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Star Trek: Enterprise

I am still missing the big enterprises that were undertaken during the sixties and seventies where the biggest enterprise humanity ever undertook was sending men to the moon. And I may be wrong and it may just be my age, a boy growing up in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century. But to me the Concorde, the Boeing 747 and the moon program were bigger than anything every invented by men. And I know this is not fully true, as the invention of the steam engine and the use of it and the invention of trains and cars and planes I think are similar things in a different era. And maybe also the pyramids and the roman road network all over Europe may be similar large things. But what I’m missing is ‘something big’, like John F. Kennedy stating that he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade in the sixties AND HE DID.

And in current times of unemployment and downturn in economy, don’t we need something like that, something big for humanity that would bring us to the next level? And there may be many things, but to me the idea of going to the stars like in Star Trek, I think also something from the same era I just mentioned, is still appealing and I’m quite sure humanity one day will really build something like the Enterprise from Star Trek. And is that not indeed the next logical step for mankind? Going to the stars?

So I was wondering, today, could we really do that already, do we have the technology already available in a similar way as the technology was available at the beginning of the sixties related to the flying of the moon? And are there already people mentioning goals like that, setting goals like that? Wouldn’t that be an exciting idea for humanity to build something like the Star Ship Enterprise from the Star Trek series, the Star Trek brand?

What about saying, what about me saying something like “let’s go for the stars before halfway this century”? Let’s send a ship like the Star Trek Enterprise that would be fully self supporting ‘towards the stars’. Wouldn’t that be an exciting goal?

I think I’m going to check if there are already people thinking this, doing this, starting this.

Let’s just do it!

Discouraged

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Again I was inspired by Abraham Hicks who said something like if you are discouraged you cannot feel well. And I realized that may have been the main thing that blocks me: being discouraged.

And the discouragement comes from having worked so hard, having pushed so hard business, career wise and it didn’t work out.

And I believed in working hard and persistence. But I’m 50 years old and my working hard and my persistence didn’t pay off in building a proper career, having some kind of financial security let alone having a thriving business.

So recently I kind of stopped. Also based on the ideas of Abraham Hicks that doing things from resistance and not from inspiration does not work. And it seems this idea is correct as I did a lot of things in my life, have taken a lot of action, have been persistent and all those things and for a long, long time I had the feeling it didn’t work as I thought it should work. And the last two years or so everything slowly fell apart business wise and financially.

So what now? If hard work doesn’t pay off, if ‘doing things’, ‘taking action’ doesn’t work, if ‘persistence’ as I thought what persistence was doesn’t work, what then?

Well, I kind of stopped. And I’m kind of waiting. But that also doesn’t seem to be the solution. However, taking (uninspired) action also doesn’t work. And the last year or so patience did work in the most important area in my life. And with my team here on Inspiration for Success patience also seems to pay off.

But not easy if you’re a ‘doer’ and are out of money. And weird also as I’m becoming more and more successful in all kinds of areas in my life. Except in finance. Weird, but it was also the start of this project and of the sample goal.

But how can I believable as insprirator if I consider myself not successful, if I can’t even support myself financially?

Good intentions

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Today started for me very slow as I didn’t feel like doing anything as I didn’t feel inspired. So based on the idea that any action from a place of resistance in general would produce negative results I decided to wait, do nothing, just lie down for a while pondering what I wanted.

So finally the inspiration came and i decided to write some more about the quotes of Abraham Hicks for day eleven, like indeed that uninspired action is worse than doing nothing.

So I started inspired, intending to write this blog post, or actually a better version of it and found myself handling some e-mail and doing some little things. So I didn’t work on the thing I intended. And then my partner started a whole sermon about our financial situation, which is indeed very bad. And then basically the whole rest of the day i found myself caught up in all kinds of ‘little things’ feeling like i was ‘doing nothing’ and making no progress.

And I still feel a bit that way and i would love to write some inspiring quote right now. But it’s quite late now and I don’t really feel like it anymore. So I guess I’ll just stop for now and maybe try tomorrow.

One thought in my mind though still I wanted to share, because somehow I have the feeling that indeed the Universe is lining up to make my dreams come true, to make the things happen, to make the things possible I have been longing for so long.

And somehow the whole sermon of my partner was a very good thing and kind of fits in what I want as I wanted him more involved in our relationship in these kind of things. So he is taking charge and that’s exactly what I wanted I realized slowly while it was happening. And my dream was to have more visitors in the house and the last weeks, even months, more and more people are visiting.

So things are happening, even though I’m not there yet. But indeed, quoting Abraham Hicks again from today’s quote: “Your Inner Being is aware of where you stand and what you want and where yo stand relative to what you want. Your Inner Being knows how close or how far you are, vibrationally and time wise from all things. Your Inner Being is also knowing what is in your heart and what is in your mind and what is in your vibration. At any point in time your Inner Being knows exactly the action or thought or word that would be appropriate for you.”.

And that’s exactly how i am starting to feel and to know. And i’m not so far anymore from what I want, that’s what I feel. Not very, very close, but certainly not far anymore. Maybe even closer than I want to admit.

So not bad, even kind of writing the quote I intended to write. Seems I’m becoming very successful, doing the things I plan and be disciplined and such. But that’s another story.

Discouraged

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Sky I’m starting to realize more and more what’s going on with me. This morning I read the quotes In the thirty day Law of Attraction workbook for day ten and I realize that I’m still trying to force things. I guess that’s kind of my character, but until now it didn’t bring me real success. So how to do better, what to do? Or not do?

And what struck me most was the sentence “Someone who is really discouraged does not have access to wellbeing”. And that’s what’s going on with me. And apparently that was also the case when I read it the first tme as I underlined the word discouraged.

And the same pages says something that you can’t go from deeply down to sky-high up. That is kind of always in my mind, but sometimes I forget and am just annoyed as i just want to feel good. And of course the being annoyed often makes it worse.

So I am really discouraged, and I mean really. And not just now, but for a long, long time. And it affects me a lot, it affects my life a lot, it affects the people around me a lot.

And i know a bit where it comes from. It comes from all the actions I did, all the ‘doing’ I did that didn’t work out, that didn’t work out as I expected or was supposed to be expected. I think it started somewhere when my parents gave me the idea that I just did well at school, finished my study, all would be OK, all would be well in life. And it wasn’t, it didn’t. And also rationally it didn’t make sense when it happened, and it still kind of does not, especially related to career and finance, but also related to relationship, the two most important things in my life.

So I had this Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and my expectation was, based on what my parents had told me, taught me, that the world would be waiting for me, that I would just get a job and live happily ever after. And it didn’t. Because times were not that good related to finding a job and what I wanted, looking back, would not be easy to find, business wise. And looking back my character, my personality also didn’t really help finding a job, making an employer happy.

And I was gay. And the same thing. The thing put in my mind was to ‘just’ meet my lover, my partner, my life partner and live happily ever after. But especially being gay it’s not easy to find a partner, especially when you’re young, like twelve to twenty or so. At least at that time, but I’m quite sure it’s kind of still the same now. So I didn’t find a partner, not for a long time, until the moment I gave up on finding one.

So I found one, a partner, a life partner. And we fell in love and we were going to be partners for a life time. But we didn’t, it didn’t happen, no matter how much we both wanted it, no matter how badly we both tried.

And yes, I did find a job. And an inspiring boss, an inspiring manager, who saw something in me. But after a while also something there went wrong, very wrong, badly wrong.

And looking back, while writing now, it’s all so logical. And most things were not really my doing or wrongdoing. They were just things that happened, mainly to other people, the other people who had given me the chance, the hope and yes, the ideas.

So yes, that’s the reason for this site. And I have so much to tell, so much to share.

But it’s not easy if you’re completely discouraged, if business wise you’re completely down. If you’re completely down financially, if your relationship still could use some more spirit. If you just feel pulled down by all those practical things. And if you just started a site about inspiration and success. And feel responsible for being inspiring. And want to be successful to show that to other people, to inspire other people by being successful.

But sometimes, like now, I can’t go from deep down to high up.

But still, it’s the reason this site is here, it’s the reason why I found people who are helping me now to make this happen. But it’s not always easy being the leader.

But yes, it’s the reason why the site is here, why the team is here, why the project is here. So indeed, Napoleon Hill is right that

“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit”.

But I need so much something going really right. Something like knowing that some of my efforts, yes, among other things based on the Principles of Success, would pay off as I would like to, as I expected, as I really want and need.

But from the ideas of Abraham Hicks I also know that the only action that pays off is inspired action. But where to find inspiration when you’re deep down?

Well, again, that’s what this site is all about, so what inspires me, what inspires you, not only high up but also deep down?

I want WORLD peace

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I am still kind of doing the thirty day Law of Attraction program, especially reading the ‘quotes’. And today I was on day nine that has a very interesting morning quote. It’s about right and wrong and good and bad. And it’s about that I/we am/are always the good guys (or girls) and that he or they are always the bad guys. And this is so true. Recently I talked to someone about these things and we talked about that around the period of the second world war the Germans were the bad guys. And long time ago I realized that it’s not that simple, that this whole thing played out in a certain time period with a certain culture, with certain beliefs. So looking at it from the here and the now doesn’t make much sense. And what would you do at the time when you were German, or American, or English, or…?

And someone mentioned: what it the Germans had won the war? There could have been a European Union much earlier.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it is a good thing so many Jews and other people were killed during World War II. But there is also a story, a background to that. So again, it’s so easy to have a judgement on ‘who is the bad guy’ in this case.

So today’s message from Abraham Hicks is something like it’s always ‘we are the good guys’ and ‘they are the bad guys’. And that’s for everybody. And mostly it’s about standing for your family of friends or country or religion. But if you look at it then we are all ‘right’, because who would say it’s wrong to stand for your values or family or friends or country or religion.

So indeed, let’s do something like ‘live and let live’. Just try to be happy without offending someone else or judging someone else.