From the desk of David Cameron Gikandi, author of A Happy Pocket Full of Money, and Creative Consultant on The Secret
An AI visualization app
You’ve pictured that life a thousand times. Have you ever seen your own face in it?
Talk about the life you want for up to 5 minutes, and add one selfie. Within the hour, an email says your film is ready. It’s a short film of that life, with your own face in it.
Watch Elena see herself in her film for the first time. She is an example member. It takes 1 minute.
Step 1
Say what you want
Step 2
Add a selfie
Step 3
Watch your film
The app made this film for Elena, an example member. It used one selfie and her own words.
It has 12 scenes.
3 days free on the yearly plan, once per account. Card required, nothing charged until day 4. Cancel anytime.
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Dear friend,
If you’ve ever made a vision board, you made it with real hope. You meant every picture on it.
But look at those pictures again. Someone else is in every one of them. It’s someone else’s kitchen, someone else’s beach and someone else’s smile. You were asked to look at a stranger and feel that it was you. Most minds won’t make that leap. Nothing is wrong with yours for saying no.
So a lot of us stand in front of that board with the same small question.
“It’s a lovely life. So why can’t I see myself in it?”
I had a vision board too.
The board was still up on my wall when it all came down, a few years before 2022. I had stacks of bills, late payments and eviction notices. I had been the Creative Consultant on The Secret. I had written A Happy Pocket Full of Money. I could help so many people, and I was stuck.
One day I watched a video about ants. Ants amaze me. No single ant runs a colony. The whole colony does it together. As I watched, I saw that a whole life grows out of the whole person, not out of one part.
My old self had its own vision board, built over many years. My hard childhood was shaping my life too, and it was pulling me away from the board on my wall. That older picture inside me was stronger than the pretty one I could see.
In the house I grew up in, dreaming out loud was dangerous. When I was a little boy, I said I wanted to be a speaker one day, and my father made fun of me until I cried. It left me afraid of being seen, long after I grew up.
Then came the slow work. I learned to notice my old patterns, and the more I saw, the freer I became. For years, certain people had made me feel seven years old, and shorter than them. In May 2025, I finally told my whole story, and that feeling popped like a bubble.
A new picture can’t undo an old one by itself. It’s only one part of a whole life, and the rest is slow work.
But a picture still matters, and the older one had 2 things going for it. It was made of my own life, with me in every part of it. And it had years of practice. So a new picture needs those same 2 things: your own face in it, and a little practice every day.
Researchers have tested what happens when the face is your own. In one study, some people saw a picture of their own face, made to look older. Others saw their face as it looks now. Then each person split a pretend cash gift. The ones who saw their older face put about twice as much toward retirement.
In 2024, a team at MIT ran a trial with 344 people. Some of them chatted with an AI version of their future self. Afterward, those people felt more connected to the person they’re becoming than they did before.
That’s the idea AI Vision Weaver is built on. You talk about the life you want, in your own words. Then it makes a short film of that life, with your own face in it. Watching it takes about a minute a day.
The film is the new picture. Spotting what gets in the way is still your part, and the app doesn’t do it for you. It’s one short step, and I’ll show you how in the research section, further down.
Below, I’ll show you what you get, how you make it, and what it costs. Then you can decide with your eyes open.
First, here’s what you get each time you make a film. There are 2 things, and you keep both. The 3 cards below show the film, the guided visualization, and where they’re kept.
The film
It’s a short film, about a minute long. It shows up to 12 scenes of the life you talked about. Your face comes from your own selfie, so it looks like you. I put your face at the center because of the 2 studies above. Charlotte, a warm Australian AI voice, says one line over each scene, as if it’s already true. Music plays underneath.
The guided visualization
It’s a spoken session in 7 parts: settling in, breath, body, the life you described, how it feels, a few affirmations, and a gentle return. Charlotte reads it to you, and your film plays behind it. You pick how long it runs: 5 to 7 minutes, 10 to 15, or 20 or more.
The Visions screen
Every film you make stays on the Visions screen, in your account. Make a new one for each new goal. Nobody else can see them, and there’s no shared feed. (The safety section below explains how they’re kept private.) To show someone, download the film and send it yourself.
Now you know what you get. Here’s how you make it. First, you pick a plan or start the free trial (the plans are further down). When you sign in, the app asks a few short questions, like which music you like and how long your guided visualization should run. Then come these 3 steps, done in this order. It all happens in your web browser, so there’s nothing to install.
Step 1
Tap the microphone and talk about the life you want, in your own words. You can talk for up to 5 minutes, or type if you’d rather. The app then turns your words into scenes, and you read every one. You can change any scene, add more (up to 12) or take some out (down to 3). Nothing is made yet.
Step 2
Next, add one ordinary selfie. That’s how your own face gets into the scenes. You can skip it, and you’ll still get the film, with general scenes in place of your face. Each new film asks for its own selfie. (Further down, I explain exactly what happens to it.) Then the app starts making your film. Each scene is made one at a time, so it takes a little while. You’ll have your film within the hour. You don’t have to wait on the screen. An email tells you when it’s ready.
Step 3
The email takes you to your Visions screen. Press play on the new film, and your own face appears in the first scene, in the life you described. Your guided visualization is ready too.
Step 3 is the moment I built the whole app for. Here’s what I want you to feel then:
You’ve pictured it with your eyes closed. This time your eyes are open, and the face on the screen is yours.
Your first film is ready. Now comes the part that makes it a habit: coming back to it. Here’s how one day with it can go, and what it looks like 3 weeks in.
7:10am
You open the app before your email. Today’s Practice sits at the top of the Home screen, with one button to play it. Your film plays in Morning mode, with the voice a little louder to start the day. It takes about a minute.
Evening
Later, you play the guided visualization in Evening mode. It’s calmer, with the music turned down. It runs for the length you picked at the start.
Week 3
The film still takes about a minute a day. The guided visualization is extra, for when you have time. Remember the older picture in my story? It had years of practice. Mental rehearsal (practicing something in your mind) works the same way, by doing it again and again. So watching once a day is the whole job. Your streak on the Home screen shows if you did it. There are no reminders yet, so tie it to something you already do each morning, like your first coffee.
In step 1 you talk for up to 5 minutes. Step 2 is one selfie. That’s all it needs from you. Start with the button below, or read on. The research comes next, then the price.
Try it free for 3 days3 days free on the yearly plan, once per account. Card required, nothing charged until day 4. Cancel anytime.
Why watch it every day, and why your own face? Both ideas come from published research. Each card below shows one finding, and what it shaped in the app. For one of them, it’s a step I ask you to do yourself. After the cards, I’ll tell you where the research stops.
What they found: Mental rehearsal means practicing something in your mind. Sports studies found that it helps people perform better. It works best when the picture is close to real life: your place, your feelings, and you in it.
What it shaped: That’s why the scenes come from your own words, about your own life. It’s also why you watch it every day: rehearsal is practice, done again and again.
Source: the PETTLEP model of mental rehearsal, Holmes & Collins, 2001. A 2020 meta-analysis of imagery in sport found an effect size of 0.43. A 2021 review of imagery training found 0.75. Researchers call effects of this size medium to large. (An effect size measures how big a difference is.)
What they found: Picturing a wish worked best when people also named what stood in the way. Then they made an if-then plan for it. Picturing only the good part can even lower the effort people put in.
What it shaped: This is the step I promised near the top of this letter. The app doesn’t walk you through it yet, so I’ll ask you to do it. After you watch, name the one thing most likely to get in the way this week. Then decide what you’ll do when it shows up.
Source: the WOOP method (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) by Oettingen & Gollwitzer. A 2021 meta-analysis by Wang, Wang & Gai of 21 studies and 15,907 people found an effect size of 0.336, which researchers call small to medium.
What they found: Guided imagery has used the same shape for decades. A voice helps you settle and breathe, walks you into a scene, then brings you gently back.
What it shaped: Your guided visualization has that same shape. It’s written for your own film.
Source: Utay & Miller, 2006.
What they found: These are the 2 studies near the top of this letter. In one, people saw their own face, made to look older. In the other, people chatted with their future self.
What it shaped: They’re the main reason your own face is in the film.
Source: Hershfield et al., 2011. MIT “Future You” randomized trial, 2024, 344 people.
That research tested the methods the app draws on. It didn’t test this app. Nobody has run a trial on AI Vision Weaver, and I won’t pretend they have. What I can show you is which finding shaped each part of it.
Visualization is a personal development tool, not a medical treatment. AI Vision Weaver does not claim to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. If you experience distress, please consult a healthcare professional. Results vary from person to person and are not guaranteed. You must be 18 or older to use AI Vision Weaver.
You’ve seen what it’s built on, and where the research stops. Now for what it costs. Every plan gets the whole app. The plans differ in 3 ways: how many credits you get (1 credit makes 1 film), how often you pay, and the free trial, which only the yearly plan has. So pick the one that fits you best.
Pick one plan
Weekly
$16.99
per week
1 credit a week
Pick this if you’d like to pay one week at a time, for 1 film a week.
Start weekly, Weekly planBilled weekly. Cancel anytime.
Monthly
$39.99
per month
3 credits a month
Pick this if you want a few films a month, for more than one goal.
Start monthly, Monthly planBilled monthly. Cancel anytime.
Yearly
$299.99
per year
about $25 a month, 37% less than monthly
2 credits a month (24 a year)
Pick this if you want the free trial first, and the lowest price per film ($12.50).
Start my 3 free days, Yearly planThen $299.99 a year. Cancel before day 4 and you pay nothing.
A few notes on how the plans work:
What a credit is. One credit makes one film with your face in it, a spoken line over each scene, and its own guided visualization. Plan credits you don’t use don’t roll over to the next period.
Why it’s priced in credits. Every film is made scene by scene, on paid AI tools for pictures, video and voice. So each film has a real cost to make. Per film, weekly comes to $16.99, monthly to about $13.33 and yearly to about $12.50.
About the free trial. It’s on the yearly plan only. It lasts 3 days, and you get it once per account. It includes 1 full film, and your full yearly credits start when the paid plan begins. You need a card to start, but nothing is charged until day 4. Cancel before then and you pay nothing.
Why only yearly, and only once? Yearly is the biggest step, so it’s the one you should be able to try first. And each film costs real money to make, so it’s one trial per account. If you’ve had one before, checkout charges you straight away.
Credit packs (extra credits). They start at $14.99, and you can buy them any time in the app. Go to Settings, then Credit Packs. You pay through the same secure checkout as your plan, run by Stripe, the payment company. Credits from packs never expire.
Before you pick, you may still be asking one thing.
“Will this work for someone like me?”
Fair question, and I’d ask it too. Maybe you already picture the life you want, but you’ve never once seen yourself in it. That’s the gap this was built for. Maybe you find it hard to picture anything at all. Then it may suit you even better, because the picture is on the screen, not in your head.
It’s the wrong tool if you want a promise of a result. It’s also no stand-in for a doctor or any other kind of care. The honest way to find out is to make one film on the free trial. Once you’ve watched it, you’ll know.
Before you start, you should know what happens to what you share. Here’s each one: your voice, your selfie, your films and your card. The last one also covers deleting your account.
voice: turned into text · recording never savedYour voice is turned into text, and the app never saves the recording.
When you talk, the recording is sent once to be turned into text. The app never saves the recording itself. Your words stay in your account, locked to your login and encrypted.
selfie: optional · gone within 24hYour selfie is a guest, and it leaves within a day.
The selfie is optional. It’s used only to make your films, and it expires within 24 hours. A cleanup job runs every hour to make sure. It’s never used for face recognition, and it’s never sold or shown to anyone else. You can also delete it yourself at any time, in Settings, under Face Management.
films: private links · checked it’s youYour films are locked to your login.
Your films are private, and they’re stored in your account. They play only through links that expire, and only after the app checks that they’re yours. So there are no public web addresses to stumble on.
card: stripe.com · delete account: removes it allI never see your card, and deleting really deletes.
Payments run on Stripe’s secure checkout, so your card never reaches me. If you delete your account, your selfies, films and data are removed for good. The files go first, then the records.
It’s boring, proven security, and it’s what I’d want for my own face too.
That’s the whole app, the price and the safety. If you still have a question, it’s probably one of these. Tap one to see my answer.
Yes. It’s optional, and it’s gone within 24 hours. The safety section just above has the details.
Steps 1 and 2 take a few minutes: up to 5 minutes of talking, then a quick read and a selfie. Then you wait, and within the hour an email tells you your film is ready. After that, it’s about a minute a day to watch it, plus the guided visualization when you want it.
About a minute. A film has up to 12 scenes. Each scene lasts 4 to 7 seconds, as long as its spoken line needs. I’d like to make the films longer one day. For now, I’d rather tell you what it does today.
It’s Charlotte’s AI voice, with music under it. You pick the music in the short questions at the start. The choices are Nature Sounds (rain, ocean, forest), Instrumental Music, Ambient Drone and Minimal Sound. You can switch between Morning and Evening mode without losing your place.
There isn’t one yet. It runs in your web browser, on a phone, a tablet or a computer. Your films are saved to your account, so you can watch them anywhere you sign in. If that changes, this answer will change too.
First, you read every scene before anything is made, so you can fix it early. That’s step 1. If a film fails, your credit comes back on its own. If it’s made but comes out wrong, email me at david@miraclesfor.me (MiraclesFor.me is my company). I’ll give the credit back so you can try again. You can also use a new selfie, or describe your life again and make a whole new film.
One credit makes one film and its guided visualization. The price cards show how many each plan gives, and the notes under them say the rest.
No. Enter your email, accept the terms and pay. Your account is made straight after, and a sign-in link comes by email, so there’s no password to make up. If you already have an account, use the same email. The plan then joins that account.
Yes, any time. In the app, go to Settings, then Subscription, and tap Manage Subscription. That opens your billing page at Stripe, where you can cancel. There’s no phone call and no maze. Your films stay in your account. If you’d rather they didn’t exist at all, delete your account, and they’re removed for good.
A vision board uses photos of other people’s lives, as I said at the top. This film uses your words and your own face. You never have to hunt for a picture.
It depends what you mean by the word. If you mean the universe handing you things, there’s none of that here. The app is much closer to the mental rehearsal athletes use: seeing the thing clearly and often, with you in it. The research section above shows the studies behind it. The app itself hasn’t been tested in a trial, and I won’t pretend it has.
That’s all of it: what you get, how you make it, where the research stops, and what it costs.
So why did I make it? It goes back to my twenties. In the middle of a talk with a friend, a picture came to me. I saw a clean sheet of paper. Then I saw it crumpled into a ball.
I knew then that one of my purposes was to smooth myself back out, and to leave a record of how I did it. I got crushed, I learned how to un-crush, and now I’m here to share it.
I’ve spent more than 20 years writing and teaching about how people build the life they want. In all those years, I kept seeing one thing. The pictures most of us use for that life show someone else. I wanted you to see your own face there instead.
Remember the boy who wanted to be a speaker? I made a film from my own selfie. In one of its scenes, I’m at a microphone, talking to a full room.
If you’ve read this far, you probably know if you want to see yours. The yearly plan lets you make one free, so you can find out for yourself.
To seeing it for yourself,
David Cameron Gikandi
P.S. If you skipped to here, this is the short version. Talk for up to 5 minutes and add one selfie. Within the hour, you’ll watch your own face in the life you described. A guided visualization comes with it.
P.P.S. The free trial is on the yearly plan, and it includes 1 full film. Cancel before day 4 and you pay nothing.
3 days free on the yearly plan, once per account. Card required, nothing charged until day 4. Cancel anytime.
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