Wow,, one year Inspiration for Success. As what I found a few days ago was that my first post was made on April 4, 2014. So tomorrow it is really the birthday of Inspiration for Success and today, right now it is New Years Eve. Or actually it is already the birthday as it is already past midnight.
What a journey has this been the last one and a half year ago or so. I started with my partner leaving and a book given to me. And my personal blog on http://guus.themalasaghouse.com/, later http://op-weg.inspiration-for-success/. And from that personal blog came Inspiration for Success, this site. And somehow I did manage to change my thinking, something I was never able to all my life before.
And no, the site is not yet successful as how I would call it a successful site. And I didn’t really set a date for it :). But from that deepest down in my life I made quite some journey and somehow I feel better than ever, even though my personal situation is certainly not satisfying and not what I want and need. But it is clearer to me than ever before what I want. And I am more determined than ever to indeed achieve what I want. And I am more certain that I can indeed achieve what I want (in life).
And I keep repeating myself, as my self confidence grew mainly through my desire document, by applying the Principles of Success as researched and described by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich. And this evening was even a good sample of feeling a growing self confidence. As I am able more and more to show others some of the things I learned over the last one and a half year. Things about setting goals, not changing them and keeping going, no matter what. And yes, I believe more and more that that way of thinking can have only two possible outcomes: achieving your goal or dying. And in general the first is much more likely than the second (happening before the first). As most of us would still be pretty sure to have at least ten years to live and it is unimaginable what one can achieve in ten years time. As also in my mind is the saying of Tony Robbins, that you often overestimate what you can do in one year, but underestimate what you can do in ten years time.
So yes, set your goal, write it down, believe, make a plan or don’t and start reading aloud your desire document. And yes, start reading Think and Grow Rich, use it as a workbook. And indeed, just continue doing those things, no matter how weird they feel or no matter whether they give you a feeling at all.
Ah, I can’t explain, but indeed, say something similar to what Napoleon Hill said, that somewhere in his book or other books or this site, you will find the answers that will point you in the right direction, will give you what you want. And yes, also Jesus Christ said the same, something like keep looking and you will find.
So keep looking.
Strange, everything starts with a thought. Or not, as in this case it was a CD that we played in the car of a friend that we used last week to go for a day trip to 
And it’s so weird to hear all those songs now, that were part of my growing up, my years as a teenager and a student, and later in the years of my first relationship. And weird that that is now so long ago and that things like ABBA mostly are only there for a relatively short number of years, where it was a big thing. And looking back a big thing for me as a teenager, as a student, where now I guess most younger people wouldn’t really know what ABBA is or was. And realizing now that the generation before me had other artists, other music they grew up with. Or not only music, but also other things. And that scares me sometimes, that I just prefer to use Windows XP on a standard computer with a 4:3 screen and don’t like to use a tablet or a mobile phone as a computer or to access things on the internet. And that goes even further, as I don’t like the recent structures for websites as these structures are more focused on mobile use with a relatively small touch screen and less for a computer with a mouse with a normal screen. So yes, somehow I’m starting to feel old, that there are things I’m just used to and comfortable with, where the younger generation seems to prefer other things. And no, not old in the sense of outdated or something or not willing to adapt to newer technology or something. Just old in the sense of being used to certain things and preferring not to change as the stuff I grew up with just suits me well and the newer stuff just does not suit me so well. But somehow weird, realizing to be of middle age and that there is a generation after me, that there are generations after me. And at the same time realizing that there were generations before me.