Inspiration for Success
About inspiration, motivation and success
Well, this afternoon I felt an enormous setback. And what’s in my e-mail: coming back from a setback. So well, I still don’t feel great and inspiring, so for that just indeed go to the article I just mentioned.
But something good also here, as I just uploaded a slightly update version of the IFS Inspirational Tools.
It seems something amazing has happened to me. As where before I tried to finish the things I planned for a day or the things I promised, now I actually do finish them. Or at least do them. And I even finish things that somewhere during the day appear impossible. Like when a week ago the electricity went off somewhere in the evening, I felt like I wouldn’t be able to finish my posts. As often when the electricity goes off at that time it will be somewhere the next morning when it is fixed. So I somehow accepted that I couldn’t finish the things I had planned for the day and went to bed. But the electricity came back around 5 am the next morning and somehow I noticed and finished my posts at that time. And it felt a bit like cheating, but of course it wasn’t.
And today I had a similar experience as I had planned to work on a letter, preferably finishing it. And I didn’t know where the draft was and I needed that draft to at least do ‘something’. And I couldn’t find the draft where I expected it to be, so I felt kind of desperate, but somehow it showed up and I was able to work on it and produce a ‘final draft’, which was within how I stated what I had planned to do. And it feels like Infinite Intelligence is starting to help me with this, as normally I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to finish my posts early in the morning, like being aware the electricity was back and act on it, or just find this document where it was not in the place where it was supposed to be. And right now I can’t even recall where I found it. It feels like it just came to me so I could finish it.
So no, I’m not happy, I’m not there yet. But no matter how bad I can still feel, something seems to have changed, for the good.
And remember, this all came from my deepest down one and a half year ago and with starting making the bed every day.
I still have difficulty involving people, business wise as well as private. And it would be so much more fun to me if I could do things together with other people. Or yes, maybe lead them, guide them, yes, into what I want.
And I am just having a conversation about that with a friend of mine. As e.g. with this site I would like to make the tools part be bigger, have some value, but it took me months to even get the basics right. And as I couldn’t find anybody else to do it, to help me with it, I just did it myself. As usual. And somehow I don’t care, but I am starting to see that you could move so much faster if other people were involved. And no, I won’t stop, yes, I will continue adding tools, useful stuff. But also for me it’s just a sideline job and working alone on something like that can be very frustrating, especially if you are stuck.
Anyhow, that seems to be the story of my life and at least right now I’m just persisting in things, not giving up, no matter what, and that seems to have some result. Ah, yes, and for some things I’m in full control now, meaning I don’t depend on anybody else, while before I was depending on bosses and such. But like this project is fully mine, so nobody can stop me.
So yes, there is some advantage in doing something alone. Let’s stick with that for now, let’s hold on to that for now.
I am still subscribed to some of the kind of self help sites from the beginning of my journey with Inspiration for Success. And while I somehow believe often they are a bit too commercial, sometimes I click a link to ‘read the full story’. So today I got an e-mail from http://authenticnumerology.com that got my attention: Bruce Lee give and receive. And I am not sure if the story is true, but I guess so. And it fits exactly the ideas of Napoleon Hill, so I just wanted to share it. The story is that Bruce Lee wrote a letter to himself in 1970, stamped “secret”, with the following text: “By 1980 I will be the best known Oriental movie star in the United States and will have secured $10 million dollars… And in return I will give the very best acting I could possible give every single time I am in the front of the camera and I will live in peace and harmony.”. And it seems that’s what he did, although I don’t remember when he died and how much money he had in 1980. But we all know he was a famous and probably the best Oriental movie star in The United States (ever?).
So I searched the internet for that statement and found some sites that confirmed it. Together with some more advice, like it’s not only about the statement, you have to live it, plan it.
And it inspired me to re-read my desire document. And while reading it I realized that it needs some updates. As I missed some date. Yes, you read this well, I missed some dates. But no matter what, it is still the most important document I ever wrote. As I am starting to live it, it is just me, now, nothing more, nothing less. AND I WON’T CHANGE IT, at least not the basics, not the original idea, the original thing I stated as my definite purpose, the original thing I decided to give, even though I adapted the ‘giving part’ a little as the very first original statement was just too much, like fully giving myself away, which is not the right thing to do. And I won’t change the plan, the ways to achieve my original purpose, even though they don’t really sound like a plan, but more like another goal or definite purpose. BUT THE DOCUMENT IS MINE, I OWN IT NOW. And keep in mind, what I wrote here quite some time before, when I wrote it, my definite purpose were completely impossible. Literally impossible, at least that is what I believed when I first set my basic goal.
And right now I am living the document, on my way to my goals, on the way to my definite purpose. So don’t wait, write down what you want and don’t forget to state what you’re willing to give. You can even do that right now in this site by registering or logging in: login or register.
Wow, today was some day. As I managed to achieve two important things:
And it seems I just finished both, although they were kind of combined. But this being combined was not really intentional. And I am a bit confused right now, as I don’t have a feeling of having achieved something, having achieved something big. And I wrote about that before, as it seems that these kinds of achievements, achievements that require a lot of planning and effort and work, feel like kind of an anticlimax when you finally have achieved them. As I actually just feel tired right now, and even a bit confused. And that’s also what I often see when people achieve an important sports goal, like winning a race. When climbing the, well, whatever the name of the thing is they’re climbing on, they look also mostly just tired, or indeed, maybe also confused. As what I am seeing and experiencing more is that achieving something big just goes in small steps. And I wanted to write today’s post about how I planned for today to achieve a goal, as I want to learn to plan goals, not just activities. And I wanted to start small, so I chose a goal that I thought was very small, the goal of installing the first mini-version of the IFS Tools in this site. As that goal I thought was already practically reached as I had a working version on my local development system. So I planned the last steps, the last activities in detail to achieve the, I thought, very small goal for today: make sure people can register and save and update their definite purpose in https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/. But it was not as easy as I thought, as I am not yet very good with planning activities to make sure I can achieve a certain goal, a certain result. And things often take much more time and effort than I think, so also today. And I tend to deviate from the planning, just do it ‘my own way’, on the fly. But yes, as far as I know I made it. And it’s not perfect and the added value for you I guess is very limited. But I have the technical foundation now and I hope I can extend it very soon to useful tools to help you achieve success, to inspire you.
And no, I don’t feel like celebrating. But somehow I know this is a big day!
And just checking now, and it seems there is still something not okay. Not sure what to do now. Well, I did, as I didn’t reach my goal, the things I planned for today, so no option but to fix, which I did!