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Inspiration vs. motivation

Lately I don’t feel very inspired. And I don’t feel very motivated. And I don’t seem to succeed to inspire people, to motivate people to do things I have in mind. And I’m kind of OK with it, as this whole feeling of mine goes back the the roots, to the origins of this site, the site Inspiration for Success. So it helps me to move on, to improve, do something.

And a few days ago I wrote the post What inspires you. And I put some Tweets in Twitter with the same question. And I put the same question in Facebook. And until now I didn’t get any reply, any feedback. And when searching for ‘inspiration‘ and ‘motivation‘ and ‘success‘ and combinations of those in Google I mostly end up in work related sites. Yes, of course, as the internet has commercialized very fast the last few years, so business type sites will show often show high in the search results as they have the budget to ‘advertize’ their sites, promote their sites. So from an internet perspective ‘success’ mostly has to do with career, with money, with being successful as ‘the world’ sees success. And from an internet perspective inspiration seems to be something like ‘motivation for success’. Or, as I found in the site related to my post What inspires you to creative inspiration.

So yes, I think the site Inspiration for Success as I have it in mind certainly has value, can add something to people, can add something to the world. As I didn’t find anywhere yet the type of thing I want to, well, convey or something, the thing I’m looking for.

You see, I just want to inspire you to be passionate, to fulfill your dreams, to live life to the fullest. And not from a ‘worldly’ perspective, but from your, well, deepest being, from who you really are, not from what the world expects from you. And it seems so few people find that, do that, find that inner power to really be themselves as they are meant to be.

And I struggle with it, as I see myself NOT having achieved that yet, not living life to the fullest, even though I know I have the power to do that, I have this feeling inside me I can be who I really am and show it to the world and be successful…

And I guess this is what all the successful people talk about, radiate, do. And that this is also the secret that is hidden in, indeed in The Secret, but also in Think and Grow Rich.

So where did I lose it, when did I lose it, as I know I had it, somewhere, some time when I was young. And where did you lose it, as you also had it, somewhere, some time.

And more important, how to claim it back, how to become the person we really are, we are really supposed to be meant to be.

Yes, that’s what I want this site to be, to inspire you to become whole again, to become you again, to become the real you again. Without holding back, without all the limitations that the world has put on you or you think the world has put on you.

Yes, that is what I want…

What inspires you?

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What inspires you, what inspires people. That’s a question that is in my head for a few weeks now. As that is what I want this site to be in the end: inspiring to you, inspiring to people. The top positions in Google don’t give clear answers, or maybe a bit on the page What inspires you from the Free People Blog. It starts with:

The idea of “inspiration” is a crazy thing to comprehend. Something that one person may not even notice could be the most inspiring thing in the world to someone else — and inspiring in what way? Does it inspire them to do? To say? To think about? To create? I’m always curious to find out where people draw their inspiration — and today we’re showing you where we draw ours.

But reading further on that page not much more information in general what inspires people. Looking a bit further I find the page inspiration for 10 creative people. Some things mentioned:

Words of your favorite writer.
The blooms and leaves on your morning walk.
Browsing visual blogs.
Browsing or using social media websites.
Stepping away from the screen.
A breath of fresh air.
Open your eyes and look around.
A walk around town.
A road trip.
Reading other people’s writing.
Looking at relationships, being fascinated by them.
Communicating with others.
Risk, anything that has the potential for failure.
Playing games with other people.
Pattern and color in interior design.
Doing a simple solo task like weeding the garden, knitting, taking a walk, arranging flowers, sitting in the swing in your garden.
Mess around with art supplies, with the stuff around you.
Color, like looking at images.
Creating artwork to lift up other people.
…

Well, some start for a page what inspires you, but no clear direction yet for the site, although the list might give you some ideas of course what to do to feel inspired.

So yes, please, put comments or send e-mails to info@inspiration-for-success.com about what inspires you as it might also inspire other people and would inspire us to create more content about how to inspire you, how to inspire other people.

The more I think about it

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I am starting to understand more and more about the ideas behind Think and Grow Rich. The amount of ‘capital’ and ‘organized effort’ in our daily life is enormous, almost unimaginable. And it has been already been like that for quite a while, thousands of years actually, starting with people building tools and boats, I guess the first forms of capital.

So going to ‘being rich’ or ‘becoming rich’ in 2013 indeed is something like ‘having a sound idea’ and ‘make it work for the masses’. At least that’s what I start to understand now. And basically my idea with the sample goal is the same, although we are a bit careful at the moment revealing the full idea and related plan as we don’t want it to be copied. Don’t get me wrong, one of the team members suggested that we should do it openly, and maybe we will, but as of the moment we’re not ready yet.

And yes, the enormous amount of capital and organized effort involved in everybody’s life, and I mean literally everybody is so enormous that it seems it indeed doesn’t matter how productive you are. Really realizing this also makes me feel very small, like only a small clock part in the enormous clockwork that the human world has become. Like that I, or any human being, is not really important. And I don’t like the idea and I guess if you think about it nobody would like it. As a human being in our thinking the world still revolves around us, at least I guess that’s true for the most of us.

And again, not sure how I would make something inspiring out of this post. I just started with writing about the awe I feel about how huge, how enormous everything is. And now I end up in how small a human being really is, like a cell in a body. And that’s the weird thing indeed, as indeed one cell in a body doesn’t really mean anything, like if it’s there or not doesn’t really matter. But if all are missing the body, the human doesn’t exist. And if a certain amount or specific parts are missing the body also cannot survive, the human doesn’t exist.

So I guess that’s a positive, as I often think of myself in the world as a cell in a body. That if I just do my part, just try to fulfill my role, just am happy with that, in the end it will affect the body, will make the body healthy and happy.

So yes, I inspire you to just try to figure out what you’re supposed to do, what type of cell in the body you are, what type of human you are in the world, and then do your job, your part in a happy way. As in the end the cells make up the body and humans make up the human world and human consciousness.

So what inspires you?

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Yes, that is a question that I am asking myself more and more. What inspires people, what inspires you? It seems that could be or probably is very different for different people, so ‘making the best site on inspiring people (for success)’ is not as easy and straightforward as i thought. Even within the team we already have different opinions about the goals so while inspiration is a much more difficult subject to grasp finding ways to inspire people is probably not a straightforward thing.

And I’m quite sure inspiration is a much more difficult subject to tackle than motivation, but that’s also the reason why we chose ‘inspiration for success’ and not ‘motivation for success’ as we believe inspiration has a much better impact on achieving success, or anything in life, than motivation.

Looking forward to your comments. What inspires you?

Another accident

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So today I had another accident. So how to make something inspiring from that? Yes, I got up quickly, looked at myself, saw the wounds were not that bad as before, saw that the motorcycle was still running, got myself together, got the motorcycle up, gathered the things that had fallen out and went back home.

So yes, they say no matter how often or how hard you fall just get up and continue. And it was easier than before, somehow, for me, as I had been there and nothing really serious had happened to me, at least at first sight.

But still I felt stupid, felt hurt, not only physically but also emotionally. I know I choose to ride that motorcycle as I don’t see any other option to move around conveniently, even though I know it’s dangerous. But it’s no fun actually. It’s just how it is and I don’t know how to change it. And I don’t know how to prevent falling again. The stupid thing is just dangerous. Or use other transportation, but that’s also dangerous and much more inconvenient.

The worst was that I got a whole sermon at home that I need to change. That this kind of thing is part of my pattern. That somehow I do it to get attention, no not consciously, but unconsciously. That I really need to change something here. And believing indeed that things happen because you attract them also made me think. And yes, I know I have to change some things. I know things happened just before that probably triggered it. But still, I don’t know how to change it, how to change.

And I can’t get the lesson from it. Yes, be more careful, drive more slowly, be more focused. But those are only words, I don’t really feel it. I can’t get to the actual lesson and my partner seems to feel it and is annoyed with it. Well, don’t you think I’m annoyed with it? And if I only knew how, of course I would change it straight away.

So yes, I’m way too hard on myself again I guess. And yes, somehow I’m playing the victim here still. But somehow I also feel like I am changing, do improve things, little things, but still, things.

And I need to stop that ‘improving things’ means that there is something wrong with me. Or is there? Napoleon Hill also states something like that in the end of the book Think and Grow Rich, to check what’s wrong with you as otherwise you would be successful, would be in the place you want to be.

Confusing.

So how can I be inspiring here? Or can I?

I know many people, maybe you, would be affected a lot more with an accident like this, while to me it was ‘just another accident’, I got up and rode away. So yes, no matter if you’re hurt, either emotionally or physically, you can just get up and move on, provided you were not hurt that bad that you can’t move anymore.

And yes, somehow I’m determined to do better, make things better, no matter what, even though it hurts and please don’t underestimate how hurt an humiliated I feel at the moment. And physical wounds heal, although sometimes they leave a trace. And emotional wounds also heal I guess, although I want to be very careful stating things about that.

But the lesson I’m still not fully sure of. Maybe I can find someone who is already successful (as I have in mind) say something about that. To inspire me, maybe to try to make clear or clearer to me what’s the most important lesson I have to learn.