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 […]
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Risk With Fear, Then Live With Confidence
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffett If we don’t risk, then we take away our choices. When we take away our choices we feel stagnated or stuck. Fear controls when we don’t take risks. So fear can deceive us into believing that there are no choices. For […]
Big Dreams and Small Fears
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.— Richard Wilkins Fears can interfere with our dreams. Our dreams become smaller when we spend so much energy in self-doubt. Dreams are really our hopes for what we wish to do […]
Discover New Oceans
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”— Andre Gide For us to move forward, we must let go of old ideas. It does take courage to risk stepping into new territory. It is natural to respond with some trepidation when we’re […]
When Miracles Start
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.”— Richard Wilkins If we only focus more on our dreams, then we won’t have much time thinking about our fears. Self-doubt only delays progress and without the hope of starting a new project. We have a choice to […]
In Facing The Right Direction
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~ Zen Saying When we know we’re facing the right direction, sometimes there is a hesitation to keep walking because of fear and anxiety. If we know that’s the path we must follow […]
Self-Conquering
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary Milton Erickson once used this analogy, if a narrow wooden plank were on the ground without hesitation most of us would walk across it. But if the plank was elevated to 200 feet between two buildings and we […]
The Fear of Knowing
Post Written By Eugene Morgan One way to decrease anxiety is to learn about the unknown. The unknown is what increases anxiety. Only if we learn more on the subject that’s creating the anxiety, then maybe our anxiety will decrease. The more we are running the opposite direction of our fears, the bigger our fears […]
Do The Things You Think You Cannot Do
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The things we think we cannot do, is fear based. We allow our fears to keep us from doing the things we dream about doing. Fear is created when we use our old frames of reference (old perspectives) to try to understand something new. Instead we need to widen our […]
Sooner is better than Later
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “I wish I had done it sooner.” It’s a very common response after doing something that we’ve been prolonging to do. This tells us a lot about a belief. The main reason we prolong to do something because of what our beliefs or fears say to us. In spite of […]
So Far So Good: Breaking Down Fears
Written By Eugene Morgan “A man jumped off the top of a skyscraper. As he passed the third floor window he was heard to mutter: ‘So far so good’.” When it comes to fear, we don’t jump into something without having some reservations. Most of our fears aren’t about jumping into something that causes death. […]
Fearing Little is the Only Way Out
Written By Eugene Morgan “And what do you need to fear? Very little that you need to fear.” Milton Erickson Fear is a feeling. Fear saves lives. Fear is paralyzing. Fear speaks the truth about something. Fear speaks lies, too. Our assumptions about things can fuel a fear. Fear, if not felt, is projecting into […]