Post Written By Eugene Morgan I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. — Gerry Spence Beliefs can constrain the mind at times. Wonder allows our mind to briefly let go of our beliefs to see beyond. Wonder creates within us new associations that can be reintegrated into our […]
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.
An Unconscious Request
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious. — Thomas Edison It is interesting that Thomas Edison the American inventor understood the concept of the subconscious or unconscious mind. That our unconscious has the ability to solve a problem or to get us where we want to go just by […]
Push Through With Persistence
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” — Edward Eggleston In other words, we don’t have to give up but to stay with it because the day we give up, might be the day we succeed. Persistence is moving through trial times when we want to surrender. […]
Blessings In Disguise
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde Sometimes, things fall on our laps unexpectedly when we think we’re not ready for them. Those are the times when we experience trepidations because we aren’t sure if we have the ability to do it. We […]
When Dreams Come True
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. — Paul Valéry Dreams can bring us hope for new possibilities. But if we want to see if those dreams are possible we must wake up and make them real in our lives. That’s the only way […]
Be More Of Value
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein Success is more about us and value is more about others. When we were kids, we all wanted to grow up to be something and be successful at it. That means spending time working on ourselves […]
What Keeps Me Going Is Possibility
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.” — Nicholas Sparks First of all nothing is guaranteed in life. However, there are endless possibilities only if we pay attention. When we see there is possibility, we’re freer to explore what’s out there anyway we like. We want to […]
Appeal To Reality
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert Pirsig This is an interesting quote because not only Robert Pirsig mentions the past, future, present, but also he mentions them in terms of our experiences of the past, future and […]
Accept Life As Is
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life—and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.— Eckhart Tolle As we accept life as it is, we no longer have to be resistance toward it. When we have an urge to control the things we cannot control, the […]
Practice Builds Confidence
Post Written By Eugene Morgan An ounce of practice is worth tons of preaching. — Mahatma Gandhi Practice has a way of building confidence. We may not have confidence in the beginning. However, as we do a skill over and over we will get better than if we don’t practice at all. Practice saves a lot of […]
Seeing The Extraordinary
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. — Paulo Coelho The wise can find in the simple things the most extraordinary. We can find extraordinary things in simple things if we just observe. It takes one’s undivided attention to find the extraordinary. […]
Crazy New Idea
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” — Abraham H. Maslow It may seem to be implausible or counterintuitive when we first hear of a new idea because it might have come out of a different context that we haven’t experienced before. Civilizations were built on crazy ideas. It is always […]
As Long As We Hold On
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long. — Unknown We hold on for so long because we want to fulfill a desire. We understand that it will be difficult to obtain but we want to see if we can do […]
From Lost to Happiness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. — C. S. Lewis In other words, it is not a good idea to be attached to something external to make us happy. It is better to create that happiness inside us first and then share it with others. We’re responsible for […]
Be Who You Are
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself. — Steve Maraboli It takes little energy to be ourselves so how come we worry so much about what other people think? Being ourselves doesn’t mean we’re misbehaving or breaking the law. Being ourselves and misbehaving are two different things. People […]
Strengths, Setbacks And Progress
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The beautiful things about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths. — Robin Sharma A setback is just another obstacle or delay in our progress. When we experience a setback, we find out not only what our weaknesses are but also our strengths. We just have to use our strengths […]
Look Forward
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Remember, you can’t reach what’s in front of you until you let go of what’s behind you. — Unknown It isn’t fair to us if we compare our successes to someone else’s successes. Because in truth, we will always find someone more successful than we are and we will find someone less successful than […]
When We Execute Our Intentions
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them. — Unknown It is nice to have good intentions but as we know from our experiences that good intentions won’t get us anywhere. Good intentions are only that, intentions without merit. It feels good to tell ourselves or […]
Repeatedly Do
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle The only act we need to begin is to start; after that, we make repeats of the new behaviors until they become a habit. When habits are developed, then they become characteristics of our […]
Think Less, Feel More
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. — Osho We’re avoiding feeling pain, when we find ourselves intellectualizing trivia things. Being stoic is only showing everyone else that we don’t have feelings, however, the truth is that we have repressed feelings waiting to be […]