Accepting The Struggles of Life

Post Written By Eugene Morgan The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day. — Unknown It is better to start with being happy where we are than to start out not accepting where we’re in our lives. Accepting where we are in life let us […]

Happiness Depends Upon You

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle We know what makes us happy. Happiness is temporary just like any other emotion. It is great when we experience joy. We don’t necessarily need to be happy all of the time for us to live our life. We express different emotions for difference […]

Lessons, Acceptance & Gratitude

Post Written by Eugene Morgan No regrets, just lessons. No worries, just acceptance. No expectations, just gratitude. Life is too short. — Unknown If we turn our regrets into lessons, we will learn something of value. If we lessen our worries, then we would live our lives better. If we lower our expectation, then we would be […]

Today’s Shade

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — Warren Buffett Every day we see the fingerprints and footprints of our ancestors. Some of us live in homes that were built in the 1920’s, and there are people today in other countries […]

Feelings Are Just Visitors

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go. — Mooji Thank goodness that feelings are only temporary. We can’t stay angry at someone. We can’t stay happy all the time either. Feelings don’t stay with us for too long unless we can keep thinking about the event. We don’t have control […]

Five Years Ago Today

It was on Memorial Day five years ago that I decided to start posting daily brief messages. This post will be the 1300th short message without missing a weekday, not including Saturdays and Sundays. Thank you, everyone, who has been reading these brief messages and especially for those of you who were there at the […]

Passion Achieves Success

Post Written By Eugene Morgan You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. — Dale Carnegie It is a lot easier to do things we enjoy doing than to do them without passion. Passion is what keeps us going in spite of difficulties. Without passion, there will be a lot of unfinished […]

Inspiration Breeze Fullness

Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness. — Ray Bradbury When we lack something we need, find a way to compensate; find an alternative, and think outside the box. We use things in a different way than before. We utilize more of what we already have. We remove […]

When We’re Proud

Post Written By Eugene Morgan I still have a long way to go, but I’m already so far from where I used to be, and I’m proud of that. — Unknown Whatever efforts we’ve been putting into such as our projects and our goals, we should be proud of ourselves. Sometimes we wish that things would move […]

Commitment, Conflict and Character

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Commitment in the face of conflict produces character. — Unknown If we want to meet our goals, then we must commit to the things we need to do to complete them. Making a commitment means doing something for the long haul in spite of the difficulties or the time constraints we will […]

What We Cling To

Post Written By Eugene Morgan You only lose what you cling to. — Buddha The above quote reminds me of a paradox or oxymoron. Buddha is saying if we just stop desiring something that we don’t have, then we will lose out on what we already possess inside of us. Sometimes we think we need to have […]

Facing Reality

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin If we start to face reality as it is, then we begin to truly live our lives. We truly live our lives because we learn to rely more on ourselves. We discover we can do […]

Doing Our Best

Post Written By Eugene Morgan People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness. — Deepak Chopra Sometimes we have to remind ourselves not to take someone’s actions personal. Someone’s action is not necessarily directed at us. We all have needs we’re trying to meet each hour of the day, and sometimes […]

Hopes and Choices

Post Written By Eugene Morgan May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.— Nelson Mandela Hope gives us a reason to keep pushing on even when there is a slim chance that things may not get better. Hope gives us a spark of light even in the midst of darkness. Hope can tame some of […]

Starting Over

Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s okay to start over. It’s okay to rebuild. It’s okay to be scared. —Unknown When we start over is a new beginning and an opportunity to rebuild our lives. It is normal to be scared when we’re starting a new chapter in our lives. We don’t know what to expect. […]

Stimulating Learning

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Be thankful when you don’t know something for it gives you the opportunity to learn. — Unknown Sometimes we get quickly caught up in thinking we don’t know enough about things. We don’t have to feel that we’re behind in our understanding of things. No one person knows everything. It is better […]

Remaking Life After Grief

Post Written By Eugene Morgan Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. — Anne Roiphe We grieve because we lost someone close to our hearts. It can be difficult sometimes for us to move on because it feels like a part us has also died. However, […]