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How do they do it

I am still wondering how other bloggers do it, the successful bloggers, like Leo Babauta and Alden Tan. They also often write about difficulties and stuff, but somehow they seem to be able to make it into something inspiring, where I have the feeling I’m just complaining. And yes, often, at the end of a post, I try to make some kind of positive statement, but I have the feeling many others handle their pain and sorrow much better.

Like right now, my life is still not in order as there is still no money coming in. And my partner and I are fighting, yes, a silent battle, but still. And somehow part of it, maybe even the biggest part, goes back to the fact that neither of us is good in earning, in getting money in. So slowly we got from having quite a lot of money, which I had when I left The Netherlands around ten years ago, to no money and the last few years to borrowing money. And it all went so silent, in such a sneaky way, that it was too late when I realized how bad it was. And right now I don’t see any way to get out of it, except ‘working hard’, which I do with my new project, but that has been something I have done all my life and somehow that didn’t work out.

And yes, lately I have kind of stopped the outgoing money flow, even though there is still quite a lot going out every month in a hidden way, in unpaid mortgage for the house and unpaid interest for the loans. So I did improve things. But right now I am kind of on a crossroad again, as there is nothing really coming in this month, meaning soon I will probably have no option but to borrow again as I have no clue how to increase my income. As I tried ‘everything’ to ‘earn’, except moving to another place, another city, another country, and nothing has worked.

And yes, I had some recent requests, but one prospect chose for another party and another prospect I can’t reach after sending a proposal. And both cost me quite some effort and time, although not really, just one or two days. And the first I thought I ‘had’ as we had quite a good conversation on Skype. But his main reason to choose for another party was that I am working alone right now. And of course that’s a risk, but that’s also kind of a chicken/egg problem. As if I don’t have enough customers I can’t grow my company, unless I find a partner or investor of course.

And I tried Elance again, but I did not hear anything from the few proposals I put there. And yes, as indicated before I started a new project, a new venture, a new challenge. And I won’t give up and I know somewhere deep down that if I continue ‘standing up’ one day success will come. It must.

But right now I feel a bit the same as when I started this site, where I was hoping I could have talked about my success already. But for now you’ll just still have to do with my complaints and stuff. But I hope one day, when you end up in this post or another complain-type post, you will also find my success story. So you will know that if you feel like me right now, if you just continue, the success will just be there.

So until then!

Reality or addiction?

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In my quest for inspiration and success I signed up to quite some sites, meaning I get quite some e-mails with ‘inspirational stuff’. I keep wondering though what is the real story behind it, like are the people behind those sites really into helping people or is it (in the end) all about sales?

Like today I got a very long e-mail from Ed Lester from The Abundance Index pointing to an even longer web page. And the style of the e-mail as well as the webpage is very familiar. As it is written in the style of something that I want. And it is written very well, as I kept on reading, even though I started thinking if it was worth my time reading it all. As it felt like it would lead me to one thing: buying something, which it did. Or clicking on the link if we talk about the e-mail.

And with these type of self help sites, organizations, people, I always see someone very successful or rich or whatever. And they always want to help me. And it seems they always want money for that. And it seems all the people who signed up for their stuff, paid for it, became richer or more successful or whatever.

And I am starting to doubt if it is all true, if you can become successful or rich by buying the stuff on offer.

So maybe worth some more investigation.

Find and give inspiration

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I am still thinking how to add more value to this site by writing more inspirational posts. And that often makes me hesitant to start writing, like today, when I went to the other computer to write my daily post on this site.

And I was thinking where I mostly get my inspiration from. And yes, that is indeed from the e-mails I get from various sites I signed up for. Or at least some of them.

And yes, I am also considering to send e-mails like many blogs and inspirational sites do. But until now I decided not to, as I think my posts and pages and changes to pages are not yet good enough to share. And yes, also because I don’t want Inspiration for Success to be a blog, And I don’t want to write my posts like a blogger.

So that brings me of course to the question what I do want. And it always brings me back to the fact that I believe I had no one inspiring me, supporting me when I was a child. And later. And that I want this site to inspire you, support you, on your way to success in life. But not through myself. Or not through myself only. And while writing this I realize that I think I’m not inspiring. Or not inspiring enough. So I want other people to do the inspiration. But also while writing I realize there is no one else, at least not now. And I do have some things I am proud of, so I do have some reason to inspire you or talk about success.

As e.g. today I wrote in my Dutch blog that I made the WordPress plugin with which I am sending the daily inspirational quote myself. And I forgot about that, which is kind of weird, as it’s just working, I’m just using it every day. And as far as I know other people are also using it. But making it and having it approved by the WordPress team was not easy. As far as I remember it took me months as somehow I got stuck or didn’t have the time for it or something. So there was quite some persistence involved to finish it. And I did finish it, really finished it, as I’m using it every day (except Sunday) and it’s just working and I would not know anything that I would like to change, improve. And I know at least one person is using it as I got a request to add import functionality for e-mails. Or actually I think there were at least two persons involved in that request. So also other people are using it and apparently it is working fine for them also otherwise I guess I would get complaints.

And that plugin was not the only thing I was successful with related to Inspiration for Success. As I guess my biggest success is to write here and in my Dutch blog every day, yes, again, except Sunday. And mentioning the last every time of course doesn’t really make sense. Somehow I add that because otherwise I believe I wouldn’t be honest. As if that would make my achievement of doing several things every day less successful.

So this is often I guess how we pull ourselves down. As somehow we believe ‘the world’ considers writing every day not valid if we give ourselves a well needed break on Sunday. And I still don’t get where those ideas come from and I am quite sure I am not the only one pulling myself down like “I’m not good enough”. And of course that is complete nonsense as believe me, doing those things like writing every day is quite something. So I should be proud of myself instead of pulling myself down.

So what about you? When and how and where are you pulling yourself down when you should just be proud of yourself (I often avoid the word ‘should’ as no one ‘should’ do anything, but I think it’s appropriate here).

And yes, if you think you ‘should’ do more, be more disciplined, remember that I started much simpler than writing blog items every day. I started by just making the bed every day. And I made sure I didn’t miss one day, which I didn’t. But even if you do, just know you can start again every day. And do better if you want, if it feels good, if it makes you feel good.

Inspiration for Success November 2014

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I met another blogger yesterday, which made me realize I am a blogger, not the creator of the website of Inspiration for Success. And her comment on having like a million hits shocked me a bit, as she did not start so much earlier than me. And it was especially strange to me as her blog is on blogspot.com and not on her own domain. And she said it was kind of her full time job, that her blog provides her enough income to live from. So of course when arriving home I checked some stuff and indeed, she has more than hundred thousand followers in Twitter.

So yes, these things emphasize that I need, or actually want, to improve the quality of Inspiration for Success. But how to do that, without any budget, without a team and next to a, well maybe not full time job, but pretty busy business life.

And yes, the number of pages goes up steadily and the traffic also, so my daily writing and starting the page Top Inspirational Sites is paying off. But yes, creating more value does not look really easy to do, even though I feel more inspired lately to work on the quality and quantity of some stuff in this site.

Anyhow, I guess indeed ‘as long as I do not stop’ something will come out of this, something good. But I could use some help to make that happen or make that happen faster.

Discipline

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Tonight I was kind of confirmed that everything related to success, at least business success, seems to boil down to discipline, and maybe persistence. And something like looking to people who are successful, who apparently to the person I was talking with seemed to be disciplined. So yes, I am writing a post right now and have just sent the first batch of my daily inspirational mail with quote, even though I am at a party and a bit drunk. So I don’t really feel like writing now, or more like I think I should stop now

But I did send the e-mail and will send the second batch later. And I did write a post, took the effort to get the computer, connect it to the internet, open WordPress and write a few words here. And yes, somehow it feels that is important, so better do.