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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  If you want to test yourself, then make a prediction about what you think will happen over the course of the next year. Let's see how accurate your predictions turn out to be. 
Those who predicted I'd drop dead on my raw diet trial may want to upgrade their predictive circuitry a bit first though. |
Sure, here are my predictions:
(1) Your audience on this Blog will polarize even further this year. Any strong-faith Christians that didn't leave after your post about Religion will probably leave now, as will many others who find your latest announcement too "non-mainstream". All that leave will naturally be replaced with others who are more into non-mainstream ideas like this and they will love this Blog even more as they will feel that their "non-mainstream" ideas are being supported by Steve Pavlina publicly now.
(2) Some supporters of this Blog will become even more fanatic about supporting the Blog, and those that don't like what you're saying will bash it even more, kind of like Tom Cruise gets bashed for believing in Scientology. In other words, more polarization of your audience as in #1, but also the formation of more fanatical supporters/opposers.
(3) Your traffic to the Blog will increase naturally as world-of-mouth news spreads that Steve Pavlina has decided to "sleep with other women". Unfortunately, those are the words people will probably use to spread the news as they won't want to explain everything you explained in your article. Much like polyphasic sleep was a "strange" non-mainstream experiment, people will talk about it, discuss it, bash it, argue about it, and link to your posts and Blog all at the same time which will drive more links and traffic to your Blog and Erin's Blog.
(4) All this "hooplah" will go away within 3-4 weeks as people get bored of talking about it and it becomes "old news", with the exception of any update posts you write during the year which will re-spark the debate again but not as much as the original New Year's post.
(5) The experiment itself will turn out completely differently than you expected for both you and Erin, altering your relationship forever. Both of you will grow as a result of it, but most probably not in the way you're thinking right now.
In the end, much like your Polyphasic Sleep experiment, the reality of the situation won't be as exciting as the original idea of it, especially after the "challenge" part of it is done with and you've "won the challenge" in your mind, causing you to go back to a relationship with one woman - whether that be with Erin or someone else and you'll stick with that from then on.
(6) You will also realize that while "experimenting" with this, the void in your heart wasn't filled by another relationship with another woman, and you will begin a new challenge for yourself to "share your love" with the world in a much larger capacity than you are right now. You'll come to realize that it's not about two women vs. one woman, but rather sharing yourself with dozens, hundreds, thousands and even millions of people.
Kind of like Tony Robbins does when he goes on stage, or does private coaching with certain individuals, you will begin to build more intimate bonds with people (men and women) that aren't going to be sexual but there will definitely be a MUCH stronger bond than the massive Blog audience you have which you love but feel largely disconnected from since they are just "anonymous people" on the computer screen and you don't get to participate and help them in their lives.
Your previous attempt to offer a "Get Coached by Steve Pavlina" service will resurface in a different way and when you start to really connect with people, whether that be through personal coaching, group coaching or something much more personal than Blogging, you will feel that void inside you get filled.
You're here to help people grow consciously, and helping Erin (as she helped you) was an awesome experience but now that she's able to do the rest herself you feel a void to help others that the Blog isn't filling. Neither did writing your book. You're looking for more "intimate relationships" with people and you do want to help them grow consciously, as it will also help you grow consciously but the stuff you need to teach people can't always be done via Blog articles or books...some of it has to be done in person or via other mediums, so that is what you're going to seek.
(7) A long time from now, even that won't be enough and there will be a much more spiritual solution to the problem, but that goes way past my one year prediction.
That's my prediction...I don't know if all that will happen in 2009 but the ground work for it will....
Let's see how close I come, hehehe...