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Doing nothing

Doing nothing”, that was my intention for today related to my place mat exercise. And this meant something like leaving everything to the Universe, so that’s what I wrote down on the other side. But somehow I realized you cannot do ‘nothing’. That’s not how humans are built. So even while doing ‘nothing’, just lying a bit on the couch as I just felt tired and didn’t really feel like doing anything physical, of course I was still thinking, and breathing, and I guess a lot of other things a human does when doing nothing.

Ah, and I’m really in complaining mood, down mood, even though I thought I had left that behind as I felt so happy recently. So yesterday one of the things I wanted to achieve in one of my segments was feeling bad, which to my amazement didn’t really happen. I felt kind of bad the moment I wrote it down, but somehow later on in the day I started to feel good and when going to bed as far as I remember I really felt good again. So I didn’t achieve my goal with that and of course I was kind of happy with that.

I learned from it thought that sometimes it’s just good to write your feeling down, to just feel bad if you feel bad. And maybe this something about the ‘forcing’ humans, or at least I, often feel I do. When feeling bad I am trying to force myself out of that. And often that doesn’t work.

And I realize I’m not really inspired writing this post. And I guess you can also read that between the lines. And somehow I also know what’s the background as I have so many things I want to do, so many ideas in my mind I want to make into reality. And somehow that’s frustrating as the only thing I just need is money to live, money to survive. And it feels a bit like all my efforts somehow are good, feel good, but they just don’t bring in, or at least didn’t until now, just the money to survive.

So what is this with money, what’s wrong in the world that I can’t do what I feel I’m good at, that I can’t seem to use my talents for other people, that I can’t serve other people in a way that they appreciate it enough to allow me to live the life I think I deserve and need. Don’t they just see what I do, what I can do? Don’t they just see how good I am at the internet and programming stuff? Don’t they see how I’m trying to do things good, perfect, ready for the future, maintenance friendly?

Apparently not, but somehow I also feel that I should just continue doing what I do, believe in myself, and that somehow, some day, people see how good I am at what I do and that they can benefit from the way how I do things.

Procrastination

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i read a bit ahead in my thirty day Law of Attraction program and it was about procrastination. And Abraham Hicks says on day 26 that procrastination is not necessarily bad (see what i just wrote about procrastination on the page procrastination if it’s still there). And I agree with that as that’s what I often felt even though everything around me, around us, seems to say that we should take action and don’t wait, don’t hesitate.

And I don’t say you shouldn’t do anything, shouldn’t take action, as I still believe action is the thing that in the end makes things move. But looking back at the last year I am also starting to realize that patience may be as important as ‘action’.

You see, patience brought my biggest dream closer, closer than I could have ever imagined one year ago. One year ago when my biggest dream was impossible, literally impossible. Where everyone said I was crazy to follow my heart, follow my dream. And I’m not there yet, but I’m very, very close. And yes, i’m willing to wait, willing to be patient, willing to ‘allow’ my dream finally become true. So the weird thing with the thing I really wanted, I really want, is that it came closer by just being patient, without really taking action. And yes, persistent I was and still am, but patience seems to have been the biggest issue, not action.

And also today, the last few weeks, I saw that patience paid off much more than action and pushing pushing. Patience also seems to have been the biggest issue towards other people, towards my team, that slowly but surely seems to start moving in the direction that I have and had in mind for Inspiration for Success.

So yes, procrastination is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes the Universe just needs time to put things in place, to align things. So be persistent, but also be patient.

Big money – big dream

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Big money – big dream: why money making is not so easy
“Make lots of money in no time! Obtain fantastic yield from the newest US-fund management strategy! – no prior knowledge needed! Everybody can be a millionaire – overnight!”

Is the easiest way to make money really to take advantage of peoples dullness?

Unfortunately that statement is at least partly true: despite the world financial crisis in 2009 and multiple warnings in all kinds of media channels, shady offers like this one still find trustful “investors” that let themselves entrap by their grief or by their stupidity – it depends on how you want to call it.

But(!): Nobody should make a mistake about it: Our society only works highly effective (at least economically) because it managed to put effort before revenue: No sweet without sweat!

Because of that fact everybody who wants to make a lot of money has to work a lot of hours. And still: Working hard is not enough! You even have to work hard over a long period of time. Only people that work hard and persistently will be rewarded in the end

Fraud and illegal activities promise fast profits and they even can lead to short them success and quick money. In the long run thought almost any scam (like the one described above) will be detected and punished. For this reason: strongly be advised not to fall for any criminal enticements. To commit a fraud is almost as stupid as falling for a fraud.

On the other hand there is good news for everybody who wants to achieve great success in his or her life: Everybody can make lots of money! Everybody has that special ability that can make him or her a millionaire! But to achieve this goal everybody has to be aware of the facts mentioned above: Lots of money and lots of work go together like a horse and carriage.

It is also very important to avoid the major stumbling block on the way to the top. Many people think they would have to avoid any mistake on this way. This is obviously nonsense and a mistake you truly should avoid! On the contrary: It is important to make mistakes and learn something from them! This is exactly how personal development works, which is the most important thing that makes all the way to the top possible!

Search and you will find

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As I am not home and the laptop broke down and I don’t have any modern gadgets that have internet access like a table I had no option but to look for an internet cafe to send my daily quote and to post my daily posts. As I am in a big city not far from the center I just went to the hotel desk and asked where I could use the internet. There was one, but it was closed. Try tomorrow morning. As I wanted to do my daily posts I pushed a bit, but no solutions came from the people behind the front desk. I decided to try my luck and just roam around a bit. I thought I knew the area quite a bit from some time ago and an internet cafe could not be far. How wrong I was. It was very quiet outside and despite it is a big city the streets were almost deserted. Also most, or actually practically all shops and businesses around were closed. A bit scary, but I decided to push through.

There were a lot of taxi drivers around who tried to sell me a ride, but I didn’t feel like taking a taxi. I did get the hunch to ask one of them and he came with an answer, pointed a direction and it sounded like not too far away. So I decided to go and after a while I indeed found an internet cafe, probably the one that was pointed out to me. And I was very happy to have found it as it was a bit further than I expected and I was about to give up or find another way. So the post title is “Search and you will find”, but after writing it and starting to write the post I realized that I had done a little bit more than just searching and finding. First, I had the desire to do my daily inspiration for success things. Next I decided to gather some information, do research, ask. Then I made my plan and after that I took the action of implementing my plan. And while researching I was quite a bit persistent to get what I wanted and I was also persistent in continuing finding what I wanted to find by just walking a little bit further than I thought the distance would be.

I also realized I was careful to keep track of the road so I could go back to the hotel and also careful looking around for danger as it was quite late in a big city I’m not familiar with where it was a bit too quiet to be or feel fully safe. I also realized that Infinite Intelligence pointed me in the direction to ask a taxi driver and that the taxi driver I asked also had the right answer.

So maybe the principles of success are that simple and I even implemented them in a very natural way in this case. So for the bigger successes I”m looking for maybe I just need to scale it up a bit. Maybe that’s all.

My first WordPress front-end plugin

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Well, not easy to learn a new software framework, even though ‘everybody’ always seems to say that WordPress is so simple. Before it took me quite a while to make my back-end plugin work to send the daily inspiration mail, but lately I’ve been struggling with the front-end plugin so people can subscribe to our e-mails. Of course being a perfectionist the plugin just needs to be ‘installed’, nothing else and the front-end only needs to include an element with a specific id, then it should just work. Well, and it does, so if you want to receive our daily e-mail with an inspirational quote just go to the page subscribe, fill in your e-mail address and click on the confirmation link in the e-mail you will receive shortly after. That’s it, no more. And if you’re interested in the plugin just send an e-mail to guus@inspiration-for-success.com.

The back-end for managing an e-mail list and sending an (html) e-mail without a lot of html knowledge is available on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-management.zip. The frontend will be available soon on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-frontend.zip.

So what’s inspiring in this post? Well, maybe that I was a bit desperate as the front end plugin worked on my local development system but not on this site. And then it’s hard to find out what’s wrong, if it’s just working in one place and not in the other.

Anyhow, with some patience and persistence I was just able to figure the whole thing out, so yes, patience and persistence are important things to achieve success. So don’t give up if something doesn’t work the first time or doesn’t work as you would expect.