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 […]
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.
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. […]
Don’t Stop, Keep Going
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius Just because someone is ahead of us doesn’t mean we have to catch up with them. We all have our own pace in life. We all have different speeds in life too. We don’t need […]
Change Your World
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale We see the world through our thoughts. If we see the world with our thoughts, then it is our world we see. Our thoughts can distort reality. We interpret the world based on our previous experiences. Therefore, our minds automatically […]
Look At Your Darkness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.— Iyanla Vanzant Just as it is difficult listening to a recording of our voice, it is difficult looking at our foibles or weaknesses. Sometimes we do things out of our weaknesses and then later regret that we did […]
Follow Your Passion
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets We’re not looking for success when we follow our passion. When we follow our passion, we don’t mind the great labor it takes to want it because we already have what it takes to get it. When our days […]
The Ability To Start Over
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Starting over is one of the hardest things to do when we already put in a lot of work and time into a project. It takes everything we got to restart the […]