Post Written By Eugene Morgan Fear is faith that it won’t work out. — Unknown Fear must be tested before we consider it to be true. Fear can keep away from what’s real and keeps us in our heads. We need to experience action to get through our unknowns. We can prepare ourselves, and we can anticipate […]
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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 […]
Compasses Toward Growth
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. — Celestine Chua We can use fear to motivate us or allow our fear to control us. We can use fears as our compass to help us test the water before swimming. Fear can help us to determine whether or not if it […]
Born To Do This
Post Written By Eugene Morgan I am not afraid… I was born to do this.—Joan of Arc This an excellent quote because it puts everything perspective. We use our fear as a tether to keep us from doing the things we most desire. However, Joan understood that she was born to do and discovered and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Other Side of Fear
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair The above quote is such a truism. We know this to be true through our own experiences. Sometimes, we make fear our excuse to keep us for doing what we desire. We just don’t like the discomfort […]
Risk And Trust
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk.” ― Joan Erickson Risk is the courage to act in spite of our fears. We can never grow if we don’t act. We have become […]
Change Takes Time and Work
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Change takes time and hard work. Sometimes we want change to occur immediately. And we get impatient with ourselves when we see that change is harder than we think. We need to be patient with ourselves when we do slack or procrastinate. We needn’t get so hard on ourselves. But allow […]
Knowledge is Power When it Reduces Fear
By Eugene Morgan Anxiety can simply be induce by the unknown. Taking a test, speaking in front of an audience, and flying on a plane for the first time can easily induce anxiety. If one simply prepares for a test by studying way before the day of the test, then one’s anxiety is greatly reduced, […]
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 […]
Move From Within
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Do we know our defenses? Do we know what stops us from doing what we want to do? In psychoanalysis, a defense is a mechanism used to protect a bruised ego. We don’t like to feel exposed because there is the possibility that when we succeed in something, we get […]
Illuminating Our Dark Side
Written by Eugene Morgan “If you are uncertain about something, you tend to avoid it.” Milton Erickson Uncertainty is another word for doubt. Doubting is another form of not knowing. We don’t know how we will react to something revealed to us that’s unknown. When we fear the unknown, our fears begin to grow. It […]
Fearing Little is the Only Way Out
Written By Eugene Morgan “And what do you need to fear? Very little that you need to fear.” Milton Erickson Fear is a feeling. Fear saves lives. Fear is paralyzing. Fear speaks the truth about something. Fear speaks lies, too. Our assumptions about things can fuel a fear. Fear, if not felt, is projecting into […]