Written By Eugene Morgan “Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.” — John Bradshaw Yes, children see the world with fresh eyes. We all can recall our first experiences. Every moment was very new to us. We wanted to touch everything, smell everything and taste everything especially dirt. […]
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.
Achievement Starts With Desire
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The starting point of all achievement is desire.— Napoleon Hill If we want it bad enough, then we will achieve it. If we lose sight of our desire, then we will not even start. Desire is our inner drive to succeed. If we could ask ourselves what is the one thing […]
Build A Door Of Opportunities
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. — Milton Berle When opportunities aren’t there, it’s time to build our own opportunities. It’s about having the entrepreneur’s spirit to go at it alone sometimes. It can start with us alone then later down the road we can hire others to make our products better […]
Start Now, Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The secret of getting ahead is getting started.— Mark Twain If we feel like we’re behind, then getting started is the secret of catching up. We stop the thinking when we get started and begin learning what we’ve started. Procrastination is what keeps one from starting something new. Procrastination is the […]
Dream It Into Goals
Post Written By Eugene Morgan You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.— C. S. Lewis Who says it’s too late to set another goal and dream new dreams? When we set a goal we’re reorienting ourselves to the future because we want to know if the goal is obtainable. […]
We Are What We Believe
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We are what we believe we are.— C.S. Lewis If we say we can’t do this or that, we are basing this on a belief. If we say we can do this or that, we are basing this on a belief as well. It is easy to make assumptions about […]
New Strength and New Thoughts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”— Eleanor Roosevelt Today we have an opportunity to lean on our strengths because all of us have them. We use our strengths during the day and renew our strengths when we retire at night. When we rise in the morning […]
Thinking And Learning
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”— Confucius If we only learn and not think about how to apply our learnings then we are lost. We need to come with a plan to execute what we’ve learned. […]
First Step Towards Understanding
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The willingness to be puzzled is typically a first step towards understanding.” — Noam Chomsky There are things we don’t understand yet. It is all right to be puzzled about things because that peaks our curiosity to understanding the hows and whys about things. For us to understand some things, we […]
He Who Trims Himself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”— Raymond Hull We can’t please everyone. We will never satisfy everyone because it’s impossible. Not everyone is going to like us and we’re not going to like everyone. If we want to please someone, then we should be […]
Change With Values
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”— Dalai Lama In other words, what Dalai Lama is saying in the above quote is to change for what is good for us rather than change for what others think we should be. It is within our power to change […]
When We’re Willing To Work
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.” — Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of The Limberlost If we are just sitting by waiting for something to happen, then it will never […]
Patience Rewards
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “He that can have patience can have what he will.” — Benjamin Franklin Sometimes we don’t want to put forth the effort that it would take to learn something is because we don’t want to wait. We want quick results. We want to learn it instantly. However, learning takes time at first. […]
With Open Arms
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is Monday Memorial Day. This is the time to remember those we’ve lost and to shake the hands of former soldiers, and say to them “thank you for risking your life so I may live.” It takes dedication, commitment, discipline and most of all courage to put one’s life […]
When We Deserve Self-Love
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” — Gautama Buddha When we lie, exaggerate the truth or even disclosed some parts of the truth and not reveal the truth about ourselves to others, then ultimately, we’re not being truthful with ourselves. However, the […]
Decision To Do
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.— Elbert Hubbard When we decide to do something we no longer wrestle with the thoughts of what ifs. When we decide on what to do, we create steps to complete […]
Imagination Takes You Everywhere
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”— Albert Einstein We can go everywhere we want to as long as we can imagine. Imagination frees us from our biases and our inflexibilities if we allow ourselves to be opened. Imagination is like a rehearsal without […]
One Kick 10,000 Times
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”— Bruce Lee If we work on one thing at a time, we would go a long way. Once we master one thing, then we can learn how […]
Self-Knowledge and Self-Improvement
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.” — Spanish Proverb How can we make changes when we don’t know what changes to make. For change to occur we must look inside ourselves to see what we’re doing to avoid changing. The things we don’t want to change in us are probably […]
Small Beginnings
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “From small beginnings come great things.”— Proverb Everything starts out small. Small beginnings are our growing and learning times. There are a tremendous sacrifice and struggle in the beginning. We have to start with a new mind-set because we aren’t used to this new pattern of work. Just starting somewhere is […]