The longer I work on this site, the more I see everything is there already. At least the self help stuff, the quotes, the stuff that makes people move, the stuff that makes me move. And I don’t want Inspiration for Success ‘just another self help site’. Or maybe I do, but as of now I don’t see much value in that, except in the way how to provide ‘self help’ in the form of inspiration. And the main issue I’m struggling with is ‘earning’, ‘money’, and ‘success’. And another thing is ‘personality’.
You see, what I see with e.g. many ‘self help’ or ‘inspiration’ type sites I signed up for, in the end the people behind always want to sell me something, want to sell me more. And of course having started this site, owning this site, I understand how it works. The first thing you need is the e-mail address of the person looking for your stuff, of course including the permission to send them e-mails. As that’s the way how you can reach them actively after they visited your site, your stuff, your product. And then you start e-mailing them with nice stories that appeal to them. But, what I noticed with all or most of those sites is that in each e-mail, no matter how nice the story, how valuable the information, they’re trying to sell you something, or at least visit the site to ‘read more’.
A good sample to me is e.g. the site of Marc and Angel: http://www.marcandangel.com/, although I’m not fully sure if they ‘force’ you to sign up on first visit. And don’t get me wrong, I really like what they are doing, including the daily e-mails they’re sending. I think their content and the related e-mails are really good and their e-mails often inspire me, so I think they’re doing a really good job.
However, somehow I have a very bad feeling with their ‘book sales’ advertisement in the e-mails. As in the end that reminds me that what they’re doing in the end is running a business, selling stuff. And of course that’s how the world works at the moment. And has worked for a long, long time already. And maybe that’s OK. But maybe not also, at least for me. And thinking today about all those people without work, without a job, I think we can do better. Better than just ‘paying’ someone to do jobs we cannot do or don’t like to do.
And I can’t really imagine someone liking or loving a job like cleaning toilets. But maybe I’m also wrong there, as I remember also an employee in a company long time ago who’s normal job it was to put sealing tape on connectors. And when we were trying to improve working conditions by rotating jobs so people would have more variety in their work she was very unhappy, even offended. As the taping job was her job and no one else’s. And I guess I would become crazy within a few days, maybe even within a few hours with that type of job, just repeating a task of less than a minute all day long, but she was happy with it and even offended when we tried to take it away from her. So yes, there may be people who would enjoy cleaning toilets or other dirty work or work most people can’t imagine someone would like it.
So I have been thinking a lot lately about how we have organized the world, organized it business wise. And basically I’m starting to get the feeling there is something really wrong with that as I may be an extreme example of being terrified of losing my job or losing customers or not having a job or not having customers, but as far as I know many people fear losing their job because they would lose their income, their livelihood. So I guess many or even most people just get a job or stick with a job because they need to eat. Or because they want to do things in their spare time they couldn’t do without the money from the job. So many or most people I guess work because they ‘have to’, not because they ‘like to’. And as for most people work fills the majority of their time, for most of the time many or most people do something they don’t like.
And as the consequences in our current society, or at least in most societies, of not having a job or losing your job are quite bit they stick with it. And fear losing their job, where I’m starting to learn that fear is destroying an awful lot of things, is destroying life. And I think I’m a very good (or bad) sample of that, as losing my first job, which I enjoyed and loved, kind of defined my life in a very bad way. And yes, that event has been a very good example of how the Law of Attraction works. As somehow losing that job in that way somehow instilled a lot of fear in me. And of course that fear ‘attracted’ more loss of job, as I was scared losing my job, scared not to speak up to my boss when I should have. Meaning I kind of lost myself and indeed, resulting in not doing my job good enough.
And yes, of course I should ‘get over it’, or should have gotten over it long time ago. Or I should have forgiven myself or forgive the people involved. But somehow it is still with me and somehow it still influenced my life and repeats itself. And of course this has everything to do with me, not with you. And it goes further back than losing that job, which was just the ‘major event’ that stuck with me (and that I’m ‘blaming’ for everything that’s wrong in my life).
Anyhow, my point is that I want Inspiration for Success to be better than all this psychologists stuff and all those self help books I read and all those workshops and training I did. Because until now it didn’t work, at least not for me. And there wouldn’t be such a big demand for all that stuff (and there must be, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many sites and books), if I were the only one struggling with ‘something’.
And yes, maybe it’s all just the tragedy of life. Maybe it’s just the joke life is. But somehow I think there is more, somehow I think we all can live a happy and successful and fulfilling life. And not just the ‘happy few’. And that’s why I keep thinking and writing, and maybe suffering. As there must be more, for me, but also for you.
And I’m not sure yet how, but somehow everything is already there and I just need to connect the dots.