Life Lessons about Manifesting a Better Life

 Life is an amazing thing. Just when I think that the Universe hates me and everything is going wrong, I find out that no, the Universe does not hate me.  Turns out, I have been standing in my own way.  I’ve learned some important things about manifestation, and I wanted to share them with you in this week’s blog.

I found inspiration in the most unlikely of places.  I purchased a book called Moon Magic by Diane Alquist at Five Below. If you’ve ever been in a Five Below, then you know nothing in the store is over $5.  It’s an upgrade to the dollar store, I suppose, but sometimes you can find some hidden gems there. This book is one of them.  I’m going to do a review of the book when I’m finished reading it. I’m just not quite done. However, what I have read has been the key to this lesson in manifestation.

First, life has taught me well that what you focus on is what you are going to get. Lately, I’ve struggled at my job. I am to the point where I feel like it’s time to move on and that makes it harder. I find myself repeating over and over again that I just don’t want to do it anymore. This is the point where it becomes a self-fulfilling thing.  Because I’m so focused on what I don’t want, I just get reasons why I should move on in the form of dissatisfied, nasty customers or more customers than I can handle by myself.  Because I’m focused on what I don’t want, I get reasons why I don’t want to do the job anymore.  Focusing on the solution rather than the issue is the key here.  I need to focus on the positive by saying that “I need a new job where I’ll be happier and better paid with benefits and off on weekends.”

This brings me to the second and most important lesson.  Be specific.  The Universe does not do well with vague.  I’ve learned with my struggles at work that being specific is exactly what I need to do.  When I’m in the kiosk alone, I’ve asked specifically for the Universe to keep my customer count low enough that it doesn’t overwhelm me as in no more than five or six people in a thirty-minute period until the second barista arrives. Taking that approach has been way more successful than saying “don’t let me get busy”.  Defining busy is subjective.  Focusing on my fear of getting a long line while I’m in the kiosk alone is even worse. In reality, the “don’t let me get busy” is focusing on my fear rather than what I really need, which is less customers until help arrives.  

A very prime example that happened to me yesterday turned out to be a simple lottery ticket.  I bought the ticket with the prayer and intent to win.  Who doesn’t want to win the lottery, right? I didn’t specifically say, I want to win the entire jackpot. I didn’t specify that intent.  I just said I want to win. Well, turns out that I did win the lottery.  I matched three numbers and won $40.  I did manifest that. I’d stake my last dollar on it that I did.  That $40 came at a time when I needed it the most and it couldn’t have been anything other than a manifestation of something I needed.  Imagine what might have happened if I had been more specific when I asked the Universe to let me win the entire jackpot.

That’s the other lesson that I learned from both my job struggles and the lottery ticket. The Universe has my back. If I would just get out of my own way and let it do it’s job, I would manifest the better life that I’ve been wanting.  When you worry, it’s the same thing as focusing on the negative.  You’re attracting the wrong kind of energy and manifesting more of the same.  When you want to change your life, you’ve got to focus on the solution and then you’ve got to work toward those goals. Keep focusing on the positives and not what you’re lacking.  My life is a living, breathing example of this.  I’ve been too focused on what’s lacking instead of focusing on what I do want.

Something else I learned from the book will help me stay focused and that’s a vision board. I’ve had a vision board for a while but I never really used this tool the proper way.  After reading the book, I’ve a better understanding of the tool.  You visit that vision board every day and you repeat those positive affirmations and refocus on what you do want rather than what you don’t want. For myself, I have personal goals, goals for my business, and some positive affirmations to remind myself of my own worth. There are other things that I may add later but the three most important life goals are on this board and let me tell you that they are as specific as I can get.

Lastly, we need to talk about gratitude. This is something that I struggle with sometimes.  When I’m struggling, it’s very difficult for me to find my sense of gratitude.  But, without it, that vision board is just a board.  I’ve got to develop some gratitude because that emotion is what fuels greater manifestation.  I’ve got to be grateful for the life that I have right now.  I’ve got to find something that exists in my life right now and be thankful for that.  And, I’ve got to do that every day.  No life is completely without blessings even if it is just to say, I’m grateful for the breath I take.  I’m alive therefore I have an opportunity to make it better. This gem of advice came from my beautiful daughter and I’ve appreciated her words of wisdom so much that I’ve added that affirmation to my vision board.

I’ve started calling it my glory board.  I kind of like that name better. It’s not shouting out all the things that are glorious about me but a shout out to the glorious things I want to accomplish in the near term.  How glorious these things will be once they’ve manifested in real time. I know that these things are possible.  I’ve manifested that $40 winning lottery ticket and if I can do that, I can reach the lofty goals on my glory board.  It’s all a matter of finding my positive focus, my gratitude and actually working towards those goals. The rest of the work, the Universe will do for me.

Anyhow, I hope that this helps with your own journey.  Stay tuned to the site for more blog posts.  I’m sure that I’m not done with my lessons yet.

Many blessings,

Lisa