{"id":5789,"date":"2024-01-16T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/2024-intentions-steve-pavlina\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:34:03","slug":"2024-intentions-steve-pavlina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/2024-intentions-steve-pavlina\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Intentions \u2013 Steve Pavlina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>After nearly 20 years of blogging about self-development, this year I intend to contribute mainly through video instead of writing, which is a big change for me. I want this to be the first year that I publish more new videos than articles. I\u2019ll still share new YouTube videos via my blog, but if you\u2019re into YouTube, you may want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@stevepavlinadotcom\">subscribe to my channel<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>In this first new video of 2024, I also reveal many other intentions; recent decisions; and updates about psychedelics explorations, Conscious Growth Club, the new Engage course, and more. I recorded this one mainly for long-term members of this community who are curious about where we\u2019re headed next.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2024 Intentions\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDGIzPEny8I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why YouTube?<\/h2>\n<p>One reason I\u2019m committed to investing in YouTubing is that I happen to like YouTube as a user. I\u2019m not on Facebook, Instagram, X, or other social media platforms. I used to be active in those spaces, but I dropped them a long time ago because they all seemed too misaligned to me. I\u2019ve been active in online communities for 30 years now, and I tend to be pretty sensitive to the overall quality, intelligence, and depth of engagements. I find it partly amusing that people have been expressing recent outrage at X (Twitter) after Elon took over because I declared it a cesspool and deleted my account in 2014. I was, however, a bit disappointed when Google Plus shut down since I happened to like that service; I liked that it attracted some pretty smart people who were a joy to connect with.<\/p>\n<p>Even as I withdrew from other online spaces, I found myself using YouTube more and more each year. Today I use it pretty much daily, and I\u2019m a YouTube Premium subscriber. I especially love it for educational videos but also for music and meditations. I think it\u2019s one of the best learning resources the world has ever seen. And it\u2019s so versatile too. Rachelle and I often watch Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube while having lunch. I very much appreciate YouTube as a user, and I like the overall vibe I sense from it. I didn\u2019t like it nearly as much in the past, but I feel that it\u2019s been getting a lot better in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>I also feel that YouTube has become a really nice place for communities these days. Many years ago YouTube comments were cesspools of trolling and spam; there was little value in them. But for most of the channels I encounter these days, the comments are civil and often interesting. I find myself engaging with other YouTubers more this way too. I have to give YouTube credit for really cleaning up their act.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017 Conscious Growth Club\u2019s private community has been my sanctuary. I love high-trust, mutually supportive spaces where people can be honest and real with each other. Outside of CGC I\u2019m feeling good resonance with YouTube. I\u2019d really like to invest in YouTubing for many years going forward, and I really hope they don\u2019t fuck it up! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>Partway through the new video, I mentioned building new Action Spirals. An Action Spiral is a habit or routine that you seek to improve each time you run through it. For 2024 I created a new video spiral that I want to continue evolving throughout this year and beyond. For each new video that I create, I want to do something better or different than in previous videos, so I can keep stretching myself to improve at sharing in this way.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t intend to rehash old blog posts and turn them into videos because that isn\u2019t a path with a heart for me. I\u2019m very attuned to what motivates me, and I love to explore and share what\u2019s fresh and new, even as I\u2019m still figuring it out. My blog captures where I was at the time I wrote and published each article, but it doesn\u2019t represent who I am now. I know some people still love the older content and would appreciate seeing video versions of it, but I don\u2019t have any interest in doing that, so please adjust your expectations accordingly. I hope you understand.<\/p>\n<p>As I noted in the video, there hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of carry-over from my long-term blog readers to people who watch my YouTube videos. Typically when I share videos on my blog, it doesn\u2019t generate many extra views on YouTube. Through blogging I\u2019ve built an audience of <em>readers<\/em>. Some have carried over into YouTube viewers, but I\u2019d say that mostly these are separate groups that don\u2019t overlap a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think this is just a matter of a difference in media preference. I sense that investing in a YouTubing community is actually going to attract difference kinds of people than my blog has attracted in the past. I think the vibe of the community will be different. I also imagine that sooner or later, most of the new members flowing into CGC each year will first learn about it from YouTube, not from my blog, and I think that\u2019s going to shift the vibe of CGC too \u2013 in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface this is a bit like starting over, professionally speaking. I currently have fewer than 9K YouTube subscribers, which isn\u2019t a lot, and I\u2019m sure many of them aren\u2019t engaging with my channel since I haven\u2019t been publishing videos consistently yet. I started YouTubing in 2009 and have trickled out about 60 videos since then, but I haven\u2019t really invested much in it since I first opened my account. Half of those videos were published during a 30-day stretch of water fasting and daily video creation in 2017, and they were all shot in single takes with bad lighting, cell phone audio, and no internal editing. Yet many people still appreciated them and kept asking me to make more videos.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Video and Beyond<\/h2>\n<p>You might think this would be a relatively easy transition, especially since I\u2019ve already created dozens of  videos as well as live video courses. I\u2019ve done plenty of public speaking, interviews, and more. However, this transition has been surprisingly deep and gradual. For well over a year I\u2019ve been leaning in this direction, but it wasn\u2019t till recently that I really reached my internal tipping point alignment-wise.<\/p>\n<p>The shift in media is just the surface aspect. I\u2019m also wanting to explore new directions topically, especially spirituality, relationships, karma, and way more about the nature of reality. I\u2019m a lot less interested in very objective topics like basic productivity tips or how to graduate from college faster. I am very interested, however, in spirit-level insights that can be used to create interesting changes in our human lives. In recent months I\u2019ve been exploring and experimenting a lot more in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Exploring psychedelics has impacted me profoundly as well, especially the past five months of micro- and mini-dosing. That\u2019s opened up a whole new world of sensory input to say the least. In all my years of blogging, I\u2019ve never had writer\u2019s block because I\u2019m very attuned to idea space, but now it feels like inner antenna has extended itself much further. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve been gifted with a cosmic library card.<\/p>\n<p>This has really changed how I think about the \u201cself\u201d aspect of self-development. I\u2019m still very into learning, growth, and exploration, but my curiosity is reaching a lot more into nonphysical aspects of existence.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I also read the book <em>Autobiography of a Yogi<\/em>, which was powerful, eye-opening, and even amusing at times. There are some pretty advanced yogi tales in that book, including people who could fighting tigers bare-handed, teleport to different locations, come back from the dead, create physical structures with their minds, and not eat or drink anything for 50+ years. That\u2019s the sort of info that very objective-minded people wouldn\u2019t likely believe, but I can see them as being possible because the more basic stories align pretty well with my own experiences and the kind of downloads I\u2019ve been getting. I feel like my 20-year exploration of Subjective Reality was just a baby step relative to what else might be possible, and I feel like I\u2019ve recently gone through some kind of spiritual upgrade to be able to see more truth than I was previously permitted to access. The flow of synchronicities has been off the charts in recent weeks for starters.<\/p>\n<p>Next I intend to read the <em>Bhagavad Gita<\/em> for the first time ever. I got the two-volume set with Paramahansa Yogananda\u2019s commentary (1100+ pages) \u2013 he\u2019s the author of <em>Autobiography of a Yogi<\/em>. I liked his writing style and have long thought about reading the Gita \u201csomeday.\u201d I have this strange sense that this book called me to finally read it when I was ready for it. We\u2019ll see how that unfolds\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I can tell that this is going to be a very interesting \u2013 and probably very unusual \u2013 year. I totally understand that some people won\u2019t want to continue down this path together. Since I posted the new video yesterday, I\u2019ve already lost 11 YouTube subscribers. That is as it\u2019s meant to be. I\u2019ll be sharing some info on this channel that many people aren\u2019t supposed to encounter yet (since it would mess up their human journeys), so they\u2019re going to be diverted away from it. Let\u2019s give them some space to vibe out \u2013 with love and appreciation \u2013 and then we\u2019ll get into some fascinating and adventurous explorations together this year. \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly 20 years of blogging about self-development, this year I intend to contribute mainly through video instead of writing, which is a big change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}