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Not inspiring

Well, that’s the start of this blog, the title ‘not inspiring’ as today I kind of lost it, at least this afternoon and evening.

It’s still weird to me how little events, or the meaning I give to little events can completely destroy my mood and my day. And I guess it’s the same for you or at least for most of you, although I’m not sure of that.

And actually nothing really happened. Just some little things that annoyed me, like not being able to take a warm shower still after we fixed the water and not really getting going with work today.

The main thing was though that i found that I found that one of my customers had a sample site made on his new company domain, which made me think he made the decision already to build a WordPress site and not use the site that I offered him. And I know he is comparing different systems and I know in the end I’m the best. But seeing this, what I later found to be a sample only, site on his domain put me further down today.

There is some reason for that though as I’m kind of waiting for him to make some decisions, also with the site I already built for him and that I kind of messed up last year. But I thought in the end I gave him a very good option, a better solution than he has now and even with very good conditions. And his new site would be built with similar, known technology with very little risk for him in my opinion. But I’m in The Philippines and it’s not easy to compete from here an as of the moment I don’t have the budget to regularly fly to The Netherlands to visit my customers.

But yes, this site is important to me, at least the site I have built before and that I put an awful lot of time and energy in to satisfy this customer. And this customer is important to me as it might just be the breakthrough to the full restart of my company.

And I thought i learned a lot, like trying to listen to customers and not pushing my products and stuff. So in this case I’m trying to lie low, but it’s starting to last an awful lot of time and yes, I could also use the money to finally deliver this site. So not easy to try to think about the customer, about where he stands, what he wants, if you have a very good product that you know suits his needs perfectly and that you are also willing to adapt further to his needs. And that product and this customer you already put an awful lot of time and energy in and again, it feels like some ‘last resort’ as as of the moment I don’t see any other opportunities for my business.

So is this deal important to me? Yes, certainly. And should I focus on the customer, yes, I guess so. But it’s not easy to keep going extra miles and miles and miles and people don’t seem to appreciate what you’re doing, seem to want something else.

And that again brought me today in my ‘it’s never enough’ feeling, like it seems it’s never enough what I’m doing to satisfy bosses or friends or family or customers or staff or maybe even you.

So what’s next? How to stay in a good mood? How to be happy when your mind is going all the way to those negative thoughts?

So sorry, also the end of my post is not inspiring. Better next time.

Google, and people

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Well, not easy to get a web project like Inspiration for Success mainly is at the moment going. The website is about five months old and has no real traffic which I kind of expected, but not really this bad. You see, the main issue with websites and building them right or for the right audience is also getting feedback. And until now I/we don’t get much feedback, neither in the form of friends commenting nor in the form of people visiting the site, let alone people leaving comments.

And I know the site, especially the pages part is not of high quality yet. And maybe I underestimated the competition on words like ‘inspiration’ and ‘success’ and the ‘looking for self help’ type texts as I think I wrote in the form of my blog items.

And I also know that if I push through, if we push through, in the end we will be successful in building this site, in doing other things to inspire people. As that is what I needed and need so badly, someone or something inspiring me, as i feel like I never really had that. And I guess there are many people like me, having no supportive father or family. And please don’t get me wrong. I don’t feel supported the way I wanted to, the way I think I needed support. It doesn’t mean my father or family was not supportive. They were, but not in the way I needed it.

So here I am, writing again my daily post, and not really feeling inspired, let alone inspiring.

So what would inspire me? Well, I guess very simple. Just some feedback, any feedback, either comments in the site, but you can also e-mail me: guus@inspiration-for-success.com.

Abundance

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Today we went shopping to a supermarket and again I was amazed with the abundance we can see all around us. And as my credit card still works we were able to buy all the things I wanted. And it was strange, as before I used to think about that I didn’t have enough money, didn’t have enough income and that kind of ruined our shopping. And I never understood my partner at that time. And maybe I’m stupid buying all this stuff today while I have no clue where to get the money to pay for it when my credit card is due. But no, I don’t think so, as I’m starting to see what the ideas of the Law of Attraction are about, or at least the ideas I got related to that from the 30 day law of attraction program.

You see, one of the things i realized was that it wouldn’t really make any difference whether I would worry about where to get the money or not. We need the stuff anyhow and also buying a few more things or a few more things of a more expensive brand won’t really change anything in our financial situation. And before of course I knew this also rationally. But I didn’t feel it and therefore often was very worried and negative going shopping. So besides not having the money, or not enough, or not enough in my perception, I just made things worse by focusing on that. So before that often ruined my day, my shopping, my mood, the mood of my partner and many more things.

And today was different, which was weird, as actually I’ve never been in a worse financial shape than now and I still don’t see any improvement in that either. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t like it and it does affect my life in a negative way in some way. But unlike before I am now starting to refuse to let it ruin my life, ruin my day. And this means also that I see many more positive things around me, like today again I saw the abundance in the supermarket, all the products that are there in quantities I or my partner and I or the people in our household even together with friends could never consume. And again I saw many people behind all this, the service staff and a bit of the supply chains behind all this, behind the ‘providing me my food and other daily needs’. And I can only see a small part, as while thinking about these things there are thousands and thousands, maybe even ten thousand or more people involved in providing me with the stuff we bought today.Those few boxes and plastic bags with household stuff like foods and toilet stuff and cleaning stuff.

And again, don’t get me wrong as I don’t know where this goes with my life and my finance and if this law of attraction stuff (crap?) saying something like that with more positive vibrations I attract more positive stuff. But while writing this somehow it does already. As there are visiting more people this house recently for example, and that’s one of the things I wanted. And I don’t have so many fights with my partner anymore.

And no matter what, no matter this little tiny voice in my mind somewhere saying i’m stupid with this overspending, I do feel happier and I did have a happier day seeing more positive things. And is it really overspending? I work hard enough and I would love to pay all the dues I have. But the work is just not paying enough (yet?) and other money is not flowing in yet, so indeed, why not have a more positive mindset and be happy. What can be wrong with that?

Teamwork

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Yes, today I watched another movie. And the more I look around me the more I see that everything is teamwork, literally everything. In everything we do, in everything we receive, in everything that is there, there are many people involved, all contributing to the things we have.

So yes, I’m starting to become grateful for that, that I don’t have to grow my own food or have to shoot some animal for meat. And that’s even the simplest thing. What about the computer I’m using now or the TV I was watching earlier. Or just the electricity to make the lights shine or the simple native bed that I will sleep in later. Even that was made, was made possible by the effort of many people.

So thank you, all the people who make my life easier, even though we don’t always see that, feel that.

Overdoing (or doing?)

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It is twelve thirty (after midnight) and I just arrived home from a party. So I was wondering if I was not overdoing writing a post, or actually two, that I don’t really feel like writing. So while searching for the daily quote I searched for ‘inspiration quote overdoing’ and to my amazement the first thing I found were quotes like “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing” supposedly said by several famous (=successful?) people like Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, David Letterman and some more people whose names I didn’t recognize.

So unlike what I feel or what I think other people think overdoing might not be a bad thing if you would be able to ‘overdo’ something anyhow. And this site and my other site, or at least especially the posts in my other site are important to me. Especially the daily posts in my other site are kind of sacred to me as they are related to a promise I made to myself.

So here I am, writing my daily post and also realizing what I wrote in the previous sentence. It seems that even while I think I don’t care so much about the opinions of other people, and according to the principles of success I shouldn’t, I still do.

And I think something should change as I think I focus too much on my procedure, my obligation to write a daily post here, especially after the team yesterday pointed out that the site needs a better structure, needs to be better organized and made accessible to people, to you. But somehow the habit of daily posts also keep me going, especially in this for me difficult time as the site doesn’t really has traffic yet. And the traffic will just come with the content and with time, which is my main reason to keep writing, just for SEO reasons. And that has been the main reason from the very start, to get entry points to the site and then point people to the pages part of the site. So I think my ‘still writing’ until now is not overdoing, just doing, just keeping going on the road I started a few months ago.

But the last few weeks, yesterday and also now make me feel that it is indeed time to make some changes, to make better plans, to start creating the real site, start creating the real project Inspiration for Success and that is about inspiring people, not just trying to get people to the site, traffic to the site.

So yes, it’s time for change, it’s time to start the real project. And everything seems to point this is the right time, including the team starting to be a real team, and the last was, as you may know, a real challenge to me, maybe the biggest challenge I ever had in my life.