Morgan’s Blog

  • Eliminating Overwhelm From Your Life

    This isn’t going to be another one of those “six steps and you’re cured” kind of posts about the problem of overwhelm. That’s because if you don’t solve the fundamental mindset problem underlying overwhelm then you’re unlikely to solve the overwhelm – no matter how many steps you take. And here’s the real problem that underlies […]

  • Trading batteries… until you kick the bucket

    Here I go, off on a tirade to offend some people again. I’m sure you’re used to that by now. I’m going to be particularly offensive to those people who tell you the only way to succeed is by working all the time, clawing and climbing your way up the ladder. It works well for […]

  • The "I hate money… (give me more of it)" syndrome

    One of the chronic, often devastating conditions I run into nearly everyday is this: “There’s not enough money out there, it is scarce and hard to come by, and it requires a struggle to get it!” It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about money for the household, money for the business, or grant money for the […]

  • The Mint-Bacon Cake

    This is an excerpt from my upcoming, nearly completed book Creating or Dying. You may wonder, “Am I really in charge of my beliefs?” Most people never even ask that question. They don’t even realize that they have a set of beliefs that are affecting their entire experience of reality, and that those beliefs can change. […]

  • Success Tip #2: Don't get stuck in the gloom and doom!

    Climate change. Peak Oil. Nuclear disasters. Political dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction. Murder and war… From watching the news, you would think we were all going to die by tomorrow at the latest — possibly before the clock ticks away the rest of this very hour. I used to be fully immersed in this kind of gloom-and-doomerism. […]

  • Want Happiness and Productivity? Get to that Core! (video)

      Isn’t it funny how the more we try to have control — swatting at negative emotions and demands like buzzing flies — the more frustrated we get and the less in control we feel? That’s because when we’re reacting, we’re giving up control. We’ve decided to let an outside force set our agenda for […]