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Doing what I like

Yesterday and the day before I had some nice talks with a friend of mine about life and doing what you like and a bit about this site and being successful in life. One of the things we talked about was my desire to make this website as my primary job and my primary income. I just notice that whenever I work on this site I just enjoy doing it, enjoy writing, enjoy improving it technically. This is just ‘my site’, ‘my message to the world’, my sharing to the world, and it feels good, makes me happy to work on.

And that’s what is one of my goals in life: doing things that make other people happy AND make me happy. So maybe this site, this project might be the way to do it. However, until now I have not made a final decision on how to monetize the site. I still just prefer you guys pay me JUST ONE DOLLAR if you like what I write (see my donate page), if you consider reading what you like a value of two dollars of more. In that case we both win. I like what I”m doing and get 1 dollar per visitor (or visit) and you get a value of two dollars or more, so I guess that’s a good deal for both of us.

However, that’s not how the internet works, at least not in 2013. And this site even is teaching me how bad commerce has gotten as I just got around 20(!) comments with all kinds of positive remarks, which of course would flatter me or any other blogger. However, the only purpose of those comments is creating links to other sites, so there are just people out there being paid to put nice comments in my site just to get links. So to me that is very sad, people getting paid for that type of ‘cheap’ link building and playing with my feelings as of course, especially as this site has no real traffic yet. So if I wouldn’t know better, if I was just an ordinary blogger without knowledge of link building, I might just be flattered and presume these comments are real comments and real readers of my site.

A similar thing that is sad to me, and yes, I do it on some of our other sites, that many sites can just survive on the indirect income from advertisements and affiliate links. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against it and sometimes I click on an advertisement if there is something that appeals to me, but especially for this site, where i put all my heart, all my knowledge, try to make something useful, try to inspire people, try to inspire you, it would hurt me to really go that way as I believe if what I am writing here, including some of my very personal experiences, my suffering, deserves to just be paid for itself, not through indirect advertising, although there are some exceptions as I’m OK with earning a little profit from Amazon links for the books I like, as I just like the books and promote them.

So I guess I made my decision, I will probably go for the direct payment option and not for the advertising option. I will make the decision soon, but not after discussing it thoroughly with my Master Mind group. Yes, I think I deserve to be paid for what I do directly and I think that would apply to many more people. I’m not sure if it is the right thing to give so much power to the advertisers with the large budgets.

And yes, I believe I have some messages to the world, especially that in our daily business it seems we forgot we are humans, not robots behind the counter of the supermarket of link builders posting fake comments to people who do some serious writing.

I gave so much

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I just had a very weird experience as it seems that I relate my ‘I gave so much’ to something like ‘I gave so much in suffering’ or ‘I gave so much and did not receive enough in return’. So somehow I relate the ‘giving’ as mentioned in Think and Grow Rich to something very negative, to things like suffering or things I don’t like.

I guess the quote “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” from Martin Luther King, Jr. did something to me, as it seems I often tend to drive out darkness with darkness or hate with hate or anger with anger or dissatisfaction with dissatisfaction or stress with stress.

The last happened to me this morning (again?). I often feel stressed as there are a lot of things I feel I should do. The ‘actions’ Napoleon Hill talks about add even up to that. And I still don’t have a good plan, I’m not good at planning, at least that is how I feel. And this whole pile of things I want to do or have to do is often so big that I don’t know where to start anymore and just ‘wait’, feel kind of paralyzed, just think, without action. And then I start feeling guilty again of being paralyzed, not knowing what to do.

But in the meantime I also know I’m kind of doing the right thing, as this waiting and thinking probably in the end points me in the right direction and everyday at some point I start moving and do a lot. So again, it’s all in the mindset. Why should I feel guilty for being who I am? Why should I feel guilty needing some time in the morning to get going?

And I was shocked a few minutes ago that I didn’t put a post yesterday on the site while I was quite sure yesterday that I did, and I did work on the site yesterday quite a bit. Again, guilt came up, although it’s kind of OK with me now that I now skipped one day of posting. And there is still a lot in my mind to share, so I guess I will just make another post after this one.

So what’s the inspiring thing I can give you now, based on the above? What would I give myself? I guess I would tell myself that indeed maybe I should(?!) put some more time in planning and goal setting. In getting my desire clearer, making a clearer picture in my mind. And that it’s OK to be me, to take time to thing in the morning. To just feel what I feel in the morning.

So yes, just be you, just be yourself and be proud of it!

Inspirational or not? Some is certainly.

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I just watched the video on Youtube that is highest in Google for ‘inspiration success’ and I’m not sure if it’s inspirational or not. Decide for yourself: video on Youtube.

This one appeals more to me: other video on Youtube.

I’m not sure if this is always true or if you should believe if this is the only way to success. I guess indeed it’s one way to success, but there may be more

My biggest success ever?

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Wow, it feels like I’ve achieved my biggest success ever!

I asked someone to be part of my Master Mind Group for this site, for this project and he said yes. And suddenly it feels as if the whole game changes, suddenly I’m not feeling alone anymore. Suddenly also the whole project got a million times bigger.

And yes, of course there is a lot of fear also. Did he know what he got himself into? Does he know what he got himself into. Do I know what I got myself into? Will he not back out when he figures out what it really means? What does it really mean? How would I keep the harmony within the group? What if we have different opinions about things? Will he back out? Would I have to lower down may goal?

And yes, I asked him before, but I didn’t get a reply. No clue why, maybe he just didn’t realize what I was asking. So indeed, no reason not to ask again, so i did. And this time he said yes!

And still, this is exactly what Napoleon Hill is talking about. It’s all fear and limiting beliefs. It’s all excuses NOT to push through with my quest to, yes, get a million or so for myself, AND inspiring other people to achieve success, inspire other people to get their million or whatever they want in life.

But the game changed completely as now it’s not about me alone anymore, but about ‘something to achieve together’. And no, the goal did not lower down, it increased, because I want my Master Mind partner also to have his million through this project! And his input to make this site really a site that inspires people to go for their dreams and realize them!

Inspiration for you

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Yes, today I finally found some time to work a bit more on the pages part of this website. Due to other priorities i had set for myself i did not work on that for a week or so, even though to me the pages part of this site in the end would probably be the most important part, giving all kind of information about achieving success and inspiration for success.

And maybe just to show off, this website is probably already much bigger than it appears as it has many pages related to inspiration and the principles of success that are not in menu’s or something.

So while working on the page What is Success I realized a bit more what the basic goal of this website should be, like inspiring you for your success.

So what is success for you?