Courage That Counts

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. — John Wooden Success is telling us that whatever we’re doing, continue doing it if we want it.  If we see failures of ourselves and others as educational, then it’s okay.  It takes courage for us to fail […]

Delay or Conquer

Post Written By Eugene Morgan What you deny or ignore, you delay. What you accept and face, you conquer. — Robert Tew When we deny or ignore something, it all come from our fears.  We’re afraid to know the truth and reality of things. We prefer to hold on to a distorted reality that we’ve created.  And […]

The Courage to Continue

Post Written By Eugene Morgan  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill It is the courage to continue that counts after success and especially when we fail. With success and failure, we still have to deal with our vulnerability. We need to be […]

Action Feeds Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will.— W. Clement Stone Thinking is the very thing that causes fear. Doubting is a mental exercise that preoccupies our attention away from our goal. The mental energy is being misused until we redirect our energy back to what’s important. If we act in […]

With Open Arms

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is Monday Memorial Day. This is the time to remember those we’ve lost and to shake the hands of former soldiers, and say to them “thank you for risking your life so I may live.”  It takes dedication, commitment, discipline and most of all courage to put one’s life […]

Expanding Our World

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”— Anais Nin Courage is not about taking the fear away. Courage is about living a life we want and dream about. When we have courage, we are giving ourselves the opportunity to expand our worlds so we can discover and see […]

From Doubt To Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have experiences with doubt, but we also have experiences with courage. Doubt can plague our abilities to do what we desire and want. Having courage is our understanding that in spite of doubts we will do things anyway to fulfill a desire or a want. Doubts are in […]

Discover New Oceans

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”— Andre Gide For us to move forward, we must let go of old ideas. It does take courage to risk stepping into new territory. It is natural to respond with some trepidation when we’re […]

Begin With Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.”— Unknown The things we’re doing today once had a new beginning. The skills we’ve acquired over the years had a new beginning. So how come we sometimes fear doing something new when we’ve been through this before? This […]

Having the Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan It is true that what we imagined is what will become real in our world.  If we imagined the worse, then we will find and look for something that will make it worse. If we imagined optimism in a difficult situation, then in our minds we will see a better outcome. It […]

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, […]

Doubt Our Power

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”—Honore de Balzac Our doubts are fueled by the same energy as our courage. We could either watch through the lens of doubt or through the lens of  courage. We have a choice. We don’t have to be defined by […]

Courage to Grow

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”—E.E. Cummings It takes courage to become what we really are because we don’t know clearly our path. It is unknown territory for us when it comes to growing up into our real selves. Each one of us has […]

Doubting Your Power

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”—Honore de Balzac When we doubt our power, we’re open to be taken advantage of. We are less informed, when we doubt our power. An education is in order of our rights as a citizen.  The more uninformed we are, […]

Step Into Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown” ― Osho The unknown can certainly evoke anxiety but we don’t have to run the other way. Instead, we can take courage. When we’re taking courage, it doesn’t mean we’re without fear. Courage is doing it anyway in spite of our fears. […]

Having Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan We know we have the resources and the ability to do it. We just need courage to just do it. Courage is really the lesson to be learned. Courage is about putting ourselves out there with risks that may hurt us. Criticism is inevitable in life. We just need to […]

In Facing The Right Direction

Post Written By Eugene Morgan If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~ Zen Saying When we know we’re facing the right direction, sometimes there is a hesitation to keep walking because of fear and anxiety. If we know that’s the path we must follow […]

Stepping Into Courage

Post Written By Eugene Morgan The opposite of doubt is courage. Stepping into courage means to do it anyway in spite of fears and doubts to move to the next level of learning. Since we’ve done this in the past, we can do this in the present. Once we’ve done or learned the things in spite […]