Post Written By Eugene Morgan Many are called but few get up. —Oliver Herfor Oliver made a good distinction between two groups of people. Those who have the opportunity and those who have the opportunity and run with it. Just because we have a chance to do something doesn’t mean it is going to be […]
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.
When We Pay Compliments
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. —Mark Twain A compliment from others reassures that whatever we’re doing, we continue doing. We pay tribute to ourselves when we finally see what others see in us. We begin to believe in ourselves. Therefore, we rely […]
Make Dreams, Then Make Realities
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. —Jesse Owens Having a dream is nice. Dreams can make us hopeful in the midst of a struggle. With determination, dedication, self-disciple, and effort we still […]
When Lightning Does The Work
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. —Mark Twain Thunder is like having good intentions. We only talk about what we want to do instead of doing it. It’s easier to talk about it than it is doing it. Obsessing over an idea […]
The Curious Paradox
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers So most of us may think regarding what we don’t accept or dislike about ourselves, we must change. However, Carl Roger was trying to explain to us that it is […]
Problems Are Guidelines
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. — Robert H. Schuller Problems are inevitable. We will always have them in our lives. We just have to learn how to deal and sometimes adapt to our problems. We got to continue living because the world won’t stop when we have […]
Luck Will Find You
Post Written By Eugene Morgan I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. —Brian Tracy In other words, luck is not handed to us. We have to work for luck to happen. We have to be where everything is going on […]
First Believe That You Can
Post Written By Eugene Morgan In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. — Nikos Kazantzakis Belief can be very dominant in the mind. If we tell ourselves we can’t do this or that, then we believe we can’t do this or that. However, if we tell ourselves we can do […]
Creating Yourself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw To find one’s self implies that we are lost, and we don’t know who we are or who we suppose to be. However, to create one’s self-means that we know who we are and what we […]
God Gave Us Friends
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Friends are the siblings God never gave us. —Mencius We all need a friend or two to hang out. We have friends that share common interests. We need friends that are honest with us, and we’re with them. It is nice to look forward to seeing a friend we haven’t […]
A Positive Attitude
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The only disability in life is a bad attitude. —Scott Hamilton If the disability in life is a bad attitude, then the ability in life is a positive attitude. We have the capacity to change our attitude from a negative attitude to positive or a good one. We can handle […]
What We Know We Can Be
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. — Max de Pree We can never stop growing. Don’t we want to learn something about ourselves that we didn’t know before? We’re full of untapped potentials. These possibilities are waiting for us to be used to […]
Run The Day
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn We have a choice to either run our day or allow the day to run us. Procrastination is one example where we allow the day to run us. Instead of initiating, planning and executing the plan promptly, […]
Managing and Anticipating
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 […]
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 […]