Author Archives: Guus

Leadership

So I had this idea. And I know an awful lot about some things. And I have a lot of experience with some things. And I started this website. And I envisioned and envision how it should be. And then I knew i needed a Master Mind, which I also wanted to be a team and a board for Inspiration for Success. So I found five people, or some people found each other. Or whatever.

And as it is online an we don’t know each other all personally it is not easy to move. Maybe simple, but not easy. And we don’t have money. And most team members don’t have time, at least no time for this project, meaning to me, with what I know, don’t give priority to the project. And I can imagine. As they don’t have the picture as I have it in mind. And they have their own ideas. And somehow I’m trying to do something democracy, but that doesn’t work. And i know dictatorship also doesn’t work, or at least I don’t want it.

But still, the origin was my dream, my idea. And somehow it appealed to the team members. And somehow they also want to make it work, be part of it.

So the challenge right now is to combine all those ideas and expectations and dreams into something that would inspire everybody in the team. Because there is work to be done, but i only want it done from inspiration, not even from motivation. So how do other leaders do that/

More planning and decisions

From the beginning of this site the idea was part of my ‘giving’ to achieve the success I’m looking for fully in the open, so this project, the building of the website Inspiration for Success and starting the project Inspiration for Success would be a live, real life, example of achieving success following the principles of success as described by Napoleon Hill. And somehow achieving the success I’m looking for, like receiving one million dollar, does indeed come with the type of things Napoleon Hill describes in his book Think and Grow Rich.

But the whole thing is starting to make sense, as e.g. except from the start I missed a lot of the desire, which as far as I can figure out goes back that I somehow lost the belief of earning or getting (or receiving) any significant amount of money. And main reason why I’m not where I want to be related to all kinds of goals and results I described has obviously to do with planning, especially proper planning, making flawless plans. As far as I can figure out also I may be too much of a dreamer and not realistic enough in goals and especially plans related to these goals, so my team does not believe where we are going and how we are going there and that we will get there.

I consider a major achievement though applying the principle of the Master Mind, where I tended to mix team and Master Mind. And as far as I can figure out now a Master Mind is something else than a team or a board as I had and have in mind for Inspiration for Success. What I experience now is that the team mainly acts as a Master Mind, in this case especially giving feedback on things I want where they consider it often unrealistic. And the Master Mind is bigger, as today I received an e-mail from a ‘hidden’ Master Mind team member that I didn’t like. But what was said in it was probably true and is valuable feedback, so certainly ‘Master Mind’ feedback. The Master Mind in my case often puts me back to reality, to being realistic, even though Napoleon Hill also kind of confirms that if you really want something extraordinary, something new, you may want to stick to it, no matter what. However, of course reality check, especially on plans seems to be important, especially if you’re a dreamer like me.

Persistence also seems to be something else than I thought as I think I am more stubborn than persistent. And according to Napoleon HIll, mentioning Henry Ford, there is nothing really wrong with being stubborn, but I guess it’s useful to at least know the difference and find a way how to convert stubbornness into persistence. In my case I found out patience is an important keyword quite some time ago and it is being confirmed by the team.

So why did I call this post ‘more planning and decisions’. Well, the project definitely needs better planning as basically there is no real practical plan. And there are some decisions I did not make yet, like how to deal with my daily post related to creating proper, researched, well written content. At least two team members keep reminding me of the need for better content and they are right. However, i also don’t want to give up on my daily post, which somehow is important to me. At first for SEO, like becoming displayed as news, but also as it is kind of the basis, the origin of the site.

However, I’m not sure if the team means i should stop with my daily post as I doubt that would really harm the site. The issue may be that I could better focus my time on quality content than a ‘daily post’ just for the sake of a daily post. Well, just ask i guess.

Guilt

Today it struck my mind that it’s completely crazy to feel bad about things that you did in the past and that worked out bad, even though they have effects that you experience. I made some bad decisions related to money, to investments and that has put me in a very bad position. And i don’t know how to solve it. And I feel very guilty and bad about it. And I have no clue how to solve it. But today I suddenly realized that I can’t change the past and that I can’t change the situation I’m in right now. Or maybe never.

And the weird thing is that this whole thing goes back to beliefs I have and to thoughts like what other people think about it. And those beliefs and this ‘what other people think about it’ create an awful amount of guilt and ‘feeling bad’ in me. And looking at it, at how I feel and what effect it has on me that can’t be a good thing. Because especially this guilt is having a devastating effect on me. And not only me, but also on my environment, the people around me.

So I thought I should write about this, as I’m quite sure I’m not the only one being confronted with some bad decision or bad decisions made in the past. And suffering so much from it.

And no, I didn’t find an answer yet, I didn’t find answers yet. As the main problem right now is that I am in a situation i don’t like and that I don’t know how to solve it. And that it affects my life in a very bad way. So this is kind of reality and a reality I don’t like and that also kind of paralyzes me.

The good thing though now is that I’m starting to realize why some people are not moving anymore, don’t do anything anymore. As the ‘issues’ they’re confronted with are too big, too big to oversee or to overcome. And I’m a person who doesn’t easily give up. You may even say never gives up. But my current financial situation feels so hopeless that, indeed,sometimes, or even mostly lately, I just don’t move anymore, just don’t do anything anymore. Because it’s just too big for me to deal with. I see no way out.

So yes, I always had answers to people, still have even. Sometimes my own opinion or sometimes just quotes. But being here now, even with all that I know, even with the best quotes and stuff and with the best self help sites and blogs and stuff i read, I often don’t know what to say anymore to myself.

And yes, today I somehow got moving again, after quite a period of being quite inert. But i still don’t see a way out and that affects my life and the life of the people around me in a very negative way.

But somehow this is also what inspiration for Success is all about. Give people hope, give people inspiration when they don’t see it themselves anymore.

So yes, maybe this experience is good for me, is still something given to me. So I would be more understanding about people who just don’t see how to get out of a bad, a very bad situation that they consider impossible to solve.

Bur for now I can only say to myself that I can’t change my past decision, my  past decisions. And that looking back, trying to learn from it would be OK. But feeling guilty about it or thinking about what other people think about it as I do makes no sense, just makes things worse.

So let’s say to ourselves that we should avoid feeling (too much) guilt about something we can’t change anymore. And that there is always hope, that things can always be better, even better than the past and even better than anything before. Even if we can’t believe that right now, as belief is just belief, something that someone believes.

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Guess today I’ll skip. How do other leaders deal with having lost all drive and all inspiration?

Personality

As you may know I, Guus, still don’t consider myself successful, although I am starting to see that I am and have been successful in many things. And one of the things I never wrote about, but that is often in my mind is the subject how successful people feel, feel themselves. Or how people who consider themselves successful feel themselves. Do they really feel different from me or you or not? I think so, I think many people I admire or consider successful feel better than I do. And I am starting to believe that many people around me feel better than I do. And that’s another subject I never wrote about. How does personality, how we are built, influence how happy or successful we are? Many of the people I consider successful are e.g. self help coaches of successful business people. And all those successful coaches look and talk the same: they have been poor and one day they decided they wanted to be successful or rich or something. And they did, they  managed, and that’s why I know them and that’s why they are rich. But it’s easy to tell other people what to do or how to get there if you’re already there. If you already made it. And those self help coaches like Tony Robbins, Bob Proctor and Esther Hicks often are very good talkers, very good ‘sales people’. And I’m quite sure that also successful business people like Richard Branson and Donald Trump have certain treats that makes them who they are.

And I know that i have certain treats that make me what I am. And I know I have done many of the things that are preached by those rich people. But I’m not there yet, so what’s going on? Can anybody become successful and rich? Somehow I believe yes and somehow I believe I’ll get out of this ‘rut’ and get my Pajero and will have enough money to live (not survive as I’m doing right now) and pay back my debts. But I still have no clue why and I’m still not fully sure why e.g. people leave me behind, don’t visit me or connect to me. That indeed must have something to do with ‘me’, but should I change something to change that? Or is all of this still ‘the secret’ that I didn’t find yet. And yes, I now know it’s not in hard work, because there have been periods where I have worked hard, very hard. And yes, that brought me quite some money, but deep down I didn’t feel happy as somehow I felt there was something ‘wrong’. And there was something wrong and I’m starting to know a bit what it was. And it’s not as wrong as it was anymore. But financially, businesswise for example I’m much worse off and that’s no fun as I feel like I can’t move anymore.

So maybe the next step is indeed something like mixing the two, the feeling good, the feeling myself AND the hard work, maybe my way now.

To be continued…