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This is a continuation of the 30-Day Visualization Trial. More detail about the trial can be found here

Visualization was great today. I started feeling chills. I do a lot of visualization of my social circle, especially online. I think it’s because developing an expansive, like-minded social circle would be the biggest influence on anything I want.

Community building

I think my next move will be interacting more directly with other bloggers. That was no doubt the biggest reason I was able to build my first blog up. We exchanged links and gave advice to each other and our blogs grew together. What I’m learning now is that building pure traffic could be different than building a community. For that reason I want to focus on community building.

Opportunities

A lot of opportunities have opened up. I joined Problogger.com and plan on doing some work in there. I think that forum really fills a need. I don’t know another forum that’s as suited for bloggers specifically. I think I’ll be getting into Stumbleupon more too. Twitters coming a long pretty nice too. 8 followers today.

Improvements

I restructured my about page. Took out some stuff (or fluff), but I feel it’s more focused now.

Stats

4 Unique Visitors
8 Page Views
16 Subscribers

Day 11, Lets go!

This is a continuation of the 30-Day Visualization Trial. More detail about the trial can be found here

Many times when I visualize I try to probe around to find energy. I try to find out where the surges of emotions come from. If I find something that brings up significant emotion I’ll keep trying to visualize it more vividly. Today was a very probing day. Where I did find energy at is helping people. Maybe sharing my experience or giving people advice and having them experience real breakthroughs because of it. Genuinely helping people.

Some things are easier than others

I find it interesting that that some aspects of growth are easier for me to visualize than others. Making more money is easy for me to visualize, at least through advertisements or affiliate deals. As far as creating something to sell, that is difficult to visualize.

A very difficult thing to visualize is being truly healthy. It’s been so long since I’ve been a normal, healthy weight that I forgotten what it feels like. The closest reference point I can remember is when I was in college. I was feeling optimistic and full of energy everyday. I’m almost at a point where I think my next 30-day trial should be health related.

Action

Man, I’ve really felt like I’ve been taking some effective action for this blog. I’ve done a little commenting on blogs and forums, submitted to blog carnivals, and done some tweaks to the blog itself. All I want to do now is push it because I can feel momentum is really in my favor. I’m seeing everything rise, kind of as expected. I knew if I could just write consistently then that would allow everything else to move forward. The problem was it was hard finding fresh, quality content to put up with my limited experience within the growth field. Here’s a strange concept. If I want to be an authority in personal growth I have to personally grow. Go figure. A big part of growth is developing empowering habits over time and 30-day trials are great for that. Blogging about is actually “sharing the journey” with readers which was part of the purpose of this site, so I feel like this is working on many levels.

Stats

4 Unique Visitors
17 Page Views
19 subscribers

Movin’ on to Day 10!

Visualization was still jumpy today, but there was a little excitement. I think because I’m moving so close to dropping some fears and especially one fear in particular that has been a real block for me.

I want to work on intensity when I visualize. The whole point of the visualization is to build up energy so the more intense the better. What I didn’t realize is that there are a lot of factors that go into the intensity of visualization. How well rested you are, what your emotional state has been, what you’ve eaten, how you feel physically and your environment could all be factors on how well you visualize. Shoot, the food I ate today has just been making me feel really spacey and foggy.

Stats

5 Unique Visitors
9 Page Views
17 Subscribers

Come on, Day 9!

Today – jumpy visualization. I went from visualizing one thing to another to another. It’s like I was getting distracted while visualizing. When visualization is jumpy like that it’s hard to build up any energy with it which is the whole purpose.

I’m starting to equate jumpy visualization with fear. It was frustrating even trying to visualize things like a huge social circle or a large network or money flowing in because I know they’re not going to happen if I kept rejecting any form of them due to fear. I’m guessing it is fear of what I attract being new and therefore unknown to me. I remember Tony Robbins saying that when you’ve been in your comfort zone too long you start looking for distractions. That’s definitely true and maybe the same thing happens with visualizations. If you’re visualizing something and you’re actually scared of that happening then you might jump to visualize something else less scary.

The good thing is that simply being on this path has allowed some fears to be overcome slowly but surely. I think I’m pretty close to tackling another big one.

I love 30-day trials

This 30-day trial is so freakin easy yet it satisfies a lot of things I wanted. The whole idea of even doing a 30-day trial came from the article about persistence and consistent action. I realized when I was doing off-season football training there was no slacking. Consistent action didn’t even seem to be a problem. Looking back I know that consistent action was purely driven by accountability.

I like this trial I’m doing now because I don’t have to constantly focus on the past for content. I can just write what happens today. This trial has pushed me to post more than any other month on this blog already and this is just day 7. I think the next 30-day trial might be a marketing trial or at least something that pushes me more. I don’t want to think too far ahead though. I want to finish this trial first.

Stats

5 Unique Visitors
7 Page Views
17 Subscribers

Lets go Day 8!