Post Written By Eugene Morgan In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. — Laurence Sterne Every once in a while, we need some time to be alone so we can renew our strength. A time of solitude is a time to gather our thoughts and reflect back on our life […]
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The Ability To Start Over
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Starting over is one of the hardest things to do when we already put in a lot of work and time into a project. It takes everything we got to restart the […]
New Strength and New Thoughts
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”— Eleanor Roosevelt Today we have an opportunity to lean on our strengths because all of us have them. We use our strengths during the day and renew our strengths when we retire at night. When we rise in the morning […]
Together We’re Stronger
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We can only do our best and sometimes our best isn’t good enough. And that’s okay. We all have different levels of growth. No ones’ path is the same. Although we each have to trek through our journey alone, we can trek through our journey together alone. So we don’t have […]
Struggle Leads To Strength
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” — Robert Tew We all have experienced going through a struggle. When we are in the mist of a struggle we see no end in sight. We see no end in sight because our attention […]
Self-Discovery Through Obstacles
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We don’t have to give up on our dreams when things aren’t working well at the moment. Set backs are only temporary. Obstacles are there to not discourage us but to challenge us to stay with it. Obstacles are telling us that if we want something bad enough we have […]
Be Comfortable with Your own Approval
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” —Mark Twain So no matter how much approval we get from someone else, we still make the final approval for ourselves. We don’t need someone else’s approval for us to feel comfortable. Once we have our own approval, we don’t have to […]
Start Making Mistakes
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Sometimes we are afraid to do something new because we’re afraid that we might make a mistake. But this is how we learn is by making mistakes. So it is all right to make mistakes. We don’t have to be perfect at our first attempt or even at our 20th […]
Learning From Our Strengths and Weaknesses
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Yes, it is okay to focus on building our strengths, as it is okay to recognize our weaknesses. Our weaknesses can play a role on how we deal with situation in our lives. For us to be strong we must first admit our weaknesses. Our weaknesses can keep us from […]
Strength In Will
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ˜ Mahatma Gandhi In other words Gandhi is saying that our will is greater than our physical capacity. We have heard stories about extraordinary feats of survival that seems impossible. Our will is a desire combined with determination. […]
Endurance Makes Me Stronger
Post Written By Eugene Morgan What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes we back down on something that challenges us, because we’re afraid that it may harm us somehow. We’re afraid we may not endure the physical or the mental pain. We’re afraid we may react to a challenge as though […]
It’s Okay To Push Yourself, A Little
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s okay to push ourselves a little to get the ball rolling. It’s okay to put a little pressure on ourselves when we want to meet a deadline. However, we don’t want to keep the pressure on us for hours on end, we do need to take breaks during this […]
We Can’t Do Everything, So Pick One
Post Written By Eugene Morgan We can’t do everything well, but we can at least do one thing well. Once we find the skill we can do, let us do it well. We can be grateful we can do it well, because others will call upon us for help. If we do the skill long […]
Build on Your Strengths
Written by Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson uses anything and everything that a person brings to the office. Whenever someone walks in Erickson’s office, Erickson would always look for something in that person to use to aid change. What someone saw as a liability, Erickson saw as an asset that’s useful to aid change. Erickson never stops […]
Strength Leaning
Written by Eugene Morgan “And how willing are you to lean on your strengths?” Milton Erickson We forget, sometimes, that in other areas of our lives, we do very well in. When we have difficulty learning something new, we forget that we can use what we’ve learned from other areas of our lives. If, we […]