Welcome to the 18th and final edition of the Doing it Differently Blog Carnival!

This carnival is dedicated to the concept of stepping outside of the box and living our lives in ways beyond the "norm"!

Whether you want to learn unique ways to think or act differently, or if you want to share your own unique ideas, this carnival is for you!

This will be the final edition of the Doing it Differently blog carnival hosted at Today is that Day, so I have made this edition the most information packed edition yet!

Enjoy all of this great content, and if you like this carnival or if you are one of the authors featured in this edition, be sure to add this post to Stumbleupon, Digg, or your favorite social bookmarking site!

Self Improvement/Personal Growth

Stephen Martile - Great Friends

Sabrina Jefferson - Building Confidence By Doing

Personal Development by an INTJ - How To Solve Problems By Changing Your Frame Or Perspective

The Happy and Prosperous Blog - Self-Esteeming - Creating Self-Esteem

Never the Same River Twice - Are You Working With an Old Reality? How to Change Paradigms

Arun's Daily Remedy - Conflicting Desires

Energies of Creation - Are You Trapped in a Brain Closet?

Relationships

Makeitbetter’s Weblog - I Hate Weddings

The Incurable Romantic - When the Lights Go Out

Conscious Flex - The Purpose of Human Relationships

Systems Thinker - Choosing Intimate Partners: To Repeat or Not to Repeat?

Parenting

David B. Bohl - How to Talk to Children

The Next 45 Years - Confessions from a Recovering Father

Homework. Dinner. Life. - Let Your Kids Stay In the Room While You Do It

Parenting Squad - Why Stay-At-Home-Dads Are Good For Families

Business/Success

Internet Business and Life at ProcessToProfits - How Are You Dividing Your Attention?

Bootstrapper - How to Telecommute Successfully: 50 Tips and Resources

Yes to Me - Are You Afraid To Express Yourself In Business?

Internet Business Coaching by Terry Dean - 7 Make Money Online Myths

Mark Riffey's Business is Personal - Blocking time improves small business owner productivity

Don D. Morrison - Do You Have True Personal & Financial Freedom?

Get International Clients - How Information Products Sold In Foreign Markets Can Save Your Business When Your Economy Is Slow

Internet Business Guide - How To Save 2 Hours Per Day

Lee McIntyre's Internet Marketing Blog - Low Cost Way to Get 1,000 Workers Today

Law of Attraction/Conscious Creation

Law of Attraction for Beginners - Cooking with Thought Energy

Good to Feel Good - A Secret Meditation for Law of Attraction Followers

The Environment

Phil for Humanity - Stop Watering Your Lawn

That wraps up the 18th and final edition of the Doing it Differently Blog Carnival! Many thanks to all of the most recent authors, as well as to all of the authors who have contributed in the past! I'm certain that the readers of this carnival have gotten great value from your content, so please accept my sincerest gratitude for all that you have shared!

Concepts such as visualization and affirmations were popular long before the term "law of attraction" became mainstream, and long before the success of movies like The Secret. The reason for that is because those methods work. However, like any success method, you have to do it right in order to get the results.

If you want to visualize your way to success, then you need to find a way to evoke the emotional response that the success itself will feel like once you have attained it. You can sit around all day long looking at mind movies of your successful march down victory lane, but if those movies or images do not evoke the proper emotional response, then your visualizations will have limited effectiveness.

Photo Credit: WazariThe challenge with creating visualizations that evoke an emotional response is that you have to find something to be emotional about. Then, when you do, you must avoid cluttering the whole thing up with so much extraneous crap that you can't even consciously think about it properly, let alone set your subconscious to work on it!

Getting Emotional 

In order to find something to be emotional about, you need to really make the commitment to eventually attain whatever it is. Sure, everyone wants to take a swan dive into a pile of cash, have a body like a super-model, or to have their dream home off the coast of somewhere beautiful, but does whatever you are visualizing for create such a feeling of happiness, fulfillment, success, or confidence that you literally can't stop thinking about it?

If your answer is "yes," then you're on the right track. However, if you had to think about it, then there is a good chance you are trying to visualize something into existence that you don't want as badly as you think you do.

Remember: The purpose behind visualization is to evoke a positive emotional response that is so profound, and so wonderful, that you almost don't even need the "real thing" because you already feel like you have it! As Napoleon Hill says in Think and Grow Rich:

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire brings a small amount of heat.

Keeping it Simple

Most people are familiar with Einstein's famous "E=mc²" formula. In very simple terms, it means that all energy can be turned into matter, and all matter can be turned into energy. To get energy, you multiply the mass of your object times the square root of the speed of light. OK, have you got that?

Now, do it in your head.

Pretty ludicrous, right? Yet that is exactly the type of situation that we put our mind in when we try to visualize all of our dreams coming true, and we try to visualize it all at once. Neither the conscious mind nor the subconscious mind can accurately and effectively extrapolate that many images all at once, let alone evoking a corresponding emotional response.

It's like trying to walk and chew gum at the same time, all the while patting your head, rubbing your tummy, calculating the aforementioned E=mc², and also trying to balance your check book - and you're doing it all in your head! (p.s. - Don't forget the ATM fees, the revolving interest rates, the monthly service charges, and that check you wrote for little Suzi's school fund raiser!)

The only way that you are going to effectively visualize is if you find a way to keep it simple. You don't need to know every single detail that leads up to HOW you got to the point of where you are in your visualization, all you need to know is the details of that very moment.

• If you see yourself shaking hands with the people from Publisher's Clearing House because you just won a bazillion dollars, then all you need to feel is what it's like in that moment. Give no thought to how many magazines you had to buy in order to get there.
• If you see yourself with a ripped, chiseled body, and people all around you are drooling, stammering, and tripping over their own two feet because you are presenting such a God/Goddess-like visage for them to look at, then all you need to visualize is that moment. Give no thought to how many Ab Ripper X routines it took, how many times you had to do Plyometrics, or how much you love to hate Tony Horton.
• If you see yourself on the top floor of the downtown corporate headquarters in your corner office, all you need to do is feel what it feels like to admire the view in that moment. Give no thought to how many nights and weekends you had to work in order to get that promotion, or to how many years it took you to get there.

Visualization is one of the most effective tools that you have at your disposal when it comes to marshaling your own resources, not to mention the hidden resources that may very well be a part of your success, even though you can't see that part of the equation yet.

Practicing what I Preach

My personal goal is to be the very first Super-Star Diamond Coach for Team Beachbody. No one in the history of the company has ever done it, and I want that slot. For fame and for glory? No. Because having that slot will mean that I have helped literally tens of thousands of people to take control over their health, their wealth, their freedom, and their very lives.

How do I visualize changing the lives of tens of thousands of people? I simply see myself walking across the stage and being handed this diamond-studded pin by the CEO and the president of the company, and I feel what that moment feels like.

It may be beyond my capabilities to envision changing tens of thousands of lives, but I can certainly envision two guys handing me a shiny pin that represents the changing of all of those lives. By keeping it simple, I keep it real, and I can put myself in that moment dozens of times each day - complete with the feelings of being there.

What about you? What are you doing dozens of times each day? 

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I've got a couple of great posts (i.e. - in your face, get off your butt and make it happen) planned for later in this week, but for now, I just wanted to give a couple of quick shout outs for some conscious creation events or products that are worth you taking a quick peek at, especially if you've been having trouble creating the success that you know you are capable of.

First up is the 6-week teleconference that Edward Mills is about to launch entitled Basic Energy Awareness Skills for Deliberate Creators. Ed is one of my mastermind partners, which means, quite frankly, that I don't cut him much slack. When he tells me about something he is working on, I look at it from the consumer's point of view, and I grill him with those types of questions:

• What are people getting out of this?
• Is this going to be something that people can actually do?
• Is there plenty of content for the price?
• Is there enough value?

In this case, Ed has definitely brought some great stuff to the table, and in a format that will be both understandable by "regular" people, and also delivered in multiple formats so that people can take it in using whatever systems work best for them. Definitely worth taking a look at, and here's the link:

Basic Energy Awareness Skills for Deliberate Creators

Next up is a reminder about the very cool Conscious Creation Retreat that Debra Moorhead is holding on May 30th in Maysville, KY. I wrote up an informative post about her retreat back in March, and the event is definitely something worth looking into.

Debra is a stand up gal, and I have no doubt that anything she takes the reigns of will be worth taking a look at. Check it all out over at her blog:

Conscious Creation Retreat

And finally, James Arthur Ray has come out with a new book called Harmonic Wealth that has been getting some great reviews.

I haven't read it yet myself, but I am a fan of James' philosophies, and he has been talking about 'Harmonic Wealth' as a concept for quite a long time. I'm sure his recent experiences since starring in The Secret have added to his teachings quite a bit, so the book should be worth checking out. There is also a a DVD edition that (at the time of this writing) is out of stock, but for those of you who don't like or want to read, that is another option for you:

Harmonic Wealth - Book ~ Harmonic Wealth - The Movie

That's it for now! Enjoy your Conscious Creation efforts and create something worthy of you! 

Last week I told you about the very cool teleseminar that Ed Mills from Evolving Times was doing, and it turns out that it was a smashing success! All of the participants got a bunch of great information, and they actually ran out of time, so they are going to do it again this Wednesday, April 23rd.

Ed has the recording up from the first seminar, and it is available for free, and the 2nd teleseminar on Wednesday will also be free. I found out about this one a bit sooner, so hopefully more of you will be able to grab a seat this time around with a bit more notice.

Ed's experience with the energetics of the human body as well as his history with the Law of Attraction make him the perfect man for this type of project, and I'm sure he'll deliver more than enough information to make it worth your time. 

Check it all out over at Ed's site, and enjoy!

Energetics of Attraction Teleseminar

Most regular readers here at Today is that Day are familiar with the wisdom often shared by Edward Mills over at Evolving Times. Ed's content is always worth checking out, and his understanding of the Law of Attraction is more than you are going to get from the average Joe who just happened watch 'The Secret' once or twice.

In fact, unlike many bloggers, Ed actually shares his wisdom "offline" as well as on the 'net, and he has been coaching people one-on-one about the Law of Attraction concepts for a long time. I have personally had the privilege of talking to Ed on the phone many times, and his character and integrity are even more evident in real time than they are on the Internet.

Edward Mills
Creator of The Energetics of AttractionEd's latest project is a teleseminar series called the Energetics of Attraction. In short, the Energetics of Attraction combines a person's individual energy patterns with classic Law of Attraction practices, and the end result is a level of control over your life that the Law of Attraction alone has trouble delivering for a lot of people.

After all, how many times can you be told to visualize, say affirmations, and just generally feel good about life? Yes, those things work, but the Energetics of Attraction takes it to a level that standard Law of Attraction teachings don't deliver.

The teleclass is 100% free of charge, but it is also coming up quick, so if you want to get a slot, cruise on over to register right now: Energetics of Attraction

On the call, Ed promises to deliver all of the following:

• How to simply AND easily separate your personal energy from other people's energy (OPE). This one simple technique can literally change your life overnight.
• Why sending your intentions "out to the Universe" is not enough and how to GROUND those intentions into the physical Earth!
• How to instantly shift your perspective and increase your personal vibration. 

Overall, it sounds like great stuff, and it doesn't cost a dime, so why not check it out and see what Ed has to offer?