UPDATE:
On my new blog I promised to raise 10K in less than 2 weeks - here's what happened.
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Drucker: I will become, a pro-blogger before the end of Friday, February 8th, 2008.
It will look something like this: I will find a partner, or partners. People I will connect with who will invest in creative endeavors kicked-off from this idea factory.
He or she will officially commit to fund my creative pursuits to the tune of $X,XXX/month for at least five months. The commitment will not be less than $10K and it will not come from a relative. And of course, it can’t be a loan, it must be an investment, complete with the risk of complete loss.
That will happen before the end of Friday, February 8th, 2008.
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Update:
1:43AM Sat Feb 9, 2008
It didn’t happen. I didn’t “predict the future”. It was an extraordinary week, however, in who I caused myself to be, to take action to realize my goal. I might do an additional post detailing the journey of the week, but to be clear, I didn’t hit my mark. I did produce results though.
Some things that did happen, as a result of me saying that I was going to create, or manifest or raise $10K in less than a week: I received a solid commitment, from a liquid investor, to invest half that amount, $5K to help secure a “deal memo” or step development deal for
committed.
One other thing worth noting having to do with manifesting dough. To look at my different domain registration accounts over the years, you might think I was a “domainer” is that right? Someone who buys and flips virtual real estate. I’ve owned dozens and dozens, maybe hundreds… no.. less than 200 domain names. My registering of domains was never about
making money, and on only one occasion over the last eight years did I ever even really consider selling one. There’s a lot more to share about how screwed up my relationship with money has been, basically my entire life, but for now, I’ll add that my own following of the “herd mentality” of the pursuit of material wealth combined with the loss of my sanity in 1998 is why I almost died. My thinking, the way I am now, is so unlike that man, that it is not far off to say that I succeeded in killing that former self, a person, the person, one of the people I was, one of my personalities. I killed it. And I’m glad. Back to the domains. I received my first offer ever for a domain name I own: $XXX. This clearly happened as a result of putting myself, my intention, out on the web, out into the world (regardless of the lack of any real traffic to speak of yet.) The reason I say that is the domain I received an offer on is the, to-be-sister-site of this one: wethinkdifferently.com - which I only just registered. Really… being open to making money again is a personal breakthrough for me.
I like to call the transformation I went through of having almost killed myself and come back three days later, eventually to go on to give away or spend away all my money, and money that I didn’t even have to help people who were in pain… the jesus effect…lower case by all means. No, I don’t think I’m Jesus, more on Jesus and the “thedigitaljesus” later. And being someone who tends to extremes, I went to the opposite extreme with regard to what I thought about money. I basically have “caused myself” to live in a state of financial scarcity ever since leaving the startup I worked for in
2000, almost as a sort of a self-imposed penance for almost having offed myself. I’m ending that thinking, because I see very clearly how my distaste for money was the result of my own pursuit of money as an end it itself, money for money’s sake. I’m pursuing change, and money brings velocity. Money talks. People pay attention when you can manifest dough, quickly.
I assert, declare, attest, insist, that I have a remarkable true story that has value for people who want to sell entertainment and has value to cause social change - leading to more people living as a result of the suicide rate dropping. The more capital I can amass, the more change I can cause.
As much as I don’t want to think of “sacrificing” wethinkdifferently.com for the sake of velocity, if this prospective buyer is willing to entertain helping me seed a nonprofit with the single mandate of causing a 50% reduction in the suicide rate, in creative ways, by matching the investment I received a commitment for this week, they can have the domain tomorrow.
A man who flat lined in the back of an ambulance survives. A decade later he decides to tell the world he's figured out a way to predict the future... and he says he can teach anyone how to do it.
He says he's worked with the CIA as well.
He says, whatever you do, please don't believe him.
He doesn't want to end up on a cross.
the reel good will hunting, too
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i don't do links. I don't give a shit if you believe me.