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Search and you will find

As I am not home and the laptop broke down and I don’t have any modern gadgets that have internet access like a table I had no option but to look for an internet cafe to send my daily quote and to post my daily posts. As I am in a big city not far from the center I just went to the hotel desk and asked where I could use the internet. There was one, but it was closed. Try tomorrow morning. As I wanted to do my daily posts I pushed a bit, but no solutions came from the people behind the front desk. I decided to try my luck and just roam around a bit. I thought I knew the area quite a bit from some time ago and an internet cafe could not be far. How wrong I was. It was very quiet outside and despite it is a big city the streets were almost deserted. Also most, or actually practically all shops and businesses around were closed. A bit scary, but I decided to push through.

There were a lot of taxi drivers around who tried to sell me a ride, but I didn’t feel like taking a taxi. I did get the hunch to ask one of them and he came with an answer, pointed a direction and it sounded like not too far away. So I decided to go and after a while I indeed found an internet cafe, probably the one that was pointed out to me. And I was very happy to have found it as it was a bit further than I expected and I was about to give up or find another way. So the post title is “Search and you will find”, but after writing it and starting to write the post I realized that I had done a little bit more than just searching and finding. First, I had the desire to do my daily inspiration for success things. Next I decided to gather some information, do research, ask. Then I made my plan and after that I took the action of implementing my plan. And while researching I was quite a bit persistent to get what I wanted and I was also persistent in continuing finding what I wanted to find by just walking a little bit further than I thought the distance would be.

I also realized I was careful to keep track of the road so I could go back to the hotel and also careful looking around for danger as it was quite late in a big city I’m not familiar with where it was a bit too quiet to be or feel fully safe. I also realized that Infinite Intelligence pointed me in the direction to ask a taxi driver and that the taxi driver I asked also had the right answer.

So maybe the principles of success are that simple and I even implemented them in a very natural way in this case. So for the bigger successes I”m looking for maybe I just need to scale it up a bit. Maybe that’s all.

So what inspires you?

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Yes, that is a question that I am asking myself more and more. What inspires people, what inspires you? It seems that could be or probably is very different for different people, so ‘making the best site on inspiring people (for success)’ is not as easy and straightforward as i thought. Even within the team we already have different opinions about the goals so while inspiration is a much more difficult subject to grasp finding ways to inspire people is probably not a straightforward thing.

And I’m quite sure inspiration is a much more difficult subject to tackle than motivation, but that’s also the reason why we chose ‘inspiration for success’ and not ‘motivation for success’ as we believe inspiration has a much better impact on achieving success, or anything in life, than motivation.

Looking forward to your comments. What inspires you?

Another accident

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So today I had another accident. So how to make something inspiring from that? Yes, I got up quickly, looked at myself, saw the wounds were not that bad as before, saw that the motorcycle was still running, got myself together, got the motorcycle up, gathered the things that had fallen out and went back home.

So yes, they say no matter how often or how hard you fall just get up and continue. And it was easier than before, somehow, for me, as I had been there and nothing really serious had happened to me, at least at first sight.

But still I felt stupid, felt hurt, not only physically but also emotionally. I know I choose to ride that motorcycle as I don’t see any other option to move around conveniently, even though I know it’s dangerous. But it’s no fun actually. It’s just how it is and I don’t know how to change it. And I don’t know how to prevent falling again. The stupid thing is just dangerous. Or use other transportation, but that’s also dangerous and much more inconvenient.

The worst was that I got a whole sermon at home that I need to change. That this kind of thing is part of my pattern. That somehow I do it to get attention, no not consciously, but unconsciously. That I really need to change something here. And believing indeed that things happen because you attract them also made me think. And yes, I know I have to change some things. I know things happened just before that probably triggered it. But still, I don’t know how to change it, how to change.

And I can’t get the lesson from it. Yes, be more careful, drive more slowly, be more focused. But those are only words, I don’t really feel it. I can’t get to the actual lesson and my partner seems to feel it and is annoyed with it. Well, don’t you think I’m annoyed with it? And if I only knew how, of course I would change it straight away.

So yes, I’m way too hard on myself again I guess. And yes, somehow I’m playing the victim here still. But somehow I also feel like I am changing, do improve things, little things, but still, things.

And I need to stop that ‘improving things’ means that there is something wrong with me. Or is there? Napoleon Hill also states something like that in the end of the book Think and Grow Rich, to check what’s wrong with you as otherwise you would be successful, would be in the place you want to be.

Confusing.

So how can I be inspiring here? Or can I?

I know many people, maybe you, would be affected a lot more with an accident like this, while to me it was ‘just another accident’, I got up and rode away. So yes, no matter if you’re hurt, either emotionally or physically, you can just get up and move on, provided you were not hurt that bad that you can’t move anymore.

And yes, somehow I’m determined to do better, make things better, no matter what, even though it hurts and please don’t underestimate how hurt an humiliated I feel at the moment. And physical wounds heal, although sometimes they leave a trace. And emotional wounds also heal I guess, although I want to be very careful stating things about that.

But the lesson I’m still not fully sure of. Maybe I can find someone who is already successful (as I have in mind) say something about that. To inspire me, maybe to try to make clear or clearer to me what’s the most important lesson I have to learn.

Hope again?

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Today was a very weird day for me (again). And maybe I’m learning, something like learning to be myself, do my own thing, making my own decisions and at the same time respecting others, respecting the opinions of others and following others. And maybe i found what I have to give in the sense of what Napoleon Hill states that you have to be willing to give to get what you want. And it hurts, because the thing that seems to be asked for is a high price, higher than I expected it to be, different than what I expected it to be. It is not out of bounds of what I stated that I was and am willing to give to get what I want, to make my dream come true, so I can give it, relatively easy. But it hurts, the price is higher than I thought, in a way. And in a way it’s not. Maybe it’s logical Maybe this is the only simple thing that has to happen, even though I didn’t want to let go of it. But indeed, if this is the thing I will have to give, will have to let go of, then the price is very low, then the whole thing indeed is easy.

So again, not sure how to inspire you with this. Maybe indeed just start with the six steps, defining your desire, your definite purpose, stating what you are willing to give. Make a plan and put it into action and write it down and read it aloud. Twice a day is ok, but sometimes for me less than that was also ok as the whole desire document was and is already in my heart.

And for me patience was important, and ‘no action’ was the action I decided to often take, which was hard, because I’m an action oriented person. Often I take too much action.

Let’s see, my belief went sky high again today.

Goals, Master Mind and belief

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Today i had a discussion with one of the Master Mind group members for this site, for this project. Actually the discussion started a few days ago when he mentioned in an e-mail that my one million dollar goal is a personal goal. He suggested that each of the Master Mind Group members, or actually team members, should set his or her own goal in relation to the project as he didn’t feel connected with that goal. Or at least it seems it gives him a feeling like it’s too big, too ambitious in too short amount of time.

Actually I was a bit amazed, but also not really, that he came up with that issue now. I presumed he and his fellow team member fully understood what this site and related project is all about. But it seems he doesn’t or doesn’t yet or didn’t. And that he doesn’t know is of course also logical, as the whole project started for me around three quarters of a year ago, started with reading in and working from Think and Grow Rich, implementing and experiencing the principles of success from that book. And reading other books, and reading related sites and doing some exercises on related sites. And reading more books.

And then a few months ago I started this site, that basically started from another site a one or two months earlier. And then the sample goal evolved from all kinds of things, including the related plan.

So indeed, how can a team member that just joined a few weeks ago and didn’t find a lot of time yet to understand the project. Understanding like reading and understanding the many posts and pages on the site.

Anyhow, as you may know leadership (or Master Mind) is not my natural strength, but I’m very happy to have two team members already who support me and I hope I can induce them in the correct way to achieve the goals I have in mind. And be able to give them their one million dollar, even though the sample goal is not the main objective of this project and the site. Or is it? I think in a way it is, because the money is kind of the desire, my desire, and the giving is kind of the site and the one million dollar to the team members. But after this already long process about “success” it becomes clearer and clearer that the whole road to success is a, well, weird mix of giving, taking, receiving, manipulating, power, inducing and many more things. Maybe just summarized as leadership.

And again, I deviated a bit from the title as the article was meant to be something like how to make the Master Mind group believe in the goals so they will really start moving, doing things, really helping to push forward towards achieving the goals. And indeed, when that happens, I’m quite sure I may be amazed how big the effect could be as what Napoleon Hill also describes in Think and Grow Rich.