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More planning and decisions

From the beginning of this site the idea was part of my ‘giving’ to achieve the success I’m looking for fully in the open, so this project, the building of the website Inspiration for Success and starting the project Inspiration for Success would be a live, real life, example of achieving success following the principles of success as described by Napoleon Hill. And somehow achieving the success I’m looking for, like receiving one million dollar, does indeed come with the type of things Napoleon Hill describes in his book Think and Grow Rich.

But the whole thing is starting to make sense, as e.g. except from the start I missed a lot of the desire, which as far as I can figure out goes back that I somehow lost the belief of earning or getting (or receiving) any significant amount of money. And main reason why I’m not where I want to be related to all kinds of goals and results I described has obviously to do with planning, especially proper planning, making flawless plans. As far as I can figure out also I may be too much of a dreamer and not realistic enough in goals and especially plans related to these goals, so my team does not believe where we are going and how we are going there and that we will get there.

I consider a major achievement though applying the principle of the Master Mind, where I tended to mix team and Master Mind. And as far as I can figure out now a Master Mind is something else than a team or a board as I had and have in mind for Inspiration for Success. What I experience now is that the team mainly acts as a Master Mind, in this case especially giving feedback on things I want where they consider it often unrealistic. And the Master Mind is bigger, as today I received an e-mail from a ‘hidden’ Master Mind team member that I didn’t like. But what was said in it was probably true and is valuable feedback, so certainly ‘Master Mind’ feedback. The Master Mind in my case often puts me back to reality, to being realistic, even though Napoleon Hill also kind of confirms that if you really want something extraordinary, something new, you may want to stick to it, no matter what. However, of course reality check, especially on plans seems to be important, especially if you’re a dreamer like me.

Persistence also seems to be something else than I thought as I think I am more stubborn than persistent. And according to Napoleon HIll, mentioning Henry Ford, there is nothing really wrong with being stubborn, but I guess it’s useful to at least know the difference and find a way how to convert stubbornness into persistence. In my case I found out patience is an important keyword quite some time ago and it is being confirmed by the team.

So why did I call this post ‘more planning and decisions’. Well, the project definitely needs better planning as basically there is no real practical plan. And there are some decisions I did not make yet, like how to deal with my daily post related to creating proper, researched, well written content. At least two team members keep reminding me of the need for better content and they are right. However, i also don’t want to give up on my daily post, which somehow is important to me. At first for SEO, like becoming displayed as news, but also as it is kind of the basis, the origin of the site.

However, I’m not sure if the team means i should stop with my daily post as I doubt that would really harm the site. The issue may be that I could better focus my time on quality content than a ‘daily post’ just for the sake of a daily post. Well, just ask i guess.

Failure september 2013?

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Well, I thought I could never fail, would never fail as I believed a lot in the book, in Think and Grow Rich. And recently I see I failed in quite some things related to my original goals, the goals I started the site with.

But while writing this, and even while I felt very bad the last days, maybe even the last weeks, somehow I made a lot of progress, even big progress towards my goals, yes, even the goals I wrote in this site from the very start.

And I can’t really explain what happened and what is happening to me right now. Somehow the last few months my mindset is changing. And somehow it all goes back to the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill.

For example, I feel more determined now, more determined than ever before to get out of this situation I’m in right now, a situation I don’t like. Somehow I’m starting to really want that one million dollar and that Pajero and that holiday to Bali. And the weird this is I’m starting to care less to ‘have’, ‘own’ a million dollar or whatever. I feel more giving now, I’m much, much more OK with giving away everything, just give to people.

And yes, I’m much more focused on service now, especially to my clients. And that was a hard one as I always thought I did my best and delivered the right stuff. But now I think I didn’t and that’s also why my business went down. And it seems it’s picking up now as I get some more serious requests.

And the team, or actually the Master Mind, has given me a lot. Not a lot of hard work, although I may underestimate what they have been doing. But mainly a lot of insight about myself and other people. And also some reality check as I tend to be too much of a dreamer. And don’t get me wrong, my dreams are OK and I’ll stick to them, maybe more than ever, but e.g. the team members also need to see and believe. And i’m trying to see more about the team members, something that’s not easy for me related to the personality I think I am, I have.

And writing down things, that’s very important. Indeed, as Napoleon Hill states, to analyze what’s going on, what has gone wrong, or what has been successful. Like what worked and what didn’t work.

So did I fail? Well, related to the traffic goals I set for this October for the site it’s not very likely that that’s going to happen. And I didn’t push through with the viral idea, make plans for it. But I did create a Master Mind of five people as I intended. I do have clearer goals. I do have some more ideas on planning, we did send our first newsletter, something beyond my imagination. We do have an editor in chief. We have some divided responsibilities. So yes, if I manage to become a real leader, show leadership to my team, I think there is a very good foundation for future success.

One of those days

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Well, the challenge is more and more to write something inspiring, but today was one of those days where nothing seemed to work out as I expected or intended to. Up to just five minutes ago as on my own computer for some kind of weird reason I could not even edit or create a new post or page in this site with the standard WordPress editor, which was very weird as nothing changed in the site and yesterday it just worked.

So this morning started with one of our two main servers not starting, which is kind of annoying as many things will slow down and some things are not available as they only reside on that server. This morning also started with a weird water problem where I finally found out that the tank was empty, which should not be as I can’t image we consume that much water. Ah, and before the electricity went off wich was something I took as a signal to continue with the improvement of our water system that I had planned for today. Before that something needed to be printed, where of course the printer was connected to the system that was down. At that time someone was cleaning so it was a lot of hassle to print as I had to pass the floor being cleaned (and very wet and slippery) many, many times. Also there was one envelope left where I needed two. Ah, and of course the server didn’t have a CD-ROM device attached that I needed for repairing the system. And I can’t remember other things, but I’m quite sure there were some other things I didn’t like either. Ah, and forgot, just when a customer called through Skype, a call that hadn’t pushed through for a few days, the internet connection was down. And when I had switched to our other connection, which of course was more hassle than usual because I felt so down about this computer being down, he was not available anymore.

So my mood was very down and indeed, it somehow was one of those days where it seems nothing can go right.

And still, it’s not the whole truth. It’s a feeling, a mood that indeed somehow also affects your environment. And I don’t know how that works, but something like Law of Attraction indeed seems to exist.

So yes, most of the day I felt very bad and had a bad mood and even felt physically exhausted. I guess you know the feeling. But somehow I did manage the things

So it felt like ‘just one of those day’s. But was it really? In a way yes, as normally there are not so many things breaking down at the same time. But looking at how the world works, 99% of everything around me still worked. So somehow I, or we, seem to focus on things that don’t work, not on things that work. I wrote about that also yesterday or a few days ago. And I’m not sure if you realize, but it’s kind of a miracle that most things work. Rationally it would be more likely that things wouldn’t work. And also I have put so many things in place as a back-up, like my duplicate file server system, that I somehow still could work. And I had had a warning from that server there was a disk problem a few weeks or months ago. So I had been warned aleady something like this might happen.

And somehow I still did the things I had planned for today. And many things more. So rationally it wasn’t really a bad day, even though I don’t plan so many things on a day like before, actually embarrassingly little, but that’s another story.

So somehow, doing these little things for quite a while now and keeping my daily promises to myself, no matter how small or could even be ‘nothing’, I have developed a habit of ‘doing the things I planned for a day’, which is even why I’m writing this post now even though it’s very late at night.

So inspiring, this post? Maybe, because also some things pointed me in the right direction, like the electricity going off made me move on the water, one of the things I had planned. And the server breakdown and the phone call somehow made me do some little work on something I had planned for a site. And I have developed to ‘push through’ in a more relaxed way than before, indeed from ‘habit’ and not from ‘have to’.

So yes, I’m not there as I feel it, far from it, but somehow something changed. Thank you Napoleon HIll and Lynn Grabhorn and Abraham Hicks and many, many other people.

Star Trek: Enterprise

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I am still missing the big enterprises that were undertaken during the sixties and seventies where the biggest enterprise humanity ever undertook was sending men to the moon. And I may be wrong and it may just be my age, a boy growing up in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century. But to me the Concorde, the Boeing 747 and the moon program were bigger than anything every invented by men. And I know this is not fully true, as the invention of the steam engine and the use of it and the invention of trains and cars and planes I think are similar things in a different era. And maybe also the pyramids and the roman road network all over Europe may be similar large things. But what I’m missing is ‘something big’, like John F. Kennedy stating that he wanted to go to the moon before the end of the decade in the sixties AND HE DID.

And in current times of unemployment and downturn in economy, don’t we need something like that, something big for humanity that would bring us to the next level? And there may be many things, but to me the idea of going to the stars like in Star Trek, I think also something from the same era I just mentioned, is still appealing and I’m quite sure humanity one day will really build something like the Enterprise from Star Trek. And is that not indeed the next logical step for mankind? Going to the stars?

So I was wondering, today, could we really do that already, do we have the technology already available in a similar way as the technology was available at the beginning of the sixties related to the flying of the moon? And are there already people mentioning goals like that, setting goals like that? Wouldn’t that be an exciting idea for humanity to build something like the Star Ship Enterprise from the Star Trek series, the Star Trek brand?

What about saying, what about me saying something like “let’s go for the stars before halfway this century”? Let’s send a ship like the Star Trek Enterprise that would be fully self supporting ‘towards the stars’. Wouldn’t that be an exciting goal?

I think I’m going to check if there are already people thinking this, doing this, starting this.

Let’s just do it!

Teamwork

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Yes, today I watched another movie. And the more I look around me the more I see that everything is teamwork, literally everything. In everything we do, in everything we receive, in everything that is there, there are many people involved, all contributing to the things we have.

So yes, I’m starting to become grateful for that, that I don’t have to grow my own food or have to shoot some animal for meat. And that’s even the simplest thing. What about the computer I’m using now or the TV I was watching earlier. Or just the electricity to make the lights shine or the simple native bed that I will sleep in later. Even that was made, was made possible by the effort of many people.

So thank you, all the people who make my life easier, even though we don’t always see that, feel that.