Inspiration for Success
About inspiration, motivation and success
I recently published an article about my first triathlon here in the Philippines and I am quite happy about the fact that so many people enjoyed reading the post – thank you for your interest!
During the last couple of weeks and months, a few people were asking me about how I could spend so much time with my (almost) daily training; and I would always reply something like “I just got used to it” and “I need that exercise to balance my virtual life as an online marketer”. Continue reading
I have been thinking a lot about this site recently, partly because of the comments I got on my ‘complaining’ or ‘negative’ posts and I think it’s time for the next stage. So today I worked a bit on the page ‘limiting beliefs‘ as I think it is about time the ‘pages part‘ is due for improvement as in my opinion in the end that would be the main part of the site: information, exercises, links, etc. about inspiration, motivation and success.
I also have been thinking the home page should be an inspiring homepage to invite people to check what the site has to offer and not just (my) latest blog post. Have to discuss that with my Master Mind group though.
Anyhow, you may not fully know or understand, but my, not so formally planned, initial stage, including daily blog posts, was mainly to create content so the site could be found by people interested in the subject. And that’s also why i’m not so worried about the criticism I got about being negative or complaining, as people in a similar situation like me and looking for success or looking for being inspired for success i guess are the main target group for the site.
So for now maybe just some links to important pages in the site, even though they may not all have decent content yet:
I am still a bit in doubt how to continue with my posts. Main reason to continue writing my quite negative posts is that I believe in the end those pages will attract people in a similar situation like me, so the people searching for success, wanting or needing to be inspired for success.
Of course I hope that when people find those posts I have already moved on and live a much better life or hopefully the life I really want, think I deserve and need. For now that is not the case and maybe that is also good because if will make me write more about my current situation, my ‘down period’, so people, you, will know that it is really possible to go from here, from where i am now, to the life I really want and need.
So maybe just tell you guys what I actually feel at the moment, what is actually happening. Maybe just tell you that last year, the beginning of the second half, my partner left me, my business went even further down the drain and I literally felt I had nothing left anymore, nothing even left to live for. What made it even worse was that ten years before I was in exactly the same situation: my partner left, somehow in a similar way, I had lost my job and couldn’t find another and I not enough money to sustain my lifestyle, so couldn’t afford my house anymore.
So I was devastated and didn’t know what to do anymore and even considered suicide as I had nothing left and found I had not friends even, and no support network. And this time not even any serious financial backup, at least no money I could touch which I did have ten years ago. And no government support also as I live in The Philippines.
Somehow during that period someone gave me the book Think and Grow Rich, together with two other books and somehow that book impressed me. Not because of the ‘rich’ as my partner leaving me was a million times worse than having all the money in the world to me as to me love and relationship are the main things in life, not money or anything else.
So I started from the book and wrote my ‘main desire document’ and started from there. And found that many weird things started to happen, including me now believing that indeed ‘anything is possible’, literally anything. However, it has been a weird journey from then to now and the worst was that things started to become worse, much worse the end of last year until the beginning of this year. It is only recently that I am starting to believe that something positive is coming up, even though I am still very much emotionally distressed.
Anyhow, enough for now about this story I guess, although there is another related post in my mind for a few days now. A post about why I am where i am now and indeed, I think I recently started to realize how it all works.
For now my little inspiration for people in a similar situation like me for more than half a year now is to not give up, even if things are even getting worse. I’m not there yet, but somehow something positive is happening, so that’s what I want to share to inspire you: don”t give up.
The last few days, or even weeks, I have been very down and it seemed that all I had worked for was falling apart again. And I was the cause myself, that was the most frustrating. So last night that inspired me to create this post and related pages, so pages related to ‘what if you are down’. Because it seems that just happens, and I guess not only to me but to everybody on their way in life, on their way to success, so also to you and I guess it’s quite normal.
So indeed, as Napoleon Hill states, “Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit”. I can confirm that fully, as in my lowest moments I often come up with the best ideas, like now. If I wouldn’t have been down, I wouldn’t have been inspired by writing a section of the site What if you are down.
Not sure how to continue this post as I want to create a more helpful part of the site to help you, inspire you and not just talk about myself.
So I guess that’s what I’m going to do now. Or maybe one more thing: I think the most important reason for me to be down is if I lost the desire, lost the belief, lost the connection with what I really want or maybe even if I lost the connection with myself.
Someone was just very angry with me. And as I mostly use the things that happen to me or around me for my daily post it is kind of logical to try to connect anger to inspiration. I feel still upset though, as the anger of the other party was very big, very bad. But I decided to stand my ground. As even though I had done something I could imagine the other party was upset about, angry about, I felt treated unfair.
And yes, even though I’m still upset I guess I did the right thing, standing my ground, thinking of a sentence in Think and Grow Rich: ‘why not put up a stiff fight…’, even though I did not really fight back as the other person was too upset and might have hurt me, as he actually started throwing things at me, damaging things.
Still, standing my ground also gives me a good feeling somewhere below feeling very upset. I feel some kind of power I did not give in to some demands that I thought were wrong. But the type of anger was that bad that I really had to think what to do, how to respond, as bad things might have happened.
So yes, anger can inspire I guess, but only after being upset and when you didn’t let you get dragged into the fight.
And finally I want to share a document here about ending fights: 12 steps to end the fights. Has nothing really to do with this site, but I think there are some very useful suggestions in there on how to deal with anger.