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Inspiring, again

As you may have noticed I guess my posts were not that interesting lately and probably not really inspiring. But slowly I am getting into a more inspiring mood, so I hope soon I will add some more inspiring stuff to this site again.

And I guess this is not the easiest period in a web project, as I know it takes about two years for a website to kind of take off. And it is only like one and a half year ago that I started Inspiration for Success, so I can’t really expect a lot, especially as I have been doing most of it alone and as my ambition like writing a post every day and creating inspirational tools and those things just take time and effort.

So yes, often the statement of Abraham Hicks about people who seem to have nice things coming to them quite easily sticks in my mind. As I still don’t know how that works, I still don’t know how I would allow that to happen to me. As when I started the project I thought I had some people working with me to make this site, this project a success. But they all backed out, they hardly put any time in the project, except the weekly meetings, the weekly conference calls. And yes, a few times a few hours or something. At least that is what I know about. But I have been writing every day, sending an inspirational quote every day, so I have put quite some time and effort. And yes, I made the start with the inspirational tools. So did things come easy to me? Well, not really in my opinion.

So while writing this right now I’m thinking something like ‘what’s next’. As I am not planning to give up on this, even though this project did not really bring me anything yet, at least not the thing I was looking for, the thing I was asking for. And yes, the site, the writing brought me a lot, like writing everything down, having something to look back to. And it taught me about persistence. And it taught me about leadership, like accepting more that probably a leader is often alone, that he or she has to set the pace, guide the team and not be part of it.

And yes, while writing this right now, I am thinking of my original goals with this site, with this project, where I think the main original goal was to achieve success fully in the open using the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill. And this thinking brings me back to the beginning, to the start of Inspiration for Success, where I did a lot more work with a lot more enthusiasm and I guess a lot more result.

And yes, of course I am thinking also of stopping, like where does this whole thing lead, as Inspiration for Success certainly does not have the traffic, the users I originally had in mind. And while writing I have no clue how I would get everything to the quantity and quality of inspiring people, motivating people I originally had in mind. But that is maybe also where I should go back to right now, just redefine, or better revive my dream: offering inspiration for people like me, people who didn’t find inspiration all their life within their environment.

So if that applies to you, please let me know. And maybe I can help you, and probably others, if I know where you stand, what you want and what you are going through. So please let me know.

Justice system and leadership

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I can’t get enough of the movie Law Abiding Citizen. The story is so strong depicting the weaknesses (and strengths) of the (Western) justice system. And it is about leadership, about the Principles of Success, where Clyde Shelton does everything to make his point, fulfill his definite purpose of showing Nick Rice that justice is not about how the justice system works.

And especially the end is very strong, as somehow Nick Rice still sticks with not really violating the law by killing Clyde Shelton directly. So in the end everybody wins.

And yes, these type of movies, or any famous or successful movie, makes me still kind of jealous. As I have the feeling I never really accomplished anything ‘great’. And even though I am now working on making internet better for Filipino’s, even though my mindset has changed by focusing more on service and less on wanting to get rich myself, I still don’t know if my project will push through. As the longer I am working on it, the more I realize what an enormous task I have given myself, putting up a third internet service provider in The Philippines.

But maybe the movie Law Abiding Citizen gives some inspiration here, as the whole thing that Clyde Shelton pulls off is also ‘impossible’. And also a creating a movie, any movie, seems to be a similar thing, as I guess in the end often probably only one person has an idea and has to ‘pitch’ it to other people, induce other people to make it, have it made.

And yes, the last days, few weeks, have been a bit lonely, as many times before. As yes, I had quite some talks and my project is slowly growing, but I still don’t feel any real commitment from or real work done by other people. So how do you do that, that is still my biggest question, ‘induce’ other people as Napoleon Hill states it.

Maybe just continue the way I am and yes, asking the Universe, Infinite Intelligence, to support it, to help. As yes, lately I also encounter that one human is so limited in what is going to happen, that one human is only a means to get something done in the greater thing. So maybe I am just playing a role in this project and maybe the project is going to come true anyhow, regardless of my effort. But yes, maybe also because of my effort.

Your dream

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Gattaca I was (accidentally) watching the movie Gattaca, a movie I have seen quite some times. And it is a movie I like very much, I don’t exactly know why.

And before today I never really saw what I saw today, that the movie is all about determination, the determination to achieve something. And another thing that struck me today was that there were more people knowing what was really going on than I thought. And all those people supported Vincent, even help him when the odds are against him.

So yes, somehow the movie is about the principles of success, and I think many of the principles can be recognized in it.

And yes, certainly watch this movie (again), and learn from it, see how the principles of success are applied, are being used.

And yes, it is all about determination, definite purpose, the determination of one man, Vincent Freeman.

Starship Enterprise

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Starship Enterprise I was watching, kind of accidentally, an episode of the documentary Ancient Aliens. And just zapping a bit around I also ended up with one of the newer Star Trek movies. And of course that made me think about humanity, about being human. And what being human means. And also of course I was and am wondering when humans or humanity are really going to look for the stars as depicted in Star Trek and many other science fiction movies and books. As I guess in the end everybody will agree that humans somehow, some time, will leave earth and go explore the universe. And actually it is a bit strange to me that we don’t put more effort into that. As it seems that after we went to the moon in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, nothing really happened anymore, nothing really beyond ‘the ordinary’, beyond more of the same.

And maybe I am wrong. Maybe there are people doing things beyond the ordinary, beyond improving existing stuff. But I don’t think so.

And yes, I think I wrote about this before. That humanity seems to have stopped really innovating, have stopped doing really exciting things, things really ‘out of the box’.

So yes where are the leaders giving us new ‘impossible’ goals, like John F. Kennedy and other politicians of the time did? And why aren’t we looking for them, choosing them?

Or do we really want just to play games, have the latest model TV or iPhone or car?

Where are the dreams? Where are the real human dreams, where are the real human dreamers?

Hypocrite

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Lately I think quite a lot about how hypocrite I actually am, as I actually run an advertising company and do link building and stuff and yes, am also earning from advertising on the internet and sell links. On the other side I criticize companies, humanity for ‘paying virtually everything’ through advertising.

So yes, I understand it’s not that easy to change the thinking about ‘money’ and ‘earning’, as also I have to live, have to eat and as of the moment I don’t see much other ways than working and indeed, getting some secondary income from advertising and selling links.

And I also still have no idea how my ‘give and receive model‘ would actually work. As people want to distinguish themselves, e.g. through buying different hings, buying a bigger car and a smaller house or the other way around. And it would still be hard to see someone else receive the same amount of money or stuff (or more) and working less than you or me as of course our ‘earning model’ is rooted deeply in society and each of us.

So yes, I realize that there are very good reasons why our society, why our ‘exchange model’ or how you would want to call it, is like it is. And yes, it brought us where we are now, a world that somehow is ‘better’ than it was before.

But I still believe it needs change, indeed something like going back to a very early stage in human development, when there was no ownership of things and no money, just sharing. Or wasn’t it that simple also then?