A Time For Sorrow and a Time For Joy

Five for Silver

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Today’s a good day to start walking in the opposite direction of anything or anyone that causes you more sorrow than joy. — Mandy Hale

Some sorrow is a given. It is part of life to experience. However, joy is also a part life to experience. If we experience pain most of our days, then it is time to walk in the opposite direction because it is too difficult to find joy in sorrow, We do need to experience all our emotions in life. That’s what makes life colorful and meaningful instead of us looking at the world in black and white where there is no feelings and no emotions. There is a time for sorrow, and there is time for joy in our lives.

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Limited By Our Vision

Vision

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. — Unknown

Sometimes we get caught up into thinking it is our abilities or, lack of skills that keeps us limited. If we can only imagine ourselves using our abilities, then we can see how far we can go. We have proof from our past that our abilities got us ahead. We just have to be reminded when we cast doubt on ourselves. Sometimes our vision gets so narrowed that we can’t see beyond our doubts. That’s when we have to take action because taking action is the fastest way to dispense doubts from our minds and so our minds can open up for new opportunities to use our abilities.

 

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Take A Chance

A picture is a poem without words. ... Horace

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.—Unknown

The more we put ourselves out there, the more chances we have available. We have to promote ourselves for us to be heard. No one will know we’re here if we don’t speak up. There are those whose personality is outgoing. They won’t have any problems self-promoting. However, those whose personality is more internal will still have to put themselves out there. Yes, we will be vulnerable to attacks and criticisms from others. Attacks and criticisms come with the territory. We will not be able to escape them. So taking a chance comes with a price; just like everything else we do.

 

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Grow Where You Are

Home plant #1

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Grow where you are planted.— Proverb

Wherever we are now in our lives, we still can grow. We still can learn from others we work with every day or people we encounter. We can learn from our mistakes as well as from other’s mistakes. Sometimes we want to be repotted to another location because we think that we can be enriched by new things, probably temporarily.  However, new things will always turn into old things.  Novel things lose their newness with us. We can stay where we are because there is alway changes that we have to adapt to and learn. As long as we get our nutrients from the soil, water to keep the soil in the pot moist and with plenty sun rays, we will grow nicely.

 

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How Do We React?

Different perspective!

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Stress and unhappiness come not from situations, but how you respond to situations. — Brian Tracy

It’s hard for us to make the distinction between an event and our reaction to an event or a situation. There are facts, and there are opinions about the facts. We all come from different backgrounds where we see events through. Some of us are more affected by an event than others. It depends on how we’re raised and what are our values. We see things through our values. It’s all right to leave an unpleasant event if it’s affecting us. No one has the right to force us to stay at a place that’s unpleasant to us. As adults, we are responsible to ourselves. Lowering our expectation is an excellent way to reduce our stress level and to better handle ourselves in an awkward situation.

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Similar Values In Friendship

Friendship

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go. — Robert Tew

We’re wasting our time trying to get the approval of a person who doesn’t care about what we do. We ought to care about what we do. The person we need to impress and please the most is ourselves. That’s how we build our confidence in ourselves is by doing the things that please us. We’re content when we please ourselves because we don’t have to seek outside ourselves for the satisfaction we can get it from ourselves. Friendship is built on having similar values. A friend allows us to be ourselves while we’re not afraid to allow our friends to be themselves around us.

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Wanting To Control

Uncertain Future

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. — Kahlil Gibran

We think if we could control an external event, then our anxiety will cease. We can’t anticipate what we think is going to happen to us in the future. The future is unknown. Anxiety is triggered when we don’t know because we want to control things. We have a certain level of control over ourselves, and that’s where we should place our attention. We don’t have to think that we need to control external events for us to control our anxiety.  We just have to do the things we have control over that can be constructive to our well-being.

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Chance to Change Your Life

Antarctic Graveyard

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Every new day is another chance to change your life. — Unknown

Changing one’s life is difficult. Just because it gets a little tricky to change something that doesn’t mean we should discontinue trying. Life is a learning curve. Progress can be snail pace at first but if we start now, then the more we learn, the more our growth will double. But if we sit and think and not do, then we all know that nothing will get done. Nothing is gain by idleness unless we need to rest.

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We Can Try

Tangerine Sunset Hilltop

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.— Beverly Sills

We’re disappointed because we have a level of expectation in ourselves to succeed. It is natural to have disappointments in our life. Although it is healthy to have some disappointments, it is unhealthy to stay disappointment with ourselves. Instead of spending time lamenting about how we fail, we can learn from our failures. A failure is our opportunity to see how we can learn to make improvements. We learn through trial and error. We find out what works and what doesn’t work for us. We all have to find our way and the inner strength to move past our disappointment and use our time on the how and less on the what in life.

 

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Start Loving Yourself

Narcissism –noun 1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t. Start loving yourself for everything that you are. — Unknown

It takes a lot of energy to be what we think we’re not. We don’t need to be like someone else. We have our unique way of doing things. That’s what makes us unique. We just have to be what we’re already are. In other words, we just need to be ourselves and not to be afraid to be what we already know about ourselves. It takes less energy to be ourselves. It is unfair to compare ourselves with another when we’re two different individuals. There is no one the same. Even with identical twins, they are slight variations because, at first glance, we can’t tell identical twins apart until we get to know them. We may be able to imitate someone well, but we can play ourselves superbly.

 

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Make Tomorrow Today

today

Post Written By Eugene Morgan

Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow. — Unknown

When we procrastinate, we convince ourselves that we still have time to meet our goals or complete a task. We say to ourselves we still can put off our goals and our dreams until tomorrow. However, when morning arrives, we play this distraction mind game with ourselves where we get busy with other things while our goals remain unattended. When we put forth effort in accomplishing things, although it gets complicated, we still feel proud of ourselves when progress is made each time we work on our tasks to help achieve our goals. We feel proud ourselves because it was a struggle and that we pulled through. Pulling through the struggle made us stronger in character than before.

 

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