Morgan’s Blog

  • "I hate snow" vs Thanksgiving for snow!

    The other day I checked the weather forecast, and it was all bad news! Snow is coming. It’s going to cause all sorts of badness. Traffic stuff ups! School closures! Work delayed! “Winter Storm Boreas brought heavy snow to parts of the southern Rockies and Four Corners, and is poised to spread its wintry mess of snow, sleet and freezing rain […]

  • Creativity-sucking education stamping widgets of children* (video)

    Why our educational system is stamping out “children as widgets” – a great video with Sir Ken Robinson Working with the world’s top scientists and entrepreneurs, I’ve seen a few things. The biggest of those things is the thing of creativity being repressed and even outright absent. This stunts career growth and all sorts of […]

  • "Living at Zero" and the Creative Pipeline

    I was watching a presentation by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len on their concept of “Zero Limits” and it had me irritated. They wrote a book on the concept, titled Zero Limits. The idea is this: that at the core of all of us is the divine (call it God, the Universe, or whatever you’re […]

  • Working hard does NOT equal success

    Yesterday I was on Facebook, and a very successful fellow entrepreneur posted something that shocked me. It was on a discussion of feelings of entitlement in society, and how many people have an undeserved “feeling of superiority” to their peers – especially in Gen Y. To paraphrase the response: I feel superior to my Gen […]

  • Who is that mysterious author?

    In my previous piece, I wrote about the nature of our identity… Included in that post were some deep quotes, but I didn’t name the author. I held that back for a reason. I didn’t want the complexity of the source to be confused with the message. Because that message is important. See, in the […]

  • Who are you? Just beans and franks? (and how to avoid writer's block!)

    One of man’s biggest quests throughout the ages has been to answer the seemingly simple question: “who am I?” The answer is not so simple. Or is it? We have on the one side the materialists who answer this question with the explanation that we are a “side effect.” In their view, we are a […]