30-Day Visualization Trial
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On October 1st I will begin a visualization trial. I really dove into visualization after I saw The Secret and it helped me take significant action. I used it A LOT to get my first blog off the ground and it’s a big reason this blog is here. If it were not for visualization and the awareness of the law of attraction, I might still be in my old, dirty apartment falling deeper and deeper in debt, not moving towards any of my own desires, and definitely not in a state where I could share anything with anybody.
I’ve used visualization every now and then, and as a consequence I’ve experienced “now and then” results. With this trial I am looking to establish a habit of visualization.
About Visualization
To anyone new to the concept of creative visualization, you’ve unconsciously already used it. When you build up the energy to go get your favorite food from a nearby store or restaurant or to go hang out with friends, you’re using the same concept. The only difference is that it doesn’t take that much visualization to go get your favorite food or hang out with friends. Those are both pretty easy to manifest, especially if you’ve done them a lot. However, the big ambitious goals that require consistent action take more visualization to manifest.
Wikipedia has a nice article about creative visualization, but basically it’s changing/creating your outside world by doing work on your inside world. Your inside world being your thoughts, feelings, but specifically your vibration. Creative visualization is living a vision in the present moment.
Pointers to Visualization and Vision
While consciously pursuing growth, I’ve come across so many sources that encourage visualization or advise “inside” work. Here’s just a few.
All Things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall receive them
- Mark 11:24
You will become as great as your dominant aspiration….Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
- James Allen, As You think
What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve
-Napoleon Hill
“Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
- Steven Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
From Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to Oprah, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. I could go on for days with sources.
Making it a habit
As I said, even though I know visualization has been very beneficial, unfortunately it hasn’t become a habit yet and I know I could benefit immensely from making it one.
I know from my prior experience with visualization that the biggest benefit was the intense focus. It raises your awareness and puts you in a state to take laser-focused yet unforced action which allows you to build momentum. The good thing about that is that your momentum is now directed at what you want, so you don’t end up drifting playing video games, web browsing, watching TV or succumbing to any other distractions. And it literally does attract that which is consistent with your vision.
30-Day Trial
I got the idea of doing a 30-day visualization trial from this article by Steve Pavlina where he recommends visualizing for 20 minutes a day to experience a shift in equilibrium which should in turn create a shift in your reality. I’ve heard from many sources that 30-day trials are good ways to develop empowering habits, so this should be a good way to develop a habit of visualization.
Each morning at 8:30am I will spend 20 minutes visualizing. My days are pretty wide open so there’s a lot of space to attract what I’ll be visualizing. I will posting my results each day for the next 30 days.
Most of the visualization will be for this blog seeing as that is the number one goal I want to accomplish now. I want this to become a high traffic blog so I will be visualizing exactly what that looks like. Specifically, I’d like to build it up to at least 1000 unique visitors a day and at least be making $1800 a month. I may end up breaking that into smaller pieces, but we’ll see. I’ll post the results for this blog daily including traffic stats and subscriber stats. Right now I’m starting this off with basically 1 or 2 visitors a day and I just put my blog on this domain less than a month ago, so I’m pretty much starting from the bottom. If my predictions are correct my results should increase dramatically but I won’t be attached to that result. I’m just curious to see how much of an impact this will have.
Update: I finished the 30-day trial! To view the results go here.
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Hi Broderick!
I am doing something similar. I found you at a blog post at problogger
I started my blog 2 weeks ago and I am visualizing having over 3,000 new visitors a day and like 5,000 suscribers to my newsletters.
I am also visualizing making $2,000 a month and then doubling that each month.
Also I am visualizing me buying a new home and traveling around the world by 2011 earning 80 K a month.
What do you think abut it?
Right now I am reading The master Key system, this book is just great you can download for free at “the secret” website.
What do you think abut it?
Have a nice day!
Mario
Good to hear Mario. I think it’s cool that you’re open to trying it. Thanks for the resources too. I downloaded Master Key System.
Hi again, you have many interesting articles, and I enjoy reading them! Thank you!
I found you (as you already know) on the zenH pages. It seems that leaving your footprints on other pages, is a good idea
I have a question. Since I myself have no blog, I don’t know the answer. But: how do people actually earn money on having a blog? Is it through advertisments, or selling things, or just receiving gifts? I am just curious…
Hey escargot,
Yep, I’ve been following you on Zenhabits. Keep it up!
I’ve heard of people earning money with their blogs all three of those ways you described. There’s a lot of options you have. Problogger (the website or the book) or How to Make Money From Your Blog (the article I learned from) both explain it in more detail and are more experienced with this at this point, but I’ll give you a short version.
If your blog attracts a lot of traffic (visitors) then you can sell ads through ad networks (like Adsense), you can promote different products through lists that your readers are subscribed to like Aweber, you could create and sell your own info products, donations etc. The difficult part, where most blogs fail, is attracting the high amounts of traffic. You can do all those things without a lot of traffic, but the more traffic you attract, the easier it will be to make more money through those different outlets.
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