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Disciplined or stubborn?

Lately I am asking myself more and more why I am writing here every day, yes, except on Sunday’s, as it doesn’t feel that inspiring anymore and it also feels like it doesn’t have any purpose except to kind of show to myself that I can do it, that I can be disciplined or something. Or that I am persistent. But somehow it also feels that I am just stubborn.

So what is it? Or maybe all? And yes, I guess this is the most difficult time in the ‘race’ that I started and that I somehow wanted to continue for at least two years. As two years is somehow the milestone that I consider Google considers the period when a website is really serious. But Google changed and I’m not really sure if that two year mark or something is still there. Or even existed anyhow. And then, should I write my blog, my posts, these words that don’t make any sense to anybody lately, or probably don’t make any sense to anybody lately, because of Google? Or some policy or algorithm of Google?

But yes, while writing this somehow the answer is still yes. As somehow this is what persistence is all about. Going on when you don’t feel like it anymore, going on when it doesn’t make sense anymore, going on when all the excitement is gone, going on no matter what.

And yes, I know somehow this time is different, this time is more about persistence and less about being stubborn. As somehow I have decided that this time I want to be successful, no matter what. This time I have decided that I won’t give up, won’t give up until I finally have or feel the success that I have been waiting for, struggled for all my life. And right now I’m not fully sure how that success would look like, like how I would achieve it. As I am working on many things right now. And no, somehow I also haven’t lost focus, somehow I am finishing things now, determined to finish things, finish everything, everything I have started and am starting.

So yes, the things I am writing here and in my personal blog may not make much sense recently. But sending the daily quote does and keeping my gratitude journal also. And my persistence in some other projects has brought me closer to some unimaginable goals.

So yes, let’s continue here for now. And yes, let’s celebrate how far I have gotten.

And thank you, Napoleon Hill. As somehow your book Think and Grow Rich has brought me closer to success, big success, than ever.

Love stories

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Two days ago I heard a nice love story, yes with ups and downs of being apart and such. And being married after one month of knowing each other.And I know of another love story that started with a one night stand. And that story took a while to take off, but it seems to take off now. And of course I know my own love story, starting on the internet.

And I wanted to tell more, but I’m tired and it’s late. And I know, I haven’t put much enthusiasm here lately. But I feel like I’m getting back on track, so please expect more the next few weeks.

But for today, please give me some peace still.

Inspiring, again

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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.

Phones and gadgets

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So today I had some time to spare. And I decided to look around a bit for mobile phones. And then I realized that the time for mobile phones is over. As all ‘phones’ I see displayed are specified by amount of memory and such. And a lot of memory, even the simple and cheap ‘phones’. Memory like gigabytes. And this made me think.

It made me think about progress, technological progress. And progress in ‘production’. As when I grew up there were things like Walkman‘s that were new. And stereo equipment with cassette players where as a small boy I liked the large tape drives.

And recently I am thinking if I am getting old or not. As I don’t like to use the ‘tablet type’ user interface that is becoming more common. I am very much used to using a mouse and keyboard and a, preferably, large, simple screen, a simple monitor. And I am very happy with it. And I am a bit annoyed that all websites have been changed the last few years towards the ‘large icon type’, that are mainly built for mobile phones and tablets.

And I was even amazed that the newest Windows version, Windows 8, has a user interface that is also based on ‘tablet use’. And I just don’t like it. I just prefer the good old menu’s and taskbar, even though I know these also evolved over the years (as screens got bigger). And I don’t understand why Windows went to this new user interface for what I thought was and is a desktop operating system.

So yes, I am wondering if I am the only one who would still prefer to use Windows XP, which I still do, as that is just working fine, even though my bank tries to push me towards a ‘more modern’ operating system. But then again, are they going to pay the bill? And what is ‘modern’ in an operating system anyhow? I can imagine some technical reasons as it may not be that easy to keep it all backwards compatible and such. But come on, an operating system is just an operating system and those things don’t change that much. Similar to that car engines or engines in general don’t change that much.

So is it all greed, greed of industrial conglomerates pushing us towards things we don’t really need?

And yes, I do use larger memory and larger disks and stuff as I want to store more stuff and more user friendly programs do use more memory.

But do we really need a completely different operating system for that? And do phones really need an operating system (visible to the user) at all?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

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?