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Thank you, Philippines

Today another complaint and I guess a short post and I have no clue how to make this inspiring or use any of the Principles of Success of what I’m experiencing.

We have two internet connections, the second mainly because I want to have a back up connection in case something goes wrong with the other connection. And yes, the reason is to serve my customers, to make sure I’m online and can fix problems in case of urgent problems with websites of customers.

Now it happens to be that it seems that both connections are being ‘throttled’ due to our heavy use of these connections. And I don’t mind if our bandwidth is lowered down or something as we don’t really need a fast internet connection, but as of the moment it is virtually impossible to use any of the two connections due to this ‘throttling’, meaning something like switching the connections on or off or cutting off tcp/ip connectsions.

And behind all this may be a Philippine law that states that wireless connections can only download sow much per calender month to save the environment or something. Or just ‘fair use policy’ by the Internet Service Providers’.

But I just don’t get how they do it, as to me the limitation in internet use is bandwidth, the amount of data that you download or download per second or even millisecond and that has nothing to do with the total amount of data downloaded or uploaded in a month.

So as I understand it now if I continue downloading a lot of stuff like I do also for my business, for customers, somewhere halfway every month my Internet Service Providers will start ‘throttling’ my internet connection, meaning making it practically useless.

Meaning that the first half of the month I’ll have to work for the whole month and the second half of the month I can go on holiday and won’t be able to serve my customers.

Looking forward to your comments, as I don’t understand it. We have had our Smart connection for seven years or so and it has been working fine for about 99% of the time. And suddenly some rule changes and we can’t use the internet in a normal way for every second half of the month.

I’m lost.

Looking forward to your comments.

Everything is lined up

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Philippine taxi Lately I am thinking more and more how everything is lined up as per ideas of Abraham Hicks. And I am more and more surprised how everything is connected, how there is one flow, or actually many, many flows adding everything up, making everything happen. And the more I think about it, the more amazing it all is, how everything is connected.

Like tonight I was just looking for a taxi to go home and I was on the highway And there are many taxis here on the highway and using a taxi in this case is a very common thing to do. But if you think about it just taking this taxi is, or looking back, is quite an amazing thing and an enormous amount of things need to add up to make me and this taxi, or maybe more specific this taxi driver, to meet up.

As before I was with friends, where those friends influenced the time I was leaving the house. Then I joined one of the other guests to drop me at the highway, so their speed would partially define at what time I would arrive at the highway. Then my partner called me to buy a packet of cigarettes, so I did not wait at the drop off point but went to the gasoline station nearby. At the gasoline station I had to wait for some other customers before I could make my order and finish my transaction. So next to me, these customers had their own speed and events to end up there at that specific moment in time and of course the people behind the counter had their own process which influenced the transaction and the time.

So I finished my transaction and went outside looking for a taxi, so walked with a specific speed outside to the main road where taxis could see me and where I could see taxis. So finally one stopped, or not really ‘finally’, but quite quickly actually. And of course this taxi had had its own journey how to get there today, at this specific time and place, like the previous customer, or actually customers who brought him in this specific time and place where I was, looking for a taxi. Which of course was related to all the little things and decisions and moods of the customers, the taxi driver and all other traffic, all other vehicles directly or indirectly influencing the flow of this taxi.

And the weird thing is and stays like no matter whether you believe in ‘things happen based on how you flow your energy’ in a more spiritual way, of course my mood, my emotional state, my spiritual state at least directly influences whether I would take this specific taxi or another one or couldn’t find one at all. As the simple thing of waiving my hand and how I waived it when I saw a taxi coming to me on the other side of the road would directly influence the behavior of the taxi driver, like whether he would turn around and take me or not. And the simple mood or emotional state of the taxi driver would define whether he would see me or not, as even if I would not have waived my hand he might have decided to turn around anyhow and see if he could make me into a customer. As my emotional state would define how the sales people in the gasoline station would define how they would react to me, like how fast they would serve me. Or not serve me at all, although the last thing would be unlikely.

And so my mood and the mood of all the other people, participants in this game, this play we call life definitely defines how things are going, what would happen and what would not happen and when and how it would happen.

Amazing isn’t it?

And so yes, somehow we fully define our life, define what is happening and what is going to happen, as each moment we decide what to do or not to do, how to behave or not to behave, what to show or not to show. And somehow we do not, as all the other players also play their own role and make their own decisions.

Amazing, this game of life.

Everything is connected

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The last few days of course I also couldn’t get around ‘Mandela’ as all news channels put a lot of time to (the death of) Nelson Mandela. So this morning I was watching the news or one of the documentaries about Nelson Mandela and it reminded me of some character site putting me in the same category as Nelson Mandela and some other famous leaders like Mother Teresa. Something like the ‘craftsman’ personality type or something. And me being me of course I thought about the fame those people have, like I guess most people in the world know their names. And somehow I also still want that. Egoistic? Maybe. But I didn’t want to write about myself now, I wanted to write about how everything is connected. As I felt like writing about Nelson Mandela, about how Apartheid came to be. And about power, as I understood Mandela used power, even in the form of violence, which I am so much against. But I also remember the phrase “Great achievements as for Power” or something like that that Napoleon Hill refers to.

And I was thinking indeed on how everything is connected, because it felt quite natural to write about Nelson Mandela and/or his story or everything his name is connected with. But of course it’s not, as ‘everything’ on TV is somehow connected to or showing ‘something Mandela’. And it influences everybody;s thoughts, including mine. And it’s not really the power of television or newspapers or something, it is more. It is indeed the Energy Abraham Hicks is writing so much about, it is the Infinite Intelligence that Napoleon Hill mentions, it is maybe The Secret that other people refer to.

And what I heard in this documentary about Nelson Mandela, about what he did to achieve what he wanted to achieve, it really sounded like he applied the Principles of Success. And yes, I don’t know what was or were his heartbreaking struggles, but something like twenty seven(?!) years in prison is not nothing, especially if your communication is limited to the absolute minimum. And I was struck by the statement that he said that he was willing to die to achieve what he wanted to achieve: democracy in his home country.

And of course I was thinking about myself again, looking at myself. And about the word, the term charisma I have been thinking about a lot lately. As it seems that’s what I don’t have, at least not towards other people, that’s the main thing missing in my struggle to fame, to achievement.

But after some quick research about charisma I just found there is a second meaning to charisma, a meaning not related to inspiring people, and that is using some personal talent. And that’s something I have, something everybody have: talents. So there is hope and it seems somehow I also stopped learning somehow have closed my mind. And that is what I encountered lately also a lot: open your mind, have an open mind. And I didn’t know what the people meant, what people were trying to tell me, but I think I’m starting to get it. Because mostly I seem to be stuck in my own opinion, in my own ‘being right’ and forget to listen and look around, meaning I will miss opportunities, miss other solutions, miss the contribution of other people (which may be more valuable than I always thought).

And this is becoming a bit chaotic post I guess, but maybe that’s also just who I am, maybe that’s also just my style. And probably, over time, people will find me, the people who like my style, who like what I write. And yes, somehow I’m writing all of this for you, not for me, even though I often get feedback, often tell myself even ‘that it’s all about me’. But it’s not, as if it were all about me I wouldn’t be writing here, I wouldn’t push myself to write here every day. And believe me, that’s not always easy as I sometimes can’t find the time or the inspiration. But no matter what, I wrote, I posted virtually every day. And somehow I know my persistence will pay off.

And don’t forget, it’s all a weird combination of doing things yourself, of ‘action’ and just waiting for the world come around, waiting for things to fall into place.

So there is hope, for you, for me, for everybody. As everything is connected.

Worlds top five transporters

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I was just watching the documentary “The worlds top five transporters” on Discovery Channel. And I was amazed (again) at what humans, or actually humanity, can achieve, has achieved. And also how small one human being is. And also how much has been achieved already even before I was born. And how much was achieved when I was a child, grew up.

And somehow I don’t feel part of it, don’t feel part of it anymore at least. And somehow I am thinking more and more about the poor people in the world, which may even be the majority. The people who will never really see the world, will never really experience all those marvels that have been created by human kind.

And I was thinking about the Apollo program, the moon program in the sixties in the US. As one of the worlds top five transporters in the program was the crawler. And about those Apollo rockets (or they are actually called Saturn I think), the largest rockets ever built if I remember correctly.

And again, I was thinking that indeed as humanity we are building an awful lot of things nowadays, computers and tablets and cell phones in mass production and even marvels as shown in those “Worlds top five” programs. But somehow I still believe we don’t do anything big anymore and I wrote about that before. And I guess I’ll be writing about it again. We don’t go to the moon anymore, and we’re not really planning to go to Mars, let alone to the stars, to other solar systems or galaxies. And isn’t that what humanity is about, going beyond anything, exploring everything, everything there is in the Universe? And we just don’t seem to do it anymore.

So where are the heroes making these big ideas, the really, really big ideas come true? Or should I be the one, could I be the one?

And yes, while writing this I know this post has two different, almost opposite views: the poor people not even enjoying the benefits of what humanity has achieved in practical things. And the things that go beyond everything and would cost an awful lot of money and effort, where that effort and money would not be available to bring joy to the poor people in this world.

But yes, in the end I believe it’s about the special, about the one thing that shouldn’t be done, that’s too expensive, too great, too big a dream too impractical.

But are those things, those dreams not what life is all about?

For the kind and the sensitive

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Pinky Gaudiano “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