Learning About Learning

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Everyday we have an opportunity to learn something about ourselves and about life. Learning can be a form of entertainment. When we’re experiencing an impasse, we can approach the situation as something we can learn from.  We don’t have to find a solution to get out of the situation. Instead […]

We All Have A Story To Tell

Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have a story to tell. In fact, we have more than one story to tell. When we listen to a story, for us to comprehend it, we have to listen to it through our background of learned experiences. While we’re listening, we’re sorting through our experiences.  Through listening […]

Memories Are The Storehouses

Post Written By Eugene Morgan We have good memories and bad memories. We have the tendency to focus on our bad memories. These memories can be triggered by a smell, an image, or a sound. The same things can trigger good memories. But we seemed to be conditioned to focus on the unpleasant memories, which […]

Life Isn’t As Serious As You Think

Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” ~ Eckhart Tolle If we take life as it is and accept things as they are, then we can better take on the day. But if we keep our expectations high on how we think the world should […]

Imagination

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Our imagination is very powerful. Our imagination can overwhelm us. But we tend to forget that we can use our imagination to comfort ourselves in time of sorrow. We can use our imagination when we are looking for […]

A Beginning

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is a new beginning. There are a lot of opportunities to be had. Today is the first day of 2013. Now what are we going to do today? Today is a time to celebrate 2013. The New Year day is like a rebirth or some sort of renewal.  All of […]

Remodel

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Over the years we have accumulated experiences. And over the years we have accumulated generalizations about those experiences. Generalizations can be helpful and they can be harmful. Generalizations are our filters we look through to make sense out of the world. But some of our generalizations can skew our perceptions […]

Dreaming a Dream

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Dreams take us places. In dream, we can be sitting in a boat while fishing, we can be walking through a park, and we can be talking to somebody we haven’t seen in years. A dream can bring back an old feeling from the past. It’s nice to dream at night. […]

The Journey Of Life

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life is but a journey; death is returning home. ~ Chinese Proverb The above quote is so powerful.  If we look at our lives as a journey, then it’s really about our experiences. Through out life’s journey, there are many things we have learned and we will continue to experience […]

Don’t Underestimate Your Potential

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Sometimes we are so quick to criticize our work. We don’t give ourselves a chance or room to grow into our potentials.  We place such high standards on ourselves that we get easily frustrated with ourselves when we don’t meet them. When we get frustrated we lose focus on what […]

Death, Life and the Universe

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Death is a natural process of the cycle of life. For life to continue death has to occur. Nothing is wasted in the universe. Everything is used in some fashion or another. Our bodies are made from the earth. The earth is made from materials in space. We are made […]

Going Beyond Barriers

Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have barriers that restrain us from doing what we want to do. Fear of failure, the unknown, lack of information, not willing to learn, time, lack of support, to name a few, could be described as barriers that obstruct us from doing what we want to do. But […]

Experiencing The New

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Experiencing something new is the best way to make a change. Some things are unchanging unless we experience something that will help us change. To experience something means actually doing something. An experience can help expand our minds so we can see that there are more choices available. When we […]

When Reality is still Subjective

Written By Eugene Morgan We all model reality through our background experiences. We have different experiences; therefore, we have different realities. No matter how real our experiences are, they’re still subjective. When we tell a story about an experience to another person, for them to understand us, the listener would have to sort through their […]

Journey Loves Experiences

Written By Eugene Morgan We all have our own journeys we trek through; no one has the same journey. On some level, we all trek through our own journeys alone. Trekking through our own journeys alone isn’t isolation from others. We trek through our own journeys together alone. This means we each bear our own […]

Experience is in the Detail

Written By Eugene Morgan When was the last time we experienced something that enriched our lives? One of the things that can enrich our lives is having interests, or observing something that makes us curious. Cooking, music, and classic cars are some of the different interests we have that enriches our lives. In a social […]

We Appraise Things we Learn

Written by Eugene Morgan “And all of our days we are learning things-learning how to appraise them, how to assess them, how to feel about them.” Milton Erickson When we watch an event unfold before our eyes, we tend to automatically appraise the event based on our background experiences.  How much value we put into […]

Athlete with signs of Potential

Written by Eugene Morgan “Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.” Milton Erickson Erickson is correct that we don’t know how far we can go with our potentials.  We don’t know our actual potential until it is fully developed.  We can’t find out what those potentials are until we do something. […]

Observation is the key to Objectivity

Written by Eugene Morgan “When you look at things, look at them,” Milton Erickson It is easy to either jump to conclusions or make assumptions about things without looking at them.  We tend to quickly based our experiences on the event first before really seeing what’s happening. If we really look at things and let […]