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Validation for an idea💡- a community where...

👋 Hey folks,

So I just made a vision board video. I turned 29 yesterday 🎉 and really believe in the power of goal setting plus writing them down.

I fell off the long term goal-setting habit. I would write down daily tasks but would lose sight of the bigger picture and feel lost from time to time. It's always best to reverse engineer and work backward.

So to kill two birds with one stone I made a vision board video. Which is just a quick 30-second video that brings my vision to life! I can watch it every day to keep me on course.

Now that you have context. I was thinking it could be cool to build a community around this. Where you make a video that highlights your vision for the next year. You list all the major things you want to achieve in 365 days.

Here is where it becomes awesome. When you make it public and build a community around your goals. My theory is you're more likely to attract other people with similar goals.

They say you are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with. So if you find online folks with a similar vision. You can build some really high-value friends.

It's just an idea, but here is how it would work.

It's a site where you can create a video using my tool Story Creator. I'll provide templates and make it as easy as possible. Then you post to the community with tags.

Folks can browse different vision boards for inspiration and to see what others have as goals. If they resonate with it they can engage.

If I built this would you use it? What are your thoughts?

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Ideas and Validation
on May 14, 2020
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    Wonderful goals. I wish you 10x better than what you have set for yourself. 😃 I could give you some free advice that I think can help you with goal achievement if you want here in the reply section. Would you be interested in listening with an open mind what a stranger has to say?

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      Yeah I’d love to learn

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        There are a couple of things that come while setting goals and targets.

        Specific Goals

        The first one is being very specific. For example, there was a woman who was into spiritual practices, and one day on a special occasion, she wished to lose 22 pounds by a certain date. She wrote in her wish paper something like this, "I wish to lose 22 pounds of weight by X date." Spiritual means have power and she did lose 22 pounds but she met illness that drastically reduced her weight.

        So you have to be very specific regarding your goals. By when, through what means, what will you do, etc.

        Jim Carrey once said in some interview that he wrote that in three years before some date, he will earn $10m through acting services. He was very specific in his goal-setting. His industry was acting. His goal was relevant.

        Secrecy

        The second thing is about sharing your goals with people. Do not reveal your goals to people who don't need that information until you have achieved significant success.

        From an energy perspective, you see, as soon as you WRITE YOUR GOALS down, it generates certain energy and starts to attract resources from people and the universe. But the energy your targets generate at the early is very low. I still have some reading to do on this material but it's something like if you share your goals until they have substantial energy/progress, sharing will only negatively impact the goal achievement.

        So keep your goals very specific and a secret.

        Excessive attachment

        The third thing is about excessive attachment towards goals and targets. If you are too attached to your goal, you'll get elated at the slightest progress and demotivated/fearful at the slightest setback. This excessive attachment sends negative energies to your targets and negatively impact your goal achievement.

        Here's an example: A person who looks at his or her goal and feels as if they are achieving enough, fears, doubts their potential, doubts whether it will happen or not, thinks the goal is too big, etc they send the energy of doubt, fears, insecurity, etc to their goals and targets. These negative energies negatively impact the ability to materialize your goals. My teacher says that goals won't really materialize.

        A way to deal with is to be moderately attached to your goals. Do not be detached in a way that makes you careless. But do not be overly attached that you sabotage your own chances of success with negative thoughts and emotions. Think of something: Even if you don't achieve this goal, what's the worst that could happen? I would assume nothing too awful.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, and be moderately attached to them.

        Law of Karma and Financial Karma

        I would assume you have heard this many times. Law of karma, karma comes back, karma is a b*, etc. It's called the law of karma and not the opinion of karma. Here's how it helps you in your goal achievement.

        You will only receive in life which you are entitled to receive in life. And you are entitled to receive through the law of karma.

        If you have given money and done charity in your past, you will be karmically entitled to receive money from the way the universe works. Try it for yourself.

        In Christianity, it is recommended to tithe 10% of your monthly income REGULARLY. If you give 10% once, you are entitled to receive good karma but only once. If you give 10% every month, you are entitled to receive it on a regular basis.

        You have to think of this as a karmic bank account. What you sow, you reap under the right conditions.

        There was a story of a man who one day happened to pass by a bridge. During that moment, the bridge fell and collapsed. The man died. Somebody asked lord Buddha(enlightened teacher of ancient South Asia) why it happened the way it happened. They asked why did the bridge fall when the man was walking and why did it fall when that particular old man was walking?

        Lord buddha replied it was because the person was karmically entitled to receive the accident karma by what he did in his past life. You have to be in the right place where his karma can come to fruition and you have to be the right person. If you have a lot of financial good karma from past lives, you won't be rich until you do something to earn that money. Maybe a business, job, etc. If you are doing something, your good karma and effort could make you very prosperous. Look at these internet billionaires.

        Such disease, accident, financial poverty, emotionally unstable karma is called negative karma. We carry karma through previous past lives. Our existence is on several planes and we are not just beings that are born and die. We are beings of evolution and our past lives have done plenty of wrong things. All of these events have their karmic records and we are entitled to receive all the negative karma we did in the past.

        When you give money, you neutralize your negative karma to a certain extent. If you do this, you will no longer be entitled to receive the negative karma you were previously entitled to receive.

        When the negative financial karma gets neutralized, you start to earn more money in different ways. Trust this process.

        It is recommended to give 10% of your regular income to charity and to those in need. If you are really struggling, you can start with 5%, etc. But work your way up to 10%. And do it regularly.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, and donate 10% of your income regularly.

        Gratitude

        You have to be grateful for what you have achieved, gathered, the good things in your life, etc and then you will be able to attract more. I am not talking about the psychological aspects of gratitude. I am not talking about the good feeling your brain releases when you are grateful.

        When you are grateful for your clients, for your employer, for your cars, for your spouse, for your children, for your money, you increase the energy of that in your aura. For example, being grateful for the number of clients you have worked within the past increases your energetic ability to attract more clients. Believe it or not, prosperity energy or money energy is real. It can be measured. For some people, it is just a couple of meters. For some people, it is zero. Literally speaking. For some people, it is 150+ meters. For some, it is even more.

        When you are grateful, your prosperity energy increases. But it quickly depletes so you have to be grateful every day.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, donate 10% of your income regularly, and be grateful for what you want more in your life.

        Abstain from Stealing at all costs

        When you steal, you generate poverty karma. Stealing such as material stealing, financial stealing, intellectual stealing, emotional stealing(eg. Ruining someone's precious moment), and sexual stealing generate negative karma. This will prevent you from becoming prosperous and happy.

        Watching or using pirated stuff, using intellectual or online materials without permission, etc invite this poverty karma. To prevent yourself from stealing at all costs.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, donate 10% of your income regularly, be grateful for what you want more in your life, and do not steal.

        Choice of Words

        Each thought you create has energy. Strong thoughts create strong energy while weak thoughts create energy that quickly fades.

        A strange yet funny thing about thought and energy is that it does not matter whether you are joking or actually serious when you make a thought. If you say it's too hard to make money or money is the root of all evil as a joke, your thought and energy do not know this and actually affect your energy in your aura. If you say negative things about money or goals even as a joke, your money or prosperity energy in your aura decreases. Of course, it is temporary but imagine saying something stupid before your important deal.

        Words like hate, anger, poverty, difficulty, hard, sickness, diseases, etc usually have low vibrations. Only use them if you are using to describe something objectively or when you are using them in prayer.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, donate 10% of your income regularly, be grateful for what you want more in your life, do not steal, and always use the right words.

        Feng Shui

        Feng Shui is an ancient practice of arrangement of objects and items according to the energetic state of the earth so that you will make the most out of your work.

        I am prohibited from sharing too much but I'll give you one very important tip: Always work facing North for prosperity and work facing East for Creativity. If you are a manager, boss, or someone who wants more money and productivity in general, if you are negotiating a deal, etc(let me capitalize these words) ALWAYS FACE NORTH. It is very important. You can sleep facing north for prosperity and abundance. For creativity and an intelligent mind, you can sleep facing east.

        North is the direction of prosperity, abundance, vitality, strength, dynamism, etc. If you encounter insomnia because of sleeping facing for north for a long time(which can happen because you'll feel energetic and might face difficulty sleeping, you can face east or in some rare cases south.)

        Our spiritual teacher once told me that there was an Asian businessman who closed a huge deal after setting up his table to face North. He had chased the deal for the past 3 months with no success. But after setting the table towards the North, he closed the deal within (one or two weeks, not sure).

        But yes, if you have good financial karma, direction doesn't do much but yes, it is important to set up your direction.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, donate 10% of your income regularly, be grateful for what you want more in your life, do not steal, always use the right words and face the right direction.

        The intentions you send others

        When you intend that someone might be successful in a certain field, your energy improves and you attract more good things. You have to do it regularly because it's temporary. If you are envious of someone else's success and achievements, you will generate obstacles in your path. If you intend bad for others, you invite bad in your life.

        You have to be very careful about your intentions. Someone close or in the same field as you might be more financially prosperous than you. Envy and hatred, anger, etc will only hurt you in return. If someone is earning more, wish them that they earn even more. Focus on your own stuff but never intend or wish bad on others. They have their own karmas of money, they have their own efforts, etc. Respect their success. Do not develop envy.

        Instead wish people happiness, good health, prosperity, balance, spirituality, kindness, etc.

        So keep your goals very specific, a secret, be moderately attached to them, donate 10% of your income regularly, be grateful for what you want more in your life, do not steal, always use the right words, face the right direction and always send out good intentions.

        Other real-world stuff

        You know about this. Do some reading, work hard, dream big, never give up, read more, etc, etc. I once was intensely attached to self-help gurus, the idea of having more knowledge, I'd read for days, I'd listen to podcasts, watch videos, etc. I'd ask for advice from almost everyone. All this is very demanding and I felt I was being pulled in all directions.

        I haven't finished a single book in the last two months. I read some tips and tricks from online articles regarding my startup and that's pretty much it. I'm fine. I have faith in Karma and I have full faith in what I have mentioned here that I learned from spiritual classes. I try to practice these whenever I'm conscious(I make plenty of mistakes but lesser each next time)

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          Loved this. Definitely on my mind.

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    Cool idea! Do you also plan on building a platform where people should post those videos publicly?

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      Yeah. Then you can browse around and find folks in certain niches, watch their video to understand what they want out of life. If you want something similar, then you can engage with them, schedule a call or something.

      Is that something that you would use?

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        I would check it out for sure! In the beginning probably just watching other videos, since I'm an introvert 🙈

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    It's a cool idea but I think Instagram could be used exactly for the same purpose
    Open an account and start upload videos with your dreams and see if usets are following you

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