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Leadership

So I had this idea. And I know an awful lot about some things. And I have a lot of experience with some things. And I started this website. And I envisioned and envision how it should be. And then I knew i needed a Master Mind, which I also wanted to be a team and a board for Inspiration for Success. So I found five people, or some people found each other. Or whatever.

And as it is online an we don’t know each other all personally it is not easy to move. Maybe simple, but not easy. And we don’t have money. And most team members don’t have time, at least no time for this project, meaning to me, with what I know, don’t give priority to the project. And I can imagine. As they don’t have the picture as I have it in mind. And they have their own ideas. And somehow I’m trying to do something democracy, but that doesn’t work. And i know dictatorship also doesn’t work, or at least I don’t want it.

But still, the origin was my dream, my idea. And somehow it appealed to the team members. And somehow they also want to make it work, be part of it.

So the challenge right now is to combine all those ideas and expectations and dreams into something that would inspire everybody in the team. Because there is work to be done, but i only want it done from inspiration, not even from motivation. So how do other leaders do that/

One of those days

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Well, the challenge is more and more to write something inspiring, but today was one of those days where nothing seemed to work out as I expected or intended to. Up to just five minutes ago as on my own computer for some kind of weird reason I could not even edit or create a new post or page in this site with the standard WordPress editor, which was very weird as nothing changed in the site and yesterday it just worked.

So this morning started with one of our two main servers not starting, which is kind of annoying as many things will slow down and some things are not available as they only reside on that server. This morning also started with a weird water problem where I finally found out that the tank was empty, which should not be as I can’t image we consume that much water. Ah, and before the electricity went off wich was something I took as a signal to continue with the improvement of our water system that I had planned for today. Before that something needed to be printed, where of course the printer was connected to the system that was down. At that time someone was cleaning so it was a lot of hassle to print as I had to pass the floor being cleaned (and very wet and slippery) many, many times. Also there was one envelope left where I needed two. Ah, and of course the server didn’t have a CD-ROM device attached that I needed for repairing the system. And I can’t remember other things, but I’m quite sure there were some other things I didn’t like either. Ah, and forgot, just when a customer called through Skype, a call that hadn’t pushed through for a few days, the internet connection was down. And when I had switched to our other connection, which of course was more hassle than usual because I felt so down about this computer being down, he was not available anymore.

So my mood was very down and indeed, it somehow was one of those days where it seems nothing can go right.

And still, it’s not the whole truth. It’s a feeling, a mood that indeed somehow also affects your environment. And I don’t know how that works, but something like Law of Attraction indeed seems to exist.

So yes, most of the day I felt very bad and had a bad mood and even felt physically exhausted. I guess you know the feeling. But somehow I did manage the things

So it felt like ‘just one of those day’s. But was it really? In a way yes, as normally there are not so many things breaking down at the same time. But looking at how the world works, 99% of everything around me still worked. So somehow I, or we, seem to focus on things that don’t work, not on things that work. I wrote about that also yesterday or a few days ago. And I’m not sure if you realize, but it’s kind of a miracle that most things work. Rationally it would be more likely that things wouldn’t work. And also I have put so many things in place as a back-up, like my duplicate file server system, that I somehow still could work. And I had had a warning from that server there was a disk problem a few weeks or months ago. So I had been warned aleady something like this might happen.

And somehow I still did the things I had planned for today. And many things more. So rationally it wasn’t really a bad day, even though I don’t plan so many things on a day like before, actually embarrassingly little, but that’s another story.

So somehow, doing these little things for quite a while now and keeping my daily promises to myself, no matter how small or could even be ‘nothing’, I have developed a habit of ‘doing the things I planned for a day’, which is even why I’m writing this post now even though it’s very late at night.

So inspiring, this post? Maybe, because also some things pointed me in the right direction, like the electricity going off made me move on the water, one of the things I had planned. And the server breakdown and the phone call somehow made me do some little work on something I had planned for a site. And I have developed to ‘push through’ in a more relaxed way than before, indeed from ‘habit’ and not from ‘have to’.

So yes, I’m not there as I feel it, far from it, but somehow something changed. Thank you Napoleon HIll and Lynn Grabhorn and Abraham Hicks and many, many other people.

Star Trek: Enterprise

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I am still missing the big enterprises that were undertaken during the sixties and seventies where the biggest enterprise humanity ever undertook was sending men to the moon. And I may be wrong and it may just be my age, a boy growing up in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century. But to me the Concorde, the Boeing 747 and the moon program were bigger than anything every invented by men. And I know this is not fully true, as the invention of the steam engine and the use of it and the invention of trains and cars and planes I think are similar things in a different era. And maybe also the pyramids and the roman road network all over Europe may be similar large things. But what I’m missing is ‘something big’, like John F. Kennedy stating that he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade in the sixties AND HE DID.

And in current times of unemployment and downturn in economy, don’t we need something like that, something big for humanity that would bring us to the next level? And there may be many things, but to me the idea of going to the stars like in Star Trek, I think also something from the same era I just mentioned, is still appealing and I’m quite sure humanity one day will really build something like the Enterprise from Star Trek. And is that not indeed the next logical step for mankind? Going to the stars?

So I was wondering, today, could we really do that already, do we have the technology already available in a similar way as the technology was available at the beginning of the sixties related to the flying of the moon? And are there already people mentioning goals like that, setting goals like that? Wouldn’t that be an exciting idea for humanity to build something like the Star Ship Enterprise from the Star Trek series, the Star Trek brand?

What about saying, what about me saying something like “let’s go for the stars before halfway this century”? Let’s send a ship like the Star Trek Enterprise that would be fully self supporting ‘towards the stars’. Wouldn’t that be an exciting goal?

I think I’m going to check if there are already people thinking this, doing this, starting this.

Let’s just do it!

Goals

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I have been thinking a lot about my goals related to Inspiration for Success as the whole team doesn’t support the financial goals that we have set (1) and proposed (2). So I just encountered this quote:

“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.” – Bob Proctor.

And it seems that’s what it’s all about, I mean, it just sounded that the team members were too scared (‘get the chills’) to set the goals and stick with them. So today I kind of (?!) decided to stick with the two financial goals that we have set for inspiration for Success for this period:

Earn or receive one hundred US dollars on or before October 22, 2013 by inspiring people for success.
Earn or receive one million dollars for each of the team members on or before October 19, 2014 by inspiring people for success.

And you may want to know that especially the first goal chilled me out as for me the timing was so short and the website didn’t make the progress as i wanted and expected, in content as well as traffic. And the second goal was already set for me, even for October this year, so that was not such a big deal to me.

And you know why I want to stick to those goals? Because the last few days I realized that I am fully off track related to the teachings of Napoleon Hill and his book Think and Grow Rich. And I realized I’m the leader, that I need to set the goals, that I need to lead the way. And I don’t. So that’s why things are not moving.

Basically the movie Star Trek Into Darkness I was watching yesterday made me think about those things, that a leader is alone and needs to make his own decisions and cannot always do what his team members advise him. At least that’s what I saw Captain James T. Kirk do. And it wasn’t always easy for him and it wasn’t always fun, but it seemed the type of thing a real leader should do, what is expected from a real leader.

So well, better get to work and make those goals come true.

And one more thing I notice more and more in movies: the (mostly famous) actors and the team creating movies as of the moment, at least the big movies in the cinema’s, all seem to have some kind of (deep) message and all are created very, very professional. So yes, going all the way, going the extra mile seems to be the thing needed to be successful. And it’s worth it, just doing things good, like if you do something worth doing, then better do it well, better overdo it.

And someone else to thank today, as she listened to me and gave some very good suggestions and advice. But not sure if I can mention her name her for privacy reasons, so better not now, but I’ll ask her.

Joyful life experience

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Well, today my post title comes from:

“Self appreciation is essential to joyful life experience.” – Abraham Hicks

This is written emphasized and bold and in a large font on today’s quote page of the thirty day Law of Attraction program.

And until an hour ago my day was just not my day, regardless of that I have been much happier lately, partly even to that thirty day Law of Attraction program. But today it didn’t really help me, on the contrary even. One of the assignments of the “Days of love” is to ask yourself “What do I like about this?” or “What is good about this?” with the people I met or meet today or the experiences I had or have today. And while in earlier “Days of love” this was OK with me, today it just pissed me off as it seemed there was nothing good in the people I met or the experiences I had. Things just seemed to suck today and it started with the service technicians who were checking our internet connection telling me that the wireless signal of our connection was not up to the current standards and that we should close the account?

What? Close the account for an internet connection that has worked for something like six years 99% of the time without any problems? And I/we kind of depend on that connection, so if it’s gone that would mean no proper internet. And what is happening with technology, progress? Yes, I know it’s wireless and things like trees can grow in between our antenna and the tower and things like that. But I also thought technology, especially wireless technology would improve a little, or actually a lot, in six years time, especially as six year time we were one of the first using that technology.

Anyhow, what is good about that? Can you imagine I had some difficulty finding something good about those technicians, who by the way are just contractors of our ISP or about them telling me they couldn’t fix the problem and that they suggested to me to just close the account.

But while writing now the good thing is maybe that this type of thing is something I do like to write about, I do want to write about and with ‘this type of thing’ I mean something like feeling powerless towards all those big companies, all those big organizations that all of us are dealing with. Actually this type of thing is even one of the things behind this site, one of the reasons I’m writing and keep writing to become popular so something can be done about ‘these things’. So maybe that’s the good thing I was looking for, a reason to write about this so we can do something about it. And I have written about it before, but I will keep writing about it until this has changed, until the world is a better place, until we found a way again to care about people, to care about customers and not treat them like, well, don’t know how to say.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not against big companies, I’m not against procedures, I’m not against efficiency. All these things have brought us, you and me, humanity, all those good things from radio, TV, computers, all kinds of food, snacks, travel, ships, yes, internet and whatever you can think of that is around us, that we use, that we enjoy. And I’m seeing more and more how this all came to be and how much we as humanity have invested to make all of this possible. I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot lately, also as it is one of the ideas of Napoleon Hill as described in Think and Grow Rich in the chapter Organized Planning, sub chapter “The Capital Cornerstones of Our Lives”. And it’s indeed awesome what we have achieved as humanity and what is basically accessible to virtually anyone, yes, I think even to most people that are poor, that we consider poor. I mean, even most poor people in The Philippines, the country where I live and where there are still many really poor people, have a cellphone. And to me a cellphone and the network behind it is an awesome piece of, well, technology, infrastructure, equipment, organized planning, etc. And when I was young, in my teens, cellphones didn’t even exist. Yes, there were some radio type phones that could be put in cars for rich people, but they were very rare and very unique. And now virtually everybody has one. So that’s progress, progress of humanity (and yes, I know there are more types of progress than this type, but that’s another story for another chapter and another time).

And it goes back much further as I think decent roads are only from the twentieth century. Only one hundred years ago I guess there were not so many paved roads. And there were no cars, and certainly no planes, well the one from the Wright brothers maybe. So also, roads and cars or public transportation are available to everybody, and I think in this case literally everybody on the whole world must have used some kind of land transportation like at least a bus or so or a truck.

So yes, we came very far as humanity to create things that make life nicer, easier, more exciting, whatever name you want to give it. But some things seem to start coming at a cost I don’t like, and I’m not sure if that cost is only recent or if it’s already there longer than I think or know or can know. And the cost to me is something like ‘dehumanication’. As often I have the feeling it’s not about me anymore, it’s not about humans anymore, but the organization is more important than the human being. And I think that’s not right, although one could also reason that organizations or the higher levels of organization like road networks or cities are indeed ‘more’ than human beings. In my mind i am often thinking of the analogy that I am ‘more’ than the cells in my body.

But somehow I believe that is not true. Somehow I still believe that human beings are the highest level of consciousness that exists. And that the lower levels like cells and organs in the body are there to serve the human, the human body, the human consciousness. And that also the higher levels like all kinds of organizations and equipment and things like that are also support to serve the human and not the other way around.

And I don’t know exactly how we could turn this around as we all think things like call centers are efficient and that the way airlines operate are ‘efficient’. But if I see people suffer like not being able to get through, not being able to get the service they need I want to do something.

So maybe we can do something together. And maybe the first step is just awareness and that’s what I want to achieve with this post and one of the things I want to achieve with this site.