Tag Archives: Big things

Popularity

Well, interesting, people checking my LinkedIn profile. And of course everybody would be wondering what is my relation with internet and submarine cables. As there is nothing like that in my LinkedIn profile. And even someone called me ‘weird’, which I guess it’s true.

But the truth is that I am starting to believe that I can actually do something, even in a new industry, in an industry I hardly know anything about. And yes, that somehow confidence is key. And persistence of course. And the weird thing is that somehow also other people believe in me and are somehow interested in my ‘crazy’ ideas.

So it seems there is some truth in it, that it is lonely at the top, that there are not so many people doing the real big things, going for something big.

So yes, time will tell if I indeed will achieve something big. But somehow my confidence is growing and somehow I get the feeling the Universe is starting to help me. And yes, I did change my outlook, my focus. Indeed, looking more to do something for other people, in this case trying to provide Filipinos with better internet.

So thank you, Napoleon Hill, who inspired me for all those things and makes me believe. And thank you, person who gave me the book, even though how that went was kind of strange, even embarrassing.

So yes, God has strange ways to achieve things.

Thank you, Lord.

Caesar

Well, I got an e-mail pointing to Caesar and the subject kind of interested me: forgiveness. As recently I have been hearing the word forgive quite a lot, so the Universe must want to tell me something. But I don’t want to talk about forgiveness, I just was struck by the word Caesar, as it made me think of leadership and of the game Caesar as that was a game I liked a lot and consider playing again lately.

And this whole thing made me think of how things are connected and how we build on everything that we and people before us have built. As recently I am very interested in submarine cables, and my research opens a whole new world to me. And yes, I know for example the name TAT-1, but I didn’t know it had been taken out of service, even though it could still be operational. And while for us right now it is so common to be able to communicate with virtually anyone anywhere, even without being connected with wires, it is not that long ago that communication over e.g. the Atlantic Ocean was not even possible. And I guess it was even much more recent that communication over the Pacific Ocean became possible.

So what a strange world it is, and how fast did it change over especially the last century. And the change even seems to go faster and faster, although I don’t fully agree with that, as it seems the penetration of computers and internet the last two or three decades or so is about the same time span as it took for the automobile to become popular and common to the world.

And yes, I am wondering what would be next. Connecting directly to computers and the internet, so we all become part of, yes, what? But we are already connected, not directly, but things like Facebook make already that there is some kind of virtual world existing already.

Well, strange and amazing these things. Or just awesome?

Executive Summary

I was just working on an Executive Summary for a partial project in my main internet venture for Cagayan de Oro City. And I had postponed that a bit as it just didn’t feel good to work on, although the feedback I got on it only came to me last week.

But that was an important event for me, getting feedback on that document, as it meant that at least someone believes in my project, that at least someone gives me something like the benefit of the doubt, no matter how crazy my idea may sound.

But in the end the idea has become not as crazy as when I first had it, even though The Philippines, Philippine culture may be completely opposite to doing, creating something like what I have in mind. And yes, I am starting to learn what persistence is, real persistence, not just stubbornness. It is just slowly but surely moving towards a goal, just pushing people you need gently, just giving them time to adjust to the idea, especially if it’s a crazy, very big, idea.

And weird, that it seems to be harder to develop a small company like Active Discovery Designs than it is to create a project with a worldwide impact. Or maybe not that weird, as indeed, it may be true that it is crowded at the bottom and not at the top.

So let’s see what happens, let’s see how far I can get. And yes, the strange thing is that I don’t really care about the money anymore, even though the project might bring me some money. I just care about the people in Cagayan de Oro City, in Mindanao, in The Philippines, in the world. I just want to serve them, just give them proper internet at a reasonable price. And I want to give the people in Cagayan de Oro City just a decent life, just jobs, just some money coming in so they can lead the life I was able to live before, a life with good things and holidays, a life with enough to eat and some money to spare to do fun things.

And weird, as this all came from losing everything, being at rock bottom, having no partner, having no money, having no job that brought in money, having no friends, having the feeling to have nothing. And weird it came from a book, or actually multiple books, but in the end the root of everything happening right now lies in Think and Grow Rich. And while writing this I guess this site wouldn’t have been here without that book.

And yes, I am a bit, or actually very much, disappointed with this site. As it didn’t really bring me anything like fame or people reading it or commenting on it and such. Or using my tools, although I did not check the last recently and I also didn’t do any further development on it recently. And yes, I don’t think they are good enough yet.

But yes, the site brought me discipline and persistence. And it learned me to be patient and I learned to plan recently. And as per indication of Napoleon Hill I can indeed confirm that writing things down, whether it is a real planning or just writing a blog, has helped me analyze things, or maybe actually analyze myself, my actions.

So yes, I can still recommend buying the book Think and Grow Rich and working from it, reading it, having it next to your bed as there is indeed an awful lot of knowledge about ‘success‘ in it. And yes, I am quoting the word success right now, as success is indeed something else than having a lot of money or be famous or something like that, the things I was looking for. And yes, I am still looking for that as e.g. I think it makes life easier if you have enough money. But I see more and more that life is indeed some kind of journey, maybe some kind of learning process and success is just something temporary, something that will pass by, something that is in the moment, something you can’t keep or preserve.

So yes, let’s just be happy, happy on our never ending journey called life.

Before The Matrix

Bound movieAs far as I knew The Matrix was the first movie produced by the Wachowski Brothers, but I just found out that they made a movie before the Matrix Trilogy, the movie Bound. So when I found out of course I decided to download it, as The Matrix Trilogy is one of my most favorite movie experiences I have ever experienced, if not the best or at least most interesting movie experience ever. And every time I watch part of it I see something new. Like a few days ago, when I accidentally saw it on TV I realized that Smith says somewhere in the first Matrix movie that if Zion is destroyed he is going to be deleted. And I never realized that. And it is even the most basic foundations of the movie, programs being deleted, like humans going to die. And I never realized it also applied to Smith, so this gives a whole new dimension to the story for me. And believe me, I think I know the movies well and know many of the kind of hidden details and stories and philosophies and whatever, so seeing something new after seeing those movies so many times is exciting.

So I just watched it and it is a good movie with a very interesting plot. And the start reminded me a bit of The Matrix as the music sounds familiar, so probably they used the same composer.

And I thought I had nothing inspiring to share today, but it seems I still have, as my new discoveries, the discovery about Smith not being needed anymore if Zion is destroyed and this first movie of Wachowski Brothers is quite exciting to me.

And yes, I admire the Wachowski Brothers more and more, even now, as I have no clue how they pulled off something like The Matrix with so many angles from so many disciplines in life.

Love

Saw the end of a movie and somehow in the end it’s all about love. And the more I think about it, love is the strangest thing in the world, as it seems to make the most impossible relationships between humans possible, somehow seems to connect everything. Even The Matrix, one of my most favorite movies, I think in the end is about love, something ‘the machines’ don’t even understand.

And who would understand this type of thing called love, even though I believe somehow it’s also a choice, a choice to love someone, no matter what. For quite a while I believed Love is a verb, but still there seems to be more also to it.

So let’s be grateful there is something called like love, dealing with all our failures, mistakes, flaws and whatever we perceive as negative. Let’s celebrate!