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Planning and discipline

Implementing the Principles of Success or at least working on planning and discipline seem to start to pay off as even today, when I started kind of late and had the feeling I had planned too much for the day I still managed to do everything I planned,even though, again, I ended very late. Like right now it’s almost 2 am, so actually time to relax and sleep.

And maybe the most important thing I am doing the last few days is NOT doing things. Like I was very much affected with what Globe and Smart, my Internet Service Providers and the two biggest. and in many areas basically only, Internet Service Providers in The Philippines are doing. And it kind of ruled my life, like everywhere. When doing work, when doing private things on the internet,when reading my IFS e-mails, when reading and writing in Facebook.

And it still kind of does, as right now I am too scared to open my IFS e-mail and I am too scared to open my Facebook account. As I know I am easily carried away with this stuff, unorganized writing and complaining. So yes, I am not opening it from fear, but maybe even more to make sure I won’t be carried away with it and ending up being very emotional about it.

So I am planning my actions more about it. And other actions. And I started to plan further in the future. Like the last one and a half year I have kind of been living from day to day, planning from day to day, too scared or whatever to look in the future, towards the future. But yes, I organized my days through the segment intending and daily to-do lists. And a few weeks ago, somehow in a kind of natural way, I started to look further ahead. Plan things a few days away. And actually it is starting to work out fine, as now I just plan things, things I like and things I don’t like. Like I didn’t feel like writing my second letter to Mr. Cu of Globe and Mr. Nazareno of Smart. But I planned some things around it, like creating a draft a week ago or so and an updated draft two days ago and today I had planned something like to finish it. And I just did, even though I didn’t feel like it anymore.

So yes, I need to plan reading my IFS e-mail and my Facebook. But not NOW, just tomorrow or Sunday or Monday. And I am more careful what to plan, what to write on my to-do list for a day. And how to write it, like often I write also things like ‘maybe do this’ or ‘if it fits my schedule’. So I won’t pressure myself into ‘impossible’ plannings. And yes, sometimes I just skip things, don’t do things I planned. But not so often anymore. And it’s a good feeling.

So yes, I’m on the way, on a better way.

Infinite Intelligence

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The last days, weeks, maybe months I have been starting to follow my inner feelings a bit more, something like following Infinite Intelligence a bit more. And it takes me away from all those pressuring things I feel and felt from what everybody, what the world has taught me over the years, since I’m in this world.

And it seems that whenever I do that, follow my inner feelings, the more I do that, no matter how weird or ‘bad’ it seems, things are falling more into place, things go smoother in the end.

Like often I just move around, sit or lie down somewhere or grab a book or some other text or something when I feel ‘bad’ and want to feel better, want to do something ‘good’, feel ‘good’. And mostly, if I just follow my gut feel, I end up with something useful, with something that I just need at that moment.

And there is still this ‘have to’ feeling, that has been with me so long and that has been so bad for me. Like the last few weeks, months, my daily schedule has moved from ‘normal day times’ to something like ‘noon’ to ‘long after midnight’ and I consider it bad. And I’m not happy with it. But I don’t know what to do with it, how to change it back, back to normal.

But my ‘not moving’ all goes back to some deep unhappiness, some deep feeling of unfulfillment, some feeling of ‘wrong’ that I can’t, couldn’t get hold of. And I know it has everything to do with ‘not being me’, not accepting or appreciating who I am, following others too much.

And slowly I’m letting go of that. Slowly I’m accepting that this is who I am, that what I feel is the right thing, that if I feel like lying down it’s often, or maybe always the right thing to do. That it’s not plainly ‘laziness’ as my partner often calls it.

So this morning again, when I was later again than I thought, but at least a little earlier than yesterday, I got this impulse of getting the ‘next day’ of the “thirty day program of Abraham Hicks“, at the moment meaning I’m just getting the next or what feels like “the next” from my pile of papers.

And I found this (from the teachings of Abraham Hicks):

“Only by seeing examples of others who appreciate and approve of and like themselves, can anyone be inspired to self-appreciation. Unfortunately, there are few such examples around.

You would recognize one another who truly appreciates him[her]self by noting these characteristics:

They are genuinely happy. Not offering insincere smiles but the warm and genuine smile that comes from the eyes as well as the heart. They are one who appreciates you, seeing things in you that you would like to see in you, pointing out to you things that you, perhaps, have never seen about yourself…

SELF-APPRECIATION IS ESSENTIAL TO JOYFUL LIFE EXPERIENCE.”

and this:

Allowing Others The Same Freedom:

“Once you understand the power of thought, you will joyously experience your own freedom to express and to be as you are – while you will be willing to allow all others the same freedom. As more of you reach this state of being, it will be a time of peace and a time of contentment and a time of wondrous joy upon your Planet Earth.

The Law of Attraction and the Law of Creation are universal. They apply to all dimensions and to all experience, physical and Non-physical. And just as they apply to your individual creating, to that creating that does not involve others, such as the maintenance of perfect health – they also appy to what you create, through the form of agreements, one with another.”

And especially the first part struck me, as that seems the core of what I have been looking for. Seeing examples of others, feeling inspired by others.

And again, that’s what this whole site is about, that’s what I want to give to the world.

So for me the answer for today seems to be that I first need to appreciate and approve of myself before I can inspire others.

And the same of course would apply to you.

And I just found a page on Psychology Today that may be interesting to read more about this: love yourself.

Creative inspiration needed

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I am thinking now about the page I made related to something like ‘what inspires you’. And the first thing doing research on that was some page about creative inspiration, what to do if you’re an artist and you need inspiration to get started with your art work.

And that’s basically where I am right now, as I want to write something here, something useful, and I don’t really feel like it. It’s very late, after midnight and no subject comes into my mind, let alone an inspirational subject.

And that’s one of the main things that needs to happen right now, putting more inspirational content, more content related to what Inspiration for Success is all about. As one of the main reasons for writing a more or less useful blog post every day was to just become visible in Google, just putting some kind of content related to the site, to the project so Google would index it in the way to reach the target audience. And I still believe that was the right thing to do, even though it may be some kind of a diary type blog if you look at most of my blog posts. But recently I started to see that slowly, very slowly, traffic from Google is picking up, which is also normal as normally a site is started to be taken serious by Google in about half a year time and the site is a bit more than half a year old.

So the pressure is building with me, especially as I started to notice that I’m not that a

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good writer, that it’s not really something i like, writing kind of serious, decent pages in a serious website. And some little voice in the back of my head says now that the way I write is also OK and that there are probably readers who would appreciate my daily ‘shit’. And yes, that’s true I guess. But that’s not what I want Inspiration for Success to be. i want inspiration for Success to be a website, even a project, also outside of the virtual world, to inspire people, for success, or maybe even just to inspire people in general, not even related to success. As slowly i noticed that the main thing I want is that people are inspired to to things, so they would do things naturally and not ‘forced’, contrary to being motivated.

So yes, the goal is clear and basically still the same. So time to plan!

Belief

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I somehow lost all belief recently, or at least I had put all kinds of negative beliefs, thoughts in my mind. And somehow it all goes back to history, to the things I did in the past and didn’t work out. So in that process I kind of stopped, in a not so convenient way I guess, and didn’t feel like doing anything anymore, as I just believed that the result of my actions would be negative or not be there. And this whole thing just got me in some negative spiral which I didn’t find a way out of. And I’m not sure yet if I’m out of it, but at least I started writing this post now and am trying to share something.

And I’m not sure if you recognize, but my ‘doing nothing’ just made me feel worse, made me feel guilty, especially as Napoleon Hill, and many other ‘self help’ guru’s somehow state that in the end it’s all about action. But I also know or believe that uninspired action doesn’t work either. So yes, somehow stopping is better than doing some kind of action without the right feel, without the right intention, even though I’m not fully sure if that’s correct in all situations. Just doing ‘something’ may also have a positive effect if you feel stuck or blocked or paralyzed. And my main worry(?!) is and was planning, as I still don’t have a proper plan for how to move on with Inspiration for Success, with achieving my personal success through it as described in many posts and especially my desire document related to Inspiration for Success.

So after feeling very bad and kind of helpless for the last few days I finally found some positive answer in the chapter about faith in Think and Grow Rich. And one of the things I found was that negative thoughts are fatal to success. But this was (and is still a bit) exactly happening to me: thinking negative thoughts. So I felt even more guilty as I was doing exactly the opposite of what was needed. But the chapter also gives clues how to get out of this type of thing and the main answer lies in autosuggestion. So my start was follow one of the instructions and reading the self confidence formula aloud. And that made me feel better already. And I just typed it, not copied it, to repeat it to myself in a different way. You may also want to do that, reading aloud and/or typing, as I believe it is a very powerful formula, including things like patience and being careful with one self, not ‘forcing’ action, the thing I was describing earlier in this post.

So where am I right now? Well, getting anxious again about my planning, that I don’t have and don’t know (yet) how to make, how to formulate. Let alone put into action or have others perform action from it.

But I want to share one more thing, as I also read aloud my one million dollar desire document that I made for this project, for the project Inspiration for Success. And this was the first time it really came alive and felt good, as it was one of the first times I read the current version that I made a few days ago. And that’s a bit weird, as many people would say, including me, that it’s kind of a weird, or ‘impossible’ document. But to me it’s proof that indeed the principle of auto-suggestion works, that you can make the mind believe virtually anything you want. And that’s indeed what the principles of success faith and auto-suggestion are all about.

And I’ll stop now, as I made a small step. And going from full-stop to running might not be wise.

Overdoing (or doing?)

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It is twelve thirty (after midnight) and I just arrived home from a party. So I was wondering if I was not overdoing writing a post, or actually two, that I don’t really feel like writing. So while searching for the daily quote I searched for ‘inspiration quote overdoing’ and to my amazement the first thing I found were quotes like “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing” supposedly said by several famous (=successful?) people like Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, David Letterman and some more people whose names I didn’t recognize.

So unlike what I feel or what I think other people think overdoing might not be a bad thing if you would be able to ‘overdo’ something anyhow. And this site and my other site, or at least especially the posts in my other site are important to me. Especially the daily posts in my other site are kind of sacred to me as they are related to a promise I made to myself.

So here I am, writing my daily post and also realizing what I wrote in the previous sentence. It seems that even while I think I don’t care so much about the opinions of other people, and according to the principles of success I shouldn’t, I still do.

And I think something should change as I think I focus too much on my procedure, my obligation to write a daily post here, especially after the team yesterday pointed out that the site needs a better structure, needs to be better organized and made accessible to people, to you. But somehow the habit of daily posts also keep me going, especially in this for me difficult time as the site doesn’t really has traffic yet. And the traffic will just come with the content and with time, which is my main reason to keep writing, just for SEO reasons. And that has been the main reason from the very start, to get entry points to the site and then point people to the pages part of the site. So I think my ‘still writing’ until now is not overdoing, just doing, just keeping going on the road I started a few months ago.

But the last few weeks, yesterday and also now make me feel that it is indeed time to make some changes, to make better plans, to start creating the real site, start creating the real project Inspiration for Success and that is about inspiring people, not just trying to get people to the site, traffic to the site.

So yes, it’s time for change, it’s time to start the real project. And everything seems to point this is the right time, including the team starting to be a real team, and the last was, as you may know, a real challenge to me, maybe the biggest challenge I ever had in my life.