt, 11, felt compelled to follow Girl Scout law while selling the famous cookies: "I will do my best to be honest." As Steve Hartman reports, her honesty turned out to be the best policy.
Honesty always pays the highest dividends. Be honest and truthful at all times.
Jake Thibeault was paralyzed during a hockey game and was told that he would likely never walk again. But he vowed that he would walk across the stage at his high school graduation. Steve Hartman shares more in "On the Road."
Be thankful for what you are and what you have, for all your many choice blessings. Set your goals high and work terribly hard to achieve them.
Work hard in school. Make this year your best year so far. Choose the Right.
As part of our new series "Kindness 101," Steve Hartman is sharing stories built around themes of kindness and character and the people who’ve mastered both. His latest lesson is optimism.
How to Be Optimistic
Choose to be Optimistic. The power is within you to choose to be optimistic or not. Use this free power to be positive and see the tremendous difference it makes in your life.
Steve Hartman shares stories of the Americans who give him hope for the new year.
What will define 2022 for the United States?
You decide. You can make it as great as you want to. Let's learn a few lessons from the younger generation.
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Students in Ms. Poncelet's fourth grade class learned all about the importance of kindness at the start of this school year. Inspired by Life Vest Inside's kindness boomerang, students created their own chain of kindness in order to show how even one simple act of kindness can change someone's entire day. One act of kindness can even set off a chain reaction that can help others, inspire others, and make the world a better place!
One Day (Lyrics)
Sometimes I lay
under the moon
and thank God I'm breathing
then I pray
don't take me soon
cause I am here for a reason
sometimes in my tears I drown
but I never let it get me down
so when negativity surrounds
I know some day it'll all turn around
because
all my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
for the people to say
that we don't wanna fight no more
there'll be no more wars
and our children will play
one day x6
it's not about
win or lose cause
we all lose
when they feed on the souls of the innocent
blood drenched pavement
keep on moving though the waters stay raging
in this maze you can lose your way (your way)
it might drive you crazy but don't let it faze you no way (no way)
sometimes in my tears I drown
but I never let it get me down
so when negativity surrounds
I know some day it'll all turn around
because
all my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
for the people to say
that we don't wanna fight no more
there'll be no more wars
and our children will play
one day x6
one day this all will change
treat people the same
stop with the violence
down with the hate
one day we'll all be free
and proud to be
under the same sun
singing songs of freedom like
one day x4
all my life I've been waiting for
I've been praying for
for the people to say
that we don't wanna fight no more
there'll be no more wars
and our children will play
one day x6https://youtu.be/iiwIUnw9QpM
Dan and Whit's general store had been a fixture in Norwich, Vermont for over a century. But a lack of employees threatened the store's future. So, owner Dan Fraser posted a desperate Help Wanted sign – and the response from the community has kept him in business. Steve Hartman reports.
When an SOS went up at a troubled Louisiana high school, who answered the call? A bunch of dads. Steve Hartman shares the story in "On the Road.
Southwood High School did not have a CTR Club; therefore, fights broke out almost every day, tempers flared, and students hated each other. But that all changed once a CTR mentality set in, beginning with Dads on Duty. These dads came to visit campus and taught students to Choose the Right and the entire campus turned a 180 degree turn almost over night. Now the campus is a happy place to be, thanks to good leadership and students deciding to choose the right.
We can mail Southwood High School several hundred CTR Cards to promote good citizenship on its campus, and continue to develop the CTR Spirit, and to create their own CTR Club with students having life-time membership as they Choose the Right forever.
Be Kind
Be a Good Sport
Students, you be the one to lead out, to stand up, to speak up and lead the CTR Army, to promote and encourage all others to be CTR people: YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE if you WILL!
A 6-year-old girl was mourning her father when a woman jogged by the funeral home with her dog. The girl invited the woman inside. Steve Hartman shares what happened next in this week's "On the Road."
Students, follow your "gut" feeling and show kindness, even if you feel a little uncomfortable at first. If so, go ahead and make the move, and your confidence will soar and you will fear no more. Show kindness is always the best things to do.
For barbecue lovers, Brad’s Bar-B-Que in Oxford, Alabama, is heaven on Earth. But 80-year-old Eleanor Baker said her visit here earlier this month was especially divine. Steve Hartman reports On the Road.
Count your many blessings, name them one by one. Be grateful for what you do have. Remember you have it now, but you could lose it instantly; therefore, enjoy the moment, make the most of the moment, and express and show thanks for what you have and are, and for your incredible potential.
The condo building collapse near Miami is another gut punch amid the loss from the pandemic. Grief lies ahead for many. Steve Hartman reflects on the uncertainty in “On the Road.”
Thirty-five years ago, two charter boat captains on their way back from Catalina Island off the California coast came across a capsized boat and an orange life vest bobbing in the waves. One of the men jumped in and pulled out a 9-year-old — the only survivor. Steve Hartman has the story.
Acts of kindness can preserve life. Never turn down an opportunity to help others or do any act of kindness for them. It will come full circle back to you.
When electrician John Kinney of Woburn, Massachusetts, visited Gloria Scott's home for a simple light repair, he realized there was much more work to be done. Steve Hartman has more on this week's "On the Road."
On the Road," Steve Hartman catches up with a man whose wife was suffering kidney failure. After his story first aired on the "CBS Evening News," thousands of people offered their kidneys - and one was a match.
As part of the continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman meets the students of St. Francis High School near Los Angeles who thought they knew everything about their math teacher, Jim O'Connor. But what they found out at a local hospital taught them a life lesson.
Why do people love Robert Peters? How far will kindness, smiles, and honesty take you? Learn the answers from Robert Peters, a delivery man for Pizza Hut. If you CTR, you will enjoy fulfillment, be rewarded greatly, and will always feel peace in your heart.
CTR always wins!!
It's not the job, but the person, that makes the difference.
