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Tired

I feel tired. And that’s weird as I have not been working hard the last few days. But maybe that’s also what makes me tired. I’d rather be busy. But I’m not, in a way, although of course there are plenty things I could do. But I’m not inspired in doing any of those things and partly related to what I learned recently that uninspired action doesn’t pay off I’m careful doing things that I don’t feel like doing.

I also feel more like organizing things and thinking what to do than actually doing things. So it’s also not true that I’m not doing anything. I’m just trying to find the right way of moving, moving forward. And I know this may sound like excuses and procrastination, but it’s not. I am starting to believe more and more that uninspired action doesn’t work and that sometimes being patient is the best thing you can ‘do’.

What frustrated me today however a bit was that one of my team members told me he was busy, too busy. And I was happy with what he told me, with what he was busy with. As all the things he mentioned were indeed ‘valid’ things to be busy with. And things worthy of doing. And also things that would be hard to be done by someone else.

So I’m thinking about how to organize things better, for me, for my team, for my work and maybe even for the rest of the world. As I think we can do better, balance the work better so everybody would be more happy. And everybody would get ‘more’.

As I’m not happy not having enough work, work I consider useful. And my team mate is not happy having too much work, a situation I also know from other times.

Being successful

Wow, today was a very good day. And I don’t consider myself successful, but how many people have created a virtual team around some web project without any money, just a little bit of time. So how successful is that? Quite successful I think. And it’s even more amazing if you consider that ‘team‘ or Master Mind were my weakest points.

And there are so many things in my mind I want to share, so many things that led up to this first team meeting with a complete team where everything felt like being in harmony.

And then knowing that this all started at the lowest point in my life ever, where I was thinking of killing myself. And that indeed this all started with a thought, with a decision, but also the Universe lining up to this moment, to this team meeting that felt like a success.

And I’m not there yet. I’m not saying ‘yes, yes, yes, this is it’ yet. But it’s starting to feel like something is happening, something good is happening, something great is about to happen.

So there is something in the ideas of Napoleon Hill and Lynn Grabhorn and Abraham Hicks. And sometimes they seem contradictory, but somehow they are the same and complement each other.

So yes, thank you Universe, team, Inner Self or whatever force is driving life, is driving my life.

So yes, life is good.

Filthy rich

I am starting to see more and more how I, and with me I guess most or all of the people in the world, have been programmed in a very negative way. And the term filthy rich is one of those things most of us are programmed with. You see, probably your parents or teachers or anyone else when you grew up and even now would have probably told you and put in your mind that money doesn’t grow on trees. They even told you, programmed you that money can only be earned with hard work, with honesty, with honest work and more of those things. But looking around me and with my own experience with working hard and honest these things are not true. They can’t be, otherwise I would be ‘filthy rich’ now. And I’m not, quite the opposite. And also looking around most rich people don’t work that hard. Or at least the seem to do the work they like to do. But mostly they put others to work or are just very sociable or something.

So think again. This belief that money doesn’t grow on trees and that hard work will bring you money are certainly not true. And rich people are certainly not bad or abusive. That’s also something we’ve been told. No, in my opinion they’re just rich and they’re just people.

Back to the origins

"RambutanI have been thinking a lot about this site lately. Like what’s is purpose and how to continue with it. And the good thing is I’ve learned an awful lot from it. And it ranks now on position four or so for the phrase inspiration for success. And it ranks on the first page of Google for inspiration success. And a similar position for the phrase inspiration to success. And from a search engine position perspective, from an internet exposure perspective that’s not bad, actually very good. Especially if you take into account that most of my posts were kind of personal experiences, often also complaints and not really inspirational texts. And the same applies to the pages. And I do have kind of a team, but they don’t seem to do much, they’re not really into building this site into something useful, something big. At least I don’t see much action, e.g. putting some kind of decent content in the site, either in quality or quality.

And I guess it’s kind of logical as in the beginning I was kind of desperate to have a team, a Master Mind as I presumed that was my biggest weakness. So my team is not the best team in the world. It doesn’t consist of “winners”. And yes, as Napoleon Hill states in Think and Grow Rich I’m starting to realize what it means being a leader. And indeed, I’m starting to see and feel that indeed it’s the leader who fails if the team doesn’t perform. And it’s not easy you see, being a leader. I always thought it was about fame and money and being looked up to and being celebrated and such. But it’s different. At least for now for me it is.

So indeed, it’s my project, it’s my dream, it’s my vision and I’ve been trying to pass that responsibility to the team. And you cannot do that as there can only be one leader and he or she has to lead, has to set the goal and the pace and make the plans and decide and especially in this case has to inspire the team has to inspire other people, even if he or she feels down and doesn’t know anymore. Because there is no one else who can take that role. So I guess I have to be grateful that the project is not moving as I think it could or should and that the team is not really moving. As it just makes clear that I’m not doing the right thing. Or it’s not really about ‘doing’, that’s also what I’m starting to see.

So yes, I’m tired as I have been many times in my life. Tired of how things were going. But somehow I’m not as tired as before as indeed, if I want to be the leader, if I am the leader, it’s up to me how to change it.

So still, things are falling into place somehow, even in some areas of my life I’m at the lowest level ever. But that’s not important. Regardless of that I can still be a leader and maybe I should hide these things a bit more as they may even pull the team down. And yes, I believe in honesty. I even considered that as one of my highest or even the highest value I had and have. But too much honesty is not always the right thing. And I don’t mean that I should lie or something. But there may be a reason I’m in Asia, where people are much more careful in what to tell or not to tell. Or what to do or not to do. And not be so direct about it.

So what’s next. The main issue I have is that in order to make this site, this project Inspiration for Success work, a lot of work has to be done. Research needs to be done on the subject of inspiring people and on the subject of success. And articles need to be written. And tools need to be made. And before that I think some planning needs to be made, by the team. It should be discussed where this project, this site is going. What do we want to offer. And then, maybe the biggest issue, how are we going to be paid.

And that’s part of the origin of the site, even though I sometimes deny it to myself. Part of the origin of the site is that I want to be rich, filthy rich. And I thought, and still think, this site could be a means to achieve that. And next to that I want to mean something in the world. I have some messages to the world. Because I think things can be better, better for many people. So I need a platform where I can share my ideas, my messages to the world. And this site can be a means to that. And I even prefer the project, because ‘the project’ means to me something like ‘going out to the world’, ‘tell the world’. And it is weird, as that would at the same time fulfill my need to travel and to be in the spotlight. And then last but not least I want to inspire people. I want people like me, especially younger people, to end up different, better than me. As I feel like I had no one who inspired me, no one who supported me, where I often read that most famous and/or successful people had ‘someone’ in their life that made their ‘break’ possible. And I had no one. So I”ll make my own brake, I’m making my own break now. But I want it easier for other people, for people like me when I was a teenager, or when I was a student, or when I was in my first job, or maybe my second.

So yes, it’s a weird mix of things, of ‘give and take’, of ‘give and receive’. But that’s what life seems to be about, about balance. But life is also about abundance as especially recently I see how abundant nature is,  how much ‘waste’ there is. And the simplest thing to see this abundance, this ‘waste’ is the Rambutan tree in our garden. It bears so much fruit that we can’t even eat it and we even don’t manage to give away fruits to friends and not having more than enough for ourselves to eat.

So yes, there is abundance. The Universe is abundant.

How I want to give service and how I want to be paid

I have been thinking a lot about how to be paid. And related to that of course about how to give service and what service to give. And I decided that I want people, I want you, to pay me the amount you think my service is worth to you, to people. That’s all. And that’s how I want the business model, the payment model of Inspiration for Success to be. Just pay us what you think it’s worth, what makes you happy to pay.

And I think that’s a good payment model as I would know if I am, we are, giving good service to you. And as of the moment my conclusion is that I’m not giving good service to you, to the world as not may people go to our site and as far as I know not many people have paid.

But keep in mind there’s a catch, because if you came this far in this post it means I have been writing something of value to you. So if you’re not happy paying me for the value of my effort writing this post, building this site and doing the other things we have in mind for the brand Inspiration for Success, then please stop reading right now. As if you would continue reading there would be value here, otherwise you would have stopped reading and left the page. So then it should make you feel happy to give something back to me, to pay me.

And I know this is not how the world works right now, at least not for me and probably also not for you. Because I have the feeling we’re living in a world of ‘give and take’ and not in a world of ‘give and receive’. And I think we can do better. Because I also have the feeling I have given a lot. And I didn’t receive much. Meaning either I didn’t give any service to you, to other people, or they didn’t see what I gave them or they don’t appreciate what I did and do.

So if you came this far I would like to ask you what you consider the value of these few paragraphs for you. Is it one cent? Ten cents? One dollar maybe? Or even more if I gave you some idea or made you move? Or you were just enjoying what I have written here? Or you think it’s just bullshit and just think I’m crazy?

And I don’t mind the answer, or actually I do, because if would help me build my life, build this site, build my business better. But keep in mind, if you came this far in this post there must have been something of value here. So it might make you happy to give something in return.