Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - Posts

Million Dollar Experiment

I am taking part in Steve Pavlina’s Million Dollar Experiment. 

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I intend $1,000,000 to come into my life and into the lives of everyone who holds this intention.

This is based on Steve’s theory of Intention-Manifestation.  This states that the act of  stating your intention to do something will cause it to happen.  Steve is pretty convinced that this works for him.  You could make an argument for this working on the basis of you being more aware of potential opportunities but Steve thinks that there is a higher consciousness at work providing the resources to allow him to get what he is intending to get.

Instinctively, this sounds like nonsense to me.  I am a naturally sceptical person and woolly, improvable concepts like a “higher consciousness” would normally turn me off.  However, recently, I have been thinking about new concepts in a different way.  I have been wondering if there is another way of evaluating new ideas.  Rather than being completely sceptical about them, might it be beneficial to, somehow, try believing it and see what the results are?  Using anecdotal evidence in this way is something I am normally wary of.  There is bound to be an element of a self-fulfilling prophecy about this.  Is there a way, then, for me to take this into account, or even just ignore it, and still get some sort of benefit from a new idea?  Maybe, it does not actually matter how some things work.  It is even possible that analysing the process too closely could cause a negative effect.

Anyway, I am going with it.  I am trying not to dismiss any possible benefits as coincidence and to simply concentrate on the positives.  If it works, great; if not, I will have learned something, at least about myself.

So far, then, I have started this new blog.  I am making a determined effort to post to it on a regular basis.  At the moment, I still don’t have an obvious focus for the blog to keep people interested but I am just really looking at finding and developing my voice and the writing habit.  I have also added Google AdSense to this blog and my old blog and have so far earned the princely sum of $12.30.  I’m well on my way to that million.