1. We are one.

The Internet is a physical manifestation of our oneness. It may seem like a separate thing from us, but it’s made up of connections, transactions and exchanges between people, places, things and ideas. When we are connected to the Internet, we are connected to everything on the Internet. Substitute the word “life” for “Internet” and you can see how the Internet is just a manifestation of our underlying source. Connect to life, connect to everything. And since we are life, we are always connected. The fun part is learning to become conscious of that connection and use it to our advantage.

2. Life is fun.

Why do you go online? Because it’s fun to learn, it’s fun to talk to people on Facebook, it’s fun to watch the human drama. It’s fun to look up porn, it’s fun to go shopping, and it’s fun to make things to share with our friends. It’s fun to track our progress, it’s fun to LOL, and it’s fun to watch technology merge with our lives so quickly. We go online to have fun. That’s the only good reason to do anything.

3. Nothing is serious.

Even if something bad happens, everyone forgets about it by tomorrow. If one part of the Internet goes down, it’s already been backed up and mirrored somewhere else. The Internet doesn’t die. And neither do we. We’re eternal, duh!

4. Your life should feel good to you.

When we publish to the Internet, we feel the eyes of the whole. We know that anyone and everyone could read our words. That feeling of being compelled to post online is actually the flow of life inspiring you to share with the rest of humanity. It feels good to be inspired to post online. It feels like freedom and confidence and power. When you want to share about your life, trust it is the inspiration of god guiding you. Share your life when it feels good, and if you don’t want to share, ask yourself if your life feels good to you.

5. It’s whatever you want.

What you put online is as true as anything else. A fact is just something someone believes to be true. A belief is just a pattern of thoughts one thinks over and over. And a thought is just a choice. What do you want to see reflected in your reality? If you want love, start posting about the love you already have—what you like about it, where you see it, how it feels. If you want money, share about the abundance you already have. If you want health, emphasize the parts of you that are healthy.

As a direct manifestation of humanity’s oneness, the Internet provides a fantastic forum for testing the power of thought. What happens online, you can assume is a reflection of our greater consciousness. We have immediate access to the things we want. We can talk to each other instantly through the air. We unveil new possibilities every second. Everything you can do online, you can do in your head. That is the Internet showing us the meaning of life.

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Thank you Georgia!

They say when you start noticing 11:11 on the clock, it’s a wake up call from the universe. Knock knock! Ready to go deeper into this mystery of life? Not only can you say 11:11 represents “one-ness”, but it’s an indicator of synchronicity: things lining up for you in perfect timing. Isn’t the very definition of life, “perfect timing”?

Today is 11/11/11, which means the whole world is noticing the synchronicity. A worldwide wake up call is pretty huge!

What is the wake up call telling you? What do you know you have to do but have been putting off? What new thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions would you like to make yours today?

Take this day as the opportunity it truly is: a chance to align with the person you know you are.

Let’s do it together!

It’s easy to say we’ll change and do better, but sometimes it really helps to share our ideas and support each other. Whether you do it under your own name or a pseudonym, documenting your journey on a blog or website helps you stay accountable, appreciate your progress, and meet people with similar ideas. Basically, blogging helps you stick to it, whatever it may be. Plus, there’s always that possibility of fame and fortune if you achieve your goals—or fail particularly beautifully.

1. Get a site

I always recommend paying for your own web hosting so you can have complete control over your site. This gives you things like a domain name, infinite storage space, and ability to sell or monetize whatever you want on your site (porn and illegal things excluded). If you want to one day make a living from your site, this is the way to go. I have some easy instructions here. Keep in mind it will require a little bit of fiddling with code and software.

If you’re not quite ready for the commitment or technical involvement, get a WordPress.com blog, a Blogger blog, or a Tumblr – whatever is easiest for you.

2. Start writing

Lots of people start blogs as a place to be heard. No one else can share your thoughts for you. And every thought you have is just as valuable as any other on the Internet. Who knows what gold is lying around your head! If you don’t know what to write, check out this list of ideas.

3. Get comfortable with blogging. In public.

Sharing my thoughts in public is scary, but it feels good to do things I’m afraid of. I believe sharing what we think is pretty much the best way to remember each other’s humanity. We all have thoughts and feelings and want them to be heard. Sharing thoughts makes us vulnerable to criticism, but who cares? Haters left!

Keeping a public blog is BALLSY. But there will be many times when you’re not ready to go public. In that case, you can keep drafts of posts saved on your website, or on some platforms (like WordPress) you can publish password-protected or completely private posts. I do not advise this! Every keystroke you make on the Internet has a chance to be public one day. No password is strong enough to protect your privacy forever. If you need to iron out some ideas before sharing them, keep a separate journal on your computer. I often find that when I allow myself to write privately, I can make a lot of progress feeling better about the topic. Often by the time I’m done writing I have a piece I want to share anyway.

For good advice on blogging, read ProBlogger, Penelope Trunk, and Steve Pavlina. For web design advice, read A List Apart.

4. Understand Copyright

If you use someone else’s image on your site, get permission or at the very least link to where you got it. If you want a clear conscience about using other people’s images, use Creative Commons licensed images that are easy to search for on Flickr.

Then decide about how to license your own work. As soon as you publish something, it is technically copyrighted by you. No one has the rights to sell it or use it without your permission. But the best advice I have (which Russell Simmons and Steve Pavlina agree with) is to give it away for free. The best way to get your ideas to the most people is to not put any barriers in the way. Donate your work to the public domain or Creative Commons license it. You will still be able to make money from your art. But when you first start out, the most important thing is to get your ideas into other people’s heads. Make it easy on us. (Recently one of my CC-licensed photos was published on Forbes, neat huh?)

5. Decide how you want to monetize

You’ll be a lot more likely to make money from your site if you decide how you want to do it. Do you want to have a really high traffic site? Then advertising (using Adsense or other platforms) will make you a lot of money. The challenge of traffic-based revenue models is that you only make more money with more traffic, meaning you have to produce a lot of content to keep people coming back.

There are infinite ways to make money from your site. You can sell physical merchandise, digital downloads, subscription access, or affiliate products. And don’t forget about donations! How do you want to make your money?

If you want lots of traffic, ask yourself why. What feeling would that give you? If you want to sell your creative works, ask yourself why. What feeling would that give you? If you want to people to donate large sums to you, ask yourself why. What feeling would that give you? Whatever feeling it is you’re trying to achieve you can start practicing today. The more you choose to feel as if you’ve succeeded, the faster success will come. Be it, see it!

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Thoughts create and how we feel attracts our thoughts. To design one’s life means not only deliberately choosing what thoughts to think, but also deliberately choosing what emotion to feel.

Life design is really two different things: thinking, and not thinking. Both are integral to successful conscious creation. We stop thought to access the calm, infinite intelligence of consciousness, which allows us to know our inherent well being. We think to create. When we do both in balance, we create as gods. Ask, and it is given. You can be or do or have whatever you want.

Lifestreaming is a way to manage the thinking side of life design, and a way to become more conscious of the not-thinking part. Lifestreaming at its core is open source thinking. The source code for the design of my life is my thoughts, and when I make my thoughts public on the Internet, you get to see the source code for my life. And when you view my lifestream, you see more documentation of the times I am not thinking, like when I’m exercising or playing Astrojax or meditating.

I digitize my thoughts and add them to my public lifestream website for many reasons. Most importantly, writing is my primary thought direction practice. I spend 30 minutes to several hours every day consciously selecting thoughts that feel good to think and write them down. I credit this practice with changing the direction of my entire life, from aimless and uncertain to focused and confident and FUN. Diligently directing my thoughts every single day keeps me dedicated to loving myself and my life. Having this record is pure evidence of the magick of life. But the true value in this practice is that it genuinely feels good, and that is the only time thinking is of value anyway – when it feels good.

I also publicly share my thoughts to celebrate our one consciousness. We are all part of the same whole. We are all made of the exact same energy (love, or god, or source). We all want the same things – to have fun and be loved. We are all perfect. All of our experiences have the same value – to expand the universe.

Since we are all one consciousness, there is no reason for me to fear you or what you think. I may create a version of you that has negative thoughts about me, but you are not your mind. I know negative thoughts about me are not true. And I know that you are, at heart, me. With that logic I share my thoughts to practice fearlessness, to practice trusting you instead of fearing your judgement. I trust that you understand what I’m doing. I trust that you are a loving being.

Privacy is a big concern for many on the Internet. My belief is that we feel the need for privacy because we are afraid of each other’s thoughts, and we are afraid for our financial or personal safety. But what if we chose to trust each other, to not need privacy, to trust that we can all do our own things without penalty? What if we sacrificed privacy for trust and unity? You can argue there will always be some that will take advantage of the openness. But couldn’t we train ourselves out of that belief too? Jesus could. We are all made of god. None of us is bad, or evil, or wrong.

I lifestream to stay accountable for my own thoughts, which create my beliefs, my words and my actions. By challenging myself to write as if everyone was looking, I feel inspired to keep going. I am performing this experiment for my own good, and for the good of everyone. What if this works? I can already tell you it does. It takes a lot of practice to get any degree of control, but what work of art has ever been perfect the first brushstroke?

Life is easier when you direct the process from seed to harvest. Shaping your life at the level of thought is like getting to choose whatever you want to plant in your garden. If you don’t choose what seeds you plant, you’ll end up with the same random experiences that left you questioning the meaning of life in the first place. And probably a lot of zucchini you won’t know what to do with either. Whether you choose to plant your garden publicly or not is up to you, but it sure is nice to share ideas about what to grow and how to do it.

thank you Megan!

Thoughts create. Once you become aware of that truth and want to take advantage of it, you become a conscious creator. Conscious creation is just a way to describe deliberate thinking.

When you decide to turn conscious creation into something you practice every day, you become a life designer. Life design is all about iteration – it’s the practice of communicating your thoughts in some medium, reflecting on them, and revising them to create a better life design (YOU!).

As a life designer, you are both the designer and the design. Thoughts are your medium, your life is the project, and the quality of your work is determined by how good you feel. You were born with a guidance system to let you know how you’re doing – your emotions. When you think thoughts that feel good (e.g., thoughts of gratitude, love, appreciation or desire), that is god (or source energy, or the hive mind) telling you you’re getting closer to the design you desire. Think of it as a game of “hotter or colder” – the better you feel, the closer your dreams are to becoming reality.

The way you choose to practice life design is the way you choose to direct your thoughts. For example, you can use a journal, a video camera, audio recordings, or blogging. I use my lifestream, which is just a section of this website that I post all of my thought direction exercises to. My lifestream is truly a stream of the life I am creating, because the life I am designing for myself is created by the thoughts I share online. Think of it as a stream of seeds I am planting. Then everyone gets to watch for the manifestations to bloom

Not thinking is also an integral part of a life design practice. When you stop thought through meditation, play, or exercise, you experience pure, uninterrupted connection to source energy that recharges your creative batteries.

The more you formally practice life design, the easier it gets to manage the thoughts in your head. The more time you spend deliberately communicating thoughts that make you feel good, the more good feeling thoughts you’ll find yourself thinking naturally. The more time you spend feeling good, the more your desires will begin to manifest.

The true blessing of being a life designer is finding that you can feel happy without the manifestations you desire. And when you don’t care about the manifestations because you already feel so good because you’ve been thinking good feeling thoughts, then the manifestations start pouring in! Silly universe.