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Going to the moon

Today I discussed my draft presentation for the internet city project with someone, and yes, I compare my project with something like flying to the moon. As when John F. Kennedy set the goal of going to the moon there was no budget, no technical capability, not enough knowledge, no experience and not enough time (target ‘this decade’). But that didn’t stop us from going to the moon, on schedule. So the idea that grew slowly in my mind over the last two years or so may be similar to something like flying to the moon, read ‘impossible’, but with the right mindset I believe it can certainly be done.

And maybe I should study a bit more how he did it, how it was prepared, like similar to my project, it would probably be announced by the Mayor of Cagayan de Oro City and not by me, and it would probably be attached to him, not to me. So let’s try to figure out what was all behind that simple statement of intending to go to the moon by John F. Kennedy.

Well, found some background on the moon program on Wikipedia.

Outliers

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Today I was talking about success and someone pointed me to the book Outliers of Malcolm Gladwell that she was apparently reading. So she gave me the book and I started reading, and right from the first chapter I realized it gives a new point of view additional or contrary of the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill. And no, while writing I realize that it is not really contrary to the Principles of Success of Napoleon Hill, the things I have been following for quite a while now, but it shines some new light on why some people are more successful than others, or why you (read ‘I’) sometimes feel something isn’t right, something like that the Principles of Success can’t explain why e.g. Bill Gates is so super rich, so super successful.

And the book indeed explains why Bill Gates has been somehow ‘lucky’ being so extraordinary successful. And also explains why Andrew Carnegie achieved such unimaginable success. The explains that those people indeed were talented, worked hard and things like that. But it also explains that related to those people some more things like time and circumstances were in their favor.

And the books starts with a very simple sample that we all know, that there are early students and late students, related to the ‘cut off date’ that schools, or actually governments, set, that cause some students in the same year, the same grade, are older, months older than other students. And of course in later life a few months don’t really matter. But based on research it can be proved that those few months just make the difference for some people to pass the mark for ‘next stage’ in something, where other people don’t pass that mark. And in many areas of life, that ‘passing the mark’ means that you get more coaching or time or whatever that makes the difference bigger. And depending on the situation it means that in some areas those who have the advantage can be successful in that area and that those who don’t have the advantage have no chance in being successful in that specific area.

And it was quite comforting for me to read why Bill Gates has been so much more successful than I have been. As e.g. he was just in the right age bracket to jump on the ‘computer band wagon’ and be extraordinary successful. And I am just something like eight years older, meaning that I was just too late to jump on the bandwagon that Bill Gates and some other people, including Steve Jobs, to be ‘really successful’ in the ‘computer world’.

So this book, the ideas in this book of course mean that I am thinking what that means for the Principles of Success, for this site that is built around the Principles of Success. Like the book certainly confirms that ‘luck’ is somehow involved in being successful.

But looking at the Principles of Success as described by Napoleon Hill my gut feel says that the Principles of Success he describes still apply. And that these new insights just explains some of the reasons why some people are so extraordinary successful. As indeed, what I always felt, it appears that there is something involved in the extreme success that some people have. But that certainly doesn’t mean that applying the Principles of Success is invalid or something. And it also doesn’t mean that not anybody could achieve the success that those really successful people have had.

And thinking further, maybe Napoleon Hill does explain it, maybe it is included. As indeed, Napoleon Hill acknowledges something like Infinite Intelligence, some higher power helping us to achieve success, if we are open to it.

Holiday

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I am on holiday and that makes me think more and more whether I should insist, read ‘force myself’, to keep writing every day in periods like this. As I guess everybody needs a holiday every now and then free from everything. But somehow I also want to stick to my decision to write every day here, as somehow that is what I have decided. And according to Napoleon Hill some kind of stubbornness is better than, well, whatever. So yes, I am kind of stubborn here, forcing myself to write every day, send a quote every day, where somehow everything seems to be against it, including the Universe, including Infinite Intelligence.

And yes, I know there is fear behind, the fear of letting go, the fear of not continuing here what I started, continuing writing about success, about my road to success. And part of it is discipline, something I am not good at, or at least was not good at. So I am scared to lose that discipline again, to lose the skill to start something and continuing it, finishing it.

But of course with a blog or a site like this there is no ‘finish’. And somehow, one day, I’ll have to stop writing or at least change something. At least as the last few months it is not really working what I am doing here, except proving to myself, well, that I am still stubborn.

So yes, maybe it is time to find some new way of doing this, continuing this website, this blog. But yes, I need to do it very careful, I need to be very careful to not find some kind of excuse to make changes to just let go what I started, just let go of the success of writing every day (except Sundays). As somehow that is helping me, has helped me to get on the road to success.

So let’s be careful, but let’s be open to guidance from The Universe, from Infinite Intelligence, to make this into a better, more useful venture.

Comments very welcome.

Much more structured

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The last weeks, months I notice that I am much more structured than before. As for my major internet project I am pretty serious now to create a proper file so I can follow up things like e-mails sent to investors and such. And I finish many more things than ever before, even though sometimes it can take quite a long time before I take action, But ‘unfinished business’ stays much longer in my mind than before, and somehow, sometimes I pick up one of the old and not so important things up and finish it.

So yes, I learned some discipline. And it pays off, as with the businesses and people I try to reach for my new, huge, project, I understand it is logical some persistence is needed, that you have to send reminder e-mails or if that doesn’t work, need to send letters. As somehow the people or organizations not replying is some kind of hurdle you need to take, some kind of way to show that you are really interested, that you really want something. And no, I don’t believe it is on purpose that people don’t reply, although in some cases it may be. I guess mostly I am just one of those many kind of anonymous e-mails, people, wanting something from someone or some organization.

And yes, let me just confirm what I also read about e.g. writers who have sent their manuscripts many, many times to many, many publishers and received many, many rejections. I can confirm that indeed persistence pays off, that in the end until now most people I wanted to reach I just reached. And no, I did not get sixty or even ten rejections. Mostly three or four tries to the same person just works to get a reply. And I can also confirm that after the first few successes, I just got more confident. Even that confident, that I know know that you can reach any person you want to reach. Literally anybody. As indeed, there are two options, as I recently often state: either I achieve what I want to achieve, or I die before that.

Be careful what you wish for

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I am getting a bit scared, as it seems indeed anything is possible, anything. And indeed, that I am starting to believe, believe in the Principles of Success and everything that I put in motion based on my reading of Think and Grow Rich. And that I made the promise that I would write publicly about my journey to success. And the last scares me most, as it seems to be easier to write about all my problems and fears and things not working than to write about the successes that I am achieving right now. And part of the things I am doing are confidential, need to be kept secret for competitive reasons, but I am starting to realize that that may just be at least partly an excuse.

So it is strange to kind of conclude that somehow I have been scared of success. And that apparently when you are afraid of something, it won’t happen. And that that may be a reason why I, until now or until recently have not been successful. And that that may be a reason why you are not successful.

And yes, I am seeing more and more how the Principles of Success seem to work. And that indeed as Napoleon Hill describes, you cannot fully explain how it works, what is behind the text in books about that, what is between the lines. As somehow you must experience it, somehow you must feel yourself how it works, or get the insight. And indeed, it seems only to work by doing, doing some of the crazy things as described in all those books. Like reading aloud your desire document as Napoleon Hill describes.

And no, I’m not there yet. But somehow I am much farther than two years ago, when I decided to go up (from the deepest down in my life). Somehow I am much closer to some kind of success, even though I don’t see any money coming in shortly, something I (still) desperately need. But seeing people believing in you, or your ideas, and seeing them starting doing things related to what you have thought, is quite impressive. So somehow something like leverage seems to be coming into place, something I have never seen in my life before. And it is a bit scary, as I am not fully sure where this is going, somehow it is partly out of my hands. But somehow I am also or still the one finally deciding where this is going to go. And that is maybe something I was born for, some role that seems to suit me better than anything I have ever done before.

So yes, there is something like Infinite Intelligence. And somehow it is driven by belief. And somehow making decisions and sticking to it makes things clearer, not only for yourself, but especially for others. And that seem to be all things related to leadership, something I never really saw, experienced, never really felt I had in me, even though I felt I had ‘something’ in me that somehow didn’t come out.

So thank you, Napoleon Hill, and all those others, who inspired me to start walking on the way to success. And who can inspire you on your way to success.