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Dreaming

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Reading and thinking more about the ideas of Lynn Grabhorn who says that the only thing you need to do is something like ‘be in connection with your core self’ and certainly don’t force things through ‘do, do, do’ and ‘push, push, push’ made me very confused as these ideas, based on the Law of Attraction, seem contrary to the ideas of Napoleon Hill. From Think and Grow Rich

I got the idea of ‘push, push, push’, mainly through the idea ‘persistence‘ that probably suits me as a person, but maybe I’m not interpreting persistence properly, maybe I’m interpreting it as a very stubborn person. So I’m pushing a lot and it doesn’t seem to work. if you follow my posts you may have noticed in between the lines that I kind of came to a total stand still. As no matter how ‘persistent‘ I was, nothing seems and seemed to work, so I kind of stopped recently. And that ‘nothing seems to work, no matter how much I push’ has been going on for quite a while now, maybe even most of my life.

So the last few days it slowly sank in that my interpretation of the ideas of Napoleon Hill may need some adjustment and that my understanding of persistence does not imply ‘push, push, push’, but that the persistence should be based on a desire, a dream, and not simply based on just ‘something I want’.

So what made me think more, well the part of the book Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Power of Positive Feelings about step 2: identify what you DO want. And it made me think more and feel more that I HAVE STOPPED DREAMING, I have stopped wanting things. I’m just surviving and even barely surviving. So again, what hit me and how do I get out of this ‘survival mode’, or better stated, how do I come alive again? Because the whole thing adds up. I”m not dreaming anymore, I don’t have any desire anymore, everything ‘living’ has just been killed long time ago. And it seems I’m not alone, because in Think and Grow Rich as well as in the book of Lynn Grabhorn and maybe also what I see all around me is that most people are kind of ‘surviving’ and not ‘living’, not living their dream or dreams.

So what happened to us, to you, to me, to most of us on this planet earth? We’re dreamers, we’re creators, so why don’t we create? And how can this site contribute to that?

And while thinking I realize i already made an exercise about relighting your desire, so it’s also not a new subject in the site. Let’s see if we can do some more there, as desire or dream seems to be the main thing, the main driver for, well, success I guess.

What hit me

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I still don’t know what hit me. It must indeed be something like ‘negative focus’ as Lynn Grabhorn describes in her book (see my previous post and the one before that). Somehow indeed I must have been focusing on ‘don’t want’s’. And how to turn it around, as also now I feel like I’m spreading negative energy like hell. This whole site is about inspiration, a very positive thing, and I’m just spreading negativity. So how can this ever take off if the initiator and the leader of this project is so negative? And that’s exactly the negative spiral I feel and the most stupid thing is that I KNOW what’s going on and I just let it happen.

And not only here, but also in my work, friendship, and if i look more deep in all areas of my life? I see what’s happening and somehow I’m not stopping it, somehow I have the feeling I can’t stop it.

But again, that’s also exactly what this site is all about. Books and stuff are so easy to read, but when you want to put things in practice sometimes it’s not that easy anymore. And maybe I should give myself some credit, because

Sun water and. My geneticfairness.org a it the this via.

also Lynn Grabhorn describes a very long down period in her life similar to the one I’m feeling myself right now. And also Napoleon Hill writes somewhere in Think and Grow Rich that most or even all successful people go through heartbreaking periods in their life and that even the ‘down point’ is actually the way to their success.

The weird thing is here that I am actually using the whole thing to be successful as this is supposed to be a real time success story. So this is actually very good if I read all the books: my down period should be the jumping board to my success, and that’s exactly how I got my idea for doing this whole thing live.

But it’s not funny. All or most success stories are written by people who are already there, who have left behind their struggles, their deepest points. And I’m in the middle of it, and believe me, it’s not funny. I just feel shit.

So I hope, and I should not ‘hope’ according to all the stories, but just ‘persist’ that in the end I can look back on this whole thing as really being the road to success, to get the one million dollar and such. But believe me, it’s not funny right now and I really feel shit, really feel down.

The astonishing power of feelings

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Well, I continued reading Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Power of Positive Feelings, the book I got two days ago and started reading. And I continued looking at myself, where I am and things like that. And it seems the ideas in the book might be exactly what I need now. And it seems like it’s all contrary to the ideas of Napoleon Hill, but it’s also not. Contrary is like ‘not focusing on actions, on doing’. Similar are ideas like desire and Infinite Intelligence. But in the end my feeling is it’s not all that different as Napoleon Hill starts with desire where Lynn Grabhorn starts with positive feelings. And Infinite Intelligence is not that far from or the same as things like Inner Self or Higher Self or things like that.

So the book is really inspiring to me and I’m looking for ways how to use all my knowledge about personal development or self help or inspiration or inspiration for success or success in a more compact way in the site. Something like exercises or summaries.

And still thinking about what the site should be exactly about. On my journey I end up in many self help sites, but I want Inspiration for Success to be an inspiring site, not a self help site. Inspiration sounds so much more positive, has so much more music in it than ‘self help’. And inspiration is also not the same as ‘self help’, although Inspiration for Success somehow has some ‘self help’ feel in it.

Anyhow, looking forward to your thoughts on this, on inspiration and what you would expect on a site to be inspired.

Vibrations

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Well, yesterdays visit to a friend brought me four new books. I was offered to bring six, but i brought four. Law of Attraction?

They are1:

And the fourth just disappeared, very strange, or did I just bring three? I’m quite sure I brought four, but maybe that’s what this article is all about, vibrating with something, and it seems i’m learning to vibrate positive as many good things are happening to me lately, even though I’m still very scared.

And now, some time after I wrote the post and added some stuff in the rest of the site I realize there is a fourth book on my desk: Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation, printed and donated by The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation.

I was also asking my Buddhist friend about some more background about the chanting, and one of the things she said that part or all of the chanting is getting in touch with the Universe.

So last night I started reading a bit and this morning i continued as I’m still struggling, still don’t understand. All the ‘going the extra mile stuff’ and ‘work your plan’ and ‘things will come back to you’ and ‘you reap what you say’ don’t seem to work for me. Often I go twenty miles extra and it just doesn’t work and I think mostly I plant positive seeds. And all I got back were bad results, most I got back was negativity, loneliness, people leaving me. And I did my best, so it didn’t add up.

So I guess there is more than Think and Grow Rich with all it’s principles of success.

Any how, I started reading and ended up with “Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting“ and I found some relief in it as i did not feel so good this morning, which made me also start reading by the way. And this book has a totally different approach to achieving success, to live a happy life than most other success books.

So what is different. Well, it’s not that different, but the book starts from the idea that ‘everything is energy’ and that ‘energy and matter’ are the same thing. And that we ourselves ‘vibrate’. And that everything around us, everything that is happening to us vibrates with the same vibration. So if we vibrate in a positive way, positive things come to us, vibrate with us and when we vibrate ‘negative’, negative things come to us, vibrate with us. So the starting point of this book is ‘vibrations’, where vibrations come from feelings, whereas e.g. the starting point from Think and Grow Rich is more like desire.

Not that different in the end though, as I guess desire and positive feelings or positive vibrations are not that different. And reading one line more, Lynn Grabhorn mentions deliberate creation and four steps to bring into your life whatever is your passion and much, much more. The four steps she mentions are:

  1. Identify what you DON’T want.
  2. From that, identify what you DO want.
  3. Get into the feeling place of what you want.
  4. Expect, listen and allow it to happen.

Sounds simpler than the ideas of Think and Grow Rich, although I still have the feeling they’re not that different, as also in the principles of success as described by Napoleon Hill the term Infinite Intelligence plays a major role.

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Postponing decisions

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This afternoon I was talking with some friends about Inspiration for Success and as our team is not yet complete, of course I was also checking if one or more of them were interested joining the team. So while talking we also discussed the sample goal and that I and/or the team still did not finally decided whether to go for the ‘paid site‘ option or leave open to still also add things like advertisements and such.

While talking about the Principles of Success I noticed what an enormous effect the NOT making of this decision, or other decisions, has or can have. What I did was imagining the ‘one million dollar goal’ in one corner of the room and noticed that with just focusing there it was very easy to just go there, walk slowly and get it. Leaving the other option open suddenly made the spectrum of ‘where to go’ unimaginably bigger. Instead of one place to go there was suddenly something like 90 degrees of direction where I could go as I imagined the other option somewhere 90 degrees left of the first option. So as long as I left the decision open there was a 90 degree area where I could go, making me wander, while when I put the one option in my mind I would and could just simply walk towards it.

So this makes certainly clear how important focus is, how important it is to set a very clear and specific goal. And based on my ‘walking around’ experience, adding just one option makes the spectrum of ‘where to go’ unimaginably bigger, not just two options, but a whole range of options, even outside of the 90 degree area. I just felt lost, didn’t know where to go. And this is what doubt is all about I guess.

So no, we still didn’t make the final decision yet on the sample goal, but it also implies how much effect this has on the project, including reaching the one million dollar goal.

So yes, don’t make decisions too easy, but also certainly wait too long making them as not making them seems to have much more impact than you would think at first thought.