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Love stories

Two days ago I heard a nice love story, yes with ups and downs of being apart and such. And being married after one month of knowing each other.And I know of another love story that started with a one night stand. And that story took a while to take off, but it seems to take off now. And of course I know my own love story, starting on the internet.

And I wanted to tell more, but I’m tired and it’s late. And I know, I haven’t put much enthusiasm here lately. But I feel like I’m getting back on track, so please expect more the next few weeks.

But for today, please give me some peace still.

Late

I was tired and slept. And then woke up. So I sent the e-mail, but maybe made a mistake. But I did it!

Daily and drunk

It is late and I am a little bit drunk and the electricity was just off and I was quite busy today, so not sure how to write anything inspiring here. So maybe I shouldn’t even try.

Still, I am more happy as my computer system is more stable now, as I was able to make the full 2 terabyte  hard disk space available to my two main servers. And still a bit crazy to have such an elaborate system just for myself, but somehow It pays off, as I think I hardly ever lost any data, despite computer crashes like disk drives breaking down, which is the most common cause for data loss.

And yes, this latest crash cost me quite some movies, but that is private data. And with some data I am not fully sure if I have everything as I want it to have. But no, in the end I hardly ever lost anything, where the major loss are the movies I lost a few weeks ago with the latest crash. But even now, with one disk that fully failed and another one still kind of running, but starting to fail, I think it pays off to have everything in duplicate and have it setup the way I have it.

But then again, how to make other people make use of my knowledge to do all these things? As I think there are not so many people around who know how it all works and how to keep your data safe and available. And that is not easy, but kind of essential to any serious company.

But that’s another story for another time.

Every day

Not easy to write a, or actually two, inspirational posts. And I admire more and more people who really manage to write or e-mail something useful every day, or even every week. And yes, I still make the bed every day, something I kind of started with. But that is a task you don’t really need to think about, that’s just a simple task. But writing something new, preferably inspiring, is something completely different. And yes, somehow I like to write (or to talk :)), as often I write quite long e-mails for example. But those are mostly for business, where I want to achieve something, some result or something. But just writing for you, for readers, well, that’s still something else.

But yes, I guess it’s just too much what I want, writing something good, something inspiring every day, next to all my other tasks, next to my work especially, even though I am not that busy lately.

But like today I was busy, not really with work, but with my project, my internet project, my project to improve The Philippines, internet in The Philippines.

And yes, that project inspires me, that project is easy to spend time on, more than anything else. So would that really be my final success, would that really be something in life where I finally really achieve something, for others, but maybe also for myself?

Well, time will tell, but yes, somehow it feels different than anything I have ever done before. And somehow people are replying now to me and some people even seem to be ‘in’ the project, even though nothing has been formalized.

So let’s see. Exciting times.

Executive Summary

I was just working on an Executive Summary for a partial project in my main internet venture for Cagayan de Oro City. And I had postponed that a bit as it just didn’t feel good to work on, although the feedback I got on it only came to me last week.

But that was an important event for me, getting feedback on that document, as it meant that at least someone believes in my project, that at least someone gives me something like the benefit of the doubt, no matter how crazy my idea may sound.

But in the end the idea has become not as crazy as when I first had it, even though The Philippines, Philippine culture may be completely opposite to doing, creating something like what I have in mind. And yes, I am starting to learn what persistence is, real persistence, not just stubbornness. It is just slowly but surely moving towards a goal, just pushing people you need gently, just giving them time to adjust to the idea, especially if it’s a crazy, very big, idea.

And weird, that it seems to be harder to develop a small company like Active Discovery Designs than it is to create a project with a worldwide impact. Or maybe not that weird, as indeed, it may be true that it is crowded at the bottom and not at the top.

So let’s see what happens, let’s see how far I can get. And yes, the strange thing is that I don’t really care about the money anymore, even though the project might bring me some money. I just care about the people in Cagayan de Oro City, in Mindanao, in The Philippines, in the world. I just want to serve them, just give them proper internet at a reasonable price. And I want to give the people in Cagayan de Oro City just a decent life, just jobs, just some money coming in so they can lead the life I was able to live before, a life with good things and holidays, a life with enough to eat and some money to spare to do fun things.

And weird, as this all came from losing everything, being at rock bottom, having no partner, having no money, having no job that brought in money, having no friends, having the feeling to have nothing. And weird it came from a book, or actually multiple books, but in the end the root of everything happening right now lies in Think and Grow Rich. And while writing this I guess this site wouldn’t have been here without that book.

And yes, I am a bit, or actually very much, disappointed with this site. As it didn’t really bring me anything like fame or people reading it or commenting on it and such. Or using my tools, although I did not check the last recently and I also didn’t do any further development on it recently. And yes, I don’t think they are good enough yet.

But yes, the site brought me discipline and persistence. And it learned me to be patient and I learned to plan recently. And as per indication of Napoleon Hill I can indeed confirm that writing things down, whether it is a real planning or just writing a blog, has helped me analyze things, or maybe actually analyze myself, my actions.

So yes, I can still recommend buying the book Think and Grow Rich and working from it, reading it, having it next to your bed as there is indeed an awful lot of knowledge about ‘success‘ in it. And yes, I am quoting the word success right now, as success is indeed something else than having a lot of money or be famous or something like that, the things I was looking for. And yes, I am still looking for that as e.g. I think it makes life easier if you have enough money. But I see more and more that life is indeed some kind of journey, maybe some kind of learning process and success is just something temporary, something that will pass by, something that is in the moment, something you can’t keep or preserve.

So yes, let’s just be happy, happy on our never ending journey called life.