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Thank you, Philippines

Today another complaint and I guess a short post and I have no clue how to make this inspiring or use any of the Principles of Success of what I’m experiencing.

We have two internet connections, the second mainly because I want to have a back up connection in case something goes wrong with the other connection. And yes, the reason is to serve my customers, to make sure I’m online and can fix problems in case of urgent problems with websites of customers.

Now it happens to be that it seems that both connections are being ‘throttled’ due to our heavy use of these connections. And I don’t mind if our bandwidth is lowered down or something as we don’t really need a fast internet connection, but as of the moment it is virtually impossible to use any of the two connections due to this ‘throttling’, meaning something like switching the connections on or off or cutting off tcp/ip connectsions.

And behind all this may be a Philippine law that states that wireless connections can only download sow much per calender month to save the environment or something. Or just ‘fair use policy’ by the Internet Service Providers’.

But I just don’t get how they do it, as to me the limitation in internet use is bandwidth, the amount of data that you download or download per second or even millisecond and that has nothing to do with the total amount of data downloaded or uploaded in a month.

So as I understand it now if I continue downloading a lot of stuff like I do also for my business, for customers, somewhere halfway every month my Internet Service Providers will start ‘throttling’ my internet connection, meaning making it practically useless.

Meaning that the first half of the month I’ll have to work for the whole month and the second half of the month I can go on holiday and won’t be able to serve my customers.

Looking forward to your comments, as I don’t understand it. We have had our Smart connection for seven years or so and it has been working fine for about 99% of the time. And suddenly some rule changes and we can’t use the internet in a normal way for every second half of the month.

I’m lost.

Looking forward to your comments.

Everything is lined up

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Philippine taxi Lately I am thinking more and more how everything is lined up as per ideas of Abraham Hicks. And I am more and more surprised how everything is connected, how there is one flow, or actually many, many flows adding everything up, making everything happen. And the more I think about it, the more amazing it all is, how everything is connected.

Like tonight I was just looking for a taxi to go home and I was on the highway And there are many taxis here on the highway and using a taxi in this case is a very common thing to do. But if you think about it just taking this taxi is, or looking back, is quite an amazing thing and an enormous amount of things need to add up to make me and this taxi, or maybe more specific this taxi driver, to meet up.

As before I was with friends, where those friends influenced the time I was leaving the house. Then I joined one of the other guests to drop me at the highway, so their speed would partially define at what time I would arrive at the highway. Then my partner called me to buy a packet of cigarettes, so I did not wait at the drop off point but went to the gasoline station nearby. At the gasoline station I had to wait for some other customers before I could make my order and finish my transaction. So next to me, these customers had their own speed and events to end up there at that specific moment in time and of course the people behind the counter had their own process which influenced the transaction and the time.

So I finished my transaction and went outside looking for a taxi, so walked with a specific speed outside to the main road where taxis could see me and where I could see taxis. So finally one stopped, or not really ‘finally’, but quite quickly actually. And of course this taxi had had its own journey how to get there today, at this specific time and place, like the previous customer, or actually customers who brought him in this specific time and place where I was, looking for a taxi. Which of course was related to all the little things and decisions and moods of the customers, the taxi driver and all other traffic, all other vehicles directly or indirectly influencing the flow of this taxi.

And the weird thing is and stays like no matter whether you believe in ‘things happen based on how you flow your energy’ in a more spiritual way, of course my mood, my emotional state, my spiritual state at least directly influences whether I would take this specific taxi or another one or couldn’t find one at all. As the simple thing of waiving my hand and how I waived it when I saw a taxi coming to me on the other side of the road would directly influence the behavior of the taxi driver, like whether he would turn around and take me or not. And the simple mood or emotional state of the taxi driver would define whether he would see me or not, as even if I would not have waived my hand he might have decided to turn around anyhow and see if he could make me into a customer. As my emotional state would define how the sales people in the gasoline station would define how they would react to me, like how fast they would serve me. Or not serve me at all, although the last thing would be unlikely.

And so my mood and the mood of all the other people, participants in this game, this play we call life definitely defines how things are going, what would happen and what would not happen and when and how it would happen.

Amazing isn’t it?

And so yes, somehow we fully define our life, define what is happening and what is going to happen, as each moment we decide what to do or not to do, how to behave or not to behave, what to show or not to show. And somehow we do not, as all the other players also play their own role and make their own decisions.

Amazing, this game of life.

Inception

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Inception

I was just watching the movie Inception, that I still like, so I saw it many times before and sometimes just like watching again. And one of the scenes I like most is when the girl, the new to be designer of the dreams, starts messing with reality, with the physics of things, turning a part of Paris on top of another part of Paris. And she does it with so much imagination, like closing mirror like doors near or on a bridge over the river Seine. And twisting more things around in a way that is kind of believable, but in the end is not. A bit like in the old cartoons, where cartoon characters walk off a cliff in a straight line and only fall when they see they’re not on stable ground anymore.

And yes, also this movie is a good sample of real success, a whole team of people creating something virtually perfect, at least I never really saw mistakes in movies, although I know there are. And yes, I know how much effort is put in such a result, how much practice by the actors, how much directing by the directors, how much editing by the editors. And you just watch it and don’t realize what an enormous amount of effort (and money) it takes to create a movie like this.

Ah, and I forgot the writer and/or the person or group of people who came up with the idea, the basic idea for this movie. And again, everything starts with an idea, like the idea of dream within a dream that makes this movie, the concept of inception, of planting an idea in someones mind without him knowing it, so interesting, so unique, so worth of watching.

And yes, as in most or all movies, it is also always about people, about reality, about humans, about humanity, like in this case a father doing everything to be back with his children, as any father in real life would do.

And yes, still something else in my mind, as I have always been wondering how the movies Inception and Shutter Island are related. As part of the plot is so similar, a father wanting to return to his children. And they ware made around the same time and the main character in both movies is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, so that cannot be coincidence. And both are dealing with some kind of virtual reality, something playing with the mind, with minds.

And I’m not sure how to continue with this post, how to make something really inspiring out of it. Or maybe just that both movies, like all ‘Hollywood’ movies are made being perfect, meaning are made successfully, are made by successful people, by successful teams. And that both movies are full of ideas like ‘idea’ and ‘mind’ and maybe even something like Infinite Intelligence.

Fake it

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I know I often put my (bad) moods here. And somehow I know I “shouldn’t” do that as basically Inspiration for Success is business. And business is business and should serve customers, regardless of, yes, of what? And yes, I want to inspire people, inspire you. For success or something. Or maybe happiness. But should I fake my moods? I’m not sure, as to me that would feel like being dishonest. And while writing this I remember my promise that I want to achieve my success in the open. And be open about what’s happening to me. But yes, it’s not very inspiring sometimes, or even often, my daily posts. Even though I normally try to make something inspiring or good out of it at the end, give some kind advice or thought or so.

So yesterday I was watching America’s next top model and was watching the feedback, the criticism of the jury to the candidates, especially one candidate. And it seemed that this candidate just had had a bad day or something. So here performance had not been that good. And the advice was that in that kind of situation she should just fake it. And it kind of hit me, as the jury had a point, especially related to success, success in business. As I notice more and more that if you want to reach the top in business, you really need to be good, no not good, perfect.

And it can be done. As every (Hollywood type) movie appears perfect to me. As are high quality dance shows, where everybody is in sync. And I realize more and more that that is just about practice and being good. And there are no second chances. It just has to be good, even though of course I know many things are edited. But yes, being a dancer, you wouldn’t want to hold up the whole group by not performing ‘perfect’. And if course it’s OK things go wrong every now and then and that you make mistakes. But in the end, the result needs to be perfect. As it can be perfect as many performers, magazines, movies and products show.

But there is a weird paradox here, as in the same America’s next top model we always here about some people, some photo’s there is no emotion. And that is NOT considered good. So could you fake emotion? I don’t think so. And somehow you shouldn’t. But maybe that’s where teamwork comes in, like show you emotion to the team and the team will help you create the perfect result no matter what. Or could you really fake it? I’m a bit confused now.

And somehow I know the answer, as a performance or product could and should indeed be perfect. Something like you really want it, desire it. And on the other hand it should be mixed with emotion, your real emotion, your real state of being, whether happy or sad. And yes, I know that can be done, as no matter my emotional state, if I’m in flow I can still do nice work, produce something, produce something nice, forget about everything.

And I’m sure you can also, so again, it’s all about state of mind, finding the right state of mind.

Listening and understanding

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My partner keeps hammering on me that I don’t understand, that I lack understanding. And he keeps telling me that I’m wrong, that I’m doing it wrong and that I need to change. And that the whole problem is ‘me’, something like me being me.

So what to do, what to do next. Lately I have been ‘allowing’ him to be him more according to the teachings of Abraham Hicks. So I’m not complaining so much anymore about things he does and things he wants. But deep inside I keep hearing this little voice telling me “yes, but what about me?”. As somehow it seems and feels like that I’m allowing my partner a lot more than myself. And it drains me, it drains my energy. But also according to Abraham Hicks it is indeed me who has to change, or at least I read something like “…it’s not her…”.

And somehow all of this goes back to beliefs, to my beliefs, like “you reap what you sow” and “who does well, will meet well” and things like that. And maybe the beliefs “you can’t change the other person, but you can change yourself” and “if you want to change the world start with yourself”.

All very wise and nice sayings, but I can’t do so much with them, at least they were somehow not confirmed in my life, or maybe they were, but not in a way I like and I don’t know what to do to change it, to change my life. But again, I hear Abraham Hicks say that you should be happy here and now, not somewhere else.

But my inner voice keeps telling me that I cannot be that bad a person in the sense that I don’t believe I sowed that bad things related to what I’m reaping now. And yes, I always have an excuse to tell myself that that’s negative thinking. So who to believe, my inner voice (the little voice?) or the reasoning? And it seems I am treating other people very bad, as basically everybody leaves me behind. Something like it seems I don’t listen to other people. But should I be punished so bad for that? I don’t believe it.

And I turned myself inside out to please other people, to make them happy. But it didn’t work out as nobody seems to be pleasing me (and yes, I know they say you shouldn’t do things to please other people).

So what’s going on here? Deep inside I know I’m not a bad person, actually I’m a good person, although especially recently I discovered I also have my bad sides, sides that I didn’t know existed. But should I keep turning myself inside out to please other people, to ‘allow’ them? I’m willing to, but somehow I also believe there needs to be balance, giving and receiving should be in balance. And again, my inner voice says I’m not receiving enough. And yes, deep inside I know I’m not really allowing that.

So what to do, to restore the balance? Any ideas? Recognize something?