Author Archives: Guus

Subject in my mind

There is a subject in my mind for a few days already, but right now I can’t remember it. In my mind it’s quite a positive subject and important to write about, to write here. Weird, it’s just fully gone now. And I don’t feel inspiration right now to write even. It has been raining all day and I feel locked up. And i realize that i feel locked up for quite a while now, actually since I lost the freedom to roam around with a car. And today I thought also how privileged I actually am, or maybe was, as I have traveled the world, have seen many places, while many people can’t move at all, never really leave the place where they were born.

Still, I’m not sure what’s worse, having had something and lose it or not having had it at all. I am starting to believe that having had something and losing it may be worse than not having had it at all. I realize now that i have been spoilt before, that I had a lot of things, that I may have taken too much before without giving or giving back. So maybe my current situation is the punishment for that. But still, on the other hand, there is enough in the world for everybody. We have become so efficient at everything, at least producing material things, that I guess everybody could have everything he wants.

Ah, and that’s the subject that was in my mind before, that I am starting to realize what ‘organized effort’, or capital as Napoleon Hill also calls it, has brought us. So yes, I see now how it works. But I don’t feel part of it anymore as I have the ideas, but don’t know how to implement them, don’t know how to involve other people.

So yes, that’s frustrating. Somehow seeing what a leader is, what a leader can do for the benefit of everybody, and not being able to implement it due to lack of some skill, due to some personality thing.

And I’m complaining again. But what nice stuff is there at the moment. I just feel locked up. I did my best and even today tried to work hard, yes, basically for myself, but I guess my customer and his customers would also benefit.

Anyhow, let’s stop here, as I’m not adding anything. Not with this post and maybe not even with this site as there seem to be so many people doing a similar thing and doing it better.

Although no, I’m starting to get annoyed with the commerce behind all of it. That all the e-mails of the sites I signed up for seem to just have one purpose: sell more. And yes, the services help people and could even help me. But in the end it’s about the person selling the service wanting to sell more. Or isn’t it? I still don’t get it, the give and take thing.

My first WordPress front-end plugin

Well, not easy to learn a new software framework, even though ‘everybody’ always seems to say that WordPress is so simple. Before it took me quite a while to make my back-end plugin work to send the daily inspiration mail, but lately I’ve been struggling with the front-end plugin so people can subscribe to our e-mails. Of course being a perfectionist the plugin just needs to be ‘installed’, nothing else and the front-end only needs to include an element with a specific id, then it should just work. Well, and it does, so if you want to receive our daily e-mail with an inspirational quote just go to the page subscribe, fill in your e-mail address and click on the confirmation link in the e-mail you will receive shortly after. That’s it, no more. And if you’re interested in the plugin just send an e-mail to guus@inspiration-for-success.com.

The back-end for managing an e-mail list and sending an (html) e-mail without a lot of html knowledge is available on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-management.zip. The frontend will be available soon on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-frontend.zip.

So what’s inspiring in this post? Well, maybe that I was a bit desperate as the front end plugin worked on my local development system but not on this site. And then it’s hard to find out what’s wrong, if it’s just working in one place and not in the other.

Anyhow, with some patience and persistence I was just able to figure the whole thing out, so yes, patience and persistence are important things to achieve success. So don’t give up if something doesn’t work the first time or doesn’t work as you would expect.

More Master Mind

Yeah, yesterday I got hit very hard by a friend of mine. And I don’t even know him that well, but I think I can call him a friend now as he just told me the plain truth in a way that i understood. Not many people do that, so I am really happy that I found a new friend, at least I hope he won’t let me down after I disappointed him.

So it seems connecting to people is not my strength, maybe even is my biggest weakness or one of my biggest weaknesses. And I don’t understand, because “I’m just me, just like everybody else”. But they also say that everybody has this side where are things he just doesn’t see, just doesn’t understand and doesn’t even realize it.

So what to do now, as my friend told me to focus on my strengths, on what i’m good at and not to bother so much on learning things I’m not so good at or focusing on them. But i also know that I can learn and that areas where I’m not good at I can become good at. Long time ago my boss told me that I”m not service oriented, which I didn’t understand. Later on another boss told me I’m so much service oriented. And I know maybe I gave part of me away in that turn around, but still, it was and is a compliment to be called service oriented while before I was not.

So I guess I’ll look for a middle way, like focusing on my strengths and indeed do the things I’m good at which I just did today. And it made me happy and I was happily surprised that after giving the best I could I was tired and was able to rest, could allow myself to rest, which I didn’t do for a long time.

So what’s inspiring in this quote? I guess just to be yourself and be happy with it, with your strengths and weaknesses. And indeed maybe focus on your strengths and make other people happy with it and not worry too much about your weaknesses. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve also on your weaknesses. Just don’t be hard on yourself, especially don’t be too hard on yourself. We’re all just who we are and that OK, that’s OK enough, that’s just good, that’s just fine.

It really seems to work

So the Law of Attraction really seems to work. And indeed, it’s almost impossible to describe how it works.which of course is why it’s also called a ‘secret‘ everywhere it’s being mentioned.

So I was happy today that many things went well, that I have hope with reason now.

And just now when starting with this post someone gave me a really hard kick, which is also what he had promised me to do, except he did it in a very different way than I had expected.

So I am sitting a bit stunned now, like an opportunity having passed by, but maybe or probably or definitely it didn’t. And somehow it’s all up to me.

And on one side I think something like I did something wrong, that I let pass an opportunity. But on the other side I need to stay me, to stay myself and do things my way. But I did find someone who did ask the right questions and indeed seems to implement the Principles of Success, at least business wise.

And the big question indeed seems to be if I’m ready or not. Apparently not yet right now now now, but I know I’m getting closer and closer.

Things are going ok

Things are going OK at the moment. So many opportunities it seems. And I’m trying to, well, take them, but i’m used to getting, grabbing and things like that, not receiving.

I know I deserve something, that I did the wishing, hoping, work, whatever. So it’s about time I can enjoy the fruits of my sowing. But somehow I don’t allow myself to enjoy, to receive.

Maybe that’s just it, ‘the secret’. I watched the movie a few days ago and I see it’s all the same thing, it’s also exactly in Think and Grow Rich, just The Secret and the Law of Attraction and being ready for it and such.

So when am I ready, when are you ready for abundance, for just living, for just enjoying life?