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The innovators

The Innovators - The Men who built America I was just watching an episode of The Innovators – The men who built America and was amazed with some of the information there. The moment I jumped in it was about problems that Andrew Carnegie had with his steel empire. In the program it was shown that he even was at war with his employees once, including taking his factories back by force after they had been taken by employees on strike. It was also shown that he fired the person actually running his company, I presume his CEO, of whom was stated that he kind of went against Carnegie.

I was amazed as things like strike, I presume the Homestead Strike, is meant, especially using violence to retake the factory, are against the rule Napoleon Hill states something like ‘things should benefit all’, although on the other hand Napoleon Hill also promotes to deal with problems and mentions that it is better to ‘put up a straight fight’ than, well doing nothing or something.

What amazed me most was the person going against Carnegie was presumably his CEO, where I understand that he must have been part of the Master Mind Group of Carnegie and the way how the situation was described had nothing to do with the harmony needed in a Master Mind, it appeared to be the full opposite.

The other story in the program was about Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan which taught me a lot about the practice op applying the Principles of Success and actually the whole book Think and Grow Rich seems to fall more into place watching this program

At the end of the program I was thinking that that period in the United States was about building the United States as it is now industrially. As the book is based on that period while America was built industrially one may ask if all the Principles of Success still apply in the way it was used then. The main issue was also there were many large innovations at the time and for quite a while I’m already asking myself if there are still innovations like that in the world. The last thing in my mind was the Appollo Program to fly to the moon and that’s long time ago. Similar projects were the Concorde and the Boeing 747, but later on I realized that the Boeing 747 was not the big innovation I imagined it to be.

So some long, well, frustration of mine is that there seem to be no more real big innovations anymore. The Appollo Program seems to have been kind of the last. After that it seems to have been mostly ‘more of the same’, like more efficient or bigger of faster, nothing really innovative.

So of course in my mind is how could I find ‘the next big innovation’ that might even be my money making goal. I’m good in ideas and still have some big ideas and plans in my mind, but nothing ‘world changing’.

You want to think with me? Please let us know your thoughts below?

Wow, another one

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Wow, another post I want to write and I don’t feel any inspiration at the moment. But I can still be proud of myself as I just saw that this is post number 61 and as I wrote most of the posts and only missed one day or so I think I achieved quite a goal and showed quite some discipline. And I thought and I am still thinking I really had no discipline, but facts now show differently. For the last months, or maybe even the last half year with the things I kind of ‘put on myself’ I have been very successful, even though they are and were little things, at least in my opinion.

And that’s what a friend of mine recently told me, that I’m so hard on myself. And I guess she is right. It felt as if she is right. But my main question is still that if I am so hard on myself, or actually just have been pushing and persisting all my life, why did I not achieve the real success yet? I’m really confused with that, although I see more and more why, as success requires a lot more than just ‘push, push, push’ or work hard and be persistent. Indeed, it seems the harder I force or forced myself, the less successful I was. So recently I am a lot easier on myself, more relaxed, and it seems indeed that things go more ‘on their own’, more natural.

The weird and scary part is still that I hardly have any money left, actually even the opposite, and no clear picture of the future. And those things I always had, at least I thought I had. But still, I feel also less scared, so somehow it seems I’m making progress. Somehow it seems I’m starting to understand.

And I guess that’s all about The Secret or the one thing that Napoleon Hill doesn’t specifically describes in Think and Grow Rich. Somehow you need to figure it out yourself, somehow the whole thing is about, well, don’t know how to describe, but I’m starting to get the feel about it. Somehow it’s about taking charge in a natural way, without all the ‘push, push, push’ and that’s also what Lynn Grabhorn wrote about. The big thing, the really big thing, doesn’t seem to be that difficult and it seems you can only understand it ‘when you are there’.

So where are you?

And this reminds me that one of the ideas of the site was to connect ‘inspirors’ with ‘people who need inspiration’. So we need to find a way how to do that.

For now of course we can do that manually, so just e-mail us or write something in a comment.

Plant seeds

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After my search for the daily quote I kept on reading the page and found the following quote:

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

It made me think, made me feel a bit embarrassed as, I guess like most people, I mostly focus on things I want, on things I need.

Of course I think I also plant quite some seeds, like writing a post every day for this website. But looking at the quote, at the end of the day I think in general I tend to count the reaping, not what I have given or sown. I tend to look at the statistics and feeling disappointed that the site is not being found, instead of thinking I may have just have meant something for one person by sending my daily quote. I tend to think about the content that is not yet there instead of thinking of the little things I improved or changed. Or even the one person who might have found something useful on the site.

So yes, there is a lot behind that quote. Many things are just a matter of perspective and there is only so much one person can do on a day. And receiving things or harvesting depends on so many things we don’t really control.

So let’s look a bit more on even the smallest seed we have planted today, or yesterday, and be happy about it, feel satisfied about it. As maybe that’s what life is all about, the little things.

And let’s not forget that planting even one little seed every day would mean a whole forest of small trees after one year and may be a whole rain-forest that even multiplies and takes care of itself after ten or twenty years.

And nothing to reap there, but a lot to enjoy walking in the rain-forest or just looking at it or just knowing it’s there.

What do you think? Would you be willing to share your thoughts about harvesting and reaping below?

Focus

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One of the major thing I go ‘wrong’ I guess is on losing focus and probably that’s also where you may have some issues: keep the focus and the priority on you major goals and dreams and don’t get distracted with all kinds of things.

So how do I do that? Well,at the moment I don’t and I’ve been thinking about that for the last few days. Actually there are four major things on my mind:

Money for my daily needs and taking care of existing customers and projects.
The continuation of my business and let it grow as I have stated as part of the plan for my major goal in life.
A major internet project that I have on my mind.
This website and my daily activities related to it.

As I really believe anything is possible in life and as i also believe that I should not come back on decisions I made easily, I am trying to find a way to stick with all four projects that I committed myself to. However, at the moment I am running into some practical issues like money and time..

Ah, and something i never really mentioned, but what is always at the back of my mind is the idea that:

You can achieve less than you think in one year time, but you can achieve more than you think in ten years time. – Unknown

So I guess it is all a matter of planning.

I am sharing this with you as in the end I guess success for me would mean if I succeed in realizing all the things mentioned, so basically 2, 3 and 4.

And what has this to do with inspiring you? Well, if I realize all those things I could indeed say something like anything is possible, like proving it to you. As all this feels quite impossible to me now. And that’s part of what this website is about, inspiring you to go for your goals and dreams and realize them, no matter how big or impossible they are or seem. So I’d better find a way.

Small steps

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Wow, was just thinking I did not write a post for this site yet and I have been working a few hours on this site already. Also thought about something like ‘small steps’. Sometimes I forget how much effort is involved in even the simplest things we see others do, or the simplest results others achieved.

Like now, you may see some little things change in this site, e.g. I wanted to add some kind of color to the site, some logo of some kind. So I did search on ‘inspiration and motivation and success’ and saw a nice image, the one you now (April 14, 2014) see on the right top, or below:

Road to Success

So even for this little post I had to do some things to get the right image in the page as I want the ‘original’ image in this page, even if the image in the header changes. So I had to copy the image, give it another name and upload it to the server.

So yes, this post is about me, as of course I want some appreciation for what I do with this site and of course you all underestimate how much time and effort are involved in creating a site like this.

And yes, while writing this i also realize how many small steps others do, you do, for things that appear so easy to me. And that I could express my appreciation for things others do so much more.

So let’s appreciate ourselves and each other more, tell ourselves and each other more that all those little steps are important, that each little step often takes more effort than we realize, but also that all those small steps lead to big things if we just keep walking.