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Clay

W. Clement Stone said “[w]hatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Back in the day, my former self tuned out whenever it heard that quote; it just seemed too cliché. But I became reminded of Clement’s words after seeing more than a few photoshopped goals.

Photoshopping a goal involves manipulating digital images to visually represent your goals as if they already existed. An example would be taking a PDF version of your bank statement and adding a couple of zeros to the balance. A low tech (i.e. non-photoshop) implementation might involving having a picture taken of you in your dream car (even if it doesn’t belong to you), and then meditating on the resulting picture while holding thoughts of ownership.

The idea is that photoshopped goals help your subconscious believe that you can attain things previously thought impossible.  Getting your sub-conscious to buy into a goal radically empowers you to materialize the goal in real life. Some call it self-deception, others call it the law of attraction. Read the rest of this entry »

“If you find stories with bad links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries, click “Bury.” That’s how we get the spam out of the system and let the good stuff rise to the top.”
-Digg

Most of us don’t lack resources, we lack insightful & creative goals that unlock our inner ninjas and wreak havoc on our world in beautiful ways. More on this later, let’s get started with some groundwork. . .

The Scoop on Digg

There’s a lot of whack stuff thrown up on Digg. Much of it is crazy and most of it is bad. But, every once in a while, a needle-in-the-haystack submission makes audacious promises and then delivers (like this). Read the rest of this entry »

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead

Good goals are living breathing statements of who we are becoming, they should not be static and rigid representations of what we once longed for. Still, many of us have had the experience of writing down goals, only to feel alienated from them weeks later, as if they were a historical document from the past.
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