Hi BJ09,

Thanks for asking the question.

The idea of working on it for five minutes is only a suggestion...there is nothing magical about doing five minutes work on anything :)

The idea of Manifesting Experiment 3 is to make you feel good (in alignment) about the goal you are chasing.

What happens with many people is that they set a goal, list a series of actions to take to achieve that goal and, once the initial surge of enthusiasm wears off, the tasks feel difficult to do so they start skipping them, and soon they reach a stage where whenever they think about their goal they now feel bad that they haven't stuck to their plan.

The goal now becomes another source of resistance in their lives, instead of providing inspiration and focus.

It's that feeling bad that is the problem, not the fact that they haven't done the tasks on the plan. The truth is that you can actually not do most of the tasks on your plan but, because you remain in a good-feeling place about your goal, it will still manifest (sooner or later).

So I only suggested doing five minutes work daily as the minimum required to let yourself win at this game for the day - and thereby let yourself feel good that you are doing something, rather than feel bad that you haven't done everything yet.

There is no upper limit on the amount of time you can keep working on any goal task on any day if you feel like it once you have completed that minimum.

If five minutes seems too little as a daily minimum, make it larger, or even choose some other measurement of what your daily minimum should be, such as an idea a day, if it is appropriate to your goal.

In my own rather busy life, I have days when five minutes spent on anything non-essential can seem like a luxury. For other people, it might be way too little. Choose whatever time (or work unit) you feel is right for you but make sure it is something that you can stick to everyday no matter what...so that you experience the daily win.

Regarding the steps in your plan, it really doesn't matter too much if you can't list them all. The only step that is vital is to know what the next step is.

So you could actually implement this method just by knowing what your goal is, what the next step towards your goal is, and nothing else.

Every time you complete the current next step, you can then think of what the new next step is, and focus on that.

One reason I suggested doing a full Backwards Plan upfront is that through the visualization of the steps involved, you are performing a useful exercise in vibrational alignment. If you can make your goal feel real and achievable to you, it will manifest more quickly than if it seems like a vague, distant far-off thing. Having a plan can make the achievement of the goal seem more believable to you...it's like having a map of exactly where to go, instead of just wandering aimlessly around.

Another reason is that the feeling of progression towards your goal is much more significant if you can see the milestones being achieved along the way. As you put more and more completion marks on your chart, you will start to be drawn into wanting to keep an unbroken list of completion marks.

Having something to work towards that is gradually building-up can be highly motivating. It's one of the principles that Inward Quest operates on...having a reputation score that keeps growing keeps you more engaged with the website (even if you are not consciously aware of it) than if you just randomly asked or answered questions now and again.