Post Written By Eugene Morgan If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.— Frank A. Clark We shouldn’t see obstacles as our nemesis but rather as a way to measure ourselves. Obstacles can tell us how we’re growing in our personal journey. We have all experienced obstacles in our own unique way. […]
Month: June 2015
Valuing Our Talents
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm S. Forbes We overvalue what we are not when our egos are inflated. We don’t want to settle for what we already have. Therefore, we don’t use our talents or appreciate our talents enough. Each […]
Water Your Grass
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t water your weeds. — Proverb How come we do things that we know will be harmful to us emotionally, or we sometimes sabotage the very thing that will help us? This is what we called a self-filling prophecy. We say that negative things will happen to us, or we […]
Add Better Things
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.” — Shiloh Morrison When we add better things to our future to correct the bad things in our past, we begin to see a trail of happiness. When the better […]
The Waves of Life
Post Written By Eugene Morgan You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Life is about learning. We learn about the world and how we react to the world. We learn about ourselves as we experience life each day. We learn how to deal with life difficulties through […]
On Becoming A Habit
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. — Doug Henning It is easy to find us admiring another person’s talent in how he or she uses what seems to be without effort. We forget that it took that person time and dedication […]
The Joy Of Creating Joy
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.― Milton H. Erickson Milton Erickson is saying here in the above quote is that we have the power to create joy. Pain reminds us that we’re still alive and that we can feel. Pain is a mechanism […]
Big Dreams and Small Fears
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.— Richard Wilkins Fears can interfere with our dreams. Our dreams become smaller when we spend so much energy in self-doubt. Dreams are really our hopes for what we wish to do […]
Start Crawling
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” — Rumi In other words, what abilities we already have, use them. We don’t necessarily need to have new abilities for us to do something. However, we can’t do anything without our abilities. Thus, we need to use our abilities for us […]
Change The Eyes
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.— Nikos Kazantzakis Reality always presents itself to us daily. We can’t resist trying to change reality on how we see the world. If we accept reality as is, then we’re forced to use the inner resources that have […]
Sowing The Seeds Of Success
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”— Paramahansa Yogananda In other words, we can always learn from our failures and to use that learning to help us to succeed. Failure is just an indicator that what we’re doing now to fail, will not work […]
Be The Master Of Ourselves
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “No man is free who is not master of himself”. — Epictetus It is not easy to master over ourselves, when we’re used to being trained to follow directions of our parents, teachers and now our boss. Every one of us has a rebellious streak where a part of us wants to […]
Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s Wants
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” — Aesop Preparation is a form of planning for the future. While we still have our mobility, still have our faculties and our health, it is thrifty to prepare today so we don’t have to worry about tomorrow or our […]
A World Of A Child
Written By Eugene Morgan “Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.” — John Bradshaw Yes, children see the world with fresh eyes. We all can recall our first experiences. Every moment was very new to us. We wanted to touch everything, smell everything and taste everything especially dirt. […]
Achievement Starts With Desire
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The starting point of all achievement is desire.— Napoleon Hill If we want it bad enough, then we will achieve it. If we lose sight of our desire, then we will not even start. Desire is our inner drive to succeed. If we could ask ourselves what is the one thing […]
Build A Door Of Opportunities
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle When opportunities aren’t there, it’s time to build our own opportunities. It’s about having the entrepreneur’s spirit to go at it alone sometimes. It can start with us alone then later down the road we can hire others to make our products better […]
Start Now, Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The secret of getting ahead is getting started.— Mark Twain If we feel like we’re behind, then getting started is the secret of catching up. We stop the thinking when we get started and begin learning what we’ve started. Procrastination is what keeps one from starting something new. Procrastination is the […]
Dream It Into Goals
Post Written By Eugene Morgan You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.— C. S. Lewis Who says it’s too late to set another goal and dream new dreams? When we set a goal we’re reorienting ourselves to the future because we want to know if the goal is obtainable. […]
We Are What We Believe
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We are what we believe we are.— C.S. Lewis If we say we can’t do this or that, we are basing this on a belief. If we say we can do this or that, we are basing this on a belief as well. It is easy to make assumptions about […]
New Strength and New Thoughts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”— Eleanor Roosevelt Today we have an opportunity to lean on our strengths because all of us have them. We use our strengths during the day and renew our strengths when we retire at night. When we rise in the morning […]