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Giving what you have

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.

Subject in my mind

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There is a subject in my mind for a few days already, but right now I can’t remember it. In my mind it’s quite a positive subject and important to write about, to write here. Weird, it’s just fully gone now. And I don’t feel inspiration right now to write even. It has been raining all day and I feel locked up. And i realize that i feel locked up for quite a while now, actually since I lost the freedom to roam around with a car. And today I thought also how privileged I actually am, or maybe was, as I have traveled the world, have seen many places, while many people can’t move at all, never really leave the place where they were born.

Still, I’m not sure what’s worse, having had something and lose it or not having had it at all. I am starting to believe that having had something and losing it may be worse than not having had it at all. I realize now that i have been spoilt before, that I had a lot of things, that I may have taken too much before without giving or giving back. So maybe my current situation is the punishment for that. But still, on the other hand, there is enough in the world for everybody. We have become so efficient at everything, at least producing material things, that I guess everybody could have everything he wants.

Ah, and that’s the subject that was in my mind before, that I am starting to realize what ‘organized effort’, or capital as Napoleon Hill also calls it, has brought us. So yes, I see now how it works. But I don’t feel part of it anymore as I have the ideas, but don’t know how to implement them, don’t know how to involve other people.

So yes, that’s frustrating. Somehow seeing what a leader is, what a leader can do for the benefit of everybody, and not being able to implement it due to lack of some skill, due to some personality thing.

And I’m complaining again. But what nice stuff is there at the moment. I just feel locked up. I did my best and even today tried to work hard, yes, basically for myself, but I guess my customer and his customers would also benefit.

Anyhow, let’s stop here, as I’m not adding anything. Not with this post and maybe not even with this site as there seem to be so many people doing a similar thing and doing it better.

Although no, I’m starting to get annoyed with the commerce behind all of it. That all the e-mails of the sites I signed up for seem to just have one purpose: sell more. And yes, the services help people and could even help me. But in the end it’s about the person selling the service wanting to sell more. Or isn’t it? I still don’t get it, the give and take thing.

Free

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Well, not sure today what to write about, but I just thought of two free services that didn’t work out properly for me recently. Today I had a Skype conference call with my team members and one of them had trouble staying in the Skype call, even so bad that basically we were not able to have a proper meeting. And yes, we were using the free version of Skype, so basically no valid reasons to complain or go anywhere. And of course it could still also be the internet connection of the team member connection having the problems that was not working properly, so also very difficult to analyze what was really the case.

Another problem I recently had was with the Google maps service, this time even with a customer site actually causing serious problems for my customer as he is a property broker and we use the free Google maps service to get the map locations of the properties. Again, I did not really know where to go, even though I did get a reply from a Google representative for the paid Google maps service. The bad thing is I never realized this problem would occur as normally this free Google maps service just works and I guess also the customer never realized we were using the free version and that there are limitations with it that could cause the service to stop.

And that’s still kind of a problem I have with ‘free’ services. In the end you have nowhere to go if the service doesn’t work, or at least you have no stable ground where to stand so you could ‘demand’ for support or solutions if something doesn’t work.

So why this subject of free services? Well, I believe in the end nothing is for ‘free’ as someone has to pay for something to work. And don’t get me wrong, there must be business models where the whole thing works out, there are business models where it works out, look at Google and Yahoo for example. And indeed Skype. But somewhere deep inside my gut feel tells me that in the end it’s not OK that things are for free, that you don’t pay for the product or the service that you use.

Or is it OK? Does the old financial system not work anymore, or not work for many of the products and services we use today? Or has it always been like this, that some products and services are over paid and some are under paid?

Anyhow, still something to explore further as this whole thing is also the background of our idea that we would like to be paid straight for the services of Inspiration for Success. Looking at the current reality people still prefer to pay for this type of website by showing advertisements on the site and by clicking on affiliate links. But is that really how we want it?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Good and bad

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So I just removed about another one hundred spam comments. Comments with just the purpose of making a link to some website to increase the ranking of that site. And yes, I was part of that, am kind of still part of that. I also bought ‘cheap’ links to customer sites. I also instructed one of my staff to do the same some time ago.

So what are we doing here? I am doing my best to build up this site by writing a post every day and by adding content in the pages part. I am trying to build a site to inspire people, inspire them to follow their dreams, have success, be proud of themselves. And yes, I know it will take some time before people will find this site and I know that in the end this site will be taken seriously if I persist in building it, having it built with good intentions.

So while I was thinking about this thing of the spam comments which I consider ‘bad’, I was wondering how I could make an inspiring post out of it. But I guess I have to think first about those people creating those spam comments, about those people buying them, and in the end about us, you and I, somehow supporting them, somehow wanting this, as we are paying the people doing it because I guess if they wouldn’t be paid to do it they wouldn’t do it.

The weird thing is there is something ‘inspiring’, something ‘exciting’ in creating those spam comments. Because the people creating them, or the programs posting them, need to find ways to get them posted, to convince the blog owner (or the spamn blocking program) to accept them. So in the end it is kind of an exciting ‘fight’ between the spam creators and the spam blockers, kind of a game. So I guess that’s kind of ‘good’. And I also try to rank sites high, try to rank this site high by using ‘tricks’ to show to Google what the site is all about, so the site will rank higher.

But to me the sad thing is that to me putting those spam comments doesn’t really help anybody, or maybe it does: promoting some kind of product that people want.

But no, deep in my heart something says that that effort could be used for better things, to produce more food or more fun or whatever for each other. Or maybe just even just spend time with each other instead of posting spam comments ‘somewhere’ in order to promote ‘some product’.

So yes, if you are a ‘spammer’ and reading this, you may want to consider if there is nothing more inspiring to do than post spam comments. And if you are a customer of those people, you may want to consider if there are no better ways to promote your product, to find ways to really show people what your products are about so they will find them, buy them.

And if you are an ordinary internet user, you may want to rethink if you really want all those advertisements and stuff in all those sites, often bigger than the content in the site itself.

I guess I still want to make and keep this site a ‘direct pay’ site, as I’d rather just be paid straight for what I do here than being paid indirectly through ‘some advertisement someone clicked on’.

So please let me know what you think, please put some real comments. That would also inspire me to continue with the work I’m doing here.