Post Written By Eugene Morgan You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan Expectation is the push that we need to make things happen. We have to hold ourselves accountable because our nature likes to stray away from our goal. We want to get distracted. So we have to […]
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Until We Value Ourselves
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it.— M. Scott Peck What does it mean to value one’s self? How come valuing one’s self go hand in hand with valuing our time? Why is it important that we value […]
The Way We Treat
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Life treats you the way you treat you.”— Laura Frederickson Life treats us the way we treat ourselves because we first learn this from life or specifically from modeling another person. Most of our unconscious learnings come from our conscious learnings. Although it is difficult to treat another with respect, […]
You Are Very Powerful!
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”— Yogi Bhajan Many of us do know how powerful we really are, it’s just we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. If we think we need to assert ourselves and we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, then it would […]
On Respecting Yourself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan For us to respect others, we must first respect ourselves. Respecting ourselves means to do things we know is right and healthy. If we’re continuously placing ourselves in difficult situations and we know we have a choice to get out of them, then we’re disrespecting ourselves. If we ignore the […]
Respecting Another
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt We can feel inferior, but in truth we’re not inferior to another person. We have the same rights as anyone else. We breathe the same air, we share the same sun, moon and earth. We are all going to […]
Respect Yourself, First
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We first have to respect ourselves before we can demand respect from others. If we disrespect ourselves, it would be difficult for us to respect others. If we disrespect others, it would be difficult for others to respect us. Respect is about doing to others what we would like others […]
A Patient Listener
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have our own opinions about things. Some of us are more opinionated than others and some of us are quick to make our opinions known. Everyone has a right to his or her opinions, which in turn means we must respect everyone’s opinion. We don’t have to agree […]
When Respect is Lost
Post Written by Eugene Morgan When there is hostility, anxiety, depression, respect is lost. When we respect ourselves our hostility, anxiety and depression decreases. The person who is hostile to another person has lost self-respect. This means the person is off-balance. All humans have an instinct for self-preservation. In an evolutionary view, we have an […]
It’s All Right to Please Ourselves, Too
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When we don’t do the things we asked ourselves to do, we disappoint ourselves. It’s all right to please others as long as we please ourselves as well. When we please others, we go out of our way to make them happy. When we have desires, we can go out […]
Respect keep us in Balance
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When we respect others like our elders, our teachers, our parent(s) we’re holding them to highest regard because of their wisdom and experiences they have to teach others about life. Respect is important in our society because it keeps us in balance psychologically. When others respect us we feel good […]
When Biases Hurt and Respect Heals
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We all have biases. However, biases can hurt. We aren’t defined by biases of others and our biases shouldn’t define others. Therefore, we shouldn’t impose our biases on others, instead we need to learn how to get to know the person. Biases are easily made when we don’t know the other […]
Goodness is based on Respect for the Self
Written by Eugene Morgan “That sense of goodness and adequacy is not to be based upon a sense of superiority of one’s own attributes, but upon a respect for the self.” Milton Erickson What is so important in humanity and the animal kingdom, is respect. When our self-respect gets depleted, our anxiety and hostility level […]