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Making progress

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Wow, it seems I’m really making progress. Today we had the first team meeting with the whole team together, even though we had to fall back to chat as some of our internet connections and/or Skype let us down a little bit. But amazing what you can do in 2013 in the virtual reality of internet connections, like building a virtual team. And you may know that ‘people’ and/or ‘team’ and/or ‘teamwork’ and/or ‘Master Mind‘ are not my strongest points, but today I was really proud of myself that, well, I, have somehow managed to build a team around our project Inspiration for Success.

And I’m starting to believe that patience may have been my biggest issue in cooperation with other people as I know I used to push hard and expected employees, team members and who else to put the same amount of effort and time as I do and expected them to be as intelligent as I am or maybe something like expected them to understand straight away what I want without properly explaining what I want or properly instructing them or give them time to think things over and let it sink in.

So things seem to sink in with my team members and they even start taking initiatives and generate ideas that i had never thought of or could have never thought of. So I may be ‘intelligent’, but other people have their own intelligence and I’m certainly not ‘all knowing’, which I think I presumed I was too much.

So wow, what a day, that started very, very bad as I had a very bad mood as i really didn’t know where to go anymore, but that’s another story.

So yes, I’m starting to become very happy with my team and I’m very proud of them! Thanks a lot for being with me, staying with me, Christian, John and Robin. Thanks for your patience, support and the work you all already have done. Thanks!

Simple, but not always easy

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Yeah, that’s what’s in my mind quite often lately: simple, but not easy. It seems that’s what life or achieving success in life or getting what you want is all about.

Like a daiy post on this site. And sending a quote daily. And writing another post on another site. And writing about my blessings daily. Simple, but not easy.

Like right now, tonight I decided to join the conversation with my partner and a friend who is visiting. And today I decided to finish some work on the Smaal Zwitserland site. So now here I am, still writing a quote, but a little drunk from the rum-and-coke that is the usual drink here in The Philippines.

And yes, simple, to still decide to write my posts and stuff. But easy? No, not really as I can’t think very well and am just kind of mechanically doing all those things.

So inspiring? Not sure. Successful? Sure, as I’m still writing my daily post and just sent my daily quote.

Pressure? Not really as I’m a bit drunk. Useful? Well, I guess that’s up to you to decide.

Good night!

Success and money

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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’.

Big money – big dream

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Big money – big dream: why money making is not so easy
“Make lots of money in no time! Obtain fantastic yield from the newest US-fund management strategy! – no prior knowledge needed! Everybody can be a millionaire – overnight!”

Is the easiest way to make money really to take advantage of peoples dullness?

Unfortunately that statement is at least partly true: despite the world financial crisis in 2009 and multiple warnings in all kinds of media channels, shady offers like this one still find trustful “investors” that let themselves entrap by their grief or by their stupidity – it depends on how you want to call it.

But(!): Nobody should make a mistake about it: Our society only works highly effective (at least economically) because it managed to put effort before revenue: No sweet without sweat!

Because of that fact everybody who wants to make a lot of money has to work a lot of hours. And still: Working hard is not enough! You even have to work hard over a long period of time. Only people that work hard and persistently will be rewarded in the end

Fraud and illegal activities promise fast profits and they even can lead to short them success and quick money. In the long run thought almost any scam (like the one described above) will be detected and punished. For this reason: strongly be advised not to fall for any criminal enticements. To commit a fraud is almost as stupid as falling for a fraud.

On the other hand there is good news for everybody who wants to achieve great success in his or her life: Everybody can make lots of money! Everybody has that special ability that can make him or her a millionaire! But to achieve this goal everybody has to be aware of the facts mentioned above: Lots of money and lots of work go together like a horse and carriage.

It is also very important to avoid the major stumbling block on the way to the top. Many people think they would have to avoid any mistake on this way. This is obviously nonsense and a mistake you truly should avoid! On the contrary: It is important to make mistakes and learn something from them! This is exactly how personal development works, which is the most important thing that makes all the way to the top possible!

Controlling thoughts and patience

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Today or maybe the last few days I realized that I have learned or am learning to control my thoughts. Maybe not fully, but I do control them somehow. And to tell you the truth the last time I was kind of desperate as I thought that I would never learn to control my thoughts as I kept on thinking negative thoughts.

But today I realized that I do control them and change them. Maybe not as much as I expected or wanted or something, but I am experiencing now that at least i notice negative thoughts and somehow try to bend them into something else or at least not let them affect me so much anymore. And today I realized that I think I am starting to control my subconscious mind while I thought I never would.

And the funny thing is that today I encountered the word “patience” in Think and Grow Rich while I never remembered anything patience in that book. To me the style of the whole book is still like ‘pushing’ me or you towards action, but apparently it’s not. And indeed, I keep reading it, mostly I just open it ‘somewhere’ randomly, trusting Infinite Intelligence to let me read the right thing. And mostly or actually even always I find myself reading something I needed to reach, just like today when I wanted to read about Organized Planning, but just ended up somewhere else, just somewhere that was just useful for me today.

So yes, persistence and patience(?!) do pay off. And the book reveals more and more about how to live, how to achieve success, how not to settle with circumstances but try to control them, try to turn them around if you don’t like them.

And indeed, while re-reading chapters in the book, parts of chapters in the book I read more and more different things, things that I didn’t read before, didn’t see before or didn’t realize I read them or were there.

So whatever you do or want, be persistent and patient and one day you may realize that you’re closer than you think, that you conquered something already.

So don’t give up, whatever you want, whatever you dream of, whatever you want to achieve.