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Jonathan Mead · 1 year ago

All right Clay, you've inspired me to try this. Here goes nothing. =)

Thanks for the in-depth article. I can tell you put a lot of work into this one. Thumbs way up.

Dave Navarro · 1 year ago

Clay -

Thanks for the extremely in-depth tutorial. I've always wanted to do this but thought it would be more complicated than this.

There's huge value in a goal movie because even if you're stressed / distracted / overwhelmed, you can turn it on and snap yourself out of it.

I have an audio recording f my goals that I listen to frequently - I'm interested to see if this engages me in a stronger way (which it probably will).

Thanks again -

Dave

JEMi @ InMyHeels · 1 year ago

I could really use this

ok I'm going to stop dragging my heels :) I'm going to work on one
I have no doubt it'll be a powerful tool

thanks Clay

Nathalie · 1 year ago

I really like this tutorial. I have been wanting to make my own goal movie for awhile, but keep putting it off. I think I'm going to bump it up on my to-do list and get those goals into motion.

Hunter Nuttall · 1 year ago

The combination of audio and video should really drive your goals deep into your subconscious. Thanks for spelling out how to do it...for the many of us who didn't already know how, this guide is extremely helpful.

Pat R · 1 year ago

Clay - this post is great. I like the goal setting via movies and music. You've put together an impressive tutorial. Thank you.

Marelisa · 1 year ago

I think the real power of a mind movie is twofold: keeping your focus on what you want, and motivating you to take action to make your image come-to-be. OK, threefold: it also helps you to believe that you're capable of achieving the things in your mind movie since you expose your mind to it over and over again. There's a saying that goes something like this: whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Too often we waste our time on trivial things: this is a result of not having a clear point to focus on.

Really nice post Clay and it's great that you're willing to go the extra mile and help people create their mindmovies.

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@Marlisa: I like those three points, as well as the quotation. For me, the biggest purpose of a goal movie is to keep my mind focused. I get sidetracked too easily.

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@Pat: Thanks! If you end up doing this please consider uploading to YouTube and posting the link here (if you want to share).

--Clay

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@Hunter: Yeah, something about the visuals plus the audio really drives things home. Whenever I find myself getting discouraged about a goal, I watch my goal movie. My attitude doesn't change instantly but I find myself arriving at spontaneous insights constantly throughout the reminder of the day and also finding hidden sources of motivation. It's really uncanny.

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@I'm glad. Making a goal movie can take a lot of work (especially writing the affirmations and finding photos), but it's worth it. I should make a goal movie for motiving people to make goal movies :-)

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@JEMi: I want to see how a goal movie's done -- JEMi style.

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@Dave: You're welcome. I'm curious about your audio goals. Because I'm such an oral person, "the voice in my head" can sometimes be discouraging, so the visual aspect of goal movies helps me slip in motivation through the back door :-). But maybe audio might work!

--Clay

Clay Collins · 1 year ago

@Jonathan: Gotcha'! Thanks for the two thumbs.

J.D. · 1 year ago

Very good write up.

I like the approach for a few reasons:
- if you see it you can achieve it
- doing a dry run of your life can be a good wake up call
- you're the director of your life
- it lets you model the "what if"'s
- you can "choose your own adventure"
- we naturally think in pictures
- it creates an emotional connection, beyond just an intellectual connection, to the end in mind
- it's an incremental experience over vision boards

I do something similar for modeling software -- I call them "experience step throughs" -- literally stepping throught the experience, as if it existed. I find there is a big difference between text, whiteboarding, storyboarding, slideware, movies, prototypes ... etc. Making something visual gives you an emotional reaction, shines the spot light on some things you might have missed, and helps you focus on the big rocks before getting lost in minutia.

Butterfly · 1 year ago

I've done a few that I felt like sharing. :) I have a few more that are more personal, but here are some public ones.

Bob Collier · 1 year ago

I already have my images on PowerPoint slides, so this is very helpful to me for making more of them. Thank you very much.

Lisa Lee · 1 year ago

Love this, and thank you so much for posting! One thing though.. I've been reading the work of Shakti Gawain for years (Creative Visualization book she published in the early 80's). It was my intro to "law of attraction". She says, and I tend to agree, that you should devote only one goal per "Treasure Map" rather than adding everything into ONE. In other words, one treasure map for love, one for money, etc.. Well, this being 20+ years later and the "digital age", Mind Movies can take the place of treasure maps. I think doing one mind movie per goal would be most effective. Just my .02 cents. ;)I'm sure it would work very well both ways.

Watch Movies Online · 1 week ago

Never really found my favorite filmmaker's top picks as interesting as the filmmakers own movies. Tarantino, Gilliam, Aranofsky all make good movies but the movies they like are either the obvious classics or seem lame and random.