Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”— Mark Twain Mark Twain is suggesting to us to be different or to realize that we’re different in every way and then embrace it. Each and every one of us is unique. There […]
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.
Pressures Of Being Perfect
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself.”— Mark Messier If the only pressure we’re under is the pressure we put on ourselves, then we can ease up on the pressure anytime we want. We have control on how much pressure we put on ourselves. We […]
Different Approach Makes Different Results
Post Written By Eugene Morgan How come we approach a problem in the same way to expect a different result? The good news is that we don’t have to continuously use the same approach when we know that it is not working for us. It is better to constantly find new ways to affect an outcome. […]
The Smallest Acts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”— Swami Sivananda Self-confidence starts with small goals. Each time we succeed in accomplishing a small goal we gain self-confidence. It is easer this way than to start out accomplishing something grandiose. If we […]
The Truth We Believe
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” — Pema Chodron We hold on to our beliefs tenaciously sometimes without considering new possibilities. Our minds are already made up without questioning our assumptions. We dare not question our own beliefs because we feel it could be […]
More To Life, Than Speed
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”— Mahatma Gandhi We live in a fast-pace world. We want to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. We sometimes, express impatient with one another or with ourselves. We angrily tale-gate another vehicle because of our lateness. […]
Enjoy The Dream Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.”— Don Miguel Ruiz Sometimes we don’t want to let go of the past is because there is a familiarity. We’re comfortable with familiarity of the past even though it can sometimes hurt. The […]
The Beginning Of Self Improvement
“Self knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.”— Spanish Proverb We all have blind spots we don’t know about. It’s impossible to observe every behaviors we do and every thoughts we think. Self-discovery is like an answer to a riddle, we’re always surprised to discover something new about ourselves. However when we do get the answer, we can […]
Meaning In The End
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.” — Peter Elbow For us to have meaning we must first experience the struggles of life. When we struggle together in life we find meanings and as result of what we’ve been through together we develop closeness. We […]
Truly In The Present
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.” Thich Nhat Hanh When we look in our past and in our future, we’re spending 2/3 of our time away from the present. While our minds are either in the past or in the future, our […]
Your Big Opportunity
“Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”— Napoleon When we don’t look for opportunities in our lives, we feed into our doubts. Doubts are like veils covering our eyes. We can’t see opportunity when it is right there in front of us. Unfortunately, we look for more evidence […]
For Everything That We Are
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t. Start loving yourself for everything that you are.”— Unknown Sometimes we think we have to have everything together before we go out into the brave new world to fulfill a dream. Every one of us has experienced feeling shortchanged when it comes to […]
Stay Calm; The Storm Will Pass
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”— Timber Hawkeye When we stop trying to calm the storm, we then have enough energy to calm ourselves. Trying to calm the storm is just a distraction. We have no control […]
Rejection is Merely Someone’s Opinion
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Rejection is not fatal; it is merely someone’s opinion.”— Unknown We don’t have to get bent out of shape because of someone’s opinion that’s contrary to ours. Instead, we can be open to listening to the opinion if it proves useful to us or we can eat the meat and […]
Our Heart of Hearts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.”— James R. Ball If we believe that we don’t deserve to have something, then we won’t put our hearts into getting it. However, if we do believe we deserve to have […]
Let Go and See What Happens
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”— Mandy Hale A plan is desirable when we need structure. However, too much structure can repress our creativity and our spontaneity. It is all right to rely on a feeling or […]
Love and Memory
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”— Cassandra Clare Human beings have an aversion for loss because it creates an emotional pain of separation from a loved-one or a friend or a co-worker. We don’t know how to react upon hearing the news that someone […]
Take The Rest As It Happens
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”— Epictetus So what is within our power, we should use it or, we’re giving our power away to circumstances. We don’t have to wait for circumstances to force our hand. Instead, we can […]
When We Feel Awkward
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”— Brian Tracy When we feel awkward and/or uncomfortable, we’re experiencing vulnerability. We experience this vulnerability because we feel set up for an attack. We want everyone to see us doing something perfectly. But for […]
Key To Your Happiness
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.”— Unknown The key to our happiness should be in our own pocket. We’re in charge of our own lives. Relationship is built on both parties bringing happiness to a relationship instead of finding happiness from a relationship. Life is not […]