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Enough is enough

Well, enough is enough, at least for today.

And no, I didn’t finish what i wanted to finish, but somehow Infinite Intelligence didn’t seem to want me to finish it.

So enough is enough.

Basic needs

Today I couldn’t really get going and I couldn’t really figure out why, as actually things are getting better, at least business wise. I got some new requests and some small orders. And while thinking, kind of roaming around restless, lying down again, reading a ‘day’ from the 30 day program of Abraham Hicks I realized that my main issue is that my basic needs are not met, I mean the basic needs according to Maslov’s hiearchy o f needs, like food and water, which I thought was the lowest level. And I thought the second was sex, but according to the image I just found it’s a bit different than I thought.

Maslov's hierarchy of needs.

And reading a bit further I see the model is also disputed, which of course is kind of logical, as it’s just a scientific hypothesis. Some more information can be found on Fundamental Human Needs.

So while writing I realize there are many theories around, so maybe let’s just analyze my personal needs and the feelings around it. And what’s the result. And preferably of course some kind of a solution, as I don’t feel OK, I don’t feel happy and that’s been going on for quite a while, looking back even most of my life.

So let’s think, what’s bothering me most. I guess what’s bothering me most is that I depend on others for many of my needs where I can’t find ways to make others fulfill those needs.

And the most frustrating thing behind that is that I have been trying all my life to fulfill the needs of others while I can’t even find ways to fulfill my own needs. And somehow this all goes back to something like my belief of lacking something like ‘people skills’. As that’s what people have been telling me all my life and that’s what I’ve been experiencing all my life. And the biggest issue with that is that i don’t have a way out, don’t see a way out. Because those ‘people skills’ you either have or you don’t. And I’ve been trying to fake them all my life, trying to ‘do what is right’ towards people in order to meet ‘the worlds needs’ as that’s what seems to be required to get what you want, fulfill your needs. And until now I didn’t manage, things even got worse, slowly but surely. And there comes in some other belief, something else what people say, and that’s that I need to ‘change’.

And rationally this all doesn’t make sense. And somehow I think this all is also the tragedy of being human, of human life.

But somehow I still believe there must be some way out, there must be a way to live a happy, fulfilling life where I am happy and where my environment is happy with me and I am happy with my environment.

And I know I’m not the only one, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many ‘self help sites’, ‘self help books’, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc., etc.

And otherwise this site, this project wouldn’t even exist. But my main issue is still that I’m not happy, that I’m not successful, that even somehow still fall deeper down, although somehow something seems to have changed recently, somehow there has been some ‘shift in energy’. But not enough and right now I still feel bad. And I still don’t see a way out.

And according to my team and according to all those ‘self help guru’s’ and movies and documentaries and books I need to come with some solution here, otherwise my article is incomplete, otherwise this site, this blog won’t be successful. And I guess from a readers point of view they are right. Or not? Wouldn’t there be a crowd who would still like to read my stuff, my complaints, my problems, my philosophical thoughts, etc., etc.

And I don’t want Inspiration for Success to be just another self help site. So yes, I guess somehow I have to go my own way, somehow I have to keep writing my own style, my own stuff. As apparently all those other sites and books and whatever also don’t have all the answers.

Yes, reading those articles and the advice is useful and often makes you, makes me feel better. But the more I read this stuff I’m starting to believe that in the end the only purpose of those sites, of those books of those e-mails I get every day are only a way to keep me, to keep you ‘hooked’.

And of course that’s also what I’m doing, what I want. Of course I also want you to read my stuff, and keep reading, and in the end preferably giving something back. But over time indeed, I realized more and more that basically I want to give, not receive. Except indeed the Universe doesn’t work that way. Somehow there needs to be balance. And somehow that’s what I feel, that’s what you may feel. That there is something out of balance, that the give and receive process is out of balance.

So let’s try to balance it.

Crime pays

The last few days I had quite some mood swings. I had quite some high a few days ago playing music like I used to do and going back to the time when I was a student. But today and yesterday were kind of lows.And while writing this post I am very much in doubt whether to write the things that are in my mind or not, as indeed, I am starting to believe that thoughts, words, especially when spoken, are very powerful.

But somewhere in my mind is also that I promised to myself and to you that I would achieve my success fully in the open, that I wouldn’t hold back, also the downs. And there is one thing I still don’t talk or write about as that’s too private, even though I think it’s my biggest turn off, so yes, I’m still keeping something to myself. But it’s just too private and as of the moment sharing it I think would do too much damage, so I won’t or at least I”ll wait until I feel it’s the right time.

I started this post with crime pays where I’m starting to realize that the real saying is crime doesn’t pay, but I’m starting to doubt which one is true, especially feeling myself at the deepest of the deep related to finance, financial success. As it seems there is something like balance, something like what others do to you, you are probably doing to others sooner or later. And until now I held back very much and I try not to do the bad stuff that I feel others did to me, but it’s getting harder and harder. And the reason is that some of the things that happened to me especially the last few years, especially business wise, just feel wrong. I feel that people did me wrong and that, no matter the mistakes I made myself that lead to where I stand right now, it’s too much, that I have sunk too low. It just feels wrong, it just feels unfair, too unfair.

You see, I’m kind of good person. Too good actually, accepting too much from everybody, too honest and things like that. However, I have one big flaw: my biggest flaw, mistake is that i gave in, still give in, too much to my partner. And that’s my part in the story, that’s my mistake. So that’s wrong, no matter my reasons, my excuses. And in a lighter form I also have that to other people, trying to please too much,  As yes, I just want people to like me. Which they probably and obviously don’t, but that’s another story.

Anyhow, going back to the crime stuff, me being a ‘good’ person or at least considering myself a good person, I have the feeling that too many people have taken advantage of me and are taking advantage of me. And I don’t want to pay back or something in a similar way, but this causes an enormous unbalance. As e.g. financially for quite some time I have not been able to pay some things I feel like I owe people. And that’s a big thing to me. So I’m doing to other people what people have been doing to me: not paying dues. Except for me it’s mainly that I can’t, that I can’t find ways to earn or receive or get money to pay my dues. And somehow it must go back to economy, the time we’re living in right now. As I have the feeling many more people are in a similar situation and that indeed, in general money is still not flowing as it could, as it should.

But again, this creates an enormous inner conflict with me as most of the ‘self help’ stuff I’ve been reading states that you have things in your own hand. That thoughts and attitude and working hard and planning and all that kind of stuff is fully under my, your control. And in a way I indeed do believe that. But somehow something doesn’t add up. As I’m still a human being with his flaws and weaknesses and stuff. And things like economy and state of mind of the world or state of the Universe, even if you consider everything as one or something, still seem to count.

So this feeling of imbalance creates an enormous inner conflict that cries, shouts to be solved. As somehow I have the feeling there is not enough coming to me, not enough coming back. Because I try to give, but somehow it’s not enough or not in the right way. And I try to be good and not paying back bad behaviour or bad things in ways I consider bad. And I try to be happy and grateful as it’s written and stated everywhere. But inside of me something shouts wrong or not enough or ???.

So yes, having the feeling of having nothing left, which I know is subjective as I can still eat and still live in this big house, is continuously asking for attention and kind of eating me and often paralyzing me.

And I still don’t know what to do.

Anyone recognizes this? Or want to give any kind of comment? That would be greatly appreciated and maybe we find a solution, better solutions together. As I’m quite sure I’m not alone.

Flow again

Very weird what is happening lately and especially today. Somehow things are starting to flow again, not that empty feeling of ‘nothing is coming back’, not that feeling that I’m only giving, that only things are going out, energy is going out, but more the opposite, that things are coming in, that energy is coming in.

And the weird thing is that i didn’t ‘do’ anything. It just somehow happened and it is kind of following some more positive stuff that started a few days, or maybe weeks ago. So if this is supposed to be an inspiring post I’m not sure what to tell you you should ‘do’, how you would be able to change your energy when you’re in some kind of downturn.

Or maybe just indeed tell you that those things don’t last forever and that you don’t have as much control as you think you have or think you should have. So that sometimes, or maybe just always, it’s better to let things be, let thing go as they are going.

And somehow I’m not saying like you shouldn’t do anything when you’re in a down mood or in a down period, even though that’s how it sounds like that (and also feels a bit to me now and before).

So very confusing and maybe it’s indeed some kind of shift in energy in the world as I read about a few days ago (and wrote about).

So today kind of started (or ended) with music. And while before I had the feeling only energy went out, and before meaning a long, very long time where I felt I had no control and just remembered something like ‘sowing seeds’ so I could reap later on, which I did, today I felt like I was receiving a lot, just receiving something like ‘energy’.

And while listening to music, somehow starting with playlists I already have and ending playing stuff from artists with ‘T’, I just started crying, thanking The Universe for sending me this music, that special thing that has been created by so many people and, indeed, performed, vocalized by musicians, artists.

And I felt how everything connects together, these old songs, written and sang a long, long time ago and now being played from just my server network. And I was thinking about all the artists who sang these songs, and probably only once for the recording. And about all the people involved in converting this song into a record or CD (or tape). And about the music industry that connected the writers and the singers and the musicians and technicians, etc., etc. And about copyright and how right now all these things are just available to me. Something like 25,000++ songs that I just keep on my hard drive and can just play whenever I want. And for most, like 99.9% or more I didn’t even pay the artists or the people involved in creating and distributing the songs. So I felt this enormous energy, this enormous power of human music history coming to me, being with me, right at that moment, an hour ago or so. And I felt the energy of the artists singing and playing at concerts, something I never attended, but I can imagine with what power musicians ‘do’ their performance.

So yes, that’s what Napoleon Hill talks about when talking about ‘giving’ and indeed, also getting the benefits in the form of the ‘big money’, even though I’m starting to realize that even for most famous artists that’s only temporary.

And yes, I felt like wanting to ‘give back’ let this energy I felt from this music coming to me and all the things around it, all those people, all those years, all that history coming towards me with enormous power. So how quick can your system fill up when you feel empty by just playing music (or using anything else) and realizing how much ‘organized effort’ is behind it. So yes, it also made me feel humble, like one human being can do so little.

So how can i give back, that’s what came to my mind. And I’m not fully sure, as I’m just a simple web developer, not a musician or something. But I guess also the musician can do so much and only for a limited amount of time (in my mind is now Céline Dion who I saw in a movie, backstage). But yes, they gave and give more than I do now, did recently, or maybe all my life. So maybe they deserve more, I’m not sure.

But yes, it’s also a flow, like if the flow is not there, as it hasn’t been there for me for a long time, you can’t do anything. And yes, if the flow is there, like I felt this evening, you can do anything, give anything, even those great performances, in whatever occupation you are.

Long way to go

Yesterday I got an e-mail related to Hundred lessons learnt from blogging and the post is awesome. It made me a bit jealous as i don’t see myself write a post or page like that as it’s a very well written and prepared page. And I’m quite sure Alden has spent quite some time making it, as putting one hundred items would take some thinking and time.

So I was comparing myself with him and felt myself ‘lower’ than him. As I often feel myself ‘lower’ than other people. And many ‘self help’ guru’s and sites and everything say you should not compare yourself with others. But of course I do, you do. I guess everybody does.

And why not focus on our strengths, not our weaknesses? I’m quite sure there are areas I am better than Alden. So why feel below him just because he created something nice I can’t create or only could create with the greatest effort?

So what is this ‘feeling lower’ that I guess many people have. It doesn’t make any sense as everybody is just born somewhere, lives his or her life the best he or she can or the best he or she knows. And then dies. I mean, we’re all just human, in the end, in the very basic the same. So not ‘more’ or ‘less’ than other human beings. Not ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than others. And in the end not more successful or unsuccessful than others.

So what is this competition thing? Where does it come from? What’s the use? And the more I think about it the more I also think that we should abandon this competition thinking that is everywhere. And of course the ‘use’ is that it comes from the biological selection process. That the stronger genes will survive. But humanity, humans, somehow bypassed that. As we don’t leave mentally or physically disbled people behind (so they would die). We do anything to save babies who don’t have the basic capacity to live. We save human beings who are in danger, who are wounded.

And yes, the weirdest thing is that we can go to war and wound each other or kill each other and then finally help each other to recover, get better.

So why can’t we push that a little further, that helping each other, supporting each other? Why not ‘always’ and not only when people are in need?

Looking forward to your comments on this.