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Next stage of Inspiration for Success

I have been thinking a lot about this site recently, partly because of the comments I got on my ‘complaining’ or ‘negative’ posts and I think it’s time for the next stage. So today I worked a bit on the page ‘limiting beliefs‘ as I think it is about time the ‘pages part‘ is due for improvement as in my opinion in the end that would be the main part of the site: information, exercises, links, etc. about inspiration, motivation and success.

I also have been thinking the home page should be an inspiring homepage to invite people to check what the site has to offer and not just (my) latest blog post. Have to discuss that with my Master Mind group though.

Anyhow, you may not fully know or understand, but my, not so formally planned, initial stage, including daily blog posts, was mainly to create content so the site could be found by people interested in the subject. And that’s also why i’m not so worried about the criticism I got about being negative or complaining, as people in a similar situation like me and looking for success or looking for being inspired for success i guess are the main target group for the site.

So for now maybe just some links to important pages in the site, even though they may not all have decent content yet:

Complaints, complainer

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Today I got one of the first serious comments on my blog, at least I thought:

The following time I read a blog, I hope that it doesn’t disappoint me as a lot as this one. I imply, I know it was my option to read, however I actually thought you’d have something fascinating to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about something that you could repair if you weren’t too busy in search of attention.

It was a comment on the post Ruled by Emotions and the comment sounds quite serious, like if the person really read the post and gave some serious comment, which may also be true. How disappointed I was when I saw the web address (http://century21powers.com/isabel.asp) and the e-mail address (kjpfmi@gmail.com).

So this person sees me as a complainer, as whining, which I guess I do a lot as I get more of this kind of feedback. Like last week when I think I wrote that someone pointed out to me that my posts are very negative, that is a lot of negativity in me. And today I wrote a post in my personal blog, about someone telling me that I seem to be lost in life, that I need to ‘find myself’. Well, I also heard that a lot.

So yes, I guess there is truth in it, that I’m a complainer, that I’m whining a lot, that there is a lot of negativity in me. And that other people see and feel that. And that they don’t like that. But you know, maybe I have reason to complain. Maybe things didn’t work out as I wanted them to. Maybe it’s not that easy to be me, same as I guess it may not easy for you to be you.

So why fake it? Why pretend I’m happy if I’m not? Why not just be honest?

And you know? Maybe I’m not doing that bad in life, maybe I did do a lot of things and did work a lot and was expecting some more appreciation for that. And you know, I don’t consider myself negative in my actions if you would start counting. And i don’t consider myself as not wanting the good, not wanting the positive, not only for me, but for everybody.

Maybe a good example is this website and blog. I built the whole thing practically myself, and you may mainly see the negative posts. But there is a lot more in this site and I really intend to make this the best site on the internet about inspiration for success, especially for people like me, who don’t have the success they are looking for yet, the success they deserve and need so much. So maybe even for you, otherwise you probably wouldn’t read this post. So you may start reading about the principles of success, or check the exercises part. And yes, maybe I should put a bit more, or even a lot more, in that part. Well, something to think about while I’m writing this. Maybe that’s also the background of the comment at the beginning of this posts.

So maybe next time when you meet a complainer, someone like me, you may want to look a little better, a little deeper, because there may be more than you see at first site. Isn’t the same true for you?

So how to inspire

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I am still a bit in doubt how to continue with my posts. Main reason to continue writing my quite negative posts is that I believe in the end those pages will attract people in a similar situation like me, so the people searching for success, wanting or needing to be inspired for success.

Of course I hope that when people find those posts I have already moved on and live a much better life or hopefully the life I really want, think I deserve and need. For now that is not the case and maybe that is also good because if will make me write more about my current situation, my ‘down period’, so people, you, will know that it is really possible to go from here, from where i am now, to the life I really want and need.

So maybe just tell you guys what I actually feel at the moment, what is actually happening. Maybe just tell you that last year, the beginning of the second half, my partner left me, my business went even further down the drain and I literally felt I had nothing left anymore, nothing even left to live for. What made it even worse was that ten years before I was in exactly the same situation: my partner left, somehow in a similar way, I had lost my job and couldn’t find another and I not enough money to sustain my lifestyle, so couldn’t afford my house anymore.

So I was devastated and didn’t know what to do anymore and even considered suicide as I had nothing left and found I had not friends even, and no support network. And this time not even any serious financial backup, at least no money I could touch which I did have ten years ago. And no government support also as I live in The Philippines.

Somehow during that period someone gave me the book Think and Grow Rich, together with two other books and somehow that book impressed me. Not because of the ‘rich’ as my partner leaving me was a million times worse than having all the money in the world to me as to me love and relationship are the main things in life, not money or anything else.

So I started from the book and wrote my ‘main desire document’ and started from there. And found that many weird things started to happen, including me now believing that indeed ‘anything is possible’, literally anything. However, it has been a weird journey from then to now and the worst was that things started to become worse, much worse the end of last year until the beginning of this year. It is only recently that I am starting to believe that something positive is coming up, even though I am still very much emotionally distressed.

Anyhow, enough for now about this story I guess, although there is another related post in my mind for a few days now. A post about why I am where i am now and indeed, I think I recently started to realize how it all works.

For now my little inspiration for people in a similar situation like me for more than half a year now is to not give up, even if things are even getting worse. I’m not there yet, but somehow something positive is happening, so that’s what I want to share to inspire you: don”t give up.

Completely down

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The last few days, or even weeks, I have been very down and it seemed that all I had worked for was falling apart again. And I was the cause myself, that was the most frustrating. So last night that inspired me to create this post and related pages, so pages related to ‘what if you are down’. Because it seems that just happens, and I guess not only to me but to everybody on their way in life, on their way to success, so also to you and I guess it’s quite normal.

So indeed, as Napoleon Hill states, “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit”. I can confirm that fully, as in my lowest moments I often come up with the best ideas, like now. If I wouldn’t have been down, I wouldn’t have been inspired by writing a section of the site What if you are down.

Not sure how to continue this post as I want to create a more helpful part of the site to help you, inspire you and not just talk about myself.

So I guess that’s what I’m going to do now. Or maybe one more thing: I think the most important reason for me to be down is if I lost the desire, lost the belief, lost the connection with what I really want or maybe even if I lost the connection with myself.