Visualization today didn’t go like I thought it would. My prediction was that visualization would give me a lot of energy to take massive action towards my goals for this blog (1000 visitors a day and earning $1800 a month for this blog). Well after Day 1 that didn’t happen.

Clarity

A lot of what did happen is clarity. I originally said that I would be visualizing my goals as if they were already achieved and I did that. I wanted the blog to bring in an income of $1800 a month with 1000 visitors, so that’s what I envisioned. I noticed when I thought about the $1800 a month there wasn’t any surge of energy at all. Even when I thought about making hundreds of thousands of dollars from this blog there was no energy. I think that could be because I have no idea what to visualize. I don’t know what would be different with $1800 a month. There’s a gazillion possibilities of what my life could look like after making $1800 a month from this blog. Also, the bigger the income goal, the fuzzier the vision is. If it were millions I really wouldn’t know how to envision that. It seems so distant.

But anyway, I stopped in the middle of visualizing because I couldn’t feel energy like I thought I was supposed to.

Going back to the beginning

This is when I thought about my first blog, which I successfully built to average 300 or 400 unique visitors a day. I thought about how I used visualization then. I actually started off wanting to make money from it early, but I listened to different successful blog owners advise not to focus on making money in the beginning and to build traffic first, so I stopped focusing on monetizing it. It was pretty easy to stop focusing on it because there was no pressure at all for it to make money. After hearing that advice from them, I focused all my efforts on building traffic. I started envisioning lots of people on my website taking value from something that wasn’t there before I created it. That’s it. I didn’t think about the money. I didn’t even have any particular traffic goal I wanted to get to. I just was focused on improving little by little and wanted people to take away value. That gave me energy to keep going with it despite not seeing the results I was after.

There was just a whole different energy around that blog when I first started. I remember a lot of excitement, curiosity and appreciation. I saw visitors as totally different and actually more accurately. I was new to blogging so 1 person visiting my blog was truly exciting for me and I really appreciated it. I would visualize all different types of people coming to my website.

Dropping the goal

I’m dropping the goal of $1800 a month and 1000 visitors a day. From now on I’ll just envision a lot of people taking value from what I create like I did with my first blog. I want the primary focus to be on improving the blog and growing traffic. This gives me a much clearer picture to visualize too.

Random observations

I thought 20 minutes would feel like a long time to just sit still. After the first few minutes it was seeming like kind of a grind. I found my thoughts were wondering all over the place. Then they settled down and I actually started visualizing. Time really seemed to fly after I started visualizing. Once I can really establish this 20 minute habit, I might extend it to maybe a 40 minute habit depending on what kind of impact it has.

Stats

3 Unique Visitors
11 Page Views
13 Feed subscribers

Let’s go Day 2!

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