The Thing About Manifestation
This word manifestation or manifesting I think has become way too overused and people are using it in the wrong way to the point where when I hear the word, manifest or manifestation or manifesting, my skin crawls a little bit.
Here’s why. Years ago when the book The Secret came out, it was a huge eye opener for a lot of people. It was their first introduction into the law of attraction, and manifestation, and creating their own future and it was my first entry into the world of law of attraction as well.
But here’s the thing, The Secret failed people. The Secret led people to believe that if you just think about what you want, what you want is going to appear.
That would be great right?
If I just thought about, the car I wanted to drive or the amount of money I want in my bank account it would just magically appear. That’s a wonderful idea, but it wasn’t working for people. And then people start to feel like Law of Attraction didn’t work or that they were maybe doing something wrong.
The truth is, the law of attraction doesn’t work unless you do. The law of attraction doesn’t work unless YOU do. So what do i mean by that?
What I mean is YOU have to work. You have to actually work for what you want. I’m not saying you have to work hard, I’m not saying it has to be suffering or that you have to slave away for what you want and make it a really difficult hard process, but you have to do something.
You have to DO something!
Imagine, you buy a grand piano. The most beautiful grand piano, and you stick it in your living room and every day you stare at it and you imagine yourself making the most beautiful music on this beautiful grand piano. You picture yourself playing in great concert halls all around the world and being the celebrated concert pianist.
Well, nothing’s going to happen until you sit down and start to play.
At the same time, you could sit down and practice every single day and if you never imagine that you’re any good at it, if you don’t believe that you’ll be good at it you’ll never be very good.
So you have to pair the two. You have to have the internal desire, the picture in your mind of doing it the belief that you absolutely can and then you actually have to take action and sit down and practice if you want to be any good.
The same thing goes for money. If you want to attract more money into your life you can’t sit on your ass, and expect it to show up in your life without doing something and taking action. You can sit around and imagine all this money in your bank account and you can write yourself imaginary cheques for millions of dollars (which is actually a great thing to do, I do it.) but you can’t do that and expect the money to show up. You actually have to do something and take some action.
Do you see what I’m saying?
Money isn’t just going to materialize in your hand because you’re thinking about it. You have to go out and do something about it. What are you going to do about it? See, when I want to attract more money in my life I set my intention, I do my visualizations, I think about the exact amount I want, I feel what I’m going to feel in the moment when I get it, and then I go out and I make the money.
It’s a lot easier to take action when you feel compelled motivated inspired by the internal image that you’ve created and the feelings associated with it, but then you actually have to go do something with it.
So that’s how it works. Set your intention, focus on it, create a visual image picture sounds feelings about what it will be like to get it, be OPEN to the opportunities when they do show up and then actually do something. Take action when it shows up.
So no more sitting around “manifesting” things. Go out there and make stuff happen in your life. That’s how success happens.
