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Hope

I was so happy today as a request from a customer gave me so much hope. It appeared there was finally light at the end of the tunnel with this customer and that he somehow still trusts me. And hope that finally my investments would pay off, the enormous amount of hours I put in this real estate stuff.

And then it appeared I was not the only one in the race, that I’m not there yet. And it put me down a lot, indeed. As Morty Lefkoe says, it was the meaning I gave to this little extra information. Or maybe also the meaning I gave to the first event, the request for a quote. I thought I was already there, that I’m just the best, and I know I am in this case.

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus

So how to go on from here, with this post and with this project I so badly need. Indeed, it seem to be my emotions that are in the way. And I was reading again in Think and Grow Rich this morning. And I read more and more that it’s my weakness, our weaknesses that stand in the way towards success. So yes, maybe my biggest weakness is that I let my emotions, yes, let what?

But that was the weird thing and why I started this post. Napoleon Hill states hope as a positive emotion. And it worked, this hope I felt today from this simple request made me feel so good, made me feel alive, made me feel enthusiastic, it just made my day, it made me move, quite effortlessly, it also made me allow myself to take a break, a very well needed break, this time a real break.

And I was especially happy as this whole hope thing just made my day, confirming everything also about The Secret and such. So maybe better stay in the hope than in the fear, as I realize while writing this that what happened after was just fear.

Still, confusing, but something to think about more as it feels it is important to understand what happened just now and what’s the effect.

The Secret

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Wow, it’s time to turn the tone of my posts and maybe this website around as I guess most of my posts were about what I’m not happy with, what I don’t want. And it was deliberate, because I want to attract you, you, who were probably in the same situation as I was, unhappy, nothing seemed to work, things like that.

But it’s simple to turn that around, maybe not easy, but simple. You know, I just saw the movie “The Secret” again, or actually the first time for real. And that movie is all about the “Law of Attraction“. And it made me realize that probably most of my posts are about what I don’t want, not about what I want.

Maybe just write a bit about what I want, what I really want. And that’s not even that exciting I guess, although I do have some big dreams, but these last don’t really need to come true, they’re just big dreams. Actually I just want to work a bit, do some useful work I like and other people like me to do. Then travel a bit, just go to Davao or so every few months, yes with our own car. And travel the world a bit again, but the last maybe even more for my partner than for me as I already saw most of the world.

And I like the end of the movie, as it says what I also really believe: that all religions and such and all famous or successful say about the same. That everything is in the mind, that everything we create comes from our thoughts. That’s even the basic idea of the book Think and Grow Rich that was the origin of this site.

And looking at my life right now and also looking to some past (big) events related to the Law of Attraction it seems it’s really true. My life seems indeed reflecting the thoughts I have most in my mind. So whatever it is, I should be happy about it, as it means the Law of Attraction really works, even though I was not happy with what’s in my life until today, except for a few limited periods, a few years.

And thinking(?!) now, it’s indeed simple, but not really easy to apply the Law of Attraction for the good as most of us, including me, are so programmed with all kinds of beliefs like we have to work hard or do everything ourselves. But I know that is not true, it cannot be true, because what one physical human being can do is only so little. There must be more, there must be something more and apparently the only way to, well, be rich or something, is tapping into that ‘other power’ that indeed is inside ourselves, but also outside as it’s not directly visible on this physical plain we’re living our human life.

So be careful what you think or say. It’s also one of the strongest sentences in Think and Grow Rich like there should be large penalties on uttering negative words or statements to other people like things cannot be done. Things can be done.

So make sure you encourage people, encourage yourself. And while writing this I think that’s also what great leaders do: encourage people.

Is life like a bicycle?

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I just got the following quote as a (spam) comment on one of the posts in this site:

“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.” – Claude Pepper

And it made me think, as most of my life I’ve been pedaling very hard and I have the feeling it didn’t bring me anywhere. Yes, in a way it brought me quite some money, but the end result was not what I wanted or expected.

So end of last year I kind of stopped pedaling and recently I’m pedaling slowly. And I’m trying to make sense of it all as ‘just pedaling’ is not enough. As I’ve been pedaling very hard with my business, but it didn’t pay off until now. I just feel like I fell very hard and I’m not sure how to stand up, how to make sure I don’t fall that hard.

And the main issue right now is I fell so hard and am so wounded that I’m not fully sure how to move on. I feel like I need help, but don’t know where to go. And somehow I still want it to work, want it to move, want it to be alive. And while writing I realized the bike is still there as I still have some infrastructure, even though that’s also a bit wounded and a main asset in the form of the Active Discovery Application Framework which I think is a very powerful web development framework.

So yes, while writing this I see I still learned a lot and it seems I still know what I want and it seems there are still assets there, so yes, getting some quote and doing something with it like writing does help, does give perspective.

So you might also want to write about what’s bothering you, what you’re thinking about.

Need a kick

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Well, it seems today somebody finally got to me a bit with what I need: a kick. So he gave me a small kick and I feel like moving again a bit more. And actually that’s what this whole site is about, that’s why I started this site: I felt and still feel a bit I had nobody who gave me the right kick, nobody who really inspired me, made me move when I needed it, when I was lost. So thanks Allan for today’s kick as it was really inspiring to me. Even though I think I need some more as I’m still deep, deep down.

So going back to my main question of the last week or so like what’s inspiring to people I can use what happened to me with this virtual kick from Allan to analyze what was the inspiring part, the part that hit me, that touched me, that made me feel inspired, that made me feel like, yes, I need to move, move differently.

I think the most important thing he said to me was “Maybe I’ll try a few more kicks with you, then give up, to focus my time time on people who really will take best action to help themselves and our world”. in that sentence was something like, “I won’t give up on you” and “I’ll give you another chance”. Something else in that sentence that caught my attention was the term “best action” as it made me think that my actions may not be effective. You see, I think the most frustrating thing in my life is that I took a lot of action, did a lot of things, at least during most of my life. And only recently I kind of gave up taking action in a passionate way, as it felt that all my actions had been in vain, even though that’s not reality for all areas of my life. So maybe I took a lot of action, but not the best action possible.

Searching for best action brings me to a lot of action movies and not to best action as I think Allan meant. But maybe he relates to “Next best action marketing”. I’ll check that later and if you’re into business you may also want to check that.

Anyhow, just want you to know that I feel very much inspired with this chat I had with Allan and this is exactly one of the things I had in mind when starting this site: find ways to connect people to inspire each other. As inspiration only through a website or reading in the end is not enough.

Free

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Well, not sure today what to write about, but I just thought of two free services that didn’t work out properly for me recently. Today I had a Skype conference call with my team members and one of them had trouble staying in the Skype call, even so bad that basically we were not able to have a proper meeting. And yes, we were using the free version of Skype, so basically no valid reasons to complain or go anywhere. And of course it could still also be the internet connection of the team member connection having the problems that was not working properly, so also very difficult to analyze what was really the case.

Another problem I recently had was with the Google maps service, this time even with a customer site actually causing serious problems for my customer as he is a property broker and we use the free Google maps service to get the map locations of the properties. Again, I did not really know where to go, even though I did get a reply from a Google representative for the paid Google maps service. The bad thing is I never realized this problem would occur as normally this free Google maps service just works and I guess also the customer never realized we were using the free version and that there are limitations with it that could cause the service to stop.

And that’s still kind of a problem I have with ‘free’ services. In the end you have nowhere to go if the service doesn’t work, or at least you have no stable ground where to stand so you could ‘demand’ for support or solutions if something doesn’t work.

So why this subject of free services? Well, I believe in the end nothing is for ‘free’ as someone has to pay for something to work. And don’t get me wrong, there must be business models where the whole thing works out, there are business models where it works out, look at Google and Yahoo for example. And indeed Skype. But somewhere deep inside my gut feel tells me that in the end it’s not OK that things are for free, that you don’t pay for the product or the service that you use.

Or is it OK? Does the old financial system not work anymore, or not work for many of the products and services we use today? Or has it always been like this, that some products and services are over paid and some are under paid?

Anyhow, still something to explore further as this whole thing is also the background of our idea that we would like to be paid straight for the services of Inspiration for Success. Looking at the current reality people still prefer to pay for this type of website by showing advertisements on the site and by clicking on affiliate links. But is that really how we want it?

Please let me know your thoughts.