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Goals

I have been thinking a lot about my goals related to Inspiration for Success as the whole team doesn’t support the financial goals that we have set (1) and proposed (2). So I just encountered this quote:

“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.” – Bob Proctor.

And it seems that’s what it’s all about, I mean, it just sounded that the team members were too scared (‘get the chills’) to set the goals and stick with them. So today I kind of (?!) decided to stick with the two financial goals that we have set for inspiration for Success for this period:

Earn or receive one hundred US dollars on or before October 22, 2013 by inspiring people for success.
Earn or receive one million dollars for each of the team members on or before October 19, 2014 by inspiring people for success.

And you may want to know that especially the first goal chilled me out as for me the timing was so short and the website didn’t make the progress as i wanted and expected, in content as well as traffic. And the second goal was already set for me, even for October this year, so that was not such a big deal to me.

And you know why I want to stick to those goals? Because the last few days I realized that I am fully off track related to the teachings of Napoleon Hill and his book Think and Grow Rich. And I realized I’m the leader, that I need to set the goals, that I need to lead the way. And I don’t. So that’s why things are not moving.

Basically the movie Star Trek Into Darkness I was watching yesterday made me think about those things, that a leader is alone and needs to make his own decisions and cannot always do what his team members advise him. At least that’s what I saw Captain James T. Kirk do. And it wasn’t always easy for him and it wasn’t always fun, but it seemed the type of thing a real leader should do, what is expected from a real leader.

So well, better get to work and make those goals come true.

And one more thing I notice more and more in movies: the (mostly famous) actors and the team creating movies as of the moment, at least the big movies in the cinema’s, all seem to have some kind of (deep) message and all are created very, very professional. So yes, going all the way, going the extra mile seems to be the thing needed to be successful. And it’s worth it, just doing things good, like if you do something worth doing, then better do it well, better overdo it.

And someone else to thank today, as she listened to me and gave some very good suggestions and advice. But not sure if I can mention her name her for privacy reasons, so better not now, but I’ll ask her.

Balance the principles of success

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As you may know one of my biggest challenges for this project, and maybe in life, is and was work in a team, work as a team, or work in or with a Master Mind as Napoleon Hill calls it. But looking back at the last year, at how this project came into being and where it is now I can only say that I made big progress and yes, can consider myself quite or even very successful. And yes, at the back of my mind is continuously something like ‘money’, or actually lack of money, but I am starting to see and believe that life is not about money as it often seems to be for many of us. And that indeed success is not only measured in terms of money as i always thought it was. And yes, I still want money, lots of it, as I always wanted. But not so much anymore for the sake of money, but more for the sake of doing the things I want to do and even giving the things i want to give, like visiting friends or family. And for the freedom I think it can give me, give you. But actually I don’t want to talk about that now.

What I was and am planning to talk about was the team, my team challenge, and while writing this I realize the thing i wanted to talk about is somehow also related to money. So let’s see where this goes.

My main issue here is that I do believe, according to the Principles of Success, that i should stick with decisions that have been made, especially if they are supported by the whole team. So i let go of my original sample goal, or at least the date. So I kind of settled with the intermediate goal of the team to acquire one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013 (and not one million dollar on a similar time scale as I originally stated) for ‘teams sake’. And don’t get me wrong, this is not a negative as I am starting to see how much more indeed a team, a Master Mind is.

You may want to know that the team, even though in my opinion did not contribute so much in actual work for e.g. the site, already contributed so much in additional ideas and thoughts and, indeed, reality checks, that I indeed see the value and how much more you can achieve with team effort than you can alone, even though often I feel ‘held back’. But I know that in the end my patience will pay off as I can see and feel now that when the team is synchronized and focused on the goal or the goals the speed and impact will be enormous, indeed much, much, much more that I can and could have ever imagined.

However, somehow now I need to convince the team that mindset is indeed everything and that if you don’t believe that you can make one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013, it quite sure will not happen. And that if you do believe it that it is quite likely to happen, probably even much sooner. I mean, what is one hundred dollars to be acquired by four people in a period of six weeks? I earned more than that amount more than ten years ago in one hour being a consultant at KPMG. So why couldn’t I, supported by three people, not even earn that now in six weeks time, let alone why can’t four people earn that in six weeks time, if we would want to get it by ‘earning’? And I’m quite sure I can get it in five minutes from my mam. And I’m quite sure my team members also know people who would easily be willing to give one hundred dollars for a good cause if they would just be asked. You may call this type of ‘asking’ cheating related to the goal, but my point is here that somehow we as the team have limited ourselves in ‘earning’, acquiring money. And I have known that for a long time, but some of my team members apparently not.

Anyhow, going back to team I am experiencing two issues here:

One of the team members doesn’t believe anymore that we can make one hundred US dollars on or before October 22, 2013.
One of the team members thinks one million dollars on or before October 19, 2013 is ‘not realistic’.

And to me the first issue is the most important as there are several things conflicting with the principles of success here and the most important is to come back on a decision that has already been made. And over the last year I indeed learned about the powers of making decisions and sticking to them. And no, I didn’t stick to all my decisions but I did stick to my major decisions and it paid off and I am also starting to see or just seeing why.

But the team doesn’t have my experience, so somehow I need to pass that on or just be patient or let them experience themselves or…

But that was my biggest challenge.

What’s next

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Yeah, what’s next. No real customer requests today. And while writing this I realize that somehow there is an enormous abundance in the world of people wanting to do something. As I’m quite sure all those people demonstrating e.g. in Syria are just looking for jobs and I guess most people don’t want a job only for the money, but also want a job to have something to do. Or not? Maybe I should check some statistics for that.

So how can we organize better that we can do the things we love to do and give that effort to others and the other way around? I mean, I have plenty of time and a lot of drive to do things and I’m quite sure there are a lot of people who would like to receive the things I can do for them.

So how can we find each other?

Inspiring meeting

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Wow, I had an inspiring team meeting tonight and that really makes me happy. As you may know working in or with a team seems not to have been my strongest point and it may still not be, but tonight made me feel that I am making progress in the area of teamwork.

And the main issue of me related to teamwork seems to be patience. I just need to learn to slow down and let other people pick up ideas and such and not just push my thinking, probably especially not the things I have thought through. And I guess I am a quick thinker also, so it’s hard to imagine someone else is not that quick. But it might also be that everybody is a quick thinker for his own thoughts, for his own things, for his own issues, for his own goals, but that it is hard anyhow to get to someone else’s thoughts, especially if it’s a subject that’s not really yours or a subject that the other didn’t think through as you did.

And looking at myself I still see myself type a lot as in tonight’s chat or talk a lot, but maybe that’s just me (and/or my impatience). But I’m asking myself more and more what the effect is of that, if it adds to what I want to achieve or not.

So still a learning process, but I am starting to see that you can do much, much more in a team than you can do alone. As long as you allow the team to grow, and that, indeed, takes some patience.

Another lost day?

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Well, today seems another kind of lost day, like yesterday also was (a bit?). I haven’t felt this bad since a long time, but maybe it’s just what I need. Maybe I have just been focusing too much on this Law of Attraction type thing, like constantly looking for things that made me happy and leaving things to the Universe. But somehow deep inside I don’t believe the money will come pouring in without doing anything and that my Pajero will suddenly stand in front of the main door. But I also know that by working hard and kind of trying to force things, which I tend to do, these things also don’t come, at least not for me. So what now?

And the main thing is still this customer who doesn’t push through with his project I am kind of waiting for, I have done so much effort for. And a personal need that is not being taken care of, but for which I need someone who doesn’t want to cooperate. And those two things are bothering me an awful lot and no matter how much I tried (and did) the last few weeks to focus on the positive, to focus on being happy no matter what, leaving things to the Universe, worrying a lot less or not at all about many things, especially money and many more of these things somehow it stopped, slowly after finishing the thirty day Law of Attraction program.

And the main thing is I just miss some fun, some things I want to do, some nice things I want to do, some nice things I really need. And they’re just not there and I have no clue how to get them. And all this virtual reality stuff kind of works, but I think there are some limits to it.

You see, I just need a break, just something happening of all these things I wanted and thought about and vibrated and visualized and so on. And yes, some of the things I wanted happened and I was happy about them. And a major thing, my major thing in life is unfolding. But somehow I need something to push though, like just getting this customer move on with his project or finding another customer with some kind of big project.

You see, I’m just sitting here in the house, feeling locked up because I don’t have a car or other good transportation and without money to travel around, not even visiting friends in the city. And yes, i just need some friends, some friends i can share things with, some friends who understand me.

And with these kind of things I just starting to beat myself up, like I need those things and that’s how it feels. And that’s exactly what i shouldn’t do, be needy. I should want, not need, at least if I may believe Abraham Hicks.

And with these things I’m kind of back to square one, inside screaming for a job, for something to do, for fitting in and yes, earn some money. And one of those needs is just a normal human need I don’t know how fulfill, at least not in the way how I want to live my life. So should I go outside of what I feel is ‘right’? I don’t think so, as sometimes I do and that only makes it worse.

So how can i be myself and fulfill my needs when I don’t know how and when the Universe doesn’t seem to cooperate?

And do you recognize any of this or is this typically me, being me?