Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”— Marcus Aurelius It is what thoughts we feed that entertain the mind. So if we think about negative thoughts, then we will feel negative feelings. Instead, if we replace negative thoughts with positive ones, then we will feel positive […]
Month: August 2014
Stop Trying to be Normal, be Amazing
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”— Maya Angelou We want to be normal because we want to fit in. However, we don’t have to be ostracized by a group of our peers. If we think that we will be ostracize […]
When Children Look for Magic
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Children see magic because they look for it.”— Christopher Moore Children look for magic because it stimulates curiosity. Children want to learn how the magic is done. There is a lot of magic in the world. Magic is things unexplained. When we see magic we only see what the magician […]
Our Vision
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”— Krster Stendahl Having no knowledge at all is better than what we think we know that’s obstructing our vision. Sometimes we don’t have a clear vision on things. And we need to step […]
Cry, Forget, Learn and Move on
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”— Steve Maraboli To Cry, to forgive, to learn and to move on is a good sequence to start the process of healing. In the privacy of our home, it is okay to cry. Although it […]
Letting Go Ties
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Some people think it’s holding that makes one strong—sometimes it’s letting go.”—Unknown Sometimes we don’t realize that we hold on to things far too long. I think it all right to hold on to things for a minute or two but not for years. It is all right to let […]
Be Thankful
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “ Look at what you’ve got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”— Proverb We have to be constantly reminded that we ought to be thankful for what we have and not look for what we don’t have. We […]
Look Forward
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Worry looks around, fear looks back, faith looks up, guilt looks down, but I look forward.”— Unknown Worry is only wasted energy because we’re using only our imagination to fuel our fears. Instead, we can use that energy for something useful. When it comes to guilt, it so hard to […]
Give Peace A Chance
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”— Joan Boryenko As the quote above says we have a choice to either practice stress or practice peace. We don’t have to react to an unpleasant event; instead we can be proactive and give peace a chance. When […]
The Courage To Begin
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.”— Unknown When we’re confronted with doing something new, our heart starts pounding. Our first initial thought is what have I got myself into. But as we begin to plan things, some of our anxiety turns into excitement. Sometimes, […]
You Are Very Powerful!
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”— Yogi Bhajan Many of us do know how powerful we really are, it’s just we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. If we think we need to assert ourselves and we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, then it would […]
When Opportunities Existed
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”—Orison Swett Marden We don’t have to look for extraordinary opportunities to seize the moment. We have the common occasions that are the opportunities that we can make great. We don’t have to wait very long to find common […]
Attention is Generosity
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Simone Weil When we give another person our full-undivided attention, we’re telling them that we care about them and they’re interests. When we’re listening to another person, we’ve stopped thinking about our thoughts instead we’re listening to them telling us their […]
Taking A Break From Our Routine
Post Written By Eugene Morgan For some of us, who needs to take a break or go on vacation, it is difficult to let go of our routine. We become a slave to our routine that we forget that there is a life to live. Our routine is predicable and it evokes very little anxiety […]
Returning Back To Our Old Stomping Ground
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When we return back to our stomping grounds it evoke memories of our past. It is an experience of old familiarity. We think about how things used to be in our youth. We also experience the innocence of that time period when things were fresh and new. These memories were the […]
Return to Knowing Thyself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It is time to focus inwardly. It is time to renew self. It is time to know thyself. If we want to understand another person, then we must learn and understand something about ourselves. It is no accident that we hang out with certain people we call friends. On an […]
Trusting
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Trust is very important when it comes to survival. Mistrust is what creates enemies. When we mistrust someone we don’t know, we make him or her into some sort of monster. We don’t allow ourselves to really look at the person or to get to know the person. Instead we […]
What Can I Learn From This?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We don’t always have to solve every problem that comes our way. We don’t have to define every situation as a problem. The situation can be defined as a learning experience. A helpful question to turn a negative situation into a positive one is “What can I learn from this?” […]
We’re Stronger
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Sometimes we forget that we’re stronger than we think. We’re afraid to release that power from within. We don’t have to misuse our power by obsessing over things we can’t control. Instead, we can discover for ourselves what we can do just by doing it. Action will take us a […]
Abstract Goals or Tangible Goals
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Although we don’t have to wait on a feeling to start something, we do have to make a decision to do it. The decision is very important. When we decide to do something, it is important when we do it. We got to make a schedule up and to follow […]
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