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Caesar

Well, I got an e-mail pointing to Caesar and the subject kind of interested me: forgiveness. As recently I have been hearing the word forgive quite a lot, so the Universe must want to tell me something. But I don’t want to talk about forgiveness, I just was struck by the word Caesar, as it made me think of leadership and of the game Caesar as that was a game I liked a lot and consider playing again lately.

And this whole thing made me think of how things are connected and how we build on everything that we and people before us have built. As recently I am very interested in submarine cables, and my research opens a whole new world to me. And yes, I know for example the name TAT-1, but I didn’t know it had been taken out of service, even though it could still be operational. And while for us right now it is so common to be able to communicate with virtually anyone anywhere, even without being connected with wires, it is not that long ago that communication over e.g. the Atlantic Ocean was not even possible. And I guess it was even much more recent that communication over the Pacific Ocean became possible.

So what a strange world it is, and how fast did it change over especially the last century. And the change even seems to go faster and faster, although I don’t fully agree with that, as it seems the penetration of computers and internet the last two or three decades or so is about the same time span as it took for the automobile to become popular and common to the world.

And yes, I am wondering what would be next. Connecting directly to computers and the internet, so we all become part of, yes, what? But we are already connected, not directly, but things like Facebook make already that there is some kind of virtual world existing already.

Well, strange and amazing these things. Or just awesome?

Planning, again…

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Today was a bit a chaotic day and I had the feeling I didn’t do so much, especially as I was still distracted with my disk problem, even though I kind of planned what to do with that. But unlike before, before I started writing about these things and before I made my daily to-do list and before I started making the bed every day, I realize more and more what is going on and how I could improve my inefficient behavior on a day like today.

As during the day I realized that I was going back again and again to reorganizing the files on my hard disks, something not really needed right now, even though I don’t feel comfortable if I don’t have my backup systems in place and running, if my system is not running smoothly. But somehow today was the first time I realized what is really going on, which also is starting to make it possible to change my behavior, should I want to.

And yes, my main tool right now is my daily to-do list, that is slowly extending to some kind of a life planning with goals and activities and such on a daily or monthly or yearly basis. And I never liked such a thing as it didn’t feel good, it didn’t suit me before. But somehow I have found a way that is starting to suit me, a way to plan my life, plan how I want to live my life, which probably will also give ways to achieve goals, small and big goals, unimaginable goals.

And what I am doing right now might not suit you, as I guess everybody needs to find a way to do things in a way that suit him or her, but I can tell you where I stand now and how I got there.

So where I stand now is that I have a folder with a pile of scratch papers (blank side up) where each of those papers has a date on the top. And the papers now extend to a few weeks ahead plus the ‘end of month’ dates up to the end of 2014. Next to that I have one or a few pages with dates far in the future, where the farthest date is somewhere in 2024 or so.

And how I go there is very simple:

I started making the bed every day, as a daily routine, as something I wanted to finish every day. Next to this I first wrote a daily post in my Dutch blog, something I extended with writing a daily post in this site and with sending a daily quote and keeping a daily gratitude list in the Dutch site.
And I forgot when I started it, but then I started to make a daily to-do list for the current or the next day, just a scratch paper upside down with a date on the top of the blank side, together with one or more items I wanted to finish that day. And the main thing with that daily list, that one paper for one day was that I finished the item on it, no matter what. And it was hard at the time, as at the time I started I was emotionally virtually completely paralyzed, so mostly there was only one or a few very, very simple items.
The somehow I started adding pages a few days ahead, pages I kept together with a paperclip. First just a few days ahead, later one or two weeks ahead. And the hardest part was that I was catching up with the planning sometimes, like I only had one or two days left with to-do items.
So I started planning the item ‘add days to the planning’, where I kind of forced myself to extend my planning. But it was an easy thing to do, as I just fetched some additional scratch papers, added dates on the top of the empty side of the paper and added them together.
Then quite recently I started adding items far in the future, mostly on things other people agreed to do, not my own things. That’s also where my planning page of 2014 comes from. But I’m quite sure I will add the stuff from my desire document, as it has also an item in 2022.
And from this adding items in the future somehow I decided to add pages for one or two months ahead. This also came kind of naturally as I had some pages one or two months ahead and I wanted to have the sequence complete in order not to be confused and mix the whole thing up with duplicate pages.
Then also I started to realize that I could put goals in the pages, goals that I didn’t achieve at first, but as per instruction of Napoleon Hill it gave me opportunity to analyze what was going on and what I could do different if I wanted to.
Then finally I realized my paper clip was not enough to hold the whole bunch of papers together, so I found myself an old hard cover folder where I put my planning a few weeks ago.
So right now I am starting to learn and see what a real planning is, something I never knew how to deal with before, as it felt kind of useless. But that again, that feeling of a planning being useless, probably goes back that I didn’t have a real goal in life, a real definite purpose.

So yes, everything seems to come together. And indeed, the Principles of Success as described in the book Think and Grow Rich seem to make more and more sense to me know and are really helping me living my life, achieving my goals, and maybe more important, making me feel more relaxed with everything, where the last may amaze you.

So what would be my main recommendation if you want to take charge of your life or take better charge of your life?

I think the main keyword is patience as it took me a while to get it all together. And second and third keywords would probably be do and analyze.

Relax

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Today was a bit a weird day as I didn’t feel doing a lot of things. Still I managed to get my development server running and found out that my new hard disk is not okay, so I’ll have to change it.

And it is very much time to evaluate this site, the site and project Inspiration for Success, as it didn’t bring me much success yet, at least not the success I’m looking for. And I’m not sure if my habit of writing every day a post is a good habit as I don’t really feel inspired recently

So yes, while thinking of all the readings about success I should continue, as success is just beyond the point where you kind of lose hope. But I’m getting tired and as of the moment I don’t really see where this site, this project is going and I don’t have a lot of energy going on, as it feels like nothing is coming back.

So yes, somehow I would love to finish and extend the IFS Tools, but without any users, even including me, it’s not much fun (anymore). As yes, I still feel alone with this, as with many things in life.

So what’s this all about?

And I’m thinking about what John said, that I should give solutions here. But I don’t want to be like all those other sites and bloggers, as there is already so much of the same self help stuff annoying people with pop-ups asking for e-mail addresses and then sending you e-mails regularly, sometimes even every day. And no, nothing wrong, as I’m doing the same with the daily quote, but in the end it seems mostly about selling and not about helping people.

So yes, I could use some feedback here.

Starship Enterprise

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Starship Enterprise I was watching, kind of accidentally, an episode of the documentary Ancient Aliens. And just zapping a bit around I also ended up with one of the newer Star Trek movies. And of course that made me think about humanity, about being human. And what being human means. And also of course I was and am wondering when humans or humanity are really going to look for the stars as depicted in Star Trek and many other science fiction movies and books. As I guess in the end everybody will agree that humans somehow, some time, will leave earth and go explore the universe. And actually it is a bit strange to me that we don’t put more effort into that. As it seems that after we went to the moon in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, nothing really happened anymore, nothing really beyond ‘the ordinary’, beyond more of the same.

And maybe I am wrong. Maybe there are people doing things beyond the ordinary, beyond improving existing stuff. But I don’t think so.

And yes, I think I wrote about this before. That humanity seems to have stopped really innovating, have stopped doing really exciting things, things really ‘out of the box’.

So yes where are the leaders giving us new ‘impossible’ goals, like John F. Kennedy and other politicians of the time did? And why aren’t we looking for them, choosing them?

Or do we really want just to play games, have the latest model TV or iPhone or car?

Where are the dreams? Where are the real human dreams, where are the real human dreamers?

Hypocrite

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Lately I think quite a lot about how hypocrite I actually am, as I actually run an advertising company and do link building and stuff and yes, am also earning from advertising on the internet and sell links. On the other side I criticize companies, humanity for ‘paying virtually everything’ through advertising.

So yes, I understand it’s not that easy to change the thinking about ‘money’ and ‘earning’, as also I have to live, have to eat and as of the moment I don’t see much other ways than working and indeed, getting some secondary income from advertising and selling links.

And I also still have no idea how my ‘give and receive model‘ would actually work. As people want to distinguish themselves, e.g. through buying different hings, buying a bigger car and a smaller house or the other way around. And it would still be hard to see someone else receive the same amount of money or stuff (or more) and working less than you or me as of course our ‘earning model’ is rooted deeply in society and each of us.

So yes, I realize that there are very good reasons why our society, why our ‘exchange model’ or how you would want to call it, is like it is. And yes, it brought us where we are now, a world that somehow is ‘better’ than it was before.

But I still believe it needs change, indeed something like going back to a very early stage in human development, when there was no ownership of things and no money, just sharing. Or wasn’t it that simple also then?