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Inspiring, again

As you may have noticed I guess my posts were not that interesting lately and probably not really inspiring. But slowly I am getting into a more inspiring mood, so I hope soon I will add some more inspiring stuff to this site again.

And I guess this is not the easiest period in a web project, as I know it takes about two years for a website to kind of take off. And it is only like one and a half year ago that I started Inspiration for Success, so I can’t really expect a lot, especially as I have been doing most of it alone and as my ambition like writing a post every day and creating inspirational tools and those things just take time and effort.

So yes, often the statement of Abraham Hicks about people who seem to have nice things coming to them quite easily sticks in my mind. As I still don’t know how that works, I still don’t know how I would allow that to happen to me. As when I started the project I thought I had some people working with me to make this site, this project a success. But they all backed out, they hardly put any time in the project, except the weekly meetings, the weekly conference calls. And yes, a few times a few hours or something. At least that is what I know about. But I have been writing every day, sending an inspirational quote every day, so I have put quite some time and effort. And yes, I made the start with the inspirational tools. So did things come easy to me? Well, not really in my opinion.

So while writing this right now I’m thinking something like ‘what’s next’. As I am not planning to give up on this, even though this project did not really bring me anything yet, at least not the thing I was looking for, the thing I was asking for. And yes, the site, the writing brought me a lot, like writing everything down, having something to look back to. And it taught me about persistence. And it taught me about leadership, like accepting more that probably a leader is often alone, that he or she has to set the pace, guide the team and not be part of it.

And yes, while writing this right now, I am thinking of my original goals with this site, with this project, where I think the main original goal was to achieve success fully in the open using the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill. And this thinking brings me back to the beginning, to the start of Inspiration for Success, where I did a lot more work with a lot more enthusiasm and I guess a lot more result.

And yes, of course I am thinking also of stopping, like where does this whole thing lead, as Inspiration for Success certainly does not have the traffic, the users I originally had in mind. And while writing I have no clue how I would get everything to the quantity and quality of inspiring people, motivating people I originally had in mind. But that is maybe also where I should go back to right now, just redefine, or better revive my dream: offering inspiration for people like me, people who didn’t find inspiration all their life within their environment.

So if that applies to you, please let me know. And maybe I can help you, and probably others, if I know where you stand, what you want and what you are going through. So please let me know.

Successful people

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So how do successful people deal with where I am standing now, just tired, kind of sick, not really knowing what to do, no real progress, no real friends.

And yes, I did make progress, I learned a bit about determination, persistence contrary to being stubborn, but still, I’m fifty one years old, have great ideas and big plans, more determined than ever, but still no clue how to make it all work.

And yes, I ‘know’ how to do it. But somehow something else is needed. The Secret?

Justice system and leadership

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I can’t get enough of the movie Law Abiding Citizen. The story is so strong depicting the weaknesses (and strengths) of the (Western) justice system. And it is about leadership, about the Principles of Success, where Clyde Shelton does everything to make his point, fulfill his definite purpose of showing Nick Rice that justice is not about how the justice system works.

And especially the end is very strong, as somehow Nick Rice still sticks with not really violating the law by killing Clyde Shelton directly. So in the end everybody wins.

And yes, these type of movies, or any famous or successful movie, makes me still kind of jealous. As I have the feeling I never really accomplished anything ‘great’. And even though I am now working on making internet better for Filipino’s, even though my mindset has changed by focusing more on service and less on wanting to get rich myself, I still don’t know if my project will push through. As the longer I am working on it, the more I realize what an enormous task I have given myself, putting up a third internet service provider in The Philippines.

But maybe the movie Law Abiding Citizen gives some inspiration here, as the whole thing that Clyde Shelton pulls off is also ‘impossible’. And also a creating a movie, any movie, seems to be a similar thing, as I guess in the end often probably only one person has an idea and has to ‘pitch’ it to other people, induce other people to make it, have it made.

And yes, the last days, few weeks, have been a bit lonely, as many times before. As yes, I had quite some talks and my project is slowly growing, but I still don’t feel any real commitment from or real work done by other people. So how do you do that, that is still my biggest question, ‘induce’ other people as Napoleon Hill states it.

Maybe just continue the way I am and yes, asking the Universe, Infinite Intelligence, to support it, to help. As yes, lately I also encounter that one human is so limited in what is going to happen, that one human is only a means to get something done in the greater thing. So maybe I am just playing a role in this project and maybe the project is going to come true anyhow, regardless of my effort. But yes, maybe also because of my effort.

It’s okay

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The last one or two weeks I almost fully left my planning, my daily to-do list. And somehow it feels right, especially as I had not planned a lot, or at least that is what I thought.

And yes, somehow I still follow it. And yes, I will pick it up soon. But somehow I am still myself, my impulsive chaotic self that also knows what to do and not to do. And yes, I needed a break from that strict following of my planning, doing the things I planned to do every day.

And still, I have the feeling something changed, I changed. As somehow I still do the things I have planned to do. Except some things I didn’t do.

Sounds strange, but it feels right. And that’s what I learned from Abraham Hicks, that procrastination can be a very good thing. And I think it was, the last few days, weeks. And it will pass, and I will have learned, again.

Before The Matrix

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Bound movie As far as I knew The Matrix was the first movie produced by the Wachowski Brothers, but I just found out that they made a movie before the Matrix Trilogy, the movie Bound. So when I found out of course I decided to download it, as The Matrix Trilogy is one of my most favorite movie experiences I have ever experienced, if not the best or at least most interesting movie experience ever. And every time I watch part of it I see something new. Like a few days ago, when I accidentally saw it on TV I realized that Smith says somewhere in the first Matrix movie that if Zion is destroyed he is going to be deleted. And I never realized that. And it is even the most basic foundations of the movie, programs being deleted, like humans going to die. And I never realized it also applied to Smith, so this gives a whole new dimension to the story for me. And believe me, I think I know the movies well and know many of the kind of hidden details and stories and philosophies and whatever, so seeing something new after seeing those movies so many times is exciting.

So I just watched it and it is a good movie with a very interesting plot. And the start reminded me a bit of The Matrix as the music sounds familiar, so probably they used the same composer.

And I thought I had nothing inspiring to share today, but it seems I still have, as my new discoveries, the discovery about Smith not being needed anymore if Zion is destroyed and this first movie of Wachowski Brothers is quite exciting to me.

And yes, I admire the Wachowski Brothers more and more, even now, as I have no clue how they pulled off something like The Matrix with so many angles from so many disciplines in life.