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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 excellent today. There were so many things running through my mind. What other trials could I do? What would life look like if I were to form habits from those trials? How far could/should I push myself? It’s so exciting just to think about how you can construct your day when there’s a blank canvas.

Yesterday I forgot to visualize laying down and I visualized sitting up in my chair. I didn’t think that would be that big of a deal, but it turned out there was a huge difference. You can even look at the writing from yesterday and see the difference.

I bought Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. It’s recommended by Steve Pavlina so I trust it to be a useful source to learn more about visualization.

Possible 30-day Reading Trial

I’m thinking my next trial should be a reading trial. Over the last year I’ve bought about 60 personal development books. I’ve read about 17 of them so far, but I haven’t read them the way I want to read them. Usually if I want to finish a book I might take 6-7 hours out of the day to read it. It takes about two days for me to finish a book depending on the size, but there are a lot of drawbacks to reading a book like that. I don’t retain/comprehend as much, it puts a big dent in other plans a person might have had for that day, and I can only do it sporadically because it’s too much of an inconvenience to do consistently. I know if I can make reading something I do every day for maybe an hour or two, I could probably triple the amount of books I read, have greater comprehension and have the days run a lot smoother. The last thing I want is to have all these valuable books just sit here and collect dust.

Let’s go Day 20!

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

Visualization was good today. There wasn’t that much intensity, but I did visualize very vividly. I decided to just let my mind wonder.

Today I took inventory on what changes have come about during the last 17 days to the blog and to me. It was a lot, but I want to wait until the end to display everything fully. I feel like this is getting easier and easier. Writing in the morning definitely feels better and action seems like it’s more of a flow now instead of a force. It’s as if I’m riding a wave to personal growth instead of forcing things. That’s exactly how I want to build habits for personal growth.

Not really much to report. I’m still looking for some good sources of information about visualization.

Bring on Day 19!

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

Visualization was great today. I visualized this blog being absolutely irresistible, so today it was all about content. Because content – expansive, detailed, practical, life-changing content is what I want making a lasting impression on a reader just as it was made on me.

I’ve been hearing Suze Orman on her “save yourself first” campaign so that you’re more able help others save themselves. I hear ya Suze.

With this blog I want to change lives. I don’t want generic, anyone-can-come-up-with-this, tired writing to be the bulk of this blog, and I know only commitment can raise content to the standard I’m after. If I keep sowing and I keep building empowering habits and I keep growing and I keep building experience there is no where else to go but authority.

I feel so great now. I wrote from 10:50am to about 12:50pm and I know for sure this is a waaaaaaaaaaay better time for me to write than at night. I’m well rested, my mind’s clearer, I’m not feeling rushed to write before midnight so I can get the blog post up before the day is over.

I won’t be posting stats anymore in this trial. In the beginning I thought that as I visualized more, the blog would get better, I would do more effective marketing and traffic would increase as a result. I wanted to show that whole process so I decided to post the stats. However, different ideas for the direction of the blog, for content, for improvements that have come to me as a result of doing this trial haven’t even been implemented yet, so I’m expecting stats to stay virtually the same until I do implement them which will be after I finish this trial.

Stats are important, but they don’t even paint the whole picture. At least not the way I was sharing them. I think a graphs would probably be a more holistic way of sharing stats anyway.

Let’s go Day 18!

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

Visualization was good today. I tried visualizing while laying down, and that worked a lot smoother. I think I’ll stick with that from now on. The only problem is I went right to sleep after the 20 minutes was up and when I woke up I forgot what I had visualized.

Normally I visualize in the morning and then write down some notes about things I notice right after visualizing. Then I wait until around 10:00pm to expand on it for a blog entry. This has really helped me notice how I feel towards the end of the day vs. when I wake up and visualize because how I feel comes through in the writing. I was looking back at some of my entries and it does seem to convey some feelings of stress. I’m not stressed after I visualize in the morning, but by the time the day is done I am. From now on I’ll write in the morning right after I visualize. I want to see what kind of effect that has on the writing.

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Day 17 :)