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Overcoming past experience

For quite a while already I feel kind of stuck. And the main reason is that through past experience I don’t really know what to do, what do to achieve my goals. Or no, the main thing is just that I went down too deep, I don’t see any way out. Or I do, but it’s just too big.

And it’s a very weird circle it feels I have put myself in. As I have made some decisions on what I want, what my real goals are. And they are founded quite deep now, based on what I have learned from Napoleon Hill, from his book Think and Grow Rich, from the Principles of Success. And all is mixed it with the ideas of Abraham Hicks and everything else I know, either from own experience or from all kinds of psychology and self help stuff.

But something doesn’t add up and I still can’t figure out what it is. Or maybe I do, as that’s basically what I started this post with, as the main thing is I don’t know what to DO. And from Napoleon Hill’s point of view that means I can’t make any planning. And from Abraham Hicks’ point of view that’s the wrong question (as he focuses on how you want to FEEL).

And I’m also still thinking about the weird connection between past, present (or actually NOW) and future. And related to the NOW the ideas of Napoleon Hill and Abraham Hicks don’t seem to contradict each other as they appear to do. As Napoleon Hill states something like everything starts from DESIRE, where Abraham Hicks states something like everything starts from FEELING (good).

So maybe the answer is indeed in the last paragraph. Maybe I should indeed go (back) to the feeling place of what i want, as that’s where the desire starts. And indeed, actions come from desire and desire only. And planning will follow.

Good out of bad

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I guess most of you, at least in the future, wouldn’t know I am of Dutch origin and currently live in The Philippines. And right now the quote about negative things by definition somehow have something positive in them:

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

And it seems to be true for me related to the typhoon that hit a part of The Philippines around a week ago. And in this case I was not even affected in a bad way myself, but what I see on TV the destruction in some areas is enormous, like the city of Tacloban seems to be virtually completely destroyed. And I have visited that city a few years ago and it was just a normal Philippine city, not just a shanty area or something. Just pretty decent built houses and shops and such in the city center. So yes, something really bad happened there, no matter what I wrote about Philippine culture a few days ago in my Dutch blog.

But something good came out for me as some people I did not have contact with for quite some time or even a long time were sending me messages to check if I was OK. And actually some people from a very long time ago, from my study time and my first job. So somehow very important people from the period ‘where it all began’ where I also have been thinking quite a lot about recently.

So while writing also something like ‘Law of Attraction‘ comes to mind. It seems that thoughts indeed have enormous power as I have been thinking quite a lot about the period of my first job recently. And the most important person about that period contacted me a few days ago. And i have been thinking quite a lot about my student home, especially a certain person. And it was not that person contacting me, but another one from exactly the same period, the same group. Coincidence? Well, while writing, cannot really be. There is indeed more between heaven and earth than we can see. And it is good!

Creative inspiration needed

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I am thinking now about the page I made related to something like ‘what inspires you’. And the first thing doing research on that was some page about creative inspiration, what to do if you’re an artist and you need inspiration to get started with your art work.

And that’s basically where I am right now, as I want to write something here, something useful, and I don’t really feel like it. It’s very late, after midnight and no subject comes into my mind, let alone an inspirational subject.

And that’s one of the main things that needs to happen right now, putting more inspirational content, more content related to what Inspiration for Success is all about. As one of the main reasons for writing a more or less useful blog post every day was to just become visible in Google, just putting some kind of content related to the site, to the project so Google would index it in the way to reach the target audience. And I still believe that was the right thing to do, even though it may be some kind of a diary type blog if you look at most of my blog posts. But recently I started to see that slowly, very slowly, traffic from Google is picking up, which is also normal as normally a site is started to be taken serious by Google in about half a year time and the site is a bit more than half a year old.

So the pressure is building with me, especially as I started to notice that I’m not that a

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good writer, that it’s not really something i like, writing kind of serious, decent pages in a serious website. And some little voice in the back of my head says now that the way I write is also OK and that there are probably readers who would appreciate my daily ‘shit’. And yes, that’s true I guess. But that’s not what I want Inspiration for Success to be. i want inspiration for Success to be a website, even a project, also outside of the virtual world, to inspire people, for success, or maybe even just to inspire people in general, not even related to success. As slowly i noticed that the main thing I want is that people are inspired to to things, so they would do things naturally and not ‘forced’, contrary to being motivated.

So yes, the goal is clear and basically still the same. So time to plan!

Just tired, but good

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Well, this time, today, tonight, at the end of the day I’m just tired. But this time, and yesterday, it was a much more positive tired than the last year, or maybe even years.

As I’m busy again, with work, with getting things done.

And it feels good.

Too much work

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“Too much work”, that was about the first message I got from someone who I was chatting with today. So I asked him what he was doing and he replied “deleting links”. And that reminded me of the ten or twenty e-mails I get every day in my mailbox from SEO companies trying to sell me SEO services. And while writing this it reminds me of the one hundred plus spam type e-mails I get every day. So my reaction was something like “that would be a hard job for me as first (your company) has put the links (and was paid for it) and now you are deleting them (and your company gets paid for it)” as I don’t see much value in following all the Google updates that would make SEO needs different. And my reaction was also something like, can’t we do something more for Inspiration for Success, this website, the project to inspire people, to bring more inspiration to the world. And the reply was something like, yes, but I’m too busy (earning my daily bread) and I don’t have time for that.

And this whole thing made me a bit sad, as many people are being paid for work that doesn’t add anything, doesn’t add any value to the life of people, like building cars or TV’s or even growing food.

But later on I thought a bit further, as today I was quite busy with work (also) and was very happy with that as I’ve not been that busy for quite some time as I couldn’t find enough work, couldn’t fint customers to serve, people to serve (business wise). To thinking further I asked myself if what i was doing, what I am doing is so much different from what my friend was doing. As these new jobs are also related to SEO and related to ‘selling’, to ‘advertising’. And while thinking now I am quite often working on pages, on websites where the main purpose or even the sole purpose is SEO. And one of my jobs of today was finding content writers to write articles where the only purpose of the articles is to create a quality link to the site of one of my customers.

So what I was working on today, what I am working on most of the time may not be that different of what my friend was doing, is doing. So yes, I started to ask myself if what I was doing is really different and why. As I presume I’m doing quality work, quality link building. But it may not be that different after all.

So let’s think if what we are doing is really useful, really adding something for the benefit of people, either ourselves or other people.