What is Steve's new mystery project?

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by billytheadult

it's called face to face interaction"

lol

[Zach M]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

It's not about sex, D/s, travel, movies, politics, or social networking. I've blogged about those topics in the past, but as I mentioned in my blog post about this new direction, it involves something I haven't blogged about, nor have I seen anyone mention it here in the forums. So if you read about a certain idea or topic in my blog, that can't be it.

It's a fairly specific plan though, too specific for someone to guess by taking a stab in the dark.

That eliminates a lot. Here's my stab in the dark: first Westerner to become inducted as an Achuar shaman.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by roxyruby

Maybe a new career that is a mix of polyamory prostitution, raw food cooking lessons, and personal development life coaching, all rolled into the one product that he offers people. It's called sexfoodlifecoaching

Maybe he will host sex parties that also teach personal development at the same time. XD This career called personalsexandlifedevelopment

Maybe he will have an online TV show instead of blogging. This career called Televisogging.

HAHAhahaha! That's hilarious, Roxy. And I for one look forward to the day I can turn on the 3DTV and watch my a sexfoodlife coaching session televisigogged from Steve's own mindprojectofier.

But until that happens, let's look at the information so far:

1. This is something that takes a significant amount of time to start
2. It's changing the nature of the dream
3. It's service-based

So far, I'm pretty sure that's all we know.
Which, intuitively feels to me like something much much more personal than Steve has ever done. Much more personal and interpersonal and intimate (but not in a sexual way necessarily).

I get the feeling that it's directly related to strengthening the network of people affected by his work.

Those 3 points suggestion that in my heart.
Did I miss anything?

[roxyruby]

Clues so far that I have gathered

What it's not:

• sex,
• D/s
• travel
• movies
• politics
• social networking
• a traditional career

What it is:

• It's so inspiring to him that he's already been working hard on it.
• It's the most kick-ass vision he's ever come up with.
• It's the beginning of another major career transition.
• He's never done before.
• He's never planned it before.
• It can't be named or labeled in conventional terms.
• It's something that’s uniquely him.
• He's still not sure how he'll pull it off.
• He just knows that he must do it.
• He still has many details to work out.
• The core concept is still evolving.
• People are likely to find it too ambitious.
• Public reactions would be similar to what happened when he told people he was going to graduate college in three semesters.
• Over the next year, many people will probably figure it out because there will be a shift in his actions that will invariably drop some clues.
• Unlike his 2004 transition from game development to personal development, this new transition is about building upon what he's already done.
• It’s definitely more of a forward step than a sidestep.
• It has to do with expanding his contribution.
• He's never blogged about this before.
• It's a fairly specific plan though, too specific for someone to guess by taking a stab in the dark.
• It's intended to affect a lot of people's lives for the better.
• It has the potential to be significantly more impactful than anything he's done up to this point.

Other potential clues:

• He’s still going to be blogging as normal in the meantime.
• Recently he has gained an incredible new sense of possibility
• He recently realized that the objective mindset was causing him to hold himself back too much, especially when it came to his career path.
• He's been asking questions like, “If this really is a dream, what now becomes possible for me that I previously considered impossible?”
• Lately he's been asking himself, “Where do I want to take my life story from here? What kind of impact do I wish to have on the stories of others… or on the story of humanity itself?”
• He's looking at his life from the perspective that it’s an unfolding story in a dream world.
• His recent words,"What game would I like to write that I’d most enjoy playing? What story would I most like to experience?"

[roxyruby]

Hmmm, doing something like Tony Robbins does with his huge motivational conventions & travelling the world doing this?
Working with people individually? Like a pyschologist/life coach/mentor all rolled into one?
Creating a specialized "personal development computer" that changes your life as well as being useful
Creating a personal development centre to effect you in a powerful way, like a mixture of a Science Centre/Disneyland.
Write and release 20-500 books all at the same time.
Have a raw food, vegan, personal development resort where people go and stay for 10 days or maybe more, and experience the change of lifestyle as well as workshops by steve.
Opening a chain of raw food, vegan restaurants, supermarkets, or cafes
Creating individualized personal development websites for each different type of person/life problem.
Create and run a unique sort of Casino
Buy an Island that is a whole personal development retreat sort of thing.
Buy a whole Island and make the whole island like a fun game and you have to work through challenges yet also a very life changing, personal development experience to improve and change your life.
Doing some sort of unique performing on stage with Rachelle.
Creating a sort of invention that we attach to our brains to send unconditional love and acceptance to eachother

[richardxthripp]

I think he is going to create a new PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COMPUTER GAME.

[Brutha]

Hmmm, doing something like Tony Robbins does with his huge motivational conventions & travelling the world doing this?

I don't think that's something that Steve never planned to do before.
It would simply be going further down the path that he was already going. He also wants to stop giving his workshops.

[supertom]

my guess is the thing that seems closest to what he is gonna do is toastmasters meets conscious growth meets subjective reality. he will go around the world starting new clubs as he travels in a unplanned synchronicous manner. He will see how much can a subjective reality person change his dream world.

[munish]

I think it has something to do with Artificial Intelligence.

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by supertom

my guess is the thing that seems closest to what he is gonna do is toastmasters meets conscious growth meets subjective reality. he will go around the world starting new clubs as he travels in a unplanned synchronicous manner. He will see how much can a subjective reality person change his dream world.

I really like this idea. A Conscious Growth Club (CGC?) would be a very powerful way to start effecting the world on a more profound level.

I'd love to see this.

[Eureka]

Well, he ditched the conscious growth workshop idea, so he obviously has an idea that would help people on that level but at a much larger scale.

[James81]

Two words:

Hot ice.

[st33med]

Originally Posted by James81

Two words:

Hot ice.

Creating sexy ice scupltures?

[Ikkyo]

He is going to sit under a tree for 6 months and become a non religious modern day Buddha to help mankind reach their new step in their evolutionary process

from Homo sapiens to Homo Luminus

[roxyruby]

Start a project giving away free self help/business books etc for free

Start a new corporation

Become a beggar

Travel around and speak in every city/town in America or every city/town in the world

Travel to the home of each and every one of his readers and stay with them for a week each and mentor them personally and connect with them and fully help improve their life for 1 week.

Write the longest book ever written.

Become a singer and sing personal development songs that improve peoples lives with their lyrics and infuse the song with life-transforming energy and emotion

Start a Drama Class that focuses on being yourself on stage

Host parties where you can mingle with the top Self Help/Transformative People/Writers

Become a Scientist and research pyschic stuff and personal development stuff

Give a speech from the top of all of the tallest mountains in the world

Start a Casino where you can win books instead of money

Make apps for the iphone/ipad to improve your life

[NewSimon]

Another stab in the dark:

A large globally networked, international crime-fighting syndicate. Righting wrongs where-ever Mr Pav sees fit. Moping up oil. Banishing religious zealots (just the bad ones). Putting people off eating animals. Having strong words with those idiots running North Korea. Replacing cocaine with muffin recipes.

Think of a kind of Man from UNCLE, Thunderbirds, Facebook, Rev Jim Jones meets Tony Robbins meets uncorrupted Martha Stewart, Zen subjective political business consultancy with guns mash-up.

Friday nights could be a sexy free-for-all if you're invited to join (and you're not too busy dealing with anything bad happening in the world).

[Daffy Duck]

Steve has decided to become a professional lawn mower.

[Ikkyo]

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

Steve has decided to become a professional lawn mower.

Professional Lawn Development for Gardeners

[invisiblehouses]

No, wait, I got one, I got one. Check it out...

In a post on D/s, something was once said to effect of, "What if you had someone doing this for you in regards to your work/career?" The point was that if you had to unswervingly obey someone's orders every day, you'd get that novel written, get that blog up and running, get that business started, etc. in a much shorter time frame.

So, anyway, what he's cooking up is a Virtual Steve software suite that sort of takes over your computer, smartphone, microwave or any other devices you install it on, and constantly reminds you to spend your time wisely. You try to check the latest news on CNN, his head pops up and asks you if knowing what's going on in the world is going to help you reach your goals. You also have to tell it how much time you spent working (on your work and their work) each day. If you have a job, it reminds you that you're wasting time on other people's goals. Sometimes it makes jokes that sort of piss you off because they're a little close to the bone. When you get to the point that you're spending most of your time working on the things you need to work on, and it senses that you're firmly in the habit of whatever-it-is, it suddenly uninstalls itself.

This is totally gonna be what it is.

[WarrenG]

There is no mystery project. He's 'intending' to think of something that hasn't been done yet.

[cheesedip1]

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

Steve has decided to become a professional lawn mower.

Steve has decided to become a professional lawn GNOME.

[Andreas]

You know, I'm glad someone brought this up again because I was thinking recently, "What ever happened to Steve's secret project?"

He originally said we should start seeing some effects of it by early 2011. But it's been over a year since we've heard anything about it.

Have you abandoned it, Steve?
Or is it taking longer to implement than you thought?

[ming]

Change sex, live like a woman for a couple of years or more, and go back to the surgeon to recover manhood. Tell it all.

A British tycoon and father of two has been a man and a woman ... and a man again ... and knows which he'd rather be | Mail Online

[SireneB]

Originally Posted by Andreas

He originally said we should start seeing some effects of it by early 2011. But it's been over a year since we've heard anything about it.

~thinks about what has had a big effect in 2011 ~
Um .... he masterminded the Occupy movement?

[Cuore]

I think he was talking about:

Help wanted
Help wanted (the serious version)

[Andrew Brunelle]

So, hiring a staff is a brilliant vision? That's more of what most businesses do, not some secret project. I think he's planning a movement or something, a revolution or something. And he needs some space monkeys to assist him.

[Dimitri]

Originally Posted by Andreas

You know, I'm glad someone brought this up again because I was thinking recently, "What ever happened to Steve's secret project?"

He originally said we should start seeing some effects of it by early 2011. But it's been over a year since we've heard anything about it.

Have you abandoned it, Steve?
Or is it taking longer to implement than you thought?

Honestly, it could've been anything and it could've died long ago.

How many times has Steve mentioned making information products and audio programs (as far back as Feb 2009 Goals Into Habits). And even after he actually jumped into the water with both feet and made that survey, and posted about the results...

... all that came out of it was another affiliate product from someone else. Months later and there's still no actual product from Steve.

Steve never actually admits his current real-life mistakes. He only mentions them in passing as a "lesson in personal growth" to be learned from, weeks after the fact. He would never actually post "I made a mistake and there's not going to be any big project" because in his words, it doesn't add any value to the reader.

And so the reader comes to the blog or to his Twitter and it seems like Steve's life is success after success with no failure in between. It's just that Steve lets the failure become forgotten, he just never mentions it (except again, only in examples having to do with personal growth) and so old and new readers eventually forget.

In movies they take out all the boring pieces of dialogue (well, they just never write them in the script) to produce a great screenplay. Steve doesn't post about anything that's not conductive to personal growth, and so we get this "idealistic, all-powerful" image of him.

[Dimitri]

Also, the fact that he made it "secret" tells us a lot. In my experience, whenever I'm working on something secret, it's far easier to drop it, because I have no accountability. There are no expectations from others. By keeping his project secret, Steve didn't have to explain anything later or own up to the fact that he dropped it. The fact that it was secret shows that Steve was probably unsure of his idea, otherwise he'd "Broadcast His Desires", wouldn't he?

The only other possibility I can think of is that Steve has miscalculated the time it would take him to get from A to B. Perhaps he expected results within a year; but if the project really is that big, it's not a surprise that it's taking longer than one year for us to see the effects.

[momo313]

Steve's new mystery project for 2011 was to close down the forums. LOL.