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Six steps, decisions and mindset

Today I was talking to someone and of course somehow the issue of some goal he wanted to achieve came up. And as I have very good experience with the six steps that lead to a desire document of course I couldn’t resist to get my copy of Think and Grow Rich and show him the paragraph about the six steps. And of course he didn’t have an exact amount in his mind (as his goal was about some money goal). And to my amazement he came up with a money amount related to ‘willing to give’, meaning something like ‘willing to invest’. And indeed, when two or more people meet something like Master Mind starts to happen. As these two figures mentioned put my mind straight away into some solutions finding mode even though the ‘willing to give’ amount didn’t make direct sense to me as well as the date he mentioned.

And then I took the liberty of explaining a bit about the power of making decisions and sticking to them by example. I did that before like putting some imaginary goal in one place and some other imaginary goal in another place. And then just ‘go get it’, no matter which goal or, as obviously doesn’t work, starting to doubt and running from one side to the other and never reaching either of the goals.

So quite some experience with just asking someone to mention what he wants and what he is willing to give.

Find something to be happy about

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The idea to find something to be happy about, no matter what, appeals to me. However, today I didn’t really succeeded in that. Somehow I’m still too much bothered with my financial situation and not feeling needed by anyone in a business type way. And the worst thing is that this is something that has been haunting me almost all my (grown up) life. And I still don’t really know what to do about it, even though I have learnt the last few months that ‘I’ am not defined by my capacity to earn or something. Still, I feel blocked in almost anything I want to do for fun, like traveling or even visiting friends or acquaintances. And I have the feeling I’m complaining here which I’m also quite sure I do. But I just feel frustrated not being needed by anyone in a business type of way with the things I like to do: web development, programming, internet marketing and everything around it. And I know I’m good at it. I know I have some specific ideas that are good. And I also know other people are good at it, just in a different way.

But the good thing maybe is that I have things to think about related to this project, related to Inspiration for Success. And I believe, i have to believe, that has to pay off somehow, somewhere, sometime, also in money or fame or something.

But for now, today, I just felt lousy. But a friend of mine just said that’s part of being human. And even Abraham Hicks I think confirms that.

So if you’re in that state, don’t worry. And even if I’m not seeing it right now, not feeling it right now, I know there will be a time when I’m feeling better. Probably tomorrow or maybe even earlier.

Scary to see my desire document come alive

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Yesterday I made my desire document for my short term personal goal related to Inspiration for Success. And I printed it yesterday but forgot to fetch it from the printer. And this morning I got it from the printer and read it, indeed, aloud. And this first version didn’t feel good yet, but that’s how I do it. And I do a similar thing with desire documents what Napoleon Hill suggests with plans: write them down so they can be analyzed. And with desire documents my way of dealing with them is write them down and use them until they feel good. And don’t change them. Don’t change anything of the basic desire, the basic want, the basic goal and what you’re willing to give. Just change some details or ways you want to do things or change how you wrote the desire until it feels good.

And why I am writing this post on Sunday, normally my resting day, is because again, this morning I read my ‘life desire document’ and it was kind of scary to read it as it is really coming alive. Parts of it I can now read in past tense as these things have materialized. And somehow it’s even happening in the order I have written them. And the other parts are coming alive in real life now. So the scary part is that some of these things I can now read in past tense I considered impossible at the time of writing. And some of these things have materialized. And the other things feel like materializing, e.g. some things I can see materialize in the form of this project Inspiration for Succes.

So indeed, the six steps Napoleon Hill describes seem to have an enormous power, they seem to somehow activate the brain and things around us. Because believe me, some of the things ‘just happened’ by doing nothing, by being patient, but yes, by having faith, nourishing faith.

And believe me, I never imagined this project Inspiration for Success as it materializes. But somehow it matches what I wrote down in my desire document. So also those things being taught by Abraham Hicks like not worrying about how things will materialize make sense.

So I can really recommend to start with you desire document today. Just start the six steps and write the result down in readable form. And start reading it aloud twice a day. And if you skip a day, or a week, or a month, don’t worry. I also did. And that’s the amazing part, because somehow the steps put these thing so deep inside you, in your subconscious mind that indeed the Universe has no option but to comply with your desire.

My desire document

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A very important date in my desire document was September 10, 2013. Maybe the most important day of my life, at least it was when I wrote the initial version of the document which must have been September 10, 2012. And the date passed with not much feeling of success, which was kind of an anti-climax. But maybe it was the same thing a sportsman feels when he passes the finish and just knows that he made it, that he could have made it, and is just tired of the game he played. Because somehow I made my goal, a goal that was impossible at the time of writing. So I don’t feel too excited about having achieved my goal, at least in the spirit of the goal although I reached the goal litterally as I wrote it. So a big success, but there are too many things in my life that I desire to be different from what it is now, so I guess, I know I don’t sound excited right now. But what i wanted to share is that I am starting to see the power of a desire document and that I am starting to believe that I can indeed achieve all the things that i wrote there in the spirit of the Principles of Success.

So several things in my mind and the first is that I want to write my personal desire document for this project. And going back to the origin of the project I have to write it myself and it has to be mine, it has to be a personal desire document. And i am struggling now with my leadership role. As I kind of don’t want it, even though one of my desires is to stand in the spotlight. And somehow I always wanted to stand in the spotlight and I think never really stood, but I am starting to realize what price I, you have to pay when you are standing in the spotlight. So I am also starting to understand more of the problems leaders are dealing with. It looks so nice being famous and being rich and yes, I still want to be that, both. And it’s becoming a real desire now. But I’m also starting to see that there is a price to pay, a price that may be bigger than I thought, bigger than I expected. And so yes, a leader also deserves ‘more of the pie’ than the followers. I can see and feel that more now, even though that’s not really what I want anymore, having more than others, which I also always wanted and what may have blocked my way to riches, to abundance.

Anyhow, today felt like the time to make a desire document related to my desire to have one million dollars through this project. As recently I also went back to the origins of the project which was basically what someone called ‘a get rich quick scheme’. And I guess he was right. And I am very thankful for him saying that to me. As he made me realize what I was doing and I guess it was not really what I wanted. So yes, all adversity carries within it the seed of a greater benefit. I am also seeing the truth of that now, as if this person had not made that remark to me the project would not have been where it is now.

So let’s get to work and take the leadership role by writing my first draft of the desire project for my short term monetary goal with this project. And it may still be a ‘get rich quick’ desire. But I don’t care anymore. As I am also starting to see that there is nothing wrong in wanting something, no matter what other people say. And also the origin of the project and things like ‘the world likes success’ even needs me to be rich. As that’s what success means to me related to this project. That is also the success as described in Think and Grow Rich.

And yes, I keep kind of apologizing for wanting a lot of money. As I am still kind of thinking like the people on the way to poverty. But I want out of it and yes, I also want you out of it. And indeed, me being rich doesn’t harm anybody, doesn’t harm you. On the contrary. Money grows on trees and we have been taught the wrong things for quite some time. The world is abundant, just look around you. And somehow we’re blocking that with all our fears and negative ideas about money.

And I would like to share more of this process of mine, where my current thinking comes from. But maybe it’s just a process and maybe that’s why the call it The Secret.

And keep in mind, about willing to give. I am giving away part of my privacy here. I am willing to state bluntly that I want one million dollars through this project, meaning from you, the people who I am trying to serve. But I’m starting to believe that’s ok, if you’re doing it the right way. But again, that’s about what probably all the rich people know and you and I don’t (yet) as we’re not rich. And if you are rich you will probably not reading this post, but if you are I’m also very happy to see your comments about what I am writing here.

Pause

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Well, this thirty day Law of Attraction document has really done something to me. I accept my moods more and I accept other people and other people’s moods more. And it made me more easy on money, on spending. And the last I didn’t really write about here I think as somehow it didn’t come up. And I wasn’t really thinking about it when I was starting this post, but well, this seems the right time.

One of the ‘exercises’ in the document is to spend each day a certain amount of virtual money. And that amount is increasing. It starts with 1,000.00 units of your currency and it increases every day with that amount. And sometimes I still feel like a fool doing this, as I kept continuing this, but somehow it makes sense to do it. And the weirdest thing began when I started with the program. At first I wanted to use the US dollar as the currency. But somehow it didn’t feel right and I decided to stick with ‘my’ current currency, the Philippine peso. But spending an amount starting with PHP 1,000.00 every day and increasing with that amount every day is something completely different than spending USD 1,000.00 increasing with USD 1,000.00 every day. So I thought. And somehow I thought I felt a bit stupid starting with ‘only’ PHP 1,000.00 instead of USD 1,000.00. As after a year I would end up spending PHP 365,0000.00 per day instead of USD 365,000.00 is a completely different thing as the US dollar is around 40 or 45 times as much as the peso.

So I thought I was limiting myself in abundance, using PHP instead of USD. And maybe I was. But something completely different is happening. As as of the moment it’s around 45 days ago that I started doing this. So as of the moment I am spending a virtual amount of PHP 45,000.00 a day instead of USD 45,000.00 a day. But I can’t even spend the PHP 45,000.00 and I often even forget about it during the day as I just don’t need it and just wouldn’t know what to spend it on And while writing this I wouldn’t even know what to spend USD 45,000.00 on. Every day! And one of the rules is you have to spend it, you cannot give it away or ‘just save’ it. So while writing this actually I’m happy I chose the Philippine peso and not the US dollar. As I wouldn’t really know what to spend USD 45,000.00 on today, let alone USD 400,000.00 PER DAY about one year from now.

Ah, and what I actually wanted to tell you is that the amount increased so quickly, even starting with this PHP 1,000.00 per day increasing with PHP 1,000.00 per day that even today I wouldn’t have a clue what to spend it on. Lately often late at night, just before sleep I just make something up what to spend it on. I just forget about it during the day. And mostly it’s savings for my Bali holiday and savings for my Pajero, so it’s not even real spending ‘today’.

And yes, of course I know it’s not real money. And I can’t use it in real life and believe me, I could use some real money very much right now, more than ever. But that’s not the point.

The point is that I see more now what I really want. I don’t want the money, I just want the things I can buy with it. And it’s not even much what I really want related to the income group I think I belong to. And yes, I lowered my standards a bit being in such a financially rough shape I am now and I’ve never been before and couldn’t even imagine myself in. But again, that’s not the point. The point is that with just knowing that every day there is an increasing amount coming in I see more now that it’s better to live by the day, just use what you need, what you really want. And the point is that I don’t need ‘everything’, I don’t need hundred million dollars or so. And the point is that if I had it I wouldn’t even know what to spend it on. It’s just some kind of safety, but that kind of safety doesn’t exist in the world and somehow I’m starting to believe that it’s also not needed, maybe even unwanted.

Ah, and the main point is that I somehow learnt from it that worrying about ‘money’ doesn’t make sense. And that all those worries and ideas I have in real life about money indeed somehow prevent money coming in, prevent ‘abundance’.

And yeah, I really would like to continue writing about this and I can really recommend that you do this exercise also, maybe unless you’re a multimillionaire. And no, I have no clue where this goes in real life and of course I am very worried somehow, somewhere and I should be. But the exercise taught me things about money and about what worrying does. And what ‘knowing’ does. Things I didn’t know and didn’t realize until I did this exercise.

So yes, go for it and let me, let us know your experiences, if they are the same as mine or not.