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Yesterday I missed

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Yesterday I missed all my daily tasks related to Inspiration for Success. And I am still feeling a bit uncomfortable about it, but on the other side I also know that sometimes I am just ‘too much’ and should just accept that I am a human being and that forcing things like finishing some (not really important) task ‘just because of finishing the task’ is not the right way to do things. Or maybe I should say is not a good way to do things.

So when I found myself yesterday not having done my daily tasks at four thirty in the morning I decided that it wouldn’t make any sense to spend one or two more hours to send the daily quote and write at least the English blog post.

So yes, when reading about ‘success’, about ‘going the extra mile’ and things like that I should have still done it; as indeed, I could have done it. And yes, I was in doubt whether to do it or not, as there have been only a few occasions, a few days that I didn’t send the daily quote and wrote my blog items. But I quickly decided that I just wanted to sleep and that it didn’t make any sense to do those things…

Ah, and I remember now I did send the daily quote, or at least I think I did. Yes, I sent the second batch early in the morning yesterday.

So weird to see how inflexible I seem to be, something people indicated to me long time ago. So maybe it was good NOT to write my English post yesterday. But I still feel uncomfortable with skipping. So something to think about still.

Need inspiration

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It feels like I need some inspiration myself and I guess writing here won’t do that job. Sorry, I’ll be back tomorrow.

Just do five

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Sunday is my day off, the day I just do things I want, including not writing posts and sending my daily inspirational quote. But normally I do my daily exercise, but today I didn’t feel like it. So I asked my Higher Power, as I often do recently, what to do, but I didn’t get a clear answer. Just something like ‘it doesn’t matter’ or ‘do as you please’. And that answer didn’t satisfy me. And then I remembered something I learned from someone I can’t find the name or website from right now. And that person indicated that if your goal is too big or too far that you can start by doing one percent, imagining one percent. And then increase that every day, so at least you get the feel (and you can talk about it, pretend as if it’s already there fully).

So suddenly it became clear to me what to do: just do five where I normally do twenty. So I did and it felt very good. And next to feeling good to just do my daily exercise, follow my habit, something amazing happened. As I realized that doing five is very easy for me right now. As when I started my daily exercise a few months ago, I could barely do five, as my body was completely out of shape. And today it was just easy, just five.

So when you don’t feel like something, but still want to do it, just do five, or one, or one percent, or whatever feels good to you if it’s not the whole thing, the whole amount. And you’ll be amazed with what you find.

Finishing things

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This morning I decided to replace my ‘savings box‘ with another box with a cover, so I could put my not on top to avoid other people in my household (and myself) to use the money in it. And that replacement had been overdue for one or two days, as I prepared the box one or two days ago. So as I wanted to have a clean box I decided to take off the remains of a sticker that were still stuck on the box. And of course that took quite a bit more effort than I wanted or expected, so of course after one minute or so thought, well, what the heck, let’s just leave the rest of the sticker and just use the box anyhow. But somehow something inside me said that I should just finish my sticker removing process. As recently I encountered relatively quite often something about doing things right, no matter how small. And something like starting with small things.

Savings Box

And recently I am experiencing indeed how important it is to finish things, no matter what. And I knew that already, but I never really put a lot of attention to it. So looking back I presume I have left an awful lot of things ‘unfinished’, just because it was not worth the trouble or I didn’t want to spend the time on it. Or because it was ‘too difficult’. But recently I am much, much more serious on finishing things, on finishing things I started, on doing and finishing things I planned. And somehow it seems that is very important, as somehow I have slowly acquired a ‘finishing habit‘.

So this morning I decided to get the sticker material off the box, no matter what. And I did and it gave me a very good feeling. And yes, it still took more time and effort than I expected or wanted, even though in total it was maybe less than fifteen minutes. But I finished it, and somehow that felt very important.

So I can certainly recommend to start small with ‘finishing things’ and other things you want to do or feel like wanting or needing. As if you can’t finish small things, how could you expect to finish large or even huge things?

Party time

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Well, what will I write now, being in the middle of a party. And writing in a situation like this reminds me of stories about successful people, how they do it, doing things like I am doing right now. Like writing my daily post no matter what, even though I guess this post will be pretty short as I think it is better for everybody if I stay with the party instead of writing a post that in the end is not that important. As I guess nobody would really care if I write this post today or not, as I don’t have that many people reading these daily posts and I don’t send any e-mails to inform people there is something new on the site.

And yes, of course I am doubting more and more if what I am doing here makes any sense, or especially if anybody would read it some day. As as far as I know my daily posts are not really read by anybody. And also I may need to learn a bit more flexibility, so it might be a better option to skip my writing on a day like today. And yes, as you may or may not know, I did skip some days, but not many. And not for reasons like today, for ‘having a party’. I skipped only on days where I was really on the way or I was really, really down and felt like I could not write.

So what is true about those stories about success, about doing more, doing different than ‘other people’. Like I do right now, as I am sure not many people would do what I am doing right now. Will my persistence and discipline really pay off on the long term? As until now in my feeling this site has not been really successful, at least not in adding value to other people by most of my posts, at least if I look at the traffic to the site, at most of the pages, or the posts. Or should I be a little more flexible, a little less stubborn. And yes, as you can read today, until now I still choose to do my daily writing, as somehow I believe that my persistence and discipline will pay off, also in the long term, for the site, for the visitors of the site. And yes, for the short time it somehow pays off already, as I learned an awful lot about persistence, discipline and the habit that I have developed with this daily writing. So I think it’s good I just finished this post.