Written By Eugene Morgan “Experience is educational if it’s reused.” Eugene Morgan What we can take away from our experiences is wisdom. Each time we gain experience, we gain a little wisdom. Experiences are educational when we learn from them. Experiences are treasures of wisdom; they can help us see things clearly. Enough about […]
Eugene Morgan
Eugene Morgan has been posting each day of the week (Monday through Friday) brief messages to encourage to inspire, to invoke, and to humor others to get through their week . He's been a blogger since 2009 and now an author.
Mistakes convert into a Wealth of Learning
Written by Eugene Morgan “There’s a wealth of learning you get from making mistakes.” Milton Erickson We have to risk doing something to make a mistake. It’s okay to make mistakes as long as we can learn something from them. Learning something from a mistake means making adjustments to the situation. If we continuing to […]
“I win Olympic Championships”
Written by Eugene Morgan “Out of a wheelchair I win Olympic championships all the time.” Milton Erickson As you can see from most of Erickson’s quotes, he’s good at turning a phrase. It’s interesting how he links “a wheelchair” with winning “olympic championships” together. The message he wants us to get is that in spite […]
Feel with the Finger, the Heart, and the Mind
Written by Eugene Morgan “We do not just feel with the fingers, but with the heart, the mind.” Milton Erickson Erickson is reminding us that we feel with our heart as well as our mind. The heart is generally a metaphor of our emotions. Therefore, we feel our emotions. Our minds identify the emotions based […]
Seeds of Ideas
Written by Eugene Morgan “There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.” Milton Erickson Erickson enjoyed planting seeds of ideas to his patients, students and subjects to get them into another training of thought. When we get stuck into certain train of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Make It Simple
Written Eugene Morgan “And one usually starts with rather simple things. Because human beings are essentially, fundamentally, rather simple creatures.” Milton Erickson Sometimes we make things so complicated, however, Erickson says because we’re simple creatures, we should make things simple. When learning something new, its seems complicated at first. However, it’s easier to grabs something […]
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. […]
Today Was Once Tomorrow
Written By Eugene Morgan “People always have that tendency to put off working on a problem to tomorrow,” Milton Erickson. Working on a problem isn’t always fun and games. When we put off working on a problem, it stays in front of us. It never leaves our sight. It hovers around the top of our […]
“But You Do Like Reality”
Written Eugene Morgan “You don’t want a charming movie to end, you don’t want a flower to wilt, but you do like reality.” Milton Erickson Sometimes, we like to keep our fantasies alive. In fact, some of us would rather live inside our heads. We create fantasies because we are trying to fulfill an unmet […]
Treasure Chest of Happiness
Written by Eugene Morgan “Leave a trail of happiness…and look forward to the days when you can look back,” Milton Erickson Whatever we do to make us happy, we can collect and put them in our treasure chest. We can save them for later. When we have an investment of happiness, in our later years, […]
Diversity and Acceptance
Written by Eugene Morgan “I think the faults that you recall in human beings give their charm to that individual that enable you to recognize and remember that individuals,” Milton Erickson No one is perfect. We all come in different shapes, sizes and colors. Perfection is an internal standard that blinds us from what is […]
Claim Our Independence
Written by Eugene Morgan “When one knows the boundaries, restrictions and limitations that governs them he is free to utilize satisfactorily whatever is available.” Milton Erickson Today is Independence Day. This is a time to celebrate our Independence, not just with our country but ourselves. When we started learning how to walk, we were on […]
Reconcile To the Unfairness of Life
Written By Eugene Morgan “I had to learn to reconcile myself to the unfairness of life,” Milton Erickson Life is not always fair and we must reconcile ourselves of this truism. If we put effort into something, then a reward should come our way. If we give or make sacrifices for the greater good we should […]
Very Charming Stuff, Capacity
Written By Eugene Morgan “It’s very charming, the capacity that we have if we’ll only learn to use other areas of our brain.” Milton Erickson When we begin to use other areas of our brain, our ability to do things increases. What do we suppose what other areas of our brain is Erickson taking […]
Enjoy Your Discoveries
Written By Eugene Morgan “I always enjoy discovery what I can do.” Milton H. Erickson We have many potentials that we’re unaware of that we have not yet discovered. The possibility is that they lie beneath each of us to discover. We won’t know what lies beneath if we don’t try new things. When we […]
Building Up Your Pyramid
Written By Eugene Morgan “If people can build the pyramids and Machu Picchu, they can do anything.” Milton Erickson The people who build the pyramids and the lost city of Machu Picchu were remarkable. They seem to be beyond their years of building great monument like a pyramid. What kind of people were they […]
Crack Open Your Shell To Share Your Uniqueness
Written by Eugene Morgan “And remember always that you’re unique. And all that you have to do is let people see that you are you.” Milton Erickson How come some of us are afraid to share our real selves? Wearing a mask can get uncomfortable. It takes a lot more energy to wear one and […]
“Enough In the Way of Bad Luck…”
Written by Eugene Morgan “Enough in the way of bad luck can occur, so that you don’t need to add it yourself.” Milton Erickson What makes matter worse is when we start to panic about something, instead of taking a deep breath and relaxing for a moment. Erickson is telling us in the above quote […]