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Failure?

So today was my first real failure with my planning. Or should I call it defeat? As I had made a mistake planning a meeting with someone and didn’t put something like ‘maybe’ or ‘if pushes through’. And it looked all so good, as I was in continuous contact with the person who had set up the meeting and we even met, waiting for the third person, the person it was all about. And in the end it turned out he had become ill and had gone to the hospital, to his doctor. So I made a remark to my partner that maybe we should go there, as I had made this part of my planning and did not fail for the last few weeks or even months doing the things I had planned for the day. And then the comment I got in return kind of hit me, as he kind of looked at me as if I were crazy, trying to push something through when someone was just ill. So at that moment I kind of decided to back down and just accepted that this meeting was not going to happen. And accepting that I had really failed today, something I had been very scared of for the last few weeks, months.

But somehow nothing really happened. Or actually a lot of good things happened. As another remark of the person with me was that if I would be so stubborn to push through with this, he would not entertain me anymore, as he considered it very bad to bother this person being ill just because of my planning. And I think he was right, even though I felt tempted to indeed push through and see this person, even for just one minute, just to make my point, just to prove to myself that I can indeed “plan the work and work the plan”. And of course I could have, but at that moment I decided to not push through and accept failure, which should have been a big thing, but actually wasn’t. And I was a bit amazed with that, as this has been a moment I have dreaded for quite a while. And behind it was just fear, fear to fall back to not finishing things I had planned, fear to go back to being unsuccessful. And right now I know also that that is not going to happen, right now I know that I am going to continue on this road toward leadership and success. And right now I am actually getting very emotional, as somehow it seems, it feels, deep inside, that I have decided to this time not give up. And that this small failure, that is not even a real failure, but just temporary defeat as the meeting will probably push through tomorrow, does not count, not at all.

So thank you Michael, for all the things you said today, about my little stupid childish ‘failure’ that wasn’t even a real failure. And especially for reminding me that I am human, and that humans make mistakes, are sometimes defeated and can also even fully fail.

Plan the work and work the plan

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Wow, today was some day. As I managed to achieve two important things:

Create the very first initial version of the IFS Tools.
Plan a very minimal goal.

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!

IFS Tools Milestone

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Wow, I think I just finished the biggest upgrade to this site until now. And the kind of funny thing is that you don’t even see it right now. At least I hope you won’t see it, because that means I did something wrong. And looking back the changes are not even that big. But it took me a while to get here, as I wanted my own development for the future expansion of the site as I believe that is much more efficient towards the future. So today I was finally able to finalize and install the basic version of the IFS development framework, that is based on the software development methods of Active Discovery Designs.

So I guess it’s time to celebrate, as this is a major milestone in the website stuff of the project Inspiration for Success. As this means that from this point on I will be able to create some tools that will help you implement the methods that I described in this site and that I am using on my way to success, like the creation of a desire document based on the six steps Napoleon Hill describes. And something like keeping track of your score on the different principles of success, as I did quite a long time ago on the sample page for that. So you can measure your progress on each of the principles and check which principle of success you might want to work on a bit more.

And no, while writing this, I don’t think this site, these tools would be or should be a replacement for the book Think and Grow Rich or other books I used to get where I am now on my way to success. So please buy the book and work from it, read from it, open it every day. As every time you read it or parts of it or even one sentence out of it, you will find something new. As that is and was recommended by Napoleon Hill and is also my recommendation and experience.

So I hope soon you will be back on this site and register and get access to those tools. As of course it is my goal to help you to achieve your success, preferably faster and easier than I am doing it right now.

Facebook

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I was just using Facebook and thinking what it means to me and what it means to others. And why it was Facebook that survived and not Hyves or Friendster or some other similar site. And while wanting to put the right links I see they are all gone, except Facebook. And I have still mixed thoughts about e.g. the success of Facebook. And of many other mass products and services. And there are many, as the more I think about it, the success of Ford or Maggi or Microsoft, or whatever product or service we use in our daily life, are all the same and it goes back much further than we think. And they all start with some idea and all make some people very rich as Napoleon Hill describes in Think and Grow Rich.

And all seem to go back to make a product or service available to the masses. And indeed, then the money would flow in faster than you would have ever imagined. But, no matter what Napoleon Hill states, you would need the masses to make someone, or a group of people, ‘filthy rich’. So in the end that type of success cannot be for everybody. As you can only have one Facebook or Google or Microsoft, even though the monopoly of Microsoft in operating systems is starting to fade. And you can have only so many car brands or soft drink brands.

And no, with my own experience and what I now know about achieving that type of success, I don’t believe all those brands became large by ‘accident’. There must have been some deliberate action, or maybe better stated in the words of Abraham Hicks, deliberate creation. There must have been some sort of planning and persistence.

But yes, there must have also been some kind of ‘break’ for the person or people who wanted something. As I am starting to apply many of the Principles of Success, but I’m not there yet. And I think I am doing more than my share, even though sometimes, or even often, I’m just stuck and not moving, not working.

Well, time will tell if the Principles of Success really work, or the way I apply them, try to live them. And that reminds me that one of the goals of this site is to be a real life, real time story of someone on the way to success using the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill.

So this is still the struggle you see as also described in the book. Although while writing this right now I am also starting to see the opportunities. And I’m trying to use them right now, where before I would not even have recognized them.

So yes, especially the last few weeks I am really starting to believe that success is possible, if you are willing to go the road, also for me.

What about you?

On the way to leadership

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Napoleon Bonaparte Strange, I am getting more and more the feeling that I am on the way to leadership. And the main reason is that in the back of my mind I often hear Napoleon Hill say “a leader must plan the work and work his plan”. And that is what I have been doing lately, also today. As today was a very strange day, as part of the day there was no electricity, kind of unexpected and longer than I thought. But I also knew I was going to finish the things on my to do list, the things I planned, and I was going to write my posts, no matter what. Although of course if the electricity wouldn’t have come back I might have decided not to finish my list, my plan.

And no, I’m not happy. As my dream, the thing I stated as my definite purpose, has not become reality yet. It somehow even feels further away than the last year or so. But I feel much stronger, much more self confident, self confidence I never felt before like this. And yes, knowing what I want, having decided what I want in life and having written that down makes life easier. As I don’t have to think anymore about what I want. As it won’t change. And somehow, no matter whether I feel closer to it or further away, that makes life much easier.

And of course I have doubts, of course I doubt. I’m still human. But whenever I doubt, I ask myself something like what else I would want. Or whether I am still willing to give what I stated in my desire document. And until now the answer has always been, no, I don’t want anything else. This is what I want. And yes, I am still willing to give what I stated I wanted to give.

And no, it’s not easy. As my desire, the thing that I want, is very, very big. And still kind of impossible. But those questions, and the answers, the answers written in my desire document, still keep me going, give me peace, give me strength.

And I started this post with something like becoming a leader. And recently I really feel like becoming a leader. As e.g. I notice how few leaders there really are. And how much leadership is needed, how many people need a leader. And I feel humble, scared sometimes. As I never had a good leader to follow, except maybe Napoleon Hill. So I guess I follow him, his ideas, the ideas he wrote down, the ideas that he states are the combination of the ideas of many leaders, many successful people.

So yes, maybe I am becoming a good follower also, meaning I may also become a good leader.

Thank you Lord!