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Planning 2014

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Well, leader is there, core team is there, so now we need a good plan, better than the things I made before. And not fully sure where to start because there are so many things in my head so many things to be done to make Inspiration for Success what I want it to be: the best place in the world for inspiring people for success. And I mean external inspiration, like some little breath from ‘somewhere’ when you can’t move yourself, when you don’t have the inspiration yourself, when you don’t have the energy yourself.

So first question: how to inspire you to give feedback on how we could best inspire you.

Maintain quality

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Dream island How to maintain quality and still stick with my goals, my decisions, that’s my biggest question at the moment. And what to do with the daily quote. And what to do with the two-weekly newsletter. Capacity is becoming an issue as the whole team is busy with other things that have higher priority. And yes, that has something to do with being paid, with money, with survival, or live (in current society). But it’s a chicken and egg problem, as in many projects and business start ups. And yes, this is a business, so one of the options right now is find capital. And still, somehow I have the feeling that there are many people out there who do have time, who could write high quality articles to inspire people, inspire people for success, inspire you. And there must be (WordPress) programmers out there who don’t have enough work and who could make the tools I have in mind, either to connect with each other or as kind of ‘self help’ tools on the road to success.

And yes, I’m starting to see, it’s my job to make this happen, to make this project move. And no, I don’t have to do everything, I should not do everything, as that’s impossible with the scale of the project I have in mind. So yes, I will work on the goals, on where I want to go, what I have in mind, what sea I want to sail and to what island or continent.

And I have the image in my mind, even though the details are not filled in, not filled in by far. But we’ll get there. Let’s first inspire the team and people who can help the team members.

Leading is following?

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Well, today I heard I was kind of too ‘pushy’ with where I want to go, what I expect from the team members and how fast I want to go. And yes, I think we’re going way too slow and I think the team should do a lot more than they do. But indeed, ‘pushing’ doesn’t really seem to be the right way, so I have to find a way to make things move in a different way. And that’s also exactly what I want, because I want the team to do things for Inspiration for Success in an inspired way. And I’m starting to believe, and that’s my message, that the world needs inspiration, not motivation, not ‘earning from hard work’ as at least one of the team members mentions when talking about priority. And not ‘work to make ends meet’ as one of the other team members seems to be doing. And I also tended and tend to do those things. But that’s exactly what I want to change, that’s exactly why I started this project, that’s exactly why Inspiration for Success exists. As I think that humans deserve much more than just work for money to make ends meet with or without a holiday once a year or something.

But yes, not easy with all the things we have learned about ‘earning a living’ and ‘working to live or at least survive’. And yes, that’s how the world works, of course I know that.

But wouldn’t it be nice if everybody could just do the things he likes to do. And wouldn’t it be nice that everybody could just receive what he wants to receive? It sounds like Utopia, but somehow I have the feeling it can be done and that when we achieve that situation the world would be a much happier place.

And the more I look around me, the more I see it could be done, the more I see there is capacity enough, capacity in service, in people liking to give service as well as capacity in products. And no, I didn’t do any research on how much we all would really produce if everybody would just do what he likes to do. But I’m quite sure we do have the technology and the knowledge to make something like that possible, to make something like that work.

It’s just a matter of changing our mindset, changing indeed to mindset of abundance. A mindset where everybody believes that money (=services of other people) does grow on trees. As I believe everybody likes to do ‘something’, everybody has some kind of passion what he wants to do. So why not all do it?

Ah, and the title of this post doesn’t seem to make much sense. But I just wanted to let you know that I’m trying to follow the guidelines that we are discussing as a team, the guidelines for creating better content, so I should have this post checked by someone else before posting. But for today I hope the team will forgive me that my urge to create ‘a daily post’ is higher than to produce ‘quality posts’, as the last is not (yet?) really my strength. So I’m not a good follower yet of our editor in chief, but I have decided to do better. And while writing, yes, I would need to set a date. So from October 31, 2013 or earlier I will follow the rules of the posting as set by our editor in chief.

Failure september 2013?

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Well, I thought I could never fail, would never fail as I believed a lot in the book, in Think and Grow Rich. And recently I see I failed in quite some things related to my original goals, the goals I started the site with.

But while writing this, and even while I felt very bad the last days, maybe even the last weeks, somehow I made a lot of progress, even big progress towards my goals, yes, even the goals I wrote in this site from the very start.

And I can’t really explain what happened and what is happening to me right now. Somehow the last few months my mindset is changing. And somehow it all goes back to the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill.

For example, I feel more determined now, more determined than ever before to get out of this situation I’m in right now, a situation I don’t like. Somehow I’m starting to really want that one million dollar and that Pajero and that holiday to Bali. And the weird this is I’m starting to care less to ‘have’, ‘own’ a million dollar or whatever. I feel more giving now, I’m much, much more OK with giving away everything, just give to people.

And yes, I’m much more focused on service now, especially to my clients. And that was a hard one as I always thought I did my best and delivered the right stuff. But now I think I didn’t and that’s also why my business went down. And it seems it’s picking up now as I get some more serious requests.

And the team, or actually the Master Mind, has given me a lot. Not a lot of hard work, although I may underestimate what they have been doing. But mainly a lot of insight about myself and other people. And also some reality check as I tend to be too much of a dreamer. And don’t get me wrong, my dreams are OK and I’ll stick to them, maybe more than ever, but e.g. the team members also need to see and believe. And i’m trying to see more about the team members, something that’s not easy for me related to the personality I think I am, I have.

And writing down things, that’s very important. Indeed, as Napoleon Hill states, to analyze what’s going on, what has gone wrong, or what has been successful. Like what worked and what didn’t work.

So did I fail? Well, related to the traffic goals I set for this October for the site it’s not very likely that that’s going to happen. And I didn’t push through with the viral idea, make plans for it. But I did create a Master Mind of five people as I intended. I do have clearer goals. I do have some more ideas on planning, we did send our first newsletter, something beyond my imagination. We do have an editor in chief. We have some divided responsibilities. So yes, if I manage to become a real leader, show leadership to my team, I think there is a very good foundation for future success.

One of those days

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Well, the challenge is more and more to write something inspiring, but today was one of those days where nothing seemed to work out as I expected or intended to. Up to just five minutes ago as on my own computer for some kind of weird reason I could not even edit or create a new post or page in this site with the standard WordPress editor, which was very weird as nothing changed in the site and yesterday it just worked.

So this morning started with one of our two main servers not starting, which is kind of annoying as many things will slow down and some things are not available as they only reside on that server. This morning also started with a weird water problem where I finally found out that the tank was empty, which should not be as I can’t image we consume that much water. Ah, and before the electricity went off wich was something I took as a signal to continue with the improvement of our water system that I had planned for today. Before that something needed to be printed, where of course the printer was connected to the system that was down. At that time someone was cleaning so it was a lot of hassle to print as I had to pass the floor being cleaned (and very wet and slippery) many, many times. Also there was one envelope left where I needed two. Ah, and of course the server didn’t have a CD-ROM device attached that I needed for repairing the system. And I can’t remember other things, but I’m quite sure there were some other things I didn’t like either. Ah, and forgot, just when a customer called through Skype, a call that hadn’t pushed through for a few days, the internet connection was down. And when I had switched to our other connection, which of course was more hassle than usual because I felt so down about this computer being down, he was not available anymore.

So my mood was very down and indeed, it somehow was one of those days where it seems nothing can go right.

And still, it’s not the whole truth. It’s a feeling, a mood that indeed somehow also affects your environment. And I don’t know how that works, but something like Law of Attraction indeed seems to exist.

So yes, most of the day I felt very bad and had a bad mood and even felt physically exhausted. I guess you know the feeling. But somehow I did manage the things

So it felt like ‘just one of those day’s. But was it really? In a way yes, as normally there are not so many things breaking down at the same time. But looking at how the world works, 99% of everything around me still worked. So somehow I, or we, seem to focus on things that don’t work, not on things that work. I wrote about that also yesterday or a few days ago. And I’m not sure if you realize, but it’s kind of a miracle that most things work. Rationally it would be more likely that things wouldn’t work. And also I have put so many things in place as a back-up, like my duplicate file server system, that I somehow still could work. And I had had a warning from that server there was a disk problem a few weeks or months ago. So I had been warned aleady something like this might happen.

And somehow I still did the things I had planned for today. And many things more. So rationally it wasn’t really a bad day, even though I don’t plan so many things on a day like before, actually embarrassingly little, but that’s another story.

So somehow, doing these little things for quite a while now and keeping my daily promises to myself, no matter how small or could even be ‘nothing’, I have developed a habit of ‘doing the things I planned for a day’, which is even why I’m writing this post now even though it’s very late at night.

So inspiring, this post? Maybe, because also some things pointed me in the right direction, like the electricity going off made me move on the water, one of the things I had planned. And the server breakdown and the phone call somehow made me do some little work on something I had planned for a site. And I have developed to ‘push through’ in a more relaxed way than before, indeed from ‘habit’ and not from ‘have to’.

So yes, I’m not there as I feel it, far from it, but somehow something changed. Thank you Napoleon HIll and Lynn Grabhorn and Abraham Hicks and many, many other people.