Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.” — Paulo Coelho We all can imagine something we want to make real in our lives. Imagination is very powerful because we can rehearse as many ways possible in our mind how we want something. Imagination allows us to […]
Month: December 2014
Continuous Effort
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.”—Winston Churchill ‘Continuous effort’ implies an attitude of determination without giving up. Our potential awakes us when we don’t stop making continuous effort in our journeys. Strength and intelligence is the by-product of our potential to succeed in our efforts. […]
What I Choose To Become
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”— Carl Jung We don’t have to be victims of what we can’t control. Instead, we can choose to be the victor of what we can control. It can be easy to fall into a trap of […]
Time Was Yesterday
Post Written By Eugene Morgan A week from yesterday will be a new year, 2015. That means that we have been in millennium, the 21st century for 15 years. And for those who have been born a millennium only knows millennium. It is amazing how time flies. That’s one thing we cannot get back is […]
Celebration Leads To Reflection
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is a time for celebrating, meeting loved-ones, friends, and gathering at the table for a feast, then afterwards exchanging gifts. All the preparation has ended yesterday for this moment. Now we can relax and be with the people we love. Today is also a time to reflect on the […]
Peace and Understanding
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”— Albert Einstein A lack of peace is a lack of understanding. Understanding is about making sense out of our internal conflicts. Understanding is about being at peace with ourselves. We are better people when we are at […]
Accepting Our Weaknesses
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Growth begins when we begin to accept our weaknesses.”— Jean Vanier Accepting our weaknesses means that we’re first admitting to ourselves that we have imperfections and/or limitations. For us to grow, we must confront the reality that we have limitations. We don’t have to always yield to them but we […]
What We Enjoy
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”— John Petit-Senn When we look at what we don’t have, we lose our joy in what we already have. Those things we have were not free. It took us time and energy to get to what we already have. […]
The Joy In Our Potential
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Joy comes from using your potential.”— Will Schultz Our treasure lies in our potential. Our potential is like a coal in transformation to become a diamond. Our potential is just below the surface ready to be resurfaced to move mountains in our life. If only we get ourselves a chance […]
Think less, Feel More
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”— Osho For some of us, it is so easy to stay in our heads than to experience the feeling of life. We get so preoccupied with the thoughts in our heads that we can’t hear what […]
Happiness Is A Direction
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”— Sydney J. Harris So if we’re seeking happiness, then we must change direction. Changing direction implies to change the way we look at things. Moving from one location to a new location isn’t going to make the grass greener, or solve a problem […]
Look At Both Sides
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and focus on what could go right.” — Unknown When we anticipate what could go wrong, it is our clue to ourselves that we’re afraid to put ourselves out there. We’re afraid to be and feel vulnerable because this creates discomfort. It is […]
Cherish Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today.” — Michelle C. Ustaszeski We don’t really know how long we have on this earth. Instead of wishing that we spent more quality time with our friends and family, today is our opportunity to make that phone […]
What You Can Do Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.”— James A. Michener Not only does procrastination steals our time, but it also takes away our opportunity to enjoy the time doing it. We procrastinate because sometimes we think our time […]
Relax and Wait For The Answer
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”— William S. Burroughs It is difficult to find a solution or answer when our minds are detracted or preoccupied with something that’s irrelevant. Even if we were to quiet our minds, we still have […]
Are We Willing To Learn?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”— Mary Catherine Bateson It is through our learnings that we experience life in our own unique way. It is through our learnings that we will have a greater understanding about life. It is through our learnings that […]
Compassion Includes Yourself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Jack Kornfield In other words, we don’t give to others for us to receive back from others. We want to help others because we’ve been helped or have helped ourselves. Therefore, we don’t expect a return. The only return we want […]
Thinks He Is Able
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “He is able who thinks he is able.”— Buddha The secret of success and achievement is to believe in one’s self. If we think that we’re able, then we will act as though we’re able. We already have many abilities that we take for granted because we forget that it […]
Discovery a Mindset
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”— Marcel Proust Mindset is very important when it comes to facing our challenges. Anxiety increases when we’re confronted with a challenge. Anxiety is created because we see no alternatives in a situation. It is time to change our […]
Completion Is Better
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now is the most important time to start. Thinking about it is very different from starting it. When starting something, it is our goal to finish it sometime in the future. Some of us have many start-up […]