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Mac Well, not sure what to write about right now and even a bit unsure whether I would write a post anyhow as in today’s team meeting it became clear that it is time that the site gets a better structure and better content (pages) and not just ‘posts’ as I write them, basically even with the thought of ‘just writing content’.

So maybe just indeed write something about dogs as a friend of mine and i were talking about earlier today. And it was weird to find out I didn’t know how much of a dog lover she is, even though how I saw the last few days how much she likes Iwa, our little mini pincher. So we started talking about dogs and of course I asked her if she knows the Dog Whisperer, which of course she does. And then I found out she has a dog herself, Mac, of which you find a photo on this page. A very sweet dog it seems to me, and as i heard also very spoilt, but I can imagine that looking at the photo.

So we talked about dogs and it was funny to see how Iwa sat on her lap, liking it, like getting the attention and also not liking it.

And then somehow we started talking about business, which people often say I should mix with private. But to me that’s very hard as I just like the things I do business wise, something like ‘anything internet’, from building websites to Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization, where in my opinion people often mix especially the last two, but also overestimate the design of the first.

But that’s not really what I wanted to talk about, business. But somehow I also do, as in my experience business also affects your private life. If business is good, you can do more fun things in your private life, at least I think most people would agree that you have more options if business is good, if you’re earning money. And if business is bad, you may have less money or no money at all, so have less choices in what to do or where to go.

So is this a business post or a private life post? Well, I guess more of a business quote. And actually that’s also why I often end up talking about business. As I just need more exposure for my business, for what I’m good at, for what I have to offer. And as my private life is suffering a lot from not having enough business.

So yes, this is a business post, a sales and marketing post..

Doing nothing

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Doing nothing”, that was my intention for today related to my place mat exercise. And this meant something like leaving everything to the Universe, so that’s what I wrote down on the other side. But somehow I realized you cannot do ‘nothing’. That’s not how humans are built. So even while doing ‘nothing’, just lying a bit on the couch as I just felt tired and didn’t really feel like doing anything physical, of course I was still thinking, and breathing, and I guess a lot of other things a human does when doing nothing.

Ah, and I’m really in complaining mood, down mood, even though I thought I had left that behind as I felt so happy recently. So yesterday one of the things I wanted to achieve in one of my segments was feeling bad, which to my amazement didn’t really happen. I felt kind of bad the moment I wrote it down, but somehow later on in the day I started to feel good and when going to bed as far as I remember I really felt good again. So I didn’t achieve my goal with that and of course I was kind of happy with that.

I learned from it thought that sometimes it’s just good to write your feeling down, to just feel bad if you feel bad. And maybe this something about the ‘forcing’ humans, or at least I, often feel I do. When feeling bad I am trying to force myself out of that. And often that doesn’t work.

And I realize I’m not really inspired writing this post. And I guess you can also read that between the lines. And somehow I also know what’s the background as I have so many things I want to do, so many ideas in my mind I want to make into reality. And somehow that’s frustrating as the only thing I just need is money to live, money to survive. And it feels a bit like all my efforts somehow are good, feel good, but they just don’t bring in, or at least didn’t until now, just the money to survive.

So what is this with money, what’s wrong in the world that I can’t do what I feel I’m good at, that I can’t seem to use my talents for other people, that I can’t serve other people in a way that they appreciate it enough to allow me to live the life I think I deserve and need. Don’t they just see what I do, what I can do? Don’t they just see how good I am at the internet and programming stuff? Don’t they see how I’m trying to do things good, perfect, ready for the future, maintenance friendly?

Apparently not, but somehow I also feel that I should just continue doing what I do, believe in myself, and that somehow, some day, people see how good I am at what I do and that they can benefit from the way how I do things.

Success and money

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I’m starting to believe that I’m becoming very successful. So that’s a very good thing. And actually John pointed a bit in the direction how successful especially the project Inspiration for Success already is. And until now basically the project is mainly my personal achievement although the other team members also put some effort, next to being supportive.

And indeed, writing one post a day for this site plus adding quite some pages content over a period of four months I guess is quite some achievement I guess, even though I don’t feel it that way as I’d rather see success in the form of many visitors visiting the site and some money coming in. But again, achieving position number four in Google for the phrase ‘inspiration for success’ again is quite some achievement. And it actually took quite some persistence and belief to continue, as over time the site just went down and down in the Google rankings, not up, except for the last week or so. So during that time it was not easy to continue, not easy to believe that my way of on site optimization (also) works.

And my main personal achievements over time were that I actually quite disciplined even though I thought I was not. I ‘only’ skipped one day or so and in the end I decided to skip the Sundays for writing posts as I think people, including me, should also have a resting day.

But yes, it still feels a bit like ‘not enough’ yet for me as the site doesn’t have enough inspiring content yet, as the team is not contributing as I would want to and as I think they should and as there are hardly any visitors yet through search and there is no money coming in yet.

And that’s a subject I’ve been thinking about a lot recently (and also before all my life), money. Somehow money is a very weird thing having mostly a negative aura around it in the form of ‘not enough’ or ‘wrong’. And that’s of course not a good thing.

And I actually wanted to write more about that as also Abraham Hicks said some very useful things about that. But for today I think I have written enough here, so you’ll have to wait for a later day to read more about what I found about the subject ‘money’.

Giving what you have

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Well, it seems that I’m still trying to give what I don’t have. And of course that doesn’t work. So how do I give what I do have and that would make other people happy? Maybe the most important thing I don’t understand is what I have, what I have to give. And related to that I’m trying to give what I need, what i want. But still, what I’m reading is that you have to give before you can get or receive. So maybe I just don’t understand that or misinterpret that.

I had some experiences though with giving something very small that made people very happy and giving very big things that don’t make people happy. Like what’s easy for my is difficult for other people. And while writing this I realize that there is some sentence in Think and Grow Rich that is just about that. Something like don’t measure things by your own standards.

So for me it’s pretty easy to write a post like this. Or do almost anything with computers. Or do things with networking and routers. Or drive a car. Or building custom made websites for which over the years I, together with staff, built a pretty amazing web development framework for.

And what I need and want is my partner loving me like I like to love him, have money to buy a car and invite people and travel and, well, i guess that’s about it. I don’t need so much. Ah, and yes, just have some money or a ticket to visit my mam, visit some customers in The Netherlands and maybe meet or find some business partners in The Netherlands. So the last may be easy for other people, people who might find it difficult to deal with computers and websites. Or drive a car or something. Or being loved, being hugged.

So how to make that happen? How to find the people that need what you have and easily can give and can give what you need or want? Ah, yes, that’s maybe where the money comes in. That’s why they invented money.

So maybe I’ll just look for people who need or want my services and have some money to pay for that. Maybe it’s that easy, although then you end up with sales and marketing and that’s just phrases, words I don’t like. Even though I know I can be pretty good in sales. At least if I believe in the product.

Well, inspiring, this post? Not really sure, but I guess it’s better than most of the complaining crap I often write.

So if you need a good search engine friendly website or some web application or your computer fixed up, at least the software part, just let me know.

Business or not

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Well, Inspiration for Success is in kind of a rut. And I know a bit why, but am not sure what’s next or how to get out of it. Someone pointed out to me it’s a business as in the end it’s about money. And maybe it is, maybe it’s not. Or maybe it’s just a personal thing of mine, something like a life struggle about money. I guess the whole background of the site and maybe of many things in my life is that I just want to be paid for the things I do, for who I am, for what I’m good at. And I guess most people would want that to happen kind of naturally. So why is it so rare that happens. If I read statistics and look around me it seems most people are not happy with what they are doing (to earn, a living or more). And I still believe that’s very bad, that we organized the world that way. I don’t want to believe that life is suffering, that life is about hard work, that life is about struggling to survive or to live. Humans are so much more than animals or trees, at least that’s what I always believed.

So yes, if humans are so much more than animals or plants or whatever it doesn’t seem right that humans are suffering, suffering more than animals or plants or stones or stars or …

And going back to Think and Grow Rich and what I know about the world many people are struggling to survive in an even lesser way than animals. If I look at animals they are much more themselves naturally than human beings are. They just accept situations and appear to suffer only when they are in pain or something.

And recently I realize more and more what humanity has achieved in the way also Napoleon Hill describes in what an enormous amount of capital and effort lies behind a simple breakfast. And I realize more and more how far that goes, not only in ‘simple’ toilet stuff and bicycles and motorcycles and cars and big buildings and planes.

But I also realize more and more how this all degraded people, or at least most people, to robots, to just being part of the system, being part of the system that creates all those things.

And somehow that idea is also behind this site, partly behind my own life as I already have availed a lot of the system, but mainly for all those people who never really benefited from the system.

I am quite sure technically the whole system is quite capable of producing and giving all people what they want and need. And I really mean ALL people. But somehow we were not able to organize the world in a way where that is happening. Maybe Karl Marx came closest to that idea with communism. And don’t get me wrong, I mean communism as a philosophy where everybody does what he or she feels like what he or she should do, not the way how it was implemented as a regime.

Or would we in the end still just be like cells in a body. But then, I presume cells in a body are happier than humans are, so to me there is still something to improve as I don’t think nature intends ‘suffering’. By the way, this way of thinking makes me sometimes focusing on the cells in my body, wishing them all well, as I know the ‘I’ that I feel or am is more than the sum of the cells. And I also know each individual cell is not important in itself. But in the end it is, as without all those individual cells the body wouldn’t exist.

So as I started this post, is this site about business? Yes, in the current system it is. So indeed, the business model would need to involve money if I would want to spend more time on it. So if you think the site and my ideas are worth spending more time on I guess money wise, which our current system is built on, you might want to consider to pay me for the work and effort I do. And yes, that would mean there is a business model.