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Moses’ leadership

I saw the movie Exodus: Gods and Kings tonight and was stunned that this whole movie, or actually the story of the Israelis leaving Egypt, is all about leadership, the leadership of Moses. And again, one of the major things is that humans in the end are not in control, but God, or Infinite Intelligence, or the Laws of the Universe. And of course the decision making of Moses, especially when he is on a crossroad and doesn’t know where to go. But he kind of asks God and no matter what, he just makes a decision.

And things like burning all the bridges, when he leaves his family behind to go for his quest to free his people from the Egyptians.

But next to all of this I am always also stunned how Hollywood type of movies, good movies, always seem to be perfect, very well made, with a lot of attention. And I still don’t know how to do something like that, as you need an awful lot of people, followers, to do something like that. And yes, someone must have had the idea to make this movie, a movie about the Exodus. And again, it must have taken an awful lot of passion, determination, persistence, leadership and many more things to get something like this movie made.

So yes, well worth watching, not only because it is a very good movie about the Exodus, but also because you can find a lot about what leadership is in it. So I guess I’ll just add it to the page inspiring movies right now.

Inspiration from death

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I am a bit in a mixed mood today as it is the day one of my sisters is being buried and I decided I cannot attend. Main reason is budget, but somehow I also don’t want to attend as I don’t really see the reason to take on a 24 hour journey to attend a half day ceremony or so. And I guess I would have made an exception if my mam had asked me to come, but she didn’t. Ah, and also being fifty one years old life and death, especially death, is not that a big issue anymore, as people just die and I even almost died myself around five years ago. And most people who died were relatively old, like my grandparents and my dad, the people closest to me who died. And my sister was a special child with also body problems, so somehow it was already a miracle that she lived for almost fifty years.

The death of my sister made me thing yesterday though, as it brought me back to my youth, my very young years, about which my parents said I was very close with Janneke, my sister. So I was looking for a photo I remember of her and me, but I couldn’t find it. But I kept thinking about ‘life’, how we as people, as human beings are being born, live, and then die. So I thought about my sister, about what she had given to the world, as somehow people with disabilities appear so, well useless, not contributing. On the contrary, they take a lot of care, like my sister was in an institution for mentally handicapped people, so there are a lot of people needed an available to care for her. And yes, they need to be paid. And in The Netherlands that is all arranged by the government, and my sister even got an allowance from the social security department in The Netherlands. And then today I got an e-mail with the content, the preparation for the church and funeral ceremonies. And the staff who had taken care of Janneke all had made some kind of poem. And then I remembered the below photo they had sent me earlier, from the internal memo about Janneke’s death. And especially that photo reminded me of how she was, with such an enormous, I don’t know how to say in English properly, happiness. Like how she could shine, as you may see in below photo.

Janneke

And then I read the poems that the staff had made. And they all mentioned how much Janneke had given, and not, as one would expect, how much she had ‘taken’, consumed, used. And no, I am not really the type of person who thinks like that. I am more the material and career guy, even though I have big dreams and talk and write (and do) about valuing humans more, valuing humans above organizations and material things.

So yes, when thinking about those things, reading the poems, seeing the joy in the photo and remembering how Janneke was, I just know that a human is just very special, even if he or she is born without the ability to contribute to the material and such.

What was inspiring today?

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I had a very bad mood today. And it started yesterday, or maybe even a few days ago. And normally I know ways to get out of that, to find some kind of happiness, but this time that didn’t work very well, until now.

And as this site is about inspiration, is about inspiring people, inspiring people for success, I thought the title “What was inspiring today?” a nice way to start, a way to somehow put my focus somewhere else, away from my bad mood, my bad feeling. But while writing this I feel the tension in my legs, a tension I dread very much, as that was a tension I felt for a long, long time in my previous relationship, when I knew there was something wrong, very very wrong, but didn’t know what to do, didn’t know how to explain that to my partner, talk to my partner.

So yes, I see I am back with my bad mood, with the thing that is bothering me, really bothering me. So I know it is ‘relationship’.

So where to go from here? Am I writing for myself, somehow analyzing my problems, trying to find a solution through my writing? Or should I write for you, write something inspiring? As that is what you are supposed to come here for, for inspiration, for inspirational posts. And that is what is supposed to help, help make one happy, doing something for someone else, ‘giving’ to other people, helping other people. But until now ‘giving’ did not really make me happy, although I know things like smiling at someone else, to someone else, in 99% of the cases rewards you with a smile in return, indeed making one happy. But ‘giving’ to my partner has never made me happy and I hardly ever feel I am getting something in return. And don’t get me wrong, I know ‘giving’ doesn’t work like getting (something in return) for oneself.

And also helping people often doesn’t seem to work, as mostly it seems people don’t want my help, even though it is given by heart.

So often I ask myself if I am really ‘giving’, if I am really helping. Maybe the word ‘give’ means something else to me than to (most) other people. And maybe ‘helping’ something else than what I think it is.

And these kind of things have been bothering me for a long, long time. As I have the feeling I ‘give’ more than I see other people give. And I am very much into helping other people. And I read everywhere that you ‘reap what you sow’.

So if the last is true then I have sown very, very bad seeds all my life. As I feel like I am reaping just misery, lack and things like that. And people are not willing to help me, even if I ask them straight away. And people often want, expect, things from me I don’t have, like money.

And yes, I know I somehow make a mistake there, trying to give things I don’t have. And maybe not being clear enough about my needs; or asking the wrong people. And of course I am wondering if other people feel the same about me, that I don’t give them what they need, help them in a way they need. As if life is about balance, something like that must be the case.

So what was inspiring today? For me, I don’t know. I didn’t really feel inspired, I just had a bad mood and of course that reflected in everything that happened, in everything I did. As indeed I believe that is how the Universe works, that is how the Law of Attraction works.

And what was inspiring for you today? And would you be willing to share that? And would you be willing to let me know what I can ‘give’, what you would want to expect from me? And what help you would need from me? So my ‘giving’ and willingness to help would get some better results.

Patience needed?

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Today and also yesterday I had some very nice and interesting conversations with several people visiting the party that was being held at our house. So especially this morning I felt very inspired with all kinds of subjects we discussed, especially related to this site, to success, to inspiration for success. And yes, I think I wrote a nice post earlier today on my dutch site, my dutch blog. But right now I don’t know what to write anymore. Yes, I remember the subject that the only law a human should obey is ‘though shall not steal’. As almost anything can be related to that, like if you take some of the Ten Commandments like you should not kill someone, you could say you should not steal his life. Or about cheating in relationship you could say you should not steal someones wife. And I always admired the Ten Commandments, as, no matter if you are Christian or not, I think most people would agree that those ten commandments cover virtually everything or maybe even really everything about how we should live our life, treat each other. In my opinion all other laws go back to those principles, somehow. But today I was really amazed, stunned, that you could basically even put that into one law: “Though shall not steal”.

Another subject we discussed was ‘success‘, one of the major subjects of this site, of even my project Inspiration for Success. As I already long time ago, just after starting with this site, with the page about success, I already found that success is something that is personal. And related to that, being Dutch and living in The Philippines, I am still wondering if people are really different than in more Western cultures. As mostly when I ask people here what they want in life, especially younger people, they answer something like ‘I want to take care of my family’, mostly meaning providing money for the family. And even when I try to ask further, something like, ‘but if you leave your family out of the equation’ or ‘if you leave money out of the equation’ I still don’t get answers I would get from people from other cultures. Often I just don’t get an answer at all, so today, when discussing this issue, I was thinking that the question of ‘what do you want in life’ is just the right question here, in Philippine culture.

And for a long time I already have in mind to do a study about success, about when people would consider them successful, especially younger Filipino’s and people from lower classes. So maybe I should push through with that, find a way to get that done. As that question is really important to me, especially as that answer might give me some more clues on how to build the site, how to inspire people for success.

But right now I think I did pretty well writing the above, if you look at how I started this post. So maybe I should just stop now and let those things rest in my mind, as I am sure the discussion of this afternoon will inspire me for more, for better.

Post inspiration

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Well, not really inspired to write a post right now. But I did work on the page Top Inspirational Sites, as that was something I planned for today, to add at least two inspirational sites on that page. And I did. And the main reason for that was that that page is the most popular page on this site. So it seems there is some demand for lists or evaluation of inspirational and motivational sites. So maybe that would be a breakthrough for this site, like also making some kind of ranking system based on the opinion of users. Something like a voting system. Should not be that difficult to program, but somehow I am also a bit tired of programming for this site, as nobody seems to be using the inspirational tools I have developed a while ago.

But yes, success seems also to have something to do with persistence and doing things you don’t like or something. So maybe I’ll work on some kind of voting system for inspirational and motivational sites. Yes, maybe just plan it.