“One of the longest posts I will ever do.. And the most real too…. Everyone will go through some hard times at some point. Life isn’t easy. Just something to think about…Did you know the people that are the strongest are usually the most sensitive? Did you know the people who exhibit the most kindness are the first to get mistreated? Did you know the ones who take care of others all the time are usually the ones who need it the most? Did you know the three hardest things to say are I love you, I’m sorry, and help me? Sometimes just because a person looks happy, you have to look past their smile and see how much pain they may be in. To all my friends who are going through some issues right now–Let’s start an intention avalanche. We all need positive intentions right now. If I don’t see your name, I’ll understand. May I ask my friends wherever you might be, to kindly copy and paste this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. I hope to see this on the walls of all my friends just for moral support. I know some will!! I did it for a friend and you can too. You have to COPY & PASTE this, NO SHARING.” – Pinky Gaudiano
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Infinite Intelligence
The last days, weeks, maybe months I have been starting to follow my inner feelings a bit more, something like following Infinite Intelligence a bit more. And it takes me away from all those pressuring things I feel and felt from what everybody, what the world has taught me over the years, since I’m in this world.
And it seems that whenever I do that, follow my inner feelings, the more I do that, no matter how weird or ‘bad’ it seems, things are falling more into place, things go smoother in the end.
Like often I just move around, sit or lie down somewhere or grab a book or some other text or something when I feel ‘bad’ and want to feel better, want to do something ‘good’, feel ‘good’. And mostly, if I just follow my gut feel, I end up with something useful, with something that I just need at that moment.
And there is still this ‘have to’ feeling, that has been with me so long and that has been so bad for me. Like the last few weeks, months, my daily schedule has moved from ‘normal day times’ to something like ‘noon’ to ‘long after midnight’ and I consider it bad. And I’m not happy with it. But I don’t know what to do with it, how to change it back, back to normal.
But my ‘not moving’ all goes back to some deep unhappiness, some deep feeling of unfulfillment, some feeling of ‘wrong’ that I can’t, couldn’t get hold of. And I know it has everything to do with ‘not being me’, not accepting or appreciating who I am, following others too much.
And slowly I’m letting go of that. Slowly I’m accepting that this is who I am, that what I feel is the right thing, that if I feel like lying down it’s often, or maybe always the right thing to do. That it’s not plainly ‘laziness’ as my partner often calls it.
So this morning again, when I was later again than I thought, but at least a little earlier than yesterday, I got this impulse of getting the ‘next day’ of the “thirty day program of Abraham Hicks“, at the moment meaning I’m just getting the next or what feels like “the next” from my pile of papers.
And I found this (from the teachings of Abraham Hicks):
“Only by seeing examples of others who appreciate and approve of and like themselves, can anyone be inspired to self-appreciation. Unfortunately, there are few such examples around.
You would recognize one another who truly appreciates him[her]self by noting these characteristics:
They are genuinely happy. Not offering insincere smiles but the warm and genuine smile that comes from the eyes as well as the heart. They are one who appreciates you, seeing things in you that you would like to see in you, pointing out to you things that you, perhaps, have never seen about yourself…
SELF-APPRECIATION IS ESSENTIAL TO JOYFUL LIFE EXPERIENCE.”
and this:
Allowing Others The Same Freedom:
“Once you understand the power of thought, you will joyously experience your own freedom to express and to be as you are – while you will be willing to allow all others the same freedom. As more of you reach this state of being, it will be a time of peace and a time of contentment and a time of wondrous joy upon your Planet Earth.
The Law of Attraction and the Law of Creation are universal. They apply to all dimensions and to all experience, physical and Non-physical. And just as they apply to your individual creating, to that creating that does not involve others, such as the maintenance of perfect health – they also appy to what you create, through the form of agreements, one with another.”
And especially the first part struck me, as that seems the core of what I have been looking for. Seeing examples of others, feeling inspired by others.
And again, that’s what this whole site is about, that’s what I want to give to the world.
So for me the answer for today seems to be that I first need to appreciate and approve of myself before I can inspire others.
And the same of course would apply to you.
And I just found a page on Psychology Today that may be interesting to read more about this: love yourself.
Creative inspiration needed
I am thinking now about the page I made related to something like ‘what inspires you’. And the first thing doing research on that was some page about creative inspiration, what to do if you’re an artist and you need inspiration to get started with your art work.
And that’s basically where I am right now, as I want to write something here, something useful, and I don’t really feel like it. It’s very late, after midnight and no subject comes into my mind, let alone an inspirational subject.
And that’s one of the main things that needs to happen right now, putting more inspirational content, more content related to what Inspiration for Success is all about. As one of the main reasons for writing a more or less useful blog post every day was to just become visible in Google, just putting some kind of content related to the site, to the project so Google would index it in the way to reach the target audience. And I still believe that was the right thing to do, even though it may be some kind of a diary type blog if you look at most of my blog posts. But recently I started to see that slowly, very slowly, traffic from Google is picking up, which is also normal as normally a site is started to be taken serious by Google in about half a year time and the site is a bit more than half a year old.
So the pressure is building with me, especially as I started to notice that I’m not that a
good writer, that it’s not really something i like, writing kind of serious, decent pages in a serious website. And some little voice in the back of my head says now that the way I write is also OK and that there are probably readers who would appreciate my daily ‘shit’. And yes, that’s true I guess. But that’s not what I want Inspiration for Success to be. i want inspiration for Success to be a website, even a project, also outside of the virtual world, to inspire people, for success, or maybe even just to inspire people in general, not even related to success. As slowly i noticed that the main thing I want is that people are inspired to to things, so they would do things naturally and not ‘forced’, contrary to being motivated.
So yes, the goal is clear and basically still the same. So time to plan!
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/
Skip
Guess today I’ll skip. How do other leaders deal with having lost all drive and all inspiration?