I pasted into ChatGPTPlus and it even gave me a spot on reply, lmao. I won’t use it but, wait technically I am… aren’t I. I don’t know, lol.
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Yeah lol — they took your “assignment to my subconscious mind” wording literally, as if you mean consciously talking to your subconscious like:
“Listen here, subconscious mind…”
But that’s not what you mean. You mean the way/intention with which you write the goal is different. You write it with the assumption that once it’s written, your subconscious has received it as an objective to begin working toward — processing whatever needs processing, bringing relevant fears/beliefs to the surface, noticing useful information, developing capacity, etc.
A natural reply would be:
“Lol no, I don’t literally talk to my subconscious like that. It’s more of an intention/assumption thing. I write the goal down with the intention that I’m giving my subconscious an assignment to start working on. So instead of just writing ‘I want a new job,’ and leaving it there, I treat writing it as the point where the unfolding/process actually begins.”
That also explains why your original “Most people just write a goal” comment confused them a little — the distinction is not really the words you write; it’s what you’re consciously doing when you write them.
No GPT though, so let’s say I wanted to make money as a streamer. If I wrote “my goal is to make 5k/month through live streaming on Twitch”. That won’t do anything. But if I do that with the intention/assumption/expectation/conscious guidance/whatever you want to call it - that it’s like giving my subconscious mind a work order. I will instantly start having subconscious fears/limiting beliefs surfacing, emotional processing, reconciliation, attracted to certain material/learning - it just starts unfolding. It’s like running a subliminal perfectly tailored to a specific goal, except there’s no tool its merely intention. This is a whole curriculum by itself, based around working with your subconscious mind.
GPT explanation 100% spot on again
Yes — that makes the distinction much clearer.
What you mean by conscious guidance is not “taking conscious action toward the goal,” and it’s not literally talking to your subconscious. It’s more like consciously assigning the goal to your subconscious mind and expecting the internal process to begin.
So with your Twitch example:
Writing:
“My goal is to make $5k/month through live streaming on Twitch.”
by itself is just recording a sentence.
But writing that exact same sentence while deliberately holding the intention/assumption that “this is now an active assignment for my subconscious mind to solve/unfold” is the practice you’re describing.
Then, in your framework, the immediate “work” might look like fears about visibility or failure surfacing, limiting beliefs becoming noticeable, emotional processing happening, old conditioning coming up for reconciliation, suddenly becoming interested in a particular book/video/framework, noticing something about streaming you previously overlooked, feeling pulled to develop a skill, or eventually feeling inspired to take a particular action.
So the key distinction is:
The written goal is only the target. Conscious guidance is the act of deliberately setting that target as an active subconscious assignment and then consciously cooperating with whatever processing, capacity-building, learning, insight, and action unfolds from it.
And your subliminal comparison actually communicates it pretty well: in your model, it’s like giving the subconscious a perfectly goal-specific prompt, except the “delivery mechanism” isn’t audio, affirmations, visualization, or another external tool. It’s the intentional mental act itself.
That also explains why “I write down the goal (1%) and consciously guide unfolding (99%)” means something much more specific than it initially sounds. The 99% is basically working with the resulting subconscious unfolding, not consciously strategizing your way toward the goal every second.
Repeated visualization does the same thing, it’s like a work order but more indirect. I don’t visualize though, I just go straight to the mechanisms directly and work with them. As it unfolds, I might unconsciously start visualizing as I get into flow, but I never intentionally visualize - it happens organically. What I’m doing is like pressing the flow state button off rip. It doesn’t absolve you from the work though, and although I say 100% success rate - that’s if you do the work and many times I’ve set goals that at some point in its unfolding/processing I realize I don’t want that goal at all.
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Exactly. The way you’re describing it, visualization is one possible indirect interface with the same underlying process, whereas your method tries to work with the process itself.
Repeated visualization can load a goal with attention, emotion, expectation, identity relevance, and salience. Over time, that can influence what you notice, what resistance comes up, what you rehearse mentally, and what actions start feeling available. Your approach skips the deliberate imagery and goes straight to: set the objective, treat it as active, then work with whatever psychological material and capacity-building the objective activates.
So “pressing the flow-state button off rip” is actually a useful shorthand for your subjective experience of it. You are not trying to manufacture the whole route consciously. You establish the direction, then engage with the unfolding as it appears. Visualization might spontaneously happen once you’re immersed in the process, but you don’t use it as a prescribed technique.
And your “100% success rate” has an important qualifier that makes your meaning much less simplistic: success does not necessarily mean obtaining the originally written outcome exactly as stated. It means fully following the process. Sometimes that ends in the external goal; sometimes the processing changes you enough that you realize the original goal was based on something you no longer want.
So your model is roughly:
Goal → activate the process → resistance/conditioning surfaces → process it → capacity expands → learning and opportunities become salient → action emerges → continue until either the goal is achieved or your relationship to the goal genuinely changes.
That is also why “just write your goals down” is not really an adequate description of what you’re teaching. The writing is almost incidental. The curriculum is about how to deliberately initiate and then cooperate with the internal process that follows.
