Post Written By Eugene Morgan Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Lao Tzu We tend to place our attention on the difficult part of learning something new than learning and managing the easy parts. Keeping our attention on the difficult parts will only discourage us from learning how to do things. Why not find […]
Month: February 2016
Doing Our Best Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Today ought to be the most important day because our future depends on it. Since we only have today to spend our time, then it is important to plan one or two things we know […]
Important Work
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you. — Stephen Covey Yes, we can see that we’re making progress by looking back at the work we have done. When we rise in the morning, we can be thankful that we have another day to do our […]
Three Approaches To Learning
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb The quickest way to learn something new is by someone teaching us how to do it.The quicker way to learn something is to learn by doing or getting our hands dirty. A quick way to learn something new […]
Communication and Understanding
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. — Zig Ziglar Communication is exchanging ideas to one another. When we communicate with one another, we lessen the problem of misunderstanding. Communication helps us to build trust and respect. Listening is an art. We learn a […]
Small Steps
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now. — Jonatan Mårtensson It is easier to look at the endgame than to see what we can do now to get to our endgame. Success may be far into the future, however, just talking […]
Light Tomorrow
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Light tomorrow with today! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Since we have today to spend our time, we might as well as be most productive; so when tomorrow comes we will be better off than we were yesterday. Today is built on yesterday as well as tomorrow. Each day we build a stronger […]
A Lesson Learned
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending. ― Chico Xavier We go through life learning lessons or we can take our experiences as lessons. If we carefully examined our lives, we then would find that there is a theme. […]
Self-Worth Or, Possessions
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. —Thomas A. Edison Thomas is making a distinction between what we are and what we have. The possessions we have are the result of what we are. Therefore, what we do is an expression of what we are. […]
Open Minds Open Doors
Post Written by Eugene Morgan Open minds lead to open doors. — Unknown An open mind is destined to open doors. Opportunities awake us when we’re ready to take them on today. An open mind widens our world. We see things we’ve hadn’t seen before. It is helpful to have our minds open when it comes to […]
Hold Back
It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. — Denis Waitley So what holds us back is that we’re comparing ourselves to someone else. We think we have to be like a successful person for us to succeed. We forget that a successful person wasn’t alway successful. It […]
Let Go of Yesterday
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you. — Steve Maraboli We hold on to something like the past because it is familiar to us even though what we hang on to is unhealthy or self-destructive. Because it’s familiar to us doesn’t mean we have to hold […]
Logic and Imagination
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.— Albert Einstein Yes, logic can only do some much for us. Logic can restrict our imagination. A mind that imagines is like a kid running around playing. When we use our imagination, we are expressing freely. We […]
The One Reason It Works
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will. — Unknown We tell ourselves it won’t work because then we won’t have to put in the time and hard work. However, if it’s something exciting that it might work and we want it to work, then […]
Blessings and Lessons
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Some people come into your life as blessings. Others come into your life as lessons.— Mother Teresa We learn a lot about ourselves when we’re dealing with a difficult person. We learn how anger we can get. We learn what we dislike about that person. We want to change them to […]
Know Better, Then Do Better
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou As Maya Angelou says that we can only do our best from what we know. Learning new things are always a learning curve. We got to be patient with ourselves. It is also […]
It’s What You See
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. — Henry David Thoreau An empty mind sees little to no opportunities in his or her life. However, a creative mind looks for opportunities and see them and then use them. Sometimes we see no opportunity because our scope of […]
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 […]
Still Moving Forward
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. — Victor Kiam It gives us hope that as long as we get up from a fall, we’re still moving forward. We’re still chasing our dreams. We haven’t given up. Our eyes are still on the goal. There will always […]
Today’s Games
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.— Babe Ruth We can’t rely on yesterday’s accomplishments to make things happen today. We can look at yesterday’s accomplishments as an indicator that there is a greater possibility that we may succeed. We still have to put in the hard work and time for […]