Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”— Timber Hawkeye When we stop trying to calm the storm, we then have enough energy to calm ourselves. Trying to calm the storm is just a distraction. We have no control […]
Month: March 2015
Rejection is Merely Someone’s Opinion
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Rejection is not fatal; it is merely someone’s opinion.”— Unknown We don’t have to get bent out of shape because of someone’s opinion that’s contrary to ours. Instead, we can be open to listening to the opinion if it proves useful to us or we can eat the meat and […]
Our Heart of Hearts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.”— James R. Ball If we believe that we don’t deserve to have something, then we won’t put our hearts into getting it. However, if we do believe we deserve to have […]
Let Go and See What Happens
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”— Mandy Hale A plan is desirable when we need structure. However, too much structure can repress our creativity and our spontaneity. It is all right to rely on a feeling or […]
Love and Memory
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare Human beings have an aversion for loss because it creates an emotional pain of separation from a loved-one or a friend or a co-worker. We don’t know how to react upon hearing the news that someone […]
Take The Rest As It Happens
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”— Epictetus So what is within our power, we should use it or, we’re giving our power away to circumstances. We don’t have to wait for circumstances to force our hand. Instead, we can […]
When We Feel Awkward
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”— Brian Tracy When we feel awkward and/or uncomfortable, we’re experiencing vulnerability. We experience this vulnerability because we feel set up for an attack. We want everyone to see us doing something perfectly. But for […]
Key To Your Happiness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.”— Unknown The key to our happiness should be in our own pocket. We’re in charge of our own lives. Relationship is built on both parties bringing happiness to a relationship instead of finding happiness from a relationship. Life is not […]
Strength Grows
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson The quote above sounds so profound. It is like a paradox. This quote becomes a riddle, when we turn it into a question, “how does our strength grows out of our weaknesses?” Then we found ourselves looking back at our […]
Life As It Is
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”— Wayne Dyer This is a very powerful quote because it tells us how our beliefs can shape the way we think of how things should be. It is […]
See the Good In Others
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.”— Unknown We can see the good in others if we look for it. It’s easy to see the bad in others if we disagree with them or if they look different than us […]
On Loving Yourself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Focus on loving yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.”— Unknown We so much want approval from another person that we forget that we are a person. How come we think that having self-approval is not enough? It only takes one person to believe in us […]
Freedom of the Mind
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupery When we’re given the opportunity to inform or educate ourselves, we’re given ourselves the opportunity to be freer. We no longer have to be kept in the dark instead, we can reeducate ourselves when […]
Cherish What We Already Have
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.”— Geoffrey F. Abert We want more, because we stopped wanting more of what we already have. If we focused on what we already have, then there will be no need for looking elsewhere for more. When we […]
Good Intentions
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them.”— Unknown Having good intentions is like moving aimlessly without direction. Good intentions are only that— intentions. Good intentions are just thoughts in our heads. Good intentions are only to make the person who’s making them feel good about […]
The Pilot of Our Time
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”— Michael Altshuler We don’t want it to end when time flies because time flies when we’re having fun. Most of the time when we’re having fun is when we’re the pilots of our lives. We can decide […]
Certain Degree Of Trust
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”-— Ernest Hemingway When we say we don’t trust somebody, we have a tendency to look for evidence that is true that the person is untrustworthy. We want it to be true so we can avoid […]
An Interesting Freedom
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “When you are not attached to praise or criticism, an interesting freedom is yours.”— Kute Blackson Getting praises can be motivating, however we later feel that we have to meet someone else’s expectation. When getting criticisms, we feel exposed and want to withdraw from the pain it we may cause. But if […]
Doing What We’re Good At
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”— John Wooden When we say we cannot do something, we’re making a hasty generalization about everything else including the things we know we can do. It also prevents us from doing the things we know we can do. […]
Today’s Spotless Future
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Whatever the past has been, you have a spotless future.”— Unknown It is nice to know that tomorrow is a gift to make things right with ourselves and with people in our lives. Sometimes we find ourselves feeling guilty when we look at our past transgressions never forgiving ourselves. Our […]