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Inspirational white heat

White heat desire, passion Just now I found a Retweet in my mailbox:

“To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” — Tony Dorsett.

And I was reading again about desire, passion in Think and Grow Rich earlier this morning:

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.

And lately I notice with myself that that’s lacking, that I don’t feel passion, I don’t feel desire. And I’m starting to realize more and more that that’s what it’s all about: passion and desire. Or actually I even know for sure, as in another area in my life I achieved a great success, the greatest success ever, and that one is based on passion, on something i really want, something I really wanted, and something I believed I could do, believed it could happen. But it did! It really did happen!

So about my/our sample goal, the one million dollar through this site is not really moving, or, while writing this, is it? I know I don’t really have the desire yet, but basically everything is in place: the goal is there, dates are there, the plan is there, a Master Mind is there, some desire is there and I do believe it can be done. So maybe the only thing missing is the white heat desire, the passion.

Or isn’t it? Does it just take time? As another quote from the book just before the other quote says:

One must realize that all who have accummulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

So I must be very close to get what I want, get what I, yes, desire, what I deserve. And just this action of writing helps me increase my belief, the belief that I can really do it.

So don’t give up, don’t give up hope, no matter how far you think you are from your goal. These type of things often just take time, which is not explicitly stated in the book(s), but I know now it just is.

So just be persistent, be patient! And you’ll get what you want and deserve!

Other white heat

I have often been wondering why this post scores relatively high in being found and having visitors as I once just wrote it related to inspiration and passion. So a few days ago I checked the internet and found that one of the reasons may be that there is movie called White Heat. And while checking right now there is a lot more called White Heat, even a relatively recent TV series. So more on that later.

Desire, spirituality and persistence

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Tonight I was with a friend and we were talking about the thing I want most in life, about what I defined as my desire and definite purpose. And I am getting confused here, because I think basically the conclusion was that I should give up on my desire and move on, look for something better. Or actually while writing this that was not was actually said or meant, but maybe my interpretation.

The whole thing was basically about spirituality, something like ‘what am I doing here on this earth’. And going back, when I wrote my ‘desire document‘ as I call it, the one from the six steps like writing down your definite purpose, I was pretty sure about my desire, my definite purpose, so no matter what, I stuck to it and am still (kind of?) sticking to it. And I never, ever changed my initial statement of what I wanted, what I want in life, no matter what happened. But what if my definite purpose is wrong, spiritually? What if I’m just stubborn? What if my persistence is just ‘being stubborn’? What if I chose the wrong thing to do?

And of course this post is all about doubt, all about ‘not willing to give’ or ‘not willing to give anymore’. And about that in my case it seems to take so much time and effort and suffering to get what I really want.

But while writing I somehow feel that maybe this is what it’s all about. That in the end indeed I’ll get what I want and deserve, as long as I don’t give up, as long as I don’t declare failure. That I still declare all the bumps in the road, even though the goal kind of feels further away than anytime before as defeat, not as failure.

And it’s weird, because while writing this it still seems that this is exactly what it’s all about. Not giving up, not declaring failure, just continue, until you get what you want, no matter the doubt, no matter the bumps, no matter what.

And yes, I guess I’m still within my constraints, my ‘willing to give’, even though it doesn’t always feel good what I’m doing. So I guess it’s not time to give up, it’s time to keep thinking of my goal, of what I really want in life. Even though it feels like it’s starting to take too much time.

But now, while writing, I feel again the desire come up, as I have a very clear picture in mind of what I want and what I also wrote down. And what I really want is good, feels good, so I guess for now I’ll just hang on to it and not give up. As it’s good for everybody involved.

Time will tell, and I don’t mean that as a negative. Maybe indeed this is what success is all about: persist until you got what you want.

What hit me

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I still don’t know what hit me. It must indeed be something like ‘negative focus’ as Lynn Grabhorn describes in her book (see my previous post and the one before that). Somehow indeed I must have been focusing on ‘don’t want’s’. And how to turn it around, as also now I feel like I’m spreading negative energy like hell. This whole site is about inspiration, a very positive thing, and I’m just spreading negativity. So how can this ever take off if the initiator and the leader of this project is so negative? And that’s exactly the negative spiral I feel and the most stupid thing is that I KNOW what’s going on and I just let it happen.

And not only here, but also in my work, friendship, and if i look more deep in all areas of my life? I see what’s happening and somehow I’m not stopping it, somehow I have the feeling I can’t stop it.

But again, that’s also exactly what this site is all about. Books and stuff are so easy to read, but when you want to put things in practice sometimes it’s not that easy anymore. And maybe I should give myself some credit, because

Sun water and. My geneticfairness.org a it the this via.

also Lynn Grabhorn describes a very long down period in her life similar to the one I’m feeling myself right now. And also Napoleon Hill writes somewhere in Think and Grow Rich that most or even all successful people go through heartbreaking periods in their life and that even the ‘down point’ is actually the way to their success.

The weird thing is here that I am actually using the whole thing to be successful as this is supposed to be a real time success story. So this is actually very good if I read all the books: my down period should be the jumping board to my success, and that’s exactly how I got my idea for doing this whole thing live.

But it’s not funny. All or most success stories are written by people who are already there, who have left behind their struggles, their deepest points. And I’m in the middle of it, and believe me, it’s not funny. I just feel shit.

So I hope, and I should not ‘hope’ according to all the stories, but just ‘persist’ that in the end I can look back on this whole thing as really being the road to success, to get the one million dollar and such. But believe me, it’s not funny right now and I really feel shit, really feel down.

Tired in a positive way

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So today I finally start feeling tired in a positive way. I managed to get a small team around me, or actually different teams on my different endeavors, and three of them were here today. And it was pressure, and I’m still scared, still scared that everything will fall apart again. And I know that even if that would happen, which i don’t believe anymore, I would still get up again. So yes, our deepest periods strengthen us.

And yes, my second team member agreed with the third team member I proposed and our third team member just confirmed to really be part of the team, so wow, it seems my persistence and suffering is starting to pay off. We really have a team now! Thank you, Val and John, to be part of my team. You don’t know how much that means to me.

So wow, it’s weird, starting this post with tiredness. And the big work still has to be done. But I have a team, we can start using the power of the Master Mind!

And time for me to celebrate!.