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Everything is going to be OK.

I just finished downloading the movie Source Code and I couldn’t resist watching it while I actually wanted to do some other things, even though I kind of finished the things I had planned for today. And I guess I wrote a similar post before, or actually I’m sure, as I found the image of the movie poster as shown next to this text already uploaded to the site.

And I still love the movie and especially the quote “Everything is going to be okay.” as stated quite some time by Captain Colter Stevens, the main character in the film. So I sent it as the daily quote of today, even though I’m quite sure I also sent the quote before. But I guess that’s what we all want to hear, always, that everything is going to be okay.

And while watching I had some strange feelings and strange thoughts as I downloaded the movie illegally through a torrent, especially as I was complaining quite a bit about one of my internet service providers violating the copyright of web pages recently, although that’s a bit of a different story, as they make changes to something while I just downloaded Source Code in it’s original form. At least that’s what I believe. And especially with movies I often watch the trailer and am always amazed about how many people are involved in making a movie. And I am grateful for all those people making such a thing. And no, in this case I didn’t pay for it. And also for most of the music I have on my system I didn’t pay. Most of it is downloaded, copied. And that’s the biggest problem with digital stuff, that you can copy it, for free mostly, even in the original quality. And no, I don’t really feel guilty about it, which is kind of strange, as I also certainly believe the people making the movie should be paid or at least have something in return for what they made. But again, this is kind of what this site, my project Inspiration for Success is all about, or partly about. As the more I think about ‘work’ and ‘business’ and ‘industry’ and ‘paying’ I get the feeling we need some kind of new way to distribute the wealth and maybe the work. As slowly we can produce anything anybody could ever need, slowly we can give any service anybody would ever need. And somehow the payment system we have is standing in the way to let everybody have what he wants to have, at least related to ‘stuff’.

And no, I wouldn’t know how to get there, although we did it before, as I guess in ancient times there was no such thing as money or X-deals. And the weird thing is that technically we are basically at a level what we always wanted, what humanity has striven for so long: ‘have’ stuff without having to work for it.

So let’s find a way, let’s find a way to make sure everybody has the food, the ‘stuff’ and the services he wants. Without continuous asking whether he worked for it or not.

As yes, there is enough of everything, we can produce anything and I’m quite sure most people would (still) love to ‘give’ the work, the effort to make that happen.

So let’s make that happen.

Busy again

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Wow, it’s good to be busy again. At least now I don’t have to worry about what to do next, how to find customers or projects and mainly how to sustain myself and the people close to me and the household and such.

But also a bit tiring as I’m not really used to work for many hours a day anymore. And yes, I know it’s tiring to do the work I do, even for a few hours and then you need a break.

Still no clue though how to continue towards my biggest business dream, an internet company with a staff of around 200 people in Cagayan de Oro City. As I know now it is probably very hard to find people with the mindset and skills that I need to make that company work.

But that’s also why I’m mentioning it here. Because maybe you are the ambitious or not so ambitious person who wants to develop himself, help build a company like I have in mind, help build Cagayan de Oro City and The Philippines into a decent city and country where people can just find decent jobs locally and don’t have to go abroad, don’t need to have their mindset abroad because ‘abroad’ means a decent income in probably a not-so-decent job.

So please help me and yourself and Cagayan de Oro City and The Philippines by helping me serve the customer base I’m developing right now.

And yes, my commitment is there, as that company is one of my life goals and I won’t stop moving in that direction until I get there or until I die. And no, it won’t be easy, because with the current Philippine mindset and education don’t seem to be adequate to compete with other countries.

But yes, I promise I will make it work. Are you joining?

Challenges on the way

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Mitsubishi Pajero The last few days, weeks I have been thinking a lot about my goals again as I felt I was not really focused on them. And today or yesterday I realized I have been much more focused on the things that stand between me and my goals than on the goals itself. Like e.g. I have been focused on my internet problems, which was kind of logical while I had no or virtually no internet access at home, at my office. But that problem has basically been solved, even though there are still problems with the current connection. And they are serious problems, but right now it is not really that urgent to solve it and it won’t be easy to solve anyhow as it involves the infrastructure of Globe over which I have no direct control.
So I’m starting to realize that I seem to focus much more on the challenges, the problems on the way and try to solve them, than on reaching my goals. And being the emotional person I am these things take a lot of energy and often kind of paralyze me, as when I feel very stressed, like yesterday, this morning and even until now, I kind of stop doing things, or at least it takes me a lot of time to get going again. Which brings me in some kind of downward spiral, as being an evening type of person I often keep going at night, meaning I don’t get enough rest and while going to bed my mind is still full of all the problems, the challenges, instead of having a relaxed evening and going to bed calm.

But as all adversity and negative experience have their advantage according to Napoleon Hill, one of my great inspirors, this afternoon I came up with an idea. And the idea is basically not really my own only as it builds upon a lot of ideas of other people. So this idea is based on the idea of ‘creation box’ from Abraham Hicks. And on the idea of Vision Board, something I don’t know who invented it.

Dream vision

So while watching at the images of my goals and dreams that hang outside of our bedroom, together with the sample of how easy it is to reach a goal, I came up to give my challenges, my problems on the way to my goal, a place, make them visible in a way to be able to handle them better. So I came up with the idea of a challenge box, similar to the idea of the creation box. And as I often try to make things visible I realized it should be located between (the representation of) my goals and me. And often ‘me, now’ is on the bed in the bedroom when thinking of my goals, and (the representation of) my goals and dreams are printed papers hanging from the railing of our bedroom balcony. So I just looked for a box, a shoe box or something, put it in between and took some clean papers to write down my challenges and put them in the box. So they have a (visible) place now.

Dream vision

And I realized that I just choose to focus on the problems, on the challenges. I could e.g. just go around them. So I make choices to go for the problems and not let them be and find other ways or something.

Dream vision with challenges

Dreams, dream box and challenges

And looking at the whole thing visualized gave me a lot of perspective, as the challenges are not that big and can be easily even avoided by just walking around them.

And I know there is a lot more to this and it’s not as easy as just printing images of dreams and putting challenges in a (small) box. But visualizing things, and yes, taking action by just searching for a shoe box and writing your challenges down I can certainly recommend. Why not start now? It took me only like fifteen minutes and it gave me a lot of perspective and peace, so I guess it could do the same for you.

And I also saw in the photo’s the view in the background, all those things I already have, all those things that I can enjoy. And they appear much, much bigger than my dreams on the papers and in the dream box. And much bigger than my challenges.

Sort this from that

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So here I found myself, after a visit from the local installer from Smart who were able to get my Smart internet connection going again. And it seems the main problem with our Smart connection right now is a weak signal, possibly caused by trees growing or something like that.

And i felt a bit embarrassed because it seems Smart as an organization and the people within Smart have been doing their best to help me, even when I got more and more confused and annoyed and even angry inside, the last i didn’t show. And I still feel a bit embarrassed, but I don’t think I should be, because the problem with the Fair Usage Policy is still there. And the choice of implementing that policy, as a policy and technically, has made everything around problems with our internet connection very confusing and annoying, for me as I guess for the staff within Smart. And I don’t need to be embarrassed about that and everything around it and my complaints and cause around it. But being me I still am, and if I’m a bit like you, like other humans, I guess you can understand that.

And I guess another presumption is still somehow valid. And that is that a company like Smart, with increasing internet demand and improving technology, should still be able to serve me as a customer on a certain plan, no matter whether there are trees growing or not. And the same applies with Globe, who just disconnected me because, as far as I know, technically they can’t serve me properly at the moment. But to me disconnection a business account from an internet company this way is just ‘not done’, from a business as well as a human perspective.

But actually I am kind of happy with all that happened, as it made me think that what I want for humanity is not as simple as i thought. And that organizations like Smart and Globe still work and that there are indeed humans within those organizations trying to help customers, people. And that indeed there were people visiting me today trying to give me back internet access, even though our connection is kind of beyond what the system is capable, of is designed for. And they did and I am writing this from home and I was able to connect our computers to the internet, so all the things that i need updated and such did happen and is happening right now.

So this whole thing around being fully without internet while having two connections because of our location and expected problems with that, brought about a lot of thoughts. And it also brought me back to one of the ideas of Kim Cooper: “Sort this from that”. As there are many things going on.

So some facts or thoughts:

the wireless signal for our Smart internet connection is very weak;
the environment, like growing trees or something, probably makes the signal even go weaker over time;
I don’t trust Smart anymore, as before my complaints in my experience improved the connection;
many or most people within large organizations do want to help people, but are often just limited, either by knowledge or by being limited by their management;
(large) organizations are (still) driven by money, by greed, as that’s just how we built our world;
I and you are part of the system. I often see myself switch roles from demanding customer to helpless human to not willing or not being able to pay business man or consumer;
there is a lot of complicated technology involved in making things, making the internet work and that technology is progressing, changing fast;
we are all part of driving the changes, even though it has consequences like not being able to serve existing customers, people anymore;
I am not sure if my case, my experiences with large organizations are common or not;
I would love to pay more for my internet, but as of the moment business wise and private that’s not really an option. And this whole thing goes back to the fact that the money flow in the world is not working properly as of the moment;
etc.

Well, enough for now, but one of my last thoughts was that there must be better ways to make companies more human again, but that the whole thing is a system, where we as customers are part of the system as well as the organizations and the people within our organizations. So we help keep the system into place with our demands, which may just be wrong based on wrong presumptions or may just be unreasonable.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this whole thing, either from within those organizations or as a customer, a human with needs an organization could deliver.

Bread and circuses

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One of my biggest questions is still what people really want, especially what younger people want, what youth wants. And as I have visited quite some internet cafes recently it seems that young people, students just want to play games, computer games, internet games, as most of the people around me in this internet cafe seem to play computer games or internet games.

And I have thought about that quite a lot recenlty, as I remember that when I was a student there was I time that I was also addicted to a computer game. And that in later periods in my life I also played games quite a lot, although in the end, mostly after months, I will get bored with it, so right now, recently, I didn’t really play that much.

But looking at my goals, my desires, in the end I also just want to ‘play’, want to relax. And recently also realized that many things people do business wise is to entertain people, serve people in their spare time. And that indeed virtually anything that is being produced or sold is mainly focused on entertainment, of course next to things for daily needs like food and household items.

And this brought me back to the old Roman quote “Bread and circuses” (or “bread and games”). And I just read in Wikipedia that that is mainly related to politics, like keep the people happy in a simple way.

But going back to the subject of what people want I am indeed really wondering what people really want. And maybe I should just see if I can find some statistics about that as for now I basically have my own reference and some feedback I got from some of my friends. But that feedback is often very limited and confirms what Napoleon Hill states, that most people don’t have a definite purpose or a goal in life. Mostly I hear people say if I ask them what they want, what they want in life very simple common things like ‘a family’ or ‘enough money to support me and my family’ or ‘a happy life’. So indeed hardly any of the people I asked have clear definite goals they want to achieve, let alone dates and plans related to them.

And also looking at myself I am slowly starting to realize why most people are where they are. They are where they are because they are not very specific about what they want, where they want to be. So they are indeed where they intend to be: nowhere.

And that makes me often think about the quote from Alice in Wonderland who is at a crossroad and asks someone whether she should go left or right. And the other person or creature asks where she wants to go. And she says something like “I don’t know” and then (of course) the answer is “then it doesn’t matter whether you go, left or right”. And the more I think about it, this is so true. And this is where most of us I guess end up, including me at the moment, although I think I am a little bit further than the majority of people.

But all that I know about goals and timing and plans makes life much easier for me, as right now I don’t have any clear short term timescale or plans. So often I don’t really move so much, don’t take much action. And before I would mostly kind of blame myself for not doing anything. But right now, when I am in a place where I think I don’t want to be, I often realize how I got there. Just by doing the things I did, making the choices I made. And indeed, I am starting to believe that uninspired action, action without a specific goal, is quite useless, maybe indeed harmful to get us where we want to go, where we want to be. As uninspired action may indeed just get us further away from our goals than we think.

so yes, be happy where you are right now. Because you are where you are because of the things you did and the choices you made. And you may have quite some hidden desires that stop you from reaching goals that you think you have. Like in my case one of my implicit goals is to stay in The Malasag House in Cagayan de Oro City. And that limits my options and defines my choices. But it’s a very important, even though quite hidden and unspecified goal. As The Malasag House is my home and I don’t want to leave my home anymore as I did before, and realized I lost my home only afterwards.

So what are your goals? And what are your hidden goals? You may be closer to where you want to be or may just be where you want to be if you look at all of this closely.

So be happy where you are and start from there if you want more or something else.