Inspiration for Success
About inspiration, motivation and success
Well, it seems that I, and everything around me, has come to a complete stand still.
So what’s next?
What would the leaders do whom I admire?
What can I learn from it?
I like to go and work hard, but somehow it seems others can’t follow me for whatever reason. Time to figure that out now?
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Well, leader is there, core team is there, so now we need a good plan, better than the things I made before. And not fully sure where to start because there are so many things in my head so many things to be done to make Inspiration for Success what I want it to be: the best place in the world for inspiring people for success. And I mean external inspiration, like some little breath from ‘somewhere’ when you can’t move yourself, when you don’t have the inspiration yourself, when you don’t have the energy yourself.
So first question: how to inspire you to give feedback on how we could best inspire you.
I feel tired. And that’s weird as I have not been working hard the last few days. But maybe that’s also what makes me tired. I’d rather be busy. But I’m not, in a way, although of course there are plenty things I could do. But I’m not inspired in doing any of those things and partly related to what I learned recently that uninspired action doesn’t pay off I’m careful doing things that I don’t feel like doing.
I also feel more like organizing things and thinking what to do than actually doing things. So it’s also not true that I’m not doing anything. I’m just trying to find the right way of moving, moving forward. And I know this may sound like excuses and procrastination, but it’s not. I am starting to believe more and more that uninspired action doesn’t work and that sometimes being patient is the best thing you can ‘do’.
What frustrated me today however a bit was that one of my team members told me he was busy, too busy. And I was happy with what he told me, with what he was busy with. As all the things he mentioned were indeed ‘valid’ things to be busy with. And things worthy of doing. And also things that would be hard to be done by someone else.
So I’m thinking about how to organize things better, for me, for my team, for my work and maybe even for the rest of the world. As I think we can do better, balance the work better so everybody would be more happy. And everybody would get ‘more’.
As I’m not happy not having enough work, work I consider useful. And my team mate is not happy having too much work, a situation I also know from other times.
As you may know one of my biggest challenges for this project, and maybe in life, is and was work in a team, work as a team, or work in or with a Master Mind as Napoleon Hill calls it. But looking back at the last year, at how this project came into being and where it is now I can only say that I made big progress and yes, can consider myself quite or even very successful. And yes, at the back of my mind is continuously something like ‘money’, or actually lack of money, but I am starting to see and believe that life is not about money as it often seems to be for many of us. And that indeed success is not only measured in terms of money as i always thought it was. And yes, I still want money, lots of it, as I always wanted. But not so much anymore for the sake of money, but more for the sake of doing the things I want to do and even giving the things i want to give, like visiting friends or family. And for the freedom I think it can give me, give you. But actually I don’t want to talk about that now.
What I was and am planning to talk about was the team, my team challenge, and while writing this I realize the thing i wanted to talk about is somehow also related to money. So let’s see where this goes.
My main issue here is that I do believe, according to the Principles of Success, that i should stick with decisions that have been made, especially if they are supported by the whole team. So i let go of my original sample goal, or at least the date. So I kind of settled with the intermediate goal of the team to acquire one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013 (and not one million dollar on a similar time scale as I originally stated) for ‘teams sake’. And don’t get me wrong, this is not a negative as I am starting to see how much more indeed a team, a Master Mind is.
You may want to know that the team, even though in my opinion did not contribute so much in actual work for e.g. the site, already contributed so much in additional ideas and thoughts and, indeed, reality checks, that I indeed see the value and how much more you can achieve with team effort than you can alone, even though often I feel ‘held back’. But I know that in the end my patience will pay off as I can see and feel now that when the team is synchronized and focused on the goal or the goals the speed and impact will be enormous, indeed much, much, much more that I can and could have ever imagined.
However, somehow now I need to convince the team that mindset is indeed everything and that if you don’t believe that you can make one hundred dollars on or before October 22, 2013, it quite sure will not happen. And that if you do believe it that it is quite likely to happen, probably even much sooner. I mean, what is one hundred dollars to be acquired by four people in a period of six weeks? I earned more than that amount more than ten years ago in one hour being a consultant at KPMG. So why couldn’t I, supported by three people, not even earn that now in six weeks time, let alone why can’t four people earn that in six weeks time, if we would want to get it by ‘earning’? And I’m quite sure I can get it in five minutes from my mam. And I’m quite sure my team members also know people who would easily be willing to give one hundred dollars for a good cause if they would just be asked. You may call this type of ‘asking’ cheating related to the goal, but my point is here that somehow we as the team have limited ourselves in ‘earning’, acquiring money. And I have known that for a long time, but some of my team members apparently not.
Anyhow, going back to team I am experiencing two issues here:
And to me the first issue is the most important as there are several things conflicting with the principles of success here and the most important is to come back on a decision that has already been made. And over the last year I indeed learned about the powers of making decisions and sticking to them. And no, I didn’t stick to all my decisions but I did stick to my major decisions and it paid off and I am also starting to see or just seeing why.
But the team doesn’t have my experience, so somehow I need to pass that on or just be patient or let them experience themselves or…
But that was my biggest challenge.
Today the subject in the thirty day Law of Attraction program was “Love” and it started with an advice on how to look for a partner and find one. And it reminded me of a training I once did where I found out that the main thing many, many people were looking for was a partner, a lover, a life partner. Actually one of those people was me. And the weird thing was that it was stated that for many people actively looking for a partner is something ‘not done’, some kind of taboo. And it felt like kind of a relief that the leaders of the course just stated something like, why not look for a partner actively. Why not really go for it, search for it, plan actions for it. Just go until you found one, especially if it’s the most important thing in your life. And that idea felt really weird for me as for most of the other participants.
And today I found Abraham Hicks said something kind of similar. And that similar was related to something that was also mentioned in the course: don’t look for a partner ‘directly’, like looking around and see if someone is attractive. Just go out and meet people, start talking to people, whether attractive or not, whether a potential partner or not. Just be open to it, just be ready for it, but don’t be desparate, don’t ‘desperately search’, as that is what most people would think when talking about ‘actively looking for a partner’.
And yes, have your wishlist, just write it down, the things you are looking for in a partner. Nothing wrong with that? If it’s the most important thing in your life, and I guess for most people it is, then better be serious about it, better define exactly what you want.
So also my training was about plans and deadlines and such, similar to the ideas in Think and Grow Rich. So I did. I did make my list, there was a deadline and there were actions and there was something like a Master Mind, not only the group, but also your ‘buddy’. Ah, and the last is something we want to use this site for, connecting people to inspire each other, either giving or receiving or both. We can already do if you just send an e-mail to info@inspiration-for-success.com, but we are planning some tools for that in the site.
So imagine, having a plan to find a partner and described exactly how you want him or her and a deadline. Never heard of that before and it was really weird doing it.
And you know what? Shortly after the course I did meet my life partner. And he did meet my requirements. And no, I didn’t meet the deadline, but looking back I could have, if I had just done one more thing. And no, it was not ‘forced’, it did not feel like forcing myself or my partner in this relationship. We just fell in love naturally and built our relationship naturally. And no, we didn’t meet accidentally, but somehow it was just ‘accidental’ it was him in the end.
So yes, if you want a partner (or a job or a business or whatever), just imagine it, write it down, make a plan and take action. But make sure it’s not ‘forced action’ as that doesn’t work. Just be active and open and it will come. I’m quite sure about that.