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Persistence (and not stubbornness)

People have always called me stubborn, especially when I was younger. And I always thought it is and was the same as persistence, as being persistent. But somehow I’m starting to see the two are different, although slightly I guess.

As what I am starting to experience is that stubbornness is just pushing through what you want, regardless of other people’s feelings and stuff. And persistence is more like continuing going against all odds without offending other people, with letting other people be who they are or want to be.

So my big crazy project is helping me to be persistent, be myself, how crazy I may be. And I guess is learning me to be less stubborn, less insisting on my ways.

And the strange thing is that no matter how crazy my original idea was for Cagayan de Oro City, it could really become true. And the strange thing is I don’t even remember how that whole idea came together, like what was first.

Crazy, isn’t it?

Stopping?

Somehow I am thinking about stopping writing every day, but somehow I also decided to continue to write every day. So I think the main issue is to make my posts, the things I write, interesting again, more interesting or just inspirational. As often I find myself, like now, late at night ‘having to’ write my daily posts, send the daily inspirational e-mail and update my gratitude diary. And this ‘have to’ often has nothing to do with writing for you, with the history and the purpose of this site, this blog.

So yes, while writing I know I am going to continue. As that’s just something I decided. But I have to find a way to make it more inspiring, for you as well as for me. As this is not really working, although I still believe that if I write every day for two years Google will start seeing this site as more serious. And that is also kind of the way I started to write, like ‘anything will do’ as long as it is original content and related to the site, to the subject. And in a way I still believe that is true, but I just want to do more and also enjoy it more.

But not easy with no real feedback (yet). And there may be various reasons for that, but I think still one of the reasons is that the site just doesn’t show up in Google enough yet. And another reason is that the content is just not interesting enough. And still another reason is that the tools are not good enough yet.

But  yes, the longer I work on this project, the more I admire all those people, all those bloggers who write all these serious blogs. And write every day, or every week, or at least regularly. Because it is not easy to do that, even though right now I know I have developed the habit of writing every day, here and in my more personal Dutch blog. And the more I am working on the tools, or not working that much on them, the more I realize that also that is not as easy as I thought As today I had planned some small extensions, but it was late and I was only able to work very shortly on it. And I made hardly any progress, even though I worked in my normal working speed. So I also admire all those people making tools in other sites. As that often takes much, much more time and effort than one would think. As it seems it is with most things in life.

So yes, maybe I have been too hard on myself, maybe you have been too hard on yourself. As most things that appear so easy if we see other people do it, apparently effortless, come with a lot of effort and time spent. And come with developing habits. And come with persistence. And yes, I also believe things come easy, or relatively easy if you do it inspired, as Abraham Hicks teaches it. So yes, easy, kind of effortless. But not without effort and a lot of time and a lot of persistence.

What the bleep

What the Bleep Do We Know.I still like the movie What the Bleep Do We Know (What the Bleep Do We Know on Wikipedia) very much and I don’t fully get the comment in Wikipedia that the film was criticized for misrepresenting science. I very much like how all kinds of things related to quantum physics and a multiple dimension Universe are being visualized in this movie. And what do scientists know anyhow more than you and me? And know, I don’t want to criticize science here, as science is very useful and interesting. I am even a scientist myself as I have a university degree in Mechanical Engineering, so I know a bit how science works.

So why am I writing about this today? Well, our TV card had ended, so I could not watch TV, so I was looking for some movie to watch and ended with watching What the Bleep Do We Know for no real reason. And it always inspires me, as it tells me that there is more beyond this life,beyond what we, humans, experience. Of course if humans exist anyhow…

And today I was a bit curious about the people behind the movie, the people who make all the statements and such, the people telling the story, giving the (scientific?) background. So let’s make a list first:

And strange, making this list. As it took me quite a while to find and put all the links. And that amazes me more and more, how much time it takes to make something very small, let alone a movie like What the Bleep Do We Know. And yes, it also goes all back to the ideas of Napoleon Hill and Abraham Hicks. Like that you cannot do things alone and that somehow we are part of a system, a system like the cells in our body.

And strange, reading about Ramtha/JZ Knight, another type of success story where I indeed now I doubt her honesty, but a business woman she is. And still, to me she is the greatest person in the movie, how she looks at life. And about the priest possibly or probably being involved in sexual abuse. But still, again, his story in the movie is great.

So yeah, again, life is strange. And no matter what, I would certainly recommend you watch What the Bleep Do We Know, as it gives a very nice view on life.

Worried

CaterpillarTomorrow I am planning to go to a funeral and that got my worried about how to deal with my posts and stuff. And that feels a bit strange, how I am obsessed with not missing one day with posting and such, like if I miss one day that would be the end of the world. And that makes me think how obsessed I am with these kind of things, that I am not so flexible, something people often said about me. And right now I am a bit torn, as everything I have learned about ‘success’ also points to persistence and do what other people don’t. And I have the feeling I am doing all those things, learning all those things, especially ‘plan the work and work the plan’. And discipline of course.

But somehow I have the feeling I am overdoing, that I am doing it in a very strict, inhumane way. And that that way of doing, thinking, may exactly be my problem (in life). That I would need a little more flexibility.

Anyhow, that’s not really what I wanted to write about. What I wanted to write about is about the caterpillar and how that image came in this post, as the caterpillar image is what I started this post with. And it is a good sample of how things come into being, how thoughts work, how events work, how things are connected. As I started today with ‘funeral’, which made me look for a ‘life and death inspirational quote’. And then I found the quote “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” from Richard Bach. And that made me search for ‘caterpillar’ as I wanted to put an image of a caterpillar.

CaterpillarAnd the results of that search amazed me, as the first results were all related to the Caterpillar brand, the manufacturer of heavy machinery. And then of course the thought came to me how commercialized the internet is, as ‘commerce’ is one of my personal struggles. And then the thought came to me how the two are connected, the animal and the brand, as I’m quite sure the company Caterpillar was named after the animal, especially as their logo is similar to the colors of the animal. So that’s how a human being can start with funeral and end with animals, machinery, the connections between them and logo’s and images.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Self love

Strange, I just got an e-mail from Marc and Angel hack life and while searching for the link I find it’s kind of a copy of 7 Things to Remember When You Think You’re Not Good Enough.

And then I ended up here: http://journeyofasoulsearcher.blogspot.com/

So a lot to read, but not here right now.