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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.

Discouraged

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Again I was inspired by Abraham Hicks who said something like if you are discouraged you cannot feel well. And I realized that may have been the main thing that blocks me: being discouraged.

And the discouragement comes from having worked so hard, having pushed so hard business, career wise and it didn’t work out.

And I believed in working hard and persistence. But I’m 50 years old and my working hard and my persistence didn’t pay off in building a proper career, having some kind of financial security let alone having a thriving business.

So recently I kind of stopped. Also based on the ideas of Abraham Hicks that doing things from resistance and not from inspiration does not work. And it seems this idea is correct as I did a lot of things in my life, have taken a lot of action, have been persistent and all those things and for a long, long time I had the feeling it didn’t work as I thought it should work. And the last two years or so everything slowly fell apart business wise and financially.

So what now? If hard work doesn’t pay off, if ‘doing things’, ‘taking action’ doesn’t work, if ‘persistence’ as I thought what persistence was doesn’t work, what then?

Well, I kind of stopped. And I’m kind of waiting. But that also doesn’t seem to be the solution. However, taking (uninspired) action also doesn’t work. And the last year or so patience did work in the most important area in my life. And with my team here on Inspiration for Success patience also seems to pay off.

But not easy if you’re a ‘doer’ and are out of money. And weird also as I’m becoming more and more successful in all kinds of areas in my life. Except in finance. Weird, but it was also the start of this project and of the sample goal.

But how can I believable as insprirator if I consider myself not successful, if I can’t even support myself financially?

Good intentions

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Today started for me very slow as I didn’t feel like doing anything as I didn’t feel inspired. So based on the idea that any action from a place of resistance in general would produce negative results I decided to wait, do nothing, just lie down for a while pondering what I wanted.

So finally the inspiration came and i decided to write some more about the quotes of Abraham Hicks for day eleven, like indeed that uninspired action is worse than doing nothing.

So I started inspired, intending to write this blog post, or actually a better version of it and found myself handling some e-mail and doing some little things. So I didn’t work on the thing I intended. And then my partner started a whole sermon about our financial situation, which is indeed very bad. And then basically the whole rest of the day i found myself caught up in all kinds of ‘little things’ feeling like i was ‘doing nothing’ and making no progress.

And I still feel a bit that way and i would love to write some inspiring quote right now. But it’s quite late now and I don’t really feel like it anymore. So I guess I’ll just stop for now and maybe try tomorrow.

One thought in my mind though still I wanted to share, because somehow I have the feeling that indeed the Universe is lining up to make my dreams come true, to make the things happen, to make the things possible I have been longing for so long.

And somehow the whole sermon of my partner was a very good thing and kind of fits in what I want as I wanted him more involved in our relationship in these kind of things. So he is taking charge and that’s exactly what I wanted I realized slowly while it was happening. And my dream was to have more visitors in the house and the last weeks, even months, more and more people are visiting.

So things are happening, even though I’m not there yet. But indeed, quoting Abraham Hicks again from today’s quote: “Your Inner Being is aware of where you stand and what you want and where yo stand relative to what you want. Your Inner Being knows how close or how far you are, vibrationally and time wise from all things. Your Inner Being is also knowing what is in your heart and what is in your mind and what is in your vibration. At any point in time your Inner Being knows exactly the action or thought or word that would be appropriate for you.”.

And that’s exactly how i am starting to feel and to know. And i’m not so far anymore from what I want, that’s what I feel. Not very, very close, but certainly not far anymore. Maybe even closer than I want to admit.

So not bad, even kind of writing the quote I intended to write. Seems I’m becoming very successful, doing the things I plan and be disciplined and such. But that’s another story.

Nothing lasts

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“Nothing lasts”, that is what the documentary I was just watching about Tom Ford ended with. And I was watching, or kept watching, as I am still kind of jealous of people who are successful in life, or appear to be successful in life. And yes, I often measure that in fame and money as that are things I don’t have and would like to have. Or at least more of that. So also, yes, the negative emotion of jealousy came up again I guess, as somehow I am jealous of those people who are famous and/or rich. And it seems those often go together even though I know that’s not true, or not always true. And begin that famous is probably, or almost certainly NOT what I want as being that famous probably means you don’t own most of your own life anymore, although somehow I do want to be that famous, like that famous that I would be known all over the world. But after that, after being there you can’t go back, you can’t go back to being private again. After that probably all over the world people would recognize you, so you wouldn’t be able to move around anymore, kind of anonymous, which in the end I prefer.

So I guess it’s about the money in the end. That’s basically what I miss most, what I want most. Just enough so I wouldn’t have to work anymore, or at least wouldn’t have the feeling I have to work. And somehow I know this doesn’t really add up, as most of my life I have worked hard and it didn’t really bring me money, especially the last ten years. Last year I think it was even the opposite, or at least the second part of last year, as my working actually has cost me money as my business was losing money. So if I hadn’t had this customer that didn’t pay I might have had more money now. So money and hard work are not always related, although I still believe that it pays off to work hard, or at least that hard work is one of the things that brings in money in larger quantities than if you wouldn’t work hard. But there is more to it, as I know that most of my life I worked hard and long, and it didn’t bring me the money I am talking about. So there is something more that is needed to get money from work. Or a lot of money from working hard. And I’m not fully sure what that is, but I think it has to do with personality and character and/or also with inspiration, with working inspired, in an inspired way.

So how to go on now, as I don’t know how to inspire you to make more money if that is what you are looking for in this page. As I still didn’t figure it out yet. And that’s also one of my problems with ‘success’, with ‘successful people’. Because it’s so easy to talk about success, how to do it, how to get there when you’re already there. But what about those people like me, and probably you, otherwise you might not read this far, who didn’t make it, didn’t make it yet, neither to success or fame or whatever they want or wanted in life. That’s still one of my biggest problem with success stories and telling other people how to do it, how to get there. This even applies to Think and Grow Rich, as of course the stories and samples in the book are somehow self fulfilling prophecies: this guy or girl got what he or she wanted and did this and that. And this one didn’t because… Yes, because of what? Isn’t there some element of luck? And no, I don’t really believe in luck, same as in all those books and what all those gurus tell us. I do believe there is something to being successful, getting what you want in life. But then still, why am I not there yet? I think I did and do all the things that are needed to be successful and I still don’t have my Pajero and I still don’t have enough money to retire, to do what I want without worrying about money, without worrying how I will survive next month.

But somehow that’s the same for everyone. And somehow that’s also what Tom Ford says, what I referred to at the beginning of this post: nothing lasts. So it doesn’t really matter what I have or who I am (in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of others). Nothing lasts.