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Persistence again

Happy Sun Well, today was about persistence again as it seemed that everything that could go wrong did go wrong, even until fifteen minutes ago.

And I am still wondering if this is what all successful people seem to say, that you just need to go on until you’re there, no matter what.

So right now I am kind of asking myself if I’m successful. And somehow I am, as I am writing this post which is something I wanted to do today. And I just worked a little on the tools page, the part of the site that is going to give value to the site in the form of some kind of service. And I did do some work today, also something I planned. And in the mean time my biggest desire, my greatest dream, the impossible thing that I wanted to happen seems to start happening. So yes, somehow I am successful.

But some part of the success is still missing and I have no clue how to get there. And that is still the financial success I am looking for. And that type of success has different stages, where as of the moment somehow my biggest issue is that I have debts that don’t suit me and that I never expected to have. And somehow I just had some kind of discussion about abundance with someone in Facebook where she was pointing out that abundance comes from cost cutting. But to me abundance is about things coming to you and that is quite the opposite to cutting, cutting anything.

And yes, thinking from reason and what everybody believes you would get richer financially by living within your means and indeed cost cutting if you are living beyond your means or want to save for the future. But thinking from the ideas of Abraham Hicks and the Law of Attraction cost cutting wouldn’t bring you anywhere, except from, indeed, cost cutting, not using stuff. And yes, also Napoleon Hill states that living beyond your means will get you in trouble, will be an issue on the road to success, on the way to financial success.

But looking at myself just working hard also doesn’t bring you anywhere in the end. I used to have some very good jobs and made quite some money, and yes, I saved a lot. And most of my life I have been very frugal and that also brought me to the point where I had quite some money in the bank. And in that period I also spent a lot, on holidays and all kinds of nice stuff.

But in the end it didn’t bring me anywhere. And looking back somehow I was going on ‘strength’, not on ‘feeling’. And from that feeling I went down. Yes, indeed, very slowly, but down I went. But recently I go more from feeling and with that it seems I am going up, no matter how frustrated I am with my financial situation. But up I went, at least emotionally and as a person.

So as of the moment I don’t know for sure what to believe, what to do, how to choose between abundance and cost cutting.

So looking forward to your thoughts.

Change

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Well, maybe time for a change as I don’t feel like writing today just as the last few days, weeks or maybe even months.

But what to change. I am committed to make this site work and for now it is still about ‘content’. Although last week I also started the tools page i have in mind for Inspiration for Success. Something like exercises or measurements related to all kinds of things, maybe the first to measure the score on the Principles of Success as I did in some exercise.

But it’s not easy to start that as for now I want to stick with WordPress but at the same time also just want to build https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/ as itself, as a custom built website. As from the start I thought and still think that WordPress is not the right platform for the tools I have in mind and one of the reasons is that it may not be fast enough for what I want because of the data structure. In the end I think the Active Discovery Application Framework or a derived platform would be more suitable to build a site with services for users.

But yes, I learned also to appreciate WordPress as it is quite some tool, especially for blogging and a simple website like this, like what the website of Inspiration for Success now is.

But integrating people from the mailing list and the standard WordPress facilities for user management is not easy. Or maybe easy, but just a bit boring and time consuming.

But for now I don’t have much option if I want to provide to the world what I have in mind and that is to just spend some time to make it all work, which in the end is not that complicated and not that time consuming.

But still, basically doing everything alone is not fun. But maybe that’s where in the end my success will come from or at least where my success will be seen: as I did continue until now and I am determined to make this work. So failure is not an option and the opposite of failure is success. So i will be successful. It can’t be something else.

Endless possibilities

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Endless possibilities

Jack Reacher

I was watching the movie Jack Reacher and quite from the start I was amazed that it is still possible to write new plots, new scripts for movies. As the story started like no other movie I ever saw before. And when adding the Wikipidia link I saw that the story was based on a book, so it was probably not the idea of a script writer or of someone wanting to create a new kind of movie. But still. And yes, it seems there are endless possibilities to write stories, to create lives, to create anything you want. And the story was interesting all the movie long and again, I was impressed, as also this movie had a message, a message to get to the truth, no matter what, similar to the movie Law Abiding Citizen, one of the best movies, best stories, best messages I ever saw on the law, on lawyers, on our justice system.

Intermezzo: persistence

And I guess I should have called this post something like persistence as I kind of wanted to write this post from the terrace near our bedroom on the laptop. However, that laptop is broken and one of the issues is that somehow the internal keyboard or the touch pad is interfering with the things I was typing making typing virtually impossible. And my own computer also has a problem which I don’t want to check right now as that computer is more related to work. So finally I decided to bring up another computer, but only after doing that I realized that that computer has no wireless internet and there is no network connection nearby. So then I needed to find a way to get a wire up here, which meant I got a long wire and moved one of my switches a bit so I could connect that computer to the network. And then I found out it was not running at all, meaning I either had to fix it, like take the additional video card out or get another computer, which is what I finally did, get another computer. And then I found out it wasn’t connected to the internet due to my/our problems with our Internet Service Providers. So then I decided to use that computer as a remote desktop for the laptop, which probably would work when using remote desktop, which it did and does, although the music I was playing from the laptop stopped.

More on persistence

So I’m not sure how to continue this post, writing about the movie and what I admired or on me getting this post written today, right now. And I think with the last, as when thinking about the whole thing what I did to be able to writes this here right now I did a lot of things to make it work. But when reading the above you may also note, or at least I noted, that I was putting quite some restrictions on what I wanted and not wanted. E.g. I could have just gone down to the office and use one of the computers there as there are three there and as far as I know they are all working. So I wouldn’t have needed to put this wire and use remote desktop as they are all connected to the internet or at least can be connected to the internet much easier. And I could have checked my own computer and probably make it work as I need that computer anyhow tomorrow for work. But somehow I didn’t.

So looking back my desire was to sit here and write my post or posts or whatever I want to do further today with a computer. So yes, desire seems to be the most important thing still, the most important driver of everything, the most important thing to make things happen and to continue until you got what you want.

But I’m still a bit amazed with myself as I didn’t consider the whole thing important. And logically the whole thing doesn’t make sense, although while writing maybe it does, as the last few days I was not really able to or at least didn’t manage to write my daily posts, here as well as in my personal site, my personal blog. And yes, somehow not mixing private, this site, and work seems to be very important to me as I went quite far to be able to sit here and not in the office.

Abundance

One more thing I forgot and that is abundance. As I still feel quite poor at the moment with my office in ruins and old equipment and stuff that is breaking down. But looking at today and some other days, events, I still have an awful lot of ‘stuff’ that when something doesn’t work I can still put to use to make things work and e.g. write this post.

Going back to normal

And while writing now, while wanting to finish this post I don’t even remember why I started this post about the movie. But maybe this post is indeed to talk a bit more about desire and persistence. And that if you just push through there is always a way to get there, as there were many ways to write this post and also many ways to get a working computer in this location, at the location I’m working, writing right now.

And the amazing thing still about all this that there is indeed something like Infinite Intelligence. And that to my amazement somehow part of my desire document, about the intentions and plans I made around one and a half year ago are coming true. And that indeed, somehow life is getting back to normal, something I really have been longing for for a long time now.

And no, not the normal from before, but an intentional normal, a normal by choice, not by accident.

Humanification

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Right now

I was chatting with someone tonight and (of course) came to the subject of how the world works, or actually doesn’t work, financially the last few years or maybe even decades. And then I came across a post in Facebook about visa. And that reminded me again of things like ‘humanification’ and of the world passport I once read about. And that brought me to the site world service and I thought they deserve to be mentioned here, have a link here.

And I see this page is a post(?!), where I think the subject humanification needs a page, but that’s for another time.

Before

Tonight I was at a small party of a friend who just invited a few people to spend the night together with some drinks and snacks. And of course I got a little bit drunk from the nice cocktails and the wine and of course my issue with Smart an big companies and other organizations like governments became a subject we talked about.

And yes, my issue with Smart limiting my internet connection is about me and it is very personal. But it is also exactly about what I want to change in the world and what I think we as humanity can do better. And there is even a word for it, although it’s not an official word and I was not able to secure the domain: humanification: make the world more human again, make the world for humans again and not for organizations.

As I think organizations should serve humans and not the other way around which seems the case so often in 2014 and the years before. And I think I’m not the only one affected in a negative way by procedures and policies of big organizations like big companies and governments, especially organizations that don’t have (a lot of) competition and you and I depend on.

But in the end it is humans working in these organizations, from CEO to the lowest level of employee. And I believe each of them can make a change, can start serving other people better, regardless of policies and procedures.

And don’t get me wrong, policies and procedures are there for a reason and basically are good and have their purpose. But in the end humans are executing and implementing them and humans have a choice whether the policy or procedure is applicable to the situation, the human need on the side of the person they are serving.

Because humans and organizations are there to serve (other) humans, not the other way around. Never forget that and always keep in mind how you would want to be served if you are on the other side of the desk or the counter.

Let’s be human, lets humanificate.

Other people

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It seems my biggest weakness is connecting to other people. And that’s where everything seems to stop and until now I didn’t find any suggestion how to deal with that in Think and Grow Rich or the Principles of Success.

In the end I mostly find myself alone doing the work and I am starting to realize there is always more work than you can do alone if you want to achieve anything in life. And that’s where I don’t seem to succeed, put other people to work in a useful way. And before I could still put people to work by paying them, but as of the moment I don’t know how to do that, even though recently I think I did manage to motivate or inspire some people to do things.

So maybe things are going better, maybe I am meeting the right people now. Or maybe I did find a way to do things better.

So next will still be planning.