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Rubber day

Today I visited a rubber plantation because we are considering starting a rubber plantation, or at least plant part of our land with rubber. And I’m starting to realize it’s business, so these type of things should be run as a business. And that means indeed applying the principles of success in order to be successful.

And even though I want my web development business to be my primary business and to be successful I now realize what mistakes I made with that and why it is not where I would have expected it to be. So with the rubber I want to do better, indeed first have some ideas, which I already have, to be ‘different’ from other rubber plantations, to have an advantage. And then indeed do research, serious research or involve people who already have the knowledge. And then plan and just put the plan into action. And then, also looking to my post of yesterday, it should be very simple to be successful, to just have a rubber plantation.

And I said simple, not easy. There will be still hurdles on the way and in this case as I’m not experienced in anything agriculture I may make mistakes in that area. And persistence will be needed as the whole thing might not be as simple as I thought or expected.

But yes, just applying the simple steps of wanting something, doing some research, make a (good) plan and implement the plan should just be enough for anything. And indeed, looking around it may just be that simple for anything or virtually anything.

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.

Next stage of Inspiration for Success

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I have been thinking a lot about this site recently, partly because of the comments I got on my ‘complaining’ or ‘negative’ posts and I think it’s time for the next stage. So today I worked a bit on the page ‘limiting beliefs‘ as I think it is about time the ‘pages part‘ is due for improvement as in my opinion in the end that would be the main part of the site: information, exercises, links, etc. about inspiration, motivation and success.

I also have been thinking the home page should be an inspiring homepage to invite people to check what the site has to offer and not just (my) latest blog post. Have to discuss that with my Master Mind group though.

Anyhow, you may not fully know or understand, but my, not so formally planned, initial stage, including daily blog posts, was mainly to create content so the site could be found by people interested in the subject. And that’s also why i’m not so worried about the criticism I got about being negative or complaining, as people in a similar situation like me and looking for success or looking for being inspired for success i guess are the main target group for the site.

So for now maybe just some links to important pages in the site, even though they may not all have decent content yet:

Best site on inspiration for success

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Based on the idea of Seth Godin that with anything you do you better be the best in the world, I want this site the best website in the world on inspiration for success. And it seems to pays off to be the best in the world, as I was trying to get a back link from Under30ceo by writing an article as they are number 1 in Google for the phrase ‘inspiration for success’. That appeared not to be as easy as I thought as my first and second draft of an article were rejected as they didn’t meet their quality standards. So there is a reason why that site is on the top. Apparently they go for quality, indeed meaning something like they want to be the best in the world and don’t accept mediocre articles.

So that made me think about what that means for this site, to be the best site in the world inspiring people for success. And of course I was thinking if they are a competing site or not and I decided they are not, as apparently they focus on success in business, on young people who want to succeed in business, indeed on being the CEO of big companies, while I want this site to have a broader focus, more like an entry point on inspiration for success in different areas, not only financial or in business. And this made me think that it is not as easy as I thought to be ‘best in the world’ with a website if you want to provide quality. It made me also realize to decide on what role I want to play. It seems i am more of an ‘easy’ writer, more of a blogger. I just want to write and let it be, not really a content writer, even though of course I do check my content before finally posting it.

So yes, based on the feedback I got from Under30ceo i realized we need to organize things more, e.g. we need people who can really write quality content on the subjects in this site. So yes, the Master Mind principle seems to be more important than I thought. I like to organize the site, can generate ideas like adding the spiritual success to the original more common ideas of success and can do the more technical stuff, but I’m not sure if I like or am willing to really write organized, researched quality content.

So yes, we need more Master Minds for this site and we have three positions open as of the moment. So if you are interested in being part of this project building the best website on Inspiration for Success, please send an e-mail to info@inspiration-for-success.com in which you describe why you think you should be part of this project and this team, including some vulnerability related to our sample success goal, as I still want that road to success based on the principles of success to be in the open fully, which of course is scary as I guess anybody would have some doubt or fear on realizing such an ambitious goal in the open, no matter how much self confidence he or she has.

Focus

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One of the major thing I go ‘wrong’ I guess is on losing focus and probably that’s also where you may have some issues: keep the focus and the priority on you major goals and dreams and don’t get distracted with all kinds of things.

So how do I do that? Well,at the moment I don’t and I’ve been thinking about that for the last few days. Actually there are four major things on my mind:

Money for my daily needs and taking care of existing customers and projects.
The continuation of my business and let it grow as I have stated as part of the plan for my major goal in life.
A major internet project that I have on my mind.
This website and my daily activities related to it.

As I really believe anything is possible in life and as i also believe that I should not come back on decisions I made easily, I am trying to find a way to stick with all four projects that I committed myself to. However, at the moment I am running into some practical issues like money and time..

Ah, and something i never really mentioned, but what is always at the back of my mind is the idea that:

You can achieve less than you think in one year time, but you can achieve more than you think in ten years time. – Unknown

So I guess it is all a matter of planning.

I am sharing this with you as in the end I guess success for me would mean if I succeed in realizing all the things mentioned, so basically 2, 3 and 4.

And what has this to do with inspiring you? Well, if I realize all those things I could indeed say something like anything is possible, like proving it to you. As all this feels quite impossible to me now. And that’s part of what this website is about, inspiring you to go for your goals and dreams and realize them, no matter how big or impossible they are or seem. So I’d better find a way.