Post Written By Eugene Morgan Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand Work gives us a healthy dose of self-confidence each day. Work brings us out of ourselves. Although we may complain sometimes, we still get our pleasure out of work. We grow in […]
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A Time For Sorrow and a Time For Joy
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today’s a good day to start walking in the opposite direction of anything or anyone that causes you more sorrow than joy. — Mandy Hale Some sorrow is a given. It is part of life to experience. However, joy is also a part life to experience. If we experience pain most of our days, […]
Mistakes and Idleness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw If we make mistakes, then, at least, we have some stories to tell the next generation. We make mistakes for us to learn about ourselves. We won’t know […]
Learning and Growth
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. — Anthony J. D’Angelo Our mind is made for learning new things every day. It is a gift that we take for granted. Learning is giving us the ability to grow into what we want to become. […]
Change Your World
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale We see the world through our thoughts. If we see the world with our thoughts, then it is our world we see. Our thoughts can distort reality. We interpret the world based on our previous experiences. Therefore, our minds automatically […]
Choices That Make Us
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. — Andrew Ryan Whatever a choice we make in life always has the potential to change us somehow. We become molded by the choices we make. Up to now, we have made many choices. In fact, we make choices […]
When Moments Become Memories
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. — Dr. Seuss It is quite an experience when we reminisce about the past especially with friends and/or family who share the same experience. During this time of reminiscing, there is always someone in the group that would say, “Those were the […]
Be More Of Value
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein Success is more about us and value is more about others. When we were kids, we all wanted to grow up to be something and be successful at it. That means spending time working on ourselves […]
Appeal To Reality
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert Pirsig This is an interesting quote because not only Robert Pirsig mentions the past, future, present, but also he mentions them in terms of our experiences of the past, future and […]
When We Execute Our Intentions
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them. — Unknown It is nice to have good intentions but as we know from our experiences that good intentions won’t get us anywhere. Good intentions are only that, intentions without merit. It feels good to tell ourselves or […]
You Will Know How To Live
Post Written By Eugene Morgan As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe From our birth until now, we have gone through many experiences. Wisdom comes from our experiences. Wisdom is the end result of our experiences. Our abilities are the end result of our experiences. So if […]
Choose The Pain Of Discipline
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. — Jim Rohn In everyone’s life there are pain of discipline and pain of regret. We all know from our own experiences that what we want will require from us self-discipline. Discipline becomes painful […]
Any Road Will Take You There
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. — Lewis Carroll Every journey has a road we just have to pick one but not every road is a journey. A road will guide us some but we have to continue moving through life’s difficulties and […]
It’s In The Struggles
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. — Noam Chomsky Now we are at the speed at which our learnings have slowed down since we’ve been adults. We’ve experienced being stuck because we’ve become set in our ways but now we have […]
Where Do We Find A Way To Fulfill Our Desires?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.— Paulo Coelho It is through our resources that we can fulfill our desires. We have a lifetime of experiences that we have accumulated over the years that no one can take away. These […]
What Can We Learn From Obstacle?
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
First Step Towards Understanding
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The willingness to be puzzled is typically a first step towards understanding.” — Noam Chomsky There are things we don’t understand yet. It is all right to be puzzled about things because that peaks our curiosity to understanding the hows and whys about things. For us to understand some things, we […]
No Matter How Small
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 Because we have a desire for something doesn’t mean we need it. We can lose interest when we cease desiring something. So we don’t have to […]