Author Archives: Guus

Holiday

I am on holiday and that makes me think more and more whether I should insist, read ‘force myself’, to keep writing every day in periods like this. As I guess everybody needs a holiday every now and then free from everything. But somehow I also want to stick to my decision to write every day here, as somehow that is what I have decided. And according to Napoleon Hill some kind of stubbornness is better than, well, whatever. So yes, I am kind of stubborn here, forcing myself to write every day, send a quote every day, where somehow everything seems to be against it, including the Universe, including Infinite Intelligence.

And yes, I know there is fear behind, the fear of letting go, the fear of not continuing here what I started, continuing writing about success, about my road to success. And part of it is discipline, something I am not good at, or at least was not good at. So I am scared to lose that discipline again, to lose the skill to start something and continuing it, finishing it.

But of course with a blog or a site like this there is no ‘finish’. And somehow, one day, I’ll have to stop writing or at least change something. At least as the last few months it is not really working what I am doing here, except proving to myself, well, that I am still stubborn.

So yes, maybe it is time to find some new way of doing this, continuing this website, this blog. But yes, I need to do it very careful, I need to be very careful to not find some kind of excuse to make changes to just let go what I started, just let go of the success of writing every day (except Sundays). As somehow that is helping me, has helped me to get on the road to success.

So let’s be careful, but let’s be open to guidance from The Universe, from Infinite Intelligence, to make this into a better, more useful venture.

Comments very welcome.

Forgiveness and success

Well, yesterday I decided to skip, as I was about to go on holiday. And right now I don’t really feel like writing, but maybe just share that I did manage to connect to internet and I think managed to send the first batch of the daily quote sending. But I am still tired of the trip as I did not really sleep last night and only an hour or so around lunchtime today. So I guess I will forgive myself not to really write a lot today, but I guess I did well by just connecting to the internet, finding a quote, sending it and writing this.

So that is some kind of success.

Much more structured

The last weeks, months I notice that I am much more structured than before. As for my major internet project I am pretty serious now to create a proper file so I can follow up things like e-mails sent to investors and such. And I finish many more things than ever before, even though sometimes it can take quite a long time before I take action, But ‘unfinished business’ stays much longer in my mind than before, and somehow, sometimes I pick up one of the old and not so important things up and finish it.

So yes, I learned some discipline. And it pays off, as with the businesses and people I try to reach for my new, huge, project, I understand it is logical some persistence is needed, that you have to send reminder e-mails or if that doesn’t work, need to send letters. As somehow the people or organizations not replying is some kind of hurdle you need to take, some kind of way to show that you are really interested, that you really want something. And no, I don’t believe it is on purpose that people don’t reply, although in some cases it may be. I guess mostly I am just one of those many kind of anonymous e-mails, people, wanting something from someone or some organization.

And yes, let me just confirm what I also read about e.g. writers who have sent their manuscripts many, many times to many, many publishers and received many, many rejections. I can confirm that indeed persistence pays off, that in the end until now most people I wanted to reach I just reached. And no, I did not get sixty or even ten rejections. Mostly three or four tries to the same person just works to get a reply. And I can also confirm that after the first few successes, I just got more confident. Even that confident, that I know know that you can reach any person you want to reach. Literally anybody. As indeed, there are two options, as I recently often state: either I achieve what I want to achieve, or I die before that.

Be careful what you wish for

I am getting a bit scared, as it seems indeed anything is possible, anything. And indeed, that I am starting to believe, believe in the Principles of Success and everything that I put in motion based on my reading of Think and Grow Rich. And that I made the promise that I would write publicly about my journey to success. And the last scares me most, as it seems to be easier to write about all my problems and fears and things not working than to write about the successes that I am achieving right now. And part of the things I am doing are confidential, need to be kept secret for competitive reasons, but I am starting to realize that that may just be at least partly an excuse.

So it is strange to kind of conclude that somehow I have been scared of success. And that apparently when you are afraid of something, it won’t happen. And that that may be a reason why I, until now or until recently have not been successful. And that that may be a reason why you are not successful.

And yes, I am seeing more and more how the Principles of Success seem to work. And that indeed as Napoleon Hill describes, you cannot fully explain how it works, what is behind the text in books about that, what is between the lines. As somehow you must experience it, somehow you must feel yourself how it works, or get the insight. And indeed, it seems only to work by doing, doing some of the crazy things as described in all those books. Like reading aloud your desire document as Napoleon Hill describes.

And no, I’m not there yet. But somehow I am much farther than two years ago, when I decided to go up (from the deepest down in my life). Somehow I am much closer to some kind of success, even though I don’t see any money coming in shortly, something I (still) desperately need. But seeing people believing in you, or your ideas, and seeing them starting doing things related to what you have thought, is quite impressive. So somehow something like leverage seems to be coming into place, something I have never seen in my life before. And it is a bit scary, as I am not fully sure where this is going, somehow it is partly out of my hands. But somehow I am also or still the one finally deciding where this is going to go. And that is maybe something I was born for, some role that seems to suit me better than anything I have ever done before.

So yes, there is something like Infinite Intelligence. And somehow it is driven by belief. And somehow making decisions and sticking to it makes things clearer, not only for yourself, but especially for others. And that seem to be all things related to leadership, something I never really saw, experienced, never really felt I had in me, even though I felt I had ‘something’ in me that somehow didn’t come out.

So thank you, Napoleon Hill, and all those others, who inspired me to start walking on the way to success. And who can inspire you on your way to success.

Know thyself

I am more and more amazed with myself, as it seems I am having more and more self confidence and seem to know myself much better than before. And strange, to put the label ‘visionary’ on yourself, as to me visionaries are very important successful people and I am not, or at least not yet. And also you don’t put positive labels like ‘visionary’ on yourself as ‘doing normal, then you do good enough’ as the Dutch say (and I am Dutch and grew up like that).

But I am more and more confirmed that indeed I am a visionary, like today a friend even confirmed that. And before I always wanted to be a manager, as I thought that was a leader, and as I thought as I know now, that is what I was supposed to be as that is how I feel and felt. But people didn’t see me as a manager and as I know now I am not a manager, at least not a good one. And I am not sure I am a leader, but I guess in the end at least the term visionary fits and knowing that makes me feel much more comfortable as now I don’t ‘have to’ be a manager or a leader. I can just be myself.

So what my partner always said and apparently saw is that indeed I didn’t know myself well enough. And everything around me seems to confirm that my new role, my new title fits me better than anything before. As somehow people are starting to listen to me, are starting to take me seriously. And the strange thing is that my ideas are more crazy than ever, even more crazy than I could ever imagine. But somehow it fits, somehow I am, I have to be this crazy guy with these crazy ideas. And I am not ashamed of that anymore and I understand more why people have difficulty understanding and following these things. As they are just built differently, built to be a manager, or maybe a worker or a leader. And not a visionary, not the crazy guy.

And yes, all of this makes me much happier. And it shows.