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Success and money

I’m starting to believe that I’m becoming very successful. So that’s a very good thing. And actually John pointed a bit in the direction how successful especially the project Inspiration for Success already is. And until now basically the project is mainly my personal achievement although the other team members also put some effort, next to being supportive.

And indeed, writing one post a day for this site plus adding quite some pages content over a period of four months I guess is quite some achievement I guess, even though I don’t feel it that way as I’d rather see success in the form of many visitors visiting the site and some money coming in. But again, achieving position number four in Google for the phrase ‘inspiration for success’ again is quite some achievement. And it actually took quite some persistence and belief to continue, as over time the site just went down and down in the Google rankings, not up, except for the last week or so. So during that time it was not easy to continue, not easy to believe that my way of on site optimization (also) works.

And my main personal achievements over time were that I actually quite disciplined even though I thought I was not. I ‘only’ skipped one day or so and in the end I decided to skip the Sundays for writing posts as I think people, including me, should also have a resting day.

But yes, it still feels a bit like ‘not enough’ yet for me as the site doesn’t have enough inspiring content yet, as the team is not contributing as I would want to and as I think they should and as there are hardly any visitors yet through search and there is no money coming in yet.

And that’s a subject I’ve been thinking about a lot recently (and also before all my life), money. Somehow money is a very weird thing having mostly a negative aura around it in the form of ‘not enough’ or ‘wrong’. And that’s of course not a good thing.

And I actually wanted to write more about that as also Abraham Hicks said some very useful things about that. But for today I think I have written enough here, so you’ll have to wait for a later day to read more about what I found about the subject ‘money’.

Another WordPress plugin

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Well, who would ever have thought I would be writing WordPress plugins as was, and still am, not really convinced that WordPress is the best system to build websites. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not against WordPress or something. Even this whole site until now has been built with WordPress. I just don’t believe WordPress is the best system to build e.g. company websites, especially not for company websites that don’t change that much and need to be search engine friendly.

But I have to admit that the WordPress theme has built an efficient and user friendly framework with which it indeed is possible to build websites in a user friendly way. Just keep in mind that I am a web developer (and a control freak) that prefers to build websites from scratch in html/php straight away. And with my skills and knowledge that is often the most efficient way, especially for more advanced websites or websites that need to be dynamic based on structured data and for websites that need to be search engine friendly.

And that was exactly what I was missing in standard WordPress: the option to be able to set title tags, meta description tags and meta keywords tags on a ‘per page’ basis. And that is also the reason that I built my second WordPress plugin: IFS SEO Simple (ilnk to current download here).

The plugin is based on previous modifications to the theme in combination with the custom fields we normally set for posts and pages as I was not very knowledgeable about the WordPress framework before and just needed some quick fixes for SEO. So that’s what I did before, but whoever knows me might know I’m kind of a perfectionist, so of course the SEO stuff should be in a plugin and not in the theme as that’s just where it belongs.

Anyhow, the whole WordPress plugin stuff just started with a suggestion from John to create a plugin to promote the project Inspiration for Success. So that’s where I started my mass mailer plugin with which I send the daily quotes that I think could also be useful for bloggers with a limited audience. That plugin still needs some fine tuning, for myself as well as for other users, but I’m using it and it basically suits my needs.

And so now we also have this little SEO plugin for setting titles, meta descriptions and meta keywords and I just installed it in the site to replace the theme changes and it seems to work fine.

And of course I hope it will be useful for others also, maybe even you.

Looking forward to your comments and feedback by the way, as this is just my thinking and there may be a lot more ideas around it.

Happy and tired

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Well, I’m in a weird phase at the moment. Many things kind of came to a stop in kind of a ‘finished’ state, like ‘nothing more to do’, like ‘I’ve done my part, no ‘someone’ or ‘something’ needs to do the rest. But while writing maybe that’s what my whole process of the last year, or even of my life until now was all about. I’ve done so many things, ‘fought’ so hard for all kinds of things, mainly success or money and recently relationship. And now slowly I have something like ‘I’ve done enough’.

So maybe indeed let the Universe handle things now a bit more. Maybe indeed I do deserve a bit of rest. And no, I don’t want to stop working, doing things, hell no. I’ve been there around ten years ago and when I started working again around eight years ago I was so happy having some purpose in my life again. So no, I still want to do things. But as of now I don’t know exactly for whom or what, but I do know I planted many seeds, so hopefully something comes out of it. Or actually, logically speaking, something ‘must’ come out of it.

Anyhow, actually I just wanted to let you all know that today I was really happy. It was one of the first times i roamed around in the mall and in City Hardware enjoying all the stuff there, even though i don’t have the physical money at the moment to buy anything, although I could still use the credit limit on my credit card. But that’s not the point. I was just happy seeing all this abundance, just wanting it, just allowing myself to want it. And it felt so good. And I realized that I have been limiting myself, that I have always thought like ‘it’s too expensive’ or ‘I (or you) have to work hard for it’. But I’m starting to realize that’s not true. No one can work for all the abundance that is in the world today. No one could hardly ‘make’ one simple little thing that is for sale in shops. So it’s not in how much you earn or something. We and all people before us and maybe even ‘nature’ before us made it possible that we have all those things today and can just go to a shop and ‘buy’ it.

So I’m starting to believe more and more that it’s about finding ways to distribute all the stuff we are capable of making (and owning, using). And maybe indeed just ‘allowing’ ourselves to want it, to own it, to find a way to ‘get it’, ‘receive it’.

And I’m still not fully sure how that ‘receiving’ exactly works, but there is much more to all those things I read related to things like Law of Attraction than i initially thought.

To be continued…

P.S. And yes, I somehow felt tired today. But not so much anymore. So I’ll write about that another time.

It really seems to work

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So the Law of Attraction really seems to work. And indeed, it’s almost impossible to describe how it works.which of course is why it’s also called a ‘secret‘ everywhere it’s being mentioned.

So I was happy today that many things went well, that I have hope with reason now.

And just now when starting with this post someone gave me a really hard kick, which is also what he had promised me to do, except he did it in a very different way than I had expected.

So I am sitting a bit stunned now, like an opportunity having passed by, but maybe or probably or definitely it didn’t. And somehow it’s all up to me.

And on one side I think something like I did something wrong, that I let pass an opportunity. But on the other side I need to stay me, to stay myself and do things my way. But I did find someone who did ask the right questions and indeed seems to implement the Principles of Success, at least business wise.

And the big question indeed seems to be if I’m ready or not. Apparently not yet right now now now, but I know I’m getting closer and closer.

The Secret

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Wow, it’s time to turn the tone of my posts and maybe this website around as I guess most of my posts were about what I’m not happy with, what I don’t want. And it was deliberate, because I want to attract you, you, who were probably in the same situation as I was, unhappy, nothing seemed to work, things like that.

But it’s simple to turn that around, maybe not easy, but simple. You know, I just saw the movie “The Secret” again, or actually the first time for real. And that movie is all about the “Law of Attraction“. And it made me realize that probably most of my posts are about what I don’t want, not about what I want.

Maybe just write a bit about what I want, what I really want. And that’s not even that exciting I guess, although I do have some big dreams, but these last don’t really need to come true, they’re just big dreams. Actually I just want to work a bit, do some useful work I like and other people like me to do. Then travel a bit, just go to Davao or so every few months, yes with our own car. And travel the world a bit again, but the last maybe even more for my partner than for me as I already saw most of the world.

And I like the end of the movie, as it says what I also really believe: that all religions and such and all famous or successful say about the same. That everything is in the mind, that everything we create comes from our thoughts. That’s even the basic idea of the book Think and Grow Rich that was the origin of this site.

And looking at my life right now and also looking to some past (big) events related to the Law of Attraction it seems it’s really true. My life seems indeed reflecting the thoughts I have most in my mind. So whatever it is, I should be happy about it, as it means the Law of Attraction really works, even though I was not happy with what’s in my life until today, except for a few limited periods, a few years.

And thinking(?!) now, it’s indeed simple, but not really easy to apply the Law of Attraction for the good as most of us, including me, are so programmed with all kinds of beliefs like we have to work hard or do everything ourselves. But I know that is not true, it cannot be true, because what one physical human being can do is only so little. There must be more, there must be something more and apparently the only way to, well, be rich or something, is tapping into that ‘other power’ that indeed is inside ourselves, but also outside as it’s not directly visible on this physical plain we’re living our human life.

So be careful what you think or say. It’s also one of the strongest sentences in Think and Grow Rich like there should be large penalties on uttering negative words or statements to other people like things cannot be done. Things can be done.

So make sure you encourage people, encourage yourself. And while writing this I think that’s also what great leaders do: encourage people.