A Few Updates (Blog)

[Nimo]

Hey Steve, I can imagine that it'd be 'freaky' to have such an influence on p'ple & their relationships but ultimately, it is their decision what they do with their relationships/lives. Whether couples separate, re-arrange or become more conscious is very much a personal decision. Take for instance, what I get from your posts is the urge to live my life boldly & without apology/regret..from your divorce & interest in polyamory, i've learnt that i can pursue that which i want even when it is seemingly 'against' society as we know it. I choose to live my life authentically and push my limits to see how far i can stretch. I thank you for providing me a platform to further my knowledge and growth. Reading through some of these postings, i wonder if p'ple have conditioned their lives for certain outcomes e.g divorce= misery; new r'ship= joy; retrenchment= death..it need not be this way. I'd be sad, mad even angry at the event of a divorce but thats just it, i doubt i would stay in a marriage that stiffles my growth or makes me sad just because 'divorce is unchristian' or 'will cause me much pain'. i'd also CHOOSE to see the end of a job as an opp to explore other options. Imo, America has blown this 'divorce affects children adversely' was out of proportion. I lecture in Sociology & understand the impact of family in socializing the child but having said that, it's a little overrated. My parents didn't divorce but i have issues similar to my orphaned & single-mom friends. Kudos for not letting guys whip u up with the 'abandoning ur kids scripts'. My Kyle's father left, am adequate. Your Kyle & little girl will be just fine. Erin is capable. Anyways,we choose what emotions to react to or ignore & thats what makes the difference. Isn't the underlying teaching of LoA 'what u place your focus on grows'?. I chose happiness, joy, thoughts of prosperity, love even when s**t hits the fan. Tx Steve & Erin. Baraka Tele (means Blessings aplenty in Swahili).

[ruanber]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

$300 is nothing. It's a pittance. A committed 12-year old can earn that much. If you think $300 is a lot of money, you're giving too much of your power away to money.

If someone can't come up with $200-300, it's fair to say the DVD content will be beyond their ability to successfully apply. It will probably just frustrate and overwhelm them, or it will go in one ear and out the other with little impact. I want to actively discourage such people from buying this program because I don't think it will help them much. It's not designed with such people in mind. You need a certain minimal level of power to be able to really benefit from this type of content.

Hi Steve,

I read your new post this morning. I am happy your DVDs come out. But a little pity, the result is not my expectation. I think it is a little expensive. at least for me, a foreigner. I live in China. according to currency rate, if I want to buy your DVDs, which will cost me more than 2000 RMB including shipment costs. 2000 RMB really sounds expensive. I bought your book on amazon.com, shipment cost me $9.98. I know we should not weight your values against money, but steve, We all want to have DVDs, especially those who haven't attended workshop like me. You know, your readers all over the world. Maybe who wants your DVDs is a student in college in debt, an employee who works not for a long time,maybe a man who just lose his job,maybe a man struggling for life. We know $300 is not a big deal for majorities. but about this who?

I really admired people who attended your workshop. I have no this chance. So I expect your DVDs since I wrote to you last time. To be honest, I thought you would make your DVDs downloadable for readers all over the world for free, so that millions of people will get your help on personal development side from your DVDs. Now, I am a little disappointed. Now that your dream is to help grow, does money matter ? you can earn money from your workshop, book,speech and donation, why money matters ? Could it be that your DVDs have values only when attaching money to your DVDs ?

[PerDev]

I think society will not need marriage institute 40-60 years from now. and childrens will belongs to community and not individuals.

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

We didn't lose our marriage or lose our relationship, we adjusted our course, we adjusted our situation, we shifted our way of viewing it. We swapped out the lens, and now we're both happier. How would that feel like a loss?

The only times I feel sad are when I think of some of the things I wanted to do in the future that I probably won't get to do now. But I realize I'm reading from the old story and now I need to open the new book and see what amazing things await me in THAT story.

[YourHumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by seeker5

I can understand raising your prices for the workshop because you attract different people to the workshop based on the price. I can understand having the DVDs at $300 because you want to recoup the money you paid to make the DVDs, as well as make it worth the time you invested in it. I'm not sure I understand though what is bad about having someone who watches it but isn't able to apply it on the same level as someone who has more power. It doesn't take anything away from you if that is the case, nor anything from the others who watch it (unlike say if they go to the workshop). And they could still benefit from it.

Why would they want it? There's plenty of stuff they can get at their level which would ultimately be more beneficial than something that's out of their league. If you're coming at this with a desire to help people, you can help them by making it harder for them to waste their time.

[stripysweatergirl]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

$300 is nothing. It's a pittance. A committed 12-year old can earn that much. If you think $300 is a lot of money, you're giving too much of your power away to money.

If someone can't come up with $200-300, it's fair to say the DVD content will be beyond their ability to successfully apply. It will probably just frustrate and overwhelm them, or it will go in one ear and out the other with little impact. I want to actively discourage such people from buying this program because I don't think it will help them much. It's not designed with such people in mind. You need a certain minimal level of power to be able to really benefit from this type of content.

The idea of not giving power away to money only works when a) you have enough money to not worry about it (I don't) and b) the whole of society stops giving away power to money (it hasn't). It's all very well to say it's a pittance but it really isn't, Steve.

Perhaps you've lost sight of it because you make enough money to live very comfortably and support two households. I can't even afford one house. So if it's a toss up between getting a little closer to the deposit on my house or the DVDs, I'll choose my house and use the free content I find instead. (I got your book free through the company I work for ) Most 12 year olds, no matter how committed they are, don't have to pay for their own food, transport, clothes, house, bills, taxes, etc...

I'm not trying to convince you to charge less for them, or criticise your pricing choices because, hell, they're yours and you can do what you like with them, and there will be people who are able to buy them. But just because I can't commit that much money doesn't mean that there would be no value in them for me. If that is true then it suggests to me that there was something inherently wrong with the workshop itself. I'd say the people who don't earn as much are actually the people who need the help more, not the people who are better off. By a certain minimum level of power do you actually mean 'minimum level of wealth'?

I've just always been a believer of 'bums on seats'- charge less, sell more, hence help more people, which you say has always been your aim. Your reply implies that you only want to help people who have money, regardless of their commitment to conscious growth.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by stripysweatergirl

The idea of not giving power away to money only works when a) you have enough money to not worry about it (I don't) and b) the whole of society stops giving away power to money (it hasn't). It's all very well to say it's a pittance but it really isn't, Steve.

Those beliefs are total B.S.

The money is an effect, not a cause. I started having more money flowing through my life only AFTER I let go of B.S. beliefs like the above. I began creating feelings of abundance while I was broke, had a negative cashflow, and was $150K in debt. I simply choose to stop giving away my power to circumstances, and I used my power to create the feelings and the "vibration" I wanted to have, which in my case was one of abundance and creativity.

Only AFTER I did that did the money begin to flow. Within 6 months I was in a stable place financially. And a few years later, I was enjoying a delicious level of abundance.

I KNOW that those feelings and the results have absolutely NOTHING to do with external circumstances. It is ABSOLUTE and UTTER B.S. to say that I feel abundant because I have money. The exact OPPOSITE of that is true. I have money flowing through my life (as well as an abundance of happiness, friendships, intimacy, love, and joy) because I committed myself to consistently holding the vibration that attracts all of that to me.

You could take away all my money, and I will continue creating feelings of abundance, and more money will simply flow back to me.

Heck, I've already "lost" half my furniture in my separation with Erin. So what? Life is abundant. New furniture will soon flow in to take it's place, and it will be even better than what was there before.

Don't give your power away to circumstances. You are way more POWERFUL than that.

[James81]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Those beliefs are total B.S.

The money is an effect, not a cause. I started having more money flowing through my life only AFTER I let go of B.S. beliefs like the above. I began creating feelings of abundance while I was broke, had a negative cashflow, and was $150K in debt. I simply choose to stop giving away my power to circumstances, and I used my power to create the feelings and the "vibration" I wanted to have, which in my case was one of abundance and creativity.

Only AFTER I did that did the money begin to flow. Within 6 months I was in a stable place financially. And a few years later, I was enjoying a delicious level of abundance.

I KNOW that those feelings and the results have absolutely NOTHING to do with external circumstances. It is ABSOLUTE and UTTER B.S. to say that I feel abundant because I have money. The exact OPPOSITE of that is true. I have money flowing through my life (as well as an abundance of happiness, friendships, intimacy, love, and joy) because I committed myself to consistently holding the vibration that attracts all of that to me.

You could take away all my money, and I will continue creating feelings of abundance, and more money will simply flow back to me.

Heck, I've already "lost" half my furniture in my separation with Erin. So what? Life is abundant. New furniture will soon flow in to take it's place, and it will be even better than what was there before.

Don't give your power away to circumstances. You are way more POWERFUL than that.

I've noticed that you've got blog posts here and there that touch on your beliefs about abundance/money, but I don't think I've seen anything where they are all in one place/post.

I know I for one would love to see you do an in depth post/article where you talk about the abundance mentality in depth and your beliefs about money/abundance as a specific subject and not attached to another subject.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by James81

I've noticed that you've got blog posts here and there that touch on your beliefs about abundance/money, but I don't think I've seen anything where they are all in one place/post.

I know I for one would love to see you do an in depth post/article where you talk about the abundance mentality in depth and your beliefs about money/abundance as a specific subject and not attached to another subject.

Well that's a frakkin huge synchronicity for me.

This morning I woke up with the idea of recording a video blog about abundance. Thanks for the quick validation!

Making a video also gives me a reason to learn how to use iMovie.

[James81]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Well that's a frakkin huge synchronicity for me.

This morning I woke up with the idea of recording a video blog about abundance. Thanks for the quick validation!

Making a video also gives me a reason to learn how to use iMovie.

That's awesome.

I know it'll resonate with me because right now I'm facing a lot of tension when it comes to career/abundance issues. I've been down this road before, but I've never gotten to the point where I find it a physical chore to actually engage into my career to even do the bare minimum I need to accomplish.

So I await this with bated breath.

[cacheborn]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Well that's a frakkin huge synchronicity for me.

This morning I woke up with the idea of recording a video blog about abundance. Thanks for the quick validation!

Making a video also gives me a reason to learn how to use iMovie.

That's would be awesome. Your tweet "An abundance of resources will flow through your life AFTER you're consistently creating the feeling of abundance." got me thinking. It seems that you are talking on the similar lines as abraham-Hicks. Would be great to have a clearer idea.

[nutella2]

Today (as many days) I was at the French national library in Paris. It holds every publication that was ever published in France, with ancient manuscripts to boot, and a huge number of English language publications as well. There are electronic journal archives to the majority of academic journals all over the world. It has immense film archives which can be ordered and watched on site. There are archives from all the TV shows and radio shows since the 1960s. I show up and order stuff, and within half an hour anything is ready for me to take to my desk. There are reading rooms stretching out over a kilometer. I can go there every week of the year if I want.
Cost of the annual card? 27 euros. (40 dollars)
If I run out of stuff to consult there, maybe I'll think about buying the DVD

[blissofbeing]

Steve I am happy for you and your separation, I think it's a great thing for you.

Have you tried TextMate? I find it far superior than Coda for programming, best editor I have used on any OS.

If you want a full html/css environment like Coda provides then I recommend Espresso. It has more features and just feels smoother to me than Coda.

[Gene]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Well that's a frakkin huge synchronicity for me.

This morning I woke up with the idea of recording a video blog about abundance. Thanks for the quick validation!

You make it and put it up for download and I will watch it along with lots of other people.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Gene

You make it and put it up for download and I will watch it along with lots of other people.

I recorded the video. It's about 35 minutes long. It's taking about an hour just to import/convert it into iMovie. I'll probably cut it into 10-min chunks to post on YouTube.

Hopefully I'll have it online by tomorrow. It shouldn't need much editing other than cutting it into shorter clips, but since I've never used iMovie before, I don't know how long it will take me to create the clips.

[cylon]

I look forward to these videos.

[firefly]

Steve, if you're interested, Vimeo lets you upload longer videos. I know I've watched 35-minute videos there. I think the only limit is 500mb for the basic plan and 1gb for the paid plan.

I know YouTube is more popular, but personally I like the flow of watching a video all at once, especially when it's content-rich material like your podcasts. Just a thought.

[cylon]

Is vimeo only intel? I seem to remember not being able to watch one of their videos on my super futuristic powermac G5.

[firefly]

Not that I know of, cylon. I didn't see anything in their Help section regarding Intel or Macs except that OS X machines play HD better than older Macs.

It might have been an issue with Flash or javascript on your computer. I've had to reinstall Flash because of random weirdness on other websites before.

ETA: According to Vimeo's FAQ the only system requirements are: "a fairly fast internet connection and computer". They add that "any computer made within the last three years should work fine on Vimeo."

[cylon]

Thanks firefly, I'll check it out more. I do think youtube's 10 minute limit is kind of awkward and prohibitive.

[Daffy Duck]

Originally Posted by firefly

It might have been an issue with Flash or javascript on your computer.

Yeah, 99% chance that's what it was. Any modern OS and browser can play Flash movies as long as they have Flash installed correctly (which it often is by default).

[Steve Pavlina]

iMovie is processing the first 9-min clip for uploading to YouTube now. I think I'm getting the hang of iMovie. I'm a fast learner, esp. when it comes to software.

I still have 3 more clips to process and create, but I expect those will go much faster. One thing that's a little confusing to me is how the project management works in iMovie. How do I save my current project and create another project to begin editing and creating clip #2 from the same 35-min source footage? There doesn't seem to be a project Save or Save as... feature. Apparently iMovie saves automatically. That's a bit confusing -- how to save the state of the current project to begin working on a new one?

[Daffy Duck]

Steve, my version of iMovie allows me to save projects by clicking the File menu and choosing "Save Project As". That's odd that yours doesn't have that.

I've read online that some versions "save by themselves... the beauty of Mac". I'm guessing these may be saved in a Projects folder somewhere, and they will still be there if you create a new project.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

Steve, my version of iMovie allows me to save projects by clicking the File menu and choosing "Save Project As". That's odd that yours doesn't have that.

I've read online that some versions "save by themselves... the beauty of Mac". I'm guessing these may be saved in a Projects folder somewhere, and they will still be there if you create a new project.

I'm using iMovie '09, so apparently this is something new they added.

[vartann]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Those beliefs are total B.S.

The money is an effect, not a cause. I started having more money flowing through my life only AFTER I let go of B.S. beliefs like the above. I began creating feelings of abundance while I was broke, had a negative cashflow, and was $150K in debt. I simply choose to stop giving away my power to circumstances, and I used my power to create the feelings and the "vibration" I wanted to have.

nothing to add -
same here (although i had only run into 100k )


pace e salute

[ellie]

Do you have iMovie HD in your applications folder, which is different to iMovie '09? Imovie HD allows you to save and save as.

I haven't really looked a iMovie 09, because I do video edditing in Final Cut, but I help set-up iMovie HD for someone who wanted to edit some footage of their wedding and it seemed rather simple.
Just looked at iMovie '09 does seem a bit odd, the way you can't "save and save as".

***edit - ok it seems like it just keeps all project saved and you can access all your projects on the top left hand corner tab >project library.

I'm just about to embark on editing and adding motion graphics to a movie trailer, for that I will use Final Cut and After Effects - fun

[bluedragon]

Even if I will succeed in generating abundance for myself (and I believe I will), I don't think I will ever tell someone else that the reason why they live in poverty is because of their "beliefs". How would I know if what was true for me is also true for them? How would I know that the universe works in the same way for them as it did for me? I would feel awful to have to tell a friend whom I really respect that he is causing his own problems. Maybe some people do not equate abundance with material abundance...

[YourHumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by bluedragon

Even if I will succeed in generating abundance for myself (and I believe I will), I don't think I will ever tell someone else that the reason why they live in poverty is because of their "beliefs". How would I know if what was true for me is also true for them? How would I know that the universe works in the same way for them as it did for me? I would feel awful to have to tell a friend whom I really respect that he is causing his own problems. Maybe some people do not equate abundance with material abundance...

Great, they don't have to have material abundance. If they gripe about it though, they're full of ****.

Responsibility is empowering. People cannot break their chains until they've taken control. If you have made it far enough to know it's true, you'd be doing a disservice to those whom you supposedly respect to keep it from them. (Playing along with the pity party doesn't help them, it enables them.) If they won't hear it, they're not worthy of respect.

[Alex Wu]

Steve, I look forward to seeing the videos!! What sort of camera do you use to make the recording?

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by Alex Wu

Steve, I look forward to seeing the videos!! What sort of camera do you use to make the recording?

I used a Flip HD camera to record the video.

I'm currently re-uploading the first segment because I'd forgotten to normalize the audio on that one. As soon as it's online and available, I'll post everything to my blog. I've already written the blog post... just waiting on the upload, which should be done in about an hour.

[Bud921]

Hey Steve,

On your ad for Man Transformation ( which I have found to be very beneficial) you are quoted as saying "Transform yourself into a man who can attract and keep a high quality woman."

With the recent events concerning you and Erin.. I'm curious as to how you feel about that statement now.

In no way am I bashing your and Erin's decision to separate, I'm just interested from an integrity standpoint. I have great faith that you and Erin are doing the right thing, however I just feel the ad is somewhat misleading.

Looking forward to your videos on Abundance.