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Movies and movie stars

I have been thinking a lot about movie stars a lot as (famous) movie stars are very successful and some kind of sample to me. At least it appears like that to me. And the same applies to famous music artists. So yes, being famous appeals to me as it also makes me feel like being rich. And I am also thinking of CEO’s of bigger or even smaller companies. Also they appear very successful and I guess all of the above are considered successful by the majority of people. So yes, am I jealous? Yes, as I’m not famous and as I can’t even take care of myself financially I consider myself certainly not successful, or at least not yet. And I add the last intentionally with the reason auto-suggestion.

But am I really that ‘unsuccessful’? Is there not much more to success or the success we see from the outside? And yes, money and fame and high positions in companies are certainly a measure for success, somehow. But still, I’m also starting to see a lot more.

Like for example, I was watching the movie The Monkey King tonight on CD. It’s not really my type of movie and I also never really heard about it. On Wikipedia I just read it’s an ‘upcoming Chinese-Hong Kong film’, so not weird I didn’t hear of it I guess as it’s quite recent. And in my opinion it’s not ‘that good’, or at least not outstanding or something. However, it is ‘good’ and I recognized quite some actors and again on Wikipedia I read that the actors playing the main characters have quite some nominations as ‘best actor’ or ‘best supporting actor’ and similar things. And even though the story is quite simple, you can read between the lines there is a lot of knowledge and life experience behind the story. So somehow the movie is ‘good’ or ‘good enough’. So it’s worth being there.

And it made me think of the project I’m currently working on (and related покупкадомавшвейцарии.рф). And to me that project has the same feel. The way how I build that site and the back end of that site is good, good enough, especially if you consider the budget. So am I successful with that? Yes, certainly. Is the customer happy? Yes, as far as i know also.

And many more thoughts come up now, like I had similar project that were not successful, but partly because of circumstance I could not control, at least not ‘afterwards’, when things went wrong. The hard thing is that i did many of those other projects with similar passion as this one and somehow it didn’t work out. I was not able to satisfy the customer (within the restraints I had or felt). Or does this have to to that, maybe especially in business ventures, only one in ten ‘ventures’ succeeds as a friend recently told me. And he had heard that from one of the most powerful businessmen in The Philippines.

And yes, looking back at my business failures or defeats had to do with planning and team or Master Mind. So related to the Principles of Success some of the principles were not in place well enough. So this does kind of confirm the validity of the principles of success, that they all need to be in place, or at least need to be in place sufficiently.

But going back to movie stars and other famous people, we often mainly see the glamour and glitter (and money) and not the not so nice things. I’m not sure why the story stays with me, but quite some time I heard or read that Martine Bijl, quite famous TV personality on Dutch TV, was considered to be able to do something financially ‘as she is famous’. But she told that at that specific moment she was unemployed and was even living of Social Security. And this story, together with knowing that movies are ‘projects’, confirms that the life of actors in general is very unsure in terms of income: when you have a role in a TV show or in a movie you’re OK. But when the TV show stops or the movie is finished you don’t have a job and just have to start all over again finding a new role, a new job. And this may not be or sound that important for really famous, really rich actors, but still, you would need to manage your money very well if you would want to live a happy life long after your fame has ended. And I also know that for many famous actors their focus is on having the right roles and mostly not on the money. And those may not be as easy to find as one thinks.

And going back to success, being successful, many movie stars and other famous people are not very successful in relationships, at least what I see on TV and read in magazines and newspapers. And many of them end up being addicted to drugs or other addictive matter. And they pay a price in something like ‘always traveling’ and having no privacy, never have privacy anymore. And I often also read and hear that especially the really good and/or famous actors spend a lot of time and effort on preparing for their roles, or maybe even for just getting the role, sometimes even health related or just giving up your normal hairdo and such.

So well, quite a lot of stuff in this post about the thinks you can find in Think and Grow Rich, like ‘what do you want’, ‘plan and take action’, ‘know the right people’ and last but not least, ‘what are you willing to give’ or even ‘what are you willing to give up’.

What inspires you?

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What inspires you, what inspires people. That’s a question that is in my head for a few weeks now. As that is what I want this site to be in the end: inspiring to you, inspiring to people. The top positions in Google don’t give clear answers, or maybe a bit on the page What inspires you from the Free People Blog. It starts with:

The idea of “inspiration” is a crazy thing to comprehend. Something that one person may not even notice could be the most inspiring thing in the world to someone else — and inspiring in what way? Does it inspire them to do? To say? To think about? To create? I’m always curious to find out where people draw their inspiration — and today we’re showing you where we draw ours.

But reading further on that page not much more information in general what inspires people. Looking a bit further I find the page inspiration for 10 creative people. Some things mentioned:

Words of your favorite writer.
The blooms and leaves on your morning walk.
Browsing visual blogs.
Browsing or using social media websites.
Stepping away from the screen.
A breath of fresh air.
Open your eyes and look around.
A walk around town.
A road trip.
Reading other people’s writing.
Looking at relationships, being fascinated by them.
Communicating with others.
Risk, anything that has the potential for failure.
Playing games with other people.
Pattern and color in interior design.
Doing a simple solo task like weeding the garden, knitting, taking a walk, arranging flowers, sitting in the swing in your garden.
Mess around with art supplies, with the stuff around you.
Color, like looking at images.
Creating artwork to lift up other people.
…

Well, some start for a page what inspires you, but no clear direction yet for the site, although the list might give you some ideas of course what to do to feel inspired.

So yes, please, put comments or send e-mails to info@inspiration-for-success.com about what inspires you as it might also inspire other people and would inspire us to create more content about how to inspire you, how to inspire other people.

The more I think about it

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I am starting to understand more and more about the ideas behind Think and Grow Rich. The amount of ‘capital’ and ‘organized effort’ in our daily life is enormous, almost unimaginable. And it has been already been like that for quite a while, thousands of years actually, starting with people building tools and boats, I guess the first forms of capital.

So going to ‘being rich’ or ‘becoming rich’ in 2013 indeed is something like ‘having a sound idea’ and ‘make it work for the masses’. At least that’s what I start to understand now. And basically my idea with the sample goal is the same, although we are a bit careful at the moment revealing the full idea and related plan as we don’t want it to be copied. Don’t get me wrong, one of the team members suggested that we should do it openly, and maybe we will, but as of the moment we’re not ready yet.

And yes, the enormous amount of capital and organized effort involved in everybody’s life, and I mean literally everybody is so enormous that it seems it indeed doesn’t matter how productive you are. Really realizing this also makes me feel very small, like only a small clock part in the enormous clockwork that the human world has become. Like that I, or any human being, is not really important. And I don’t like the idea and I guess if you think about it nobody would like it. As a human being in our thinking the world still revolves around us, at least I guess that’s true for the most of us.

And again, not sure how I would make something inspiring out of this post. I just started with writing about the awe I feel about how huge, how enormous everything is. And now I end up in how small a human being really is, like a cell in a body. And that’s the weird thing indeed, as indeed one cell in a body doesn’t really mean anything, like if it’s there or not doesn’t really matter. But if all are missing the body, the human doesn’t exist. And if a certain amount or specific parts are missing the body also cannot survive, the human doesn’t exist.

So I guess that’s a positive, as I often think of myself in the world as a cell in a body. That if I just do my part, just try to fulfill my role, just am happy with that, in the end it will affect the body, will make the body healthy and happy.

So yes, I inspire you to just try to figure out what you’re supposed to do, what type of cell in the body you are, what type of human you are in the world, and then do your job, your part in a happy way. As in the end the cells make up the body and humans make up the human world and human consciousness.

So what inspires you?

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Yes, that is a question that I am asking myself more and more. What inspires people, what inspires you? It seems that could be or probably is very different for different people, so ‘making the best site on inspiring people (for success)’ is not as easy and straightforward as i thought. Even within the team we already have different opinions about the goals so while inspiration is a much more difficult subject to grasp finding ways to inspire people is probably not a straightforward thing.

And I’m quite sure inspiration is a much more difficult subject to tackle than motivation, but that’s also the reason why we chose ‘inspiration for success’ and not ‘motivation for success’ as we believe inspiration has a much better impact on achieving success, or anything in life, than motivation.

Looking forward to your comments. What inspires you?

Another accident

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So today I had another accident. So how to make something inspiring from that? Yes, I got up quickly, looked at myself, saw the wounds were not that bad as before, saw that the motorcycle was still running, got myself together, got the motorcycle up, gathered the things that had fallen out and went back home.

So yes, they say no matter how often or how hard you fall just get up and continue. And it was easier than before, somehow, for me, as I had been there and nothing really serious had happened to me, at least at first sight.

But still I felt stupid, felt hurt, not only physically but also emotionally. I know I choose to ride that motorcycle as I don’t see any other option to move around conveniently, even though I know it’s dangerous. But it’s no fun actually. It’s just how it is and I don’t know how to change it. And I don’t know how to prevent falling again. The stupid thing is just dangerous. Or use other transportation, but that’s also dangerous and much more inconvenient.

The worst was that I got a whole sermon at home that I need to change. That this kind of thing is part of my pattern. That somehow I do it to get attention, no not consciously, but unconsciously. That I really need to change something here. And believing indeed that things happen because you attract them also made me think. And yes, I know I have to change some things. I know things happened just before that probably triggered it. But still, I don’t know how to change it, how to change.

And I can’t get the lesson from it. Yes, be more careful, drive more slowly, be more focused. But those are only words, I don’t really feel it. I can’t get to the actual lesson and my partner seems to feel it and is annoyed with it. Well, don’t you think I’m annoyed with it? And if I only knew how, of course I would change it straight away.

So yes, I’m way too hard on myself again I guess. And yes, somehow I’m playing the victim here still. But somehow I also feel like I am changing, do improve things, little things, but still, things.

And I need to stop that ‘improving things’ means that there is something wrong with me. Or is there? Napoleon Hill also states something like that in the end of the book Think and Grow Rich, to check what’s wrong with you as otherwise you would be successful, would be in the place you want to be.

Confusing.

So how can I be inspiring here? Or can I?

I know many people, maybe you, would be affected a lot more with an accident like this, while to me it was ‘just another accident’, I got up and rode away. So yes, no matter if you’re hurt, either emotionally or physically, you can just get up and move on, provided you were not hurt that bad that you can’t move anymore.

And yes, somehow I’m determined to do better, make things better, no matter what, even though it hurts and please don’t underestimate how hurt an humiliated I feel at the moment. And physical wounds heal, although sometimes they leave a trace. And emotional wounds also heal I guess, although I want to be very careful stating things about that.

But the lesson I’m still not fully sure of. Maybe I can find someone who is already successful (as I have in mind) say something about that. To inspire me, maybe to try to make clear or clearer to me what’s the most important lesson I have to learn.