30 Days of The Million Dollar Experiment
Yesterday came and went, and without realizing it in yesterday’s ‘My little amendment to the Million Dollar Experiment’ post, it was also the 30th day goal of our unofficial local chapter of The Million Dollar Experiment!
For those who have publicly joined us, Pete, Brenda, Yezhong (who is overseas on a volunteer mission), June, Mikki, Bernie, Adrian and Janet, how has the last 30 days (less for some of you) been? For myself, as I wrote earlier, I’ve made a total of SGD$35 (USD$20.72) so far from the Million Dollar Experiment from an unexpected impulse to sell my old books.
So, in only 30 days, the question is, has the experiment worked, and is it worthwhile to continue?
Like Steve muses on his blog here and here, we can hardly prove anything objective with such a subjective experiment. So let me tell you what I’ve experienced from a subjective point of view.
From doing the intention I noticed that it began to make me more focused on money, how much of it was in my life, how much more of it I wanted, what the positive effects of having more money would be and how I could make more of it (I wrote more about this in my first update to the Million Dollar Experiment).
How come? What setting an intention seems to do to my consciousness is give my mind a specific set of instructions; this is what I want, make it happen. And it feels especially useful when I do it early in the morning. I feel like I’m literally programming my mind and mapping out its direction for the day.
Giving my mind instructions via intentions instead of letting it muck around haphazardly feels like the difference between using a diffused ceiling light and a focused laser. The light from a ceiling light doesn’t travel very far and is spread all over but a focused laser is directional and can be shot long distances.
With a specific intention I’m concentrating my mind’s focus and letting it shoot straight at its target. Instead of letting it spread itself out to irrelevant areas, I’m saying, more of wealth, and now, love and happiness.
I’d say that the biggest benefit for me in these last 30 days hasn’t been the $35 I made, it’s what I’ve learnt about the usefulness of intentions. And for this, I’ve got to thank Steve. I’ve heard about intentions before but thought they were kind of kooky, with the Million Dollar Experiment I got a chance to take a chance, and now I’m sold.
Will I continue? With the benefits of:
1) A bonus $35,
2) Increased feelings of hope and well-being from setting a positive direction for the day,
3) A collective mind-force of 405 people setting a common intention and a grand total of USD$37,945.26 manifested so far (see here),
Yes!
Well at least we’ve broke the sub-200,000 ranking in technorati and wow…lost some serious steam in terms of alexa. The implication is lost on me.
Once in a while, I wonder if there are really readers out there. Coz not many people commented on our posts. I also wonder if it’s the tone that I set in the posts that I write that irks people off.
I’ll say this Alvin, even if it’s left to just the few of us sharing our thoughts online, so be it, I’ll still be posting here.
People will click if it’s relevant to them, maybe we have provided enough content that the readers don’t see the need to go elsewhere.
Maybe we just have to wait for the big break. Maybe, we just have to change our style. Maybe, if we gone off to blog on depression and erectile dysfunction, we’ll get some revenue from adsense.
So, we take responsibility, LCB has a steady following and it’s a staple to some people out there. We have time, we post. We have idea, we post. IF we make money from here, we post more.
Is more what our readers want? Until and unless we get more voices from people telling us what more we can offer them…I say we keep going at it. There ARE real live people who benefit from what effort we put in here.
We can litter the whole blog with suggestions to click and link our posts all over the place, in the end, the value of what we do here is not tied to the $$ we make off this…or is it?
Is it too difficult to sustain? Until it becomes not viable to keep this up, I’ll keep posting
Hi Coaches,
I just want to say it again, keep the posting going. No comments doesn’t mean no reader! I for sure is constantly learning new things and ideas from this blog, the reason is simple because i am getting information from 5 differents source at one time. Where else can i find that kind of high quality articles at one place? Thank you to all and have a Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
KC
Thanks KC!! I’m asking for comments coz other readers will learn about how you may have internalized your learnings.
We want to encourage a culture of sharing and thanks again for the booster.
Thanks KC! Again echoing what Pete said. Would love to hear more feedback from you guys on what you like and what you’d like to see more of.
And Pete, yep, even if it’s just the few of us posting and reading here, it’s interesting enough. Maybe we should become more controvesial and provocative ;D
provocative and intermidating.. I love it.