My last experiment with intention-manifestation was a smashing success, and I’d like to try another community experiment if anyone’s interested in playing along. This round of the experiment will run from August 1 to August 31. (Any interest in doing a longer time frame next time around, maybe September 1 to December 31?)

Here’s a refresher on how to participate:

• Find a place to be alone. (You’ll need a pencil and a piece of paper.)
• Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and relax.
• Look inward and ask yourself you’d like to achieve/manifest by August 31.
• Open your eyes and start writing ideas as they come to you.
• Once you have a few possibilities, select the one that you feel most passionately about. It also needs to be something you can truly believe in.
• Write a specific goal statement, which ends with “Make it so!”
• Read your statement out loud with as much feeling and conviction as possible. Feel that mental “click” as you DECIDE to achieve your goal.
• Leave a comment or send me an email to let me know that you’re participating (you don’t have to disclose your goal).
• Be on the watch throughout the month of August for the manifestation of your goal. It may not appear in the form you’re expecting…
• Report back and let us know how you did!

My goal is to receive $500 from sources other than my salaried income by August 31, 2008. Make it so!

I wanted to try a money goal not because I need $500, but because needing money in order to feel “secure” is something that holds me back from pursuing writing full-time. It’s hard for me to contemplate leaving a regular paycheck for the uncharted (and potentially unpaid) waters of the writing profession. Knowing that I can “manifest” money would be a huge confidence boost when it comes to taking the plunge and quitting the old day job!

What goal did you choose and why?