Post Written By Eugene Morgan Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. — Gautama Buddha If we haven’t given our whole heart and soul to something, then we haven’t found our purpose. Besides, it’s never too late to find our purpose as long as we’re […]
Month: December 2015
A Good Plan
Post Written By Eugene Morgan A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. — Proverb Whatever we plan doesn’t have to be a perfect plan. When we plan today, we’re oriented ourselves to the future. What we plan today help us to fulfill our dreams for tomorrow. Planning today helps us to have more […]
Water The Grass Where You Stand
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The grass is always greener where you water it. — Unknown Wherever we go or whenever we leave for new endeavors, we have to make sure that the conditions are right before we do. Sometimes we want to do something else because we have this expectation that things will be better. Things […]
365 Days Left
< Post Written By Eugene Morgan How come we think we need a resolution at the beginning of the year to make a change? It is easy to say to ourselves we have 365 days to do this or that. For some of us who procrastinate fool ourselves into thinking that we have 365 days […]
Celebrating
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is a time we meet as a family. Celebrating a holiday while exchanging gifts. Seeing family members that we haven’t seen for awhile. The kids are playing their new toys while the adults are conversing about everyday stuff. We can now rest and sit at a table and enjoy […]
The End of 2015
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We’re nearing to end of 2015. It will be 2016 soon. It is time to reflect back on this year of what we’ve done and didn’t do. What lessons can we learn and apply to our next adventures? A new year can mean a new opportunity to take advantage […]
Adjusting A Sail
Post Written By Eugene Morgan I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean Change can feel like an impossible feat to do. However, a small change can do wonders to our life. A slight reorientation to our situation can make all the difference […]
Day Brings New Choices
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Every day brings new choices. — Martha Beck A new day is a gift to us because it brings new choices. Because we have choices, we have an open mind to things. An open mind is willing to learn new things. Learning new things help us to be better as an individual […]
Life is a Matter of Moments
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.— Rose Kennedy Milestones are meaningless without moments. It is the moments we remember when we make a milestone in our lives. We have moments of struggles, moments of successes, moments of frustrations and also moments of failures. We experience all types of […]
Run On the Right Track
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers It is not easy to stay on the right track, let alone sit there while waiting for something to happen. We can’t afford to wait for something to happen, because if something […]
We’re Different People Then
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland That’s one of the reasons we long for yesterday because we want to experience how things were then. It is true we had some good times, but we forget that we had […]
Your Self-Respect Blossoms
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Do something to allow your self-respect to blossom. — David Viscott It is important to nurture our self-respect. When we nurture self-respect, our self-esteem increases. However, self-doubt is one of the quickest ways to lower our self-esteem that in turn affects our self-respect. When an opportunity comes our way we can […]
Success and Frustration
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.— Sumner Redstone The above quote reminds us that success comes with a price. Before success, we will experience failure, frustration and sometimes catastrophes. Failure just helps us to see our weaknesses and our strengths. […]
Take Our Own Advice
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero There are times we need some advice. However, most of the time we have the answers. We ask other for advice because we want validation. And there are times we want to ask other for advice because we’re just avoiding […]
Meaningful Past With Friends
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with. — Peter Elbow The struggles and challenges are what we start with that give us meaning in the end. It is, even more, meaningful when we struggle together and help support each other to get through it. It is […]
Hold Head High
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.—Helen Keller It is difficult to experience confidence when we keep our head bent. However, if we hold our head high with confidence we then will experience confidence and that others will see that and want […]
Difficulties Produce Growth
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung As long as we’re alive, we will always have difficulties. We can’t avoid or ignore them so we might as well accept them. Accepting difficulties are the first step in learning how to handle them better. Another step of how to […]
Jump, then Our Wings Unfold
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. — Ray Bradbury Sometimes we have to jump before we could ever think about what we’re getting ourselves into when we leave our comfort zone. As we jump, we’re forced to use every brain capacity we have […]
Better to Do than to Try
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”- Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’) When we say to ourselves or others, that we will ‘try’ to do this or that, we’re leaving room for doubt. It is natural to have some doubts when we’re challenged to do something we feel uncomfortable […]
Let It Rain
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We have to let things happen. And things will somehow work itself out. Letting go implies accepting what we can’t control. A rainy day is temporary. We may want the sunshine over rainy days. […]