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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.

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!

What did you bargain for?

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I just realized that the two books I’ve been using most recently (Think and Grow Rich and Life Is What You Make It) both quote the same poem:

I bargained with Life for a Penny,
and Life would pay no more.
However, I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.

For Life is a just employer,
He will give you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,
only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.

Jesse Rittenhouse

Weird, isn’t it?

What did you bargain for? What are you going to bargain for for the future?

Today was not my day, or was it?

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Most of my day today was stress, i just felt stress. The weird thing was, that finally I managed to start some work that I postponed for quite a while. So at least i started something I had postponed. Positive one would think.

However, at the end of the day I only felt negativity. And i realized that that was also what I ‘radiated’. I also realized that somehow indeed it all starts with ‘me’. That I couldn’t give or get what I wanted because of my state of being.

Then I got a text from someone who I believe can do things on a distance. So I ventured my frustration, but also asked him if he could send me some positive energy. He was willing to and he did. And it brought me in a more positive state of being, including tiredness from all that tension that I had felt.

So yes, ask and though shall be given.

Success with my blog

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Well, this blog in the end is not supposed to be about me, but about to inspire you to success, but of course for now I would need some followers as there are none or not many visiting this site yet. And of course the site is not visited or not a lot as it is new and does not have a lot of content yet. And I’m not even sure if it’s interesting content already.

So after a discussion with a friend of mine yesterday evening he suggested that one of the ways to e.g. get comments on my blog so I would know if it has useful posts or other content is to involve other bloggers, e.g. by commenting on their posts. Good idea I thought, so I started searching for something like ‘inspiration for success blog’ and ended up here.

And got some more advice straight away. So just ask and you will be given! I asked for advice and got more advice than I could imagine in a very, very short time!