Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to get an understanding about life or about anything, we must go through some sort of experience. Book learning is good but we can only go so far with it. We both need information from a book and information from our experiences. Experiences help us to widen our […]
experiences
From Doubt To Courage
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have experiences with doubt, but we also have experiences with courage. Doubt can plague our abilities to do what we desire and want. Having courage is our understanding that in spite of doubts we will do things anyway to fulfill a desire or a want. Doubts are in […]
Meaning We Live By
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.”— Peter Elbow Meaning is accumulations of our past experiences. The meanings are the highlight of our experiences. We tend to reflect on the highlights because they bring us back to those moments in time. We have a […]
Persistence And Opportunities
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Persistence brings us closer to achieving our goals. It will be difficult at times but it will get easier too. We need persistence the most is when we’re first starting out. There are opportunities when we are persistent. Opportunities are there to express our best self to others and ourselves. […]
Limitations and Potentials
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have experienced our limitations but somehow we got around them when we wanted to pursue our dreams. We realized that we had to let go of some biases for us to move beyond our limitations. We don’t deny what was limiting to us. And, we don’t accept the fact […]
The Right Use Of Knowledge
Post Written By Eugene Morgan ‘Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.’— Charles H. Spurgeon Although acquiring knowledge is a good start to understanding wisdom, we won’t get a true understanding until we apply our knowledge to everyday life. The right use of knowledge comes with experience and understanding. Experience and understanding is the hallmark of […]
Reflection Of Our Experiences
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk.” — Paulo Coelho We all can imagine something we want to make real in our lives. Imagination is very powerful because we can rehearse as many ways possible in our mind how we want something. Imagination allows us to […]
Are We Willing To Learn?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”— Mary Catherine Bateson It is through our learnings that we experience life in our own unique way. It is through our learnings that we will have a greater understanding about life. It is through our learnings that […]
Better To Do
Post Written By Eugene Morgan ‘Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.’— Robert H. Schuller Sometimes we hesitate to do something because we want to do something the first time flawlessly. Everything we do for the first time will not be done perfectly. It is a process of trial and error of what […]
Memories and Dreams
Post Written By Eugene Morga “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”—Douglas Ivester Our memories represent our past’s experiences while our dreams represent what could be in our future. Although we allow our memories to define us, we can know that our dreams help us to look for what is possible. We can […]
What Are Memories?
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Memories are from our experiences. In other words, our memories are the offspring of our experiences. Memories are very powerful because we can revisit them and experience them again. Some of our memories are very vivid while others are very faint. Our faint memories are the ones we want to […]
A Little is A Lot
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”—Hausa Proverb When we begin to give thanks for what little we have, we begin to see that we do have a lot. And when we realize that there were others who spent time schooling us about life, we then […]
Smile Because It Happened
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss It is great that we can do things that please us especially when we want them to last. When we look back we can smile at them because it happened. We know it is a good story when we don’t […]
In A Meaningful Way
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.”—Peter Elbow Meaning is the result of everything we have experienced. Meaning is created when we go through experiences that impact our lives the most. We remember events in our lives that altered our lives in a meaningful. […]
All The Wonders
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”— Sir Thomas Browne It is how we perceive and discover new things through our experiences that make us excited about life. It is through our senses that we get the information from external events, but it is through our criteria or our filters […]
No Failures…Just Experiences
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.”—Tom Krause Failures are just our expectations not being met. When our standards are too high, it is inevitable we will fail to meet them. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. But, if we could lower our standards, then it […]
Past Wrongs
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.” ― Gautama Buddha Our memories are made from our experiences. It is how we respond to our past experiences that are important. Instead of burdening our minds with past wrongs, we can put the past wrongs in a reasonable […]
Two Mistakes
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting.” ~ Buddha Starting a project is one of the most difficult decision to make because we don’t know what we’re getting ourselves into. But we will never know what […]
Take The Joy With You
Post Written By Eugene Morgan After a long day of hard work, it is all right to enjoy ourselves. Wherever we go, we can enjoy ourselves, because we take the joy with us. We have many ways to enjoy ourselves. We can enjoy ourselves walking through a park, swimming in a nice cool pool during […]
Start With The Skills We Already Have
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We already have the skills that we can use to start doing what we want to accomplish. We will continue to use those skills until our goal is accomplished. We don’t really have a real excuse not to start something new since we already have skills to begin the project. […]