What do you need to do manifest?

It starts with getting clear on what you want. Then you ask the universe to co-create with you. Once you’ve done that, the universe is ready to do its part. But you need to do yours.

Together you will co-create what it is that you want.

So today I’m sharing the 5 things you must do in order to manifest.

Manifesting is the art of co-creating with the universe.

#1 Believe

Everything is possible when you believe.

If you think, “How do I believe when I don’t have it yet?” You are not alone. It’s also a really good question.

There are lots of ways to do this.

For instance, you can use visualization. Imagining your life as if you already have what you want is powerful. Lots of gold medals have been won that way.

When I work with my clients, I help them release the resistance to believing and use the energy of creation to actually teach them the feelings they seek. How they will feel when they have what they want. It works.

Another method is to play out your fantasy.

I first experienced this in a workshop at the Haven years ago.

I could act and play out any fantasy I wanted to experience. In my case, I wanted to experience getting engaged. I enrolled a friend to do the asking. We scheduled it up on the board. When the time came, we both made our way to a small room. There, he totally swept me off my feet and asked me to marry him.

It wasn’t real, but it felt real. I now know what that feels like.

You might be adverse to role playing, but go ahead and try it. See what happens.

• Decide on what it is that you want to experience.
• Identify who is in your fantasy. Consider the roles you will assign to actors.
• Recruit your friends for a party and ask them to join you in your fantasy.
• Assign the roles.
• Let the fantasy unfold. Do not control it. Experience it. This is where magic happens.

Try it and see what happens.

#2 Plan & Take Action

Action leads to results, yet you may not know exactly what you need to do to get everything you want.

You don’t need to know how to do everything before you actually get started. You just need to have an idea of the general direction and the next few steps. As you take action, you learn a lot. You may think you are making mistakes. The truth is these mistakes are getting you back on track and teaching you what you need to learn to get to your goal.

There are no mistakes, just opportunities to get closer to what you want.

Here are some tips for planning and taking action.

• Do your research and enlist help in figuring out how to get what you need. This is especially true if you are building a business. You don’t’ have to do anything alone.
• Don’t get stuck in analyzing. Plans change. Have a general plan. Let the details figure themselves out as you go. If you need the details (you might need that for you), go ahead and plan, but don’t spend more than a week planning.
• If you don’t know where to start, ask yourself what you do know. If you don’t know how to do it, you can google it to find out. Then you have to try. It will be uncomfortable. Eventually, it will get easier. I look at this as learning to dance with the universe.
• Keep taking action until you get what you want.

 

One more thing… Have fun.

#3 Keep Your Vibration Up

The work in manifesting anything is to actually focus on what you need to do, and to feel as good as possible along the way.

Do anything that makes you feel good.

• Share the best part of your day on Facebook (it works).
• Build up your faith bowl. Write all the things that are going well and put them in a jar. See the jar grow. When you feel like you don’t have faith anymore, look at the notes in the jar.
• Dance, sing, play the drums.
• Go out for a run/walk in nature.

 

Choices are unlimited.

I’ll be honest: keeping up my vibration is what I struggle with the most.

My natural tendency is to buckle down and power through everything. Buckling down is good up to a point, but it does create resistance, which lowers your vibration. I have to counter that with lots of action to keep feeling good. If you are in the same boat, keep practicing.

 

#4 Let Go of Control and Trust the Universe Has your Back

Manifesting is also about trusting the universe has your back.

This step is about knowing whatever you do, you will eventually figure things out. The universe will eventually get you what you need.

Last November, I asked the universe to sort out the money thing for me. I told the universe to bring it to me in the highest and best way. I kept hearing not to worry. I didn’t. I totally trusted that things would come. Eight days later, I had a job. Interestingly enough, I also kept hearing I would have that job for as long as I needed to support me financially. It lasted ten days. I believe with all my heart that is exactly what I needed.

Trusting the universe isn’t always easy, but it is necessary to manifest what you want.

If you don’t know where to start, start with Pam Grout’s books E-Squared and E-Cubed. If you need a little a bit of one on one help to work through your resistance, book a session with me.

The sooner you let go of control, the sooner you can manifest more.

 

#5 Clear your Resistance

You will encounter resistance throughout the manifesting process.

It can come in many forms. It might be you have some limiting beliefs that stop you from believing or taking action. You might encounter those as feeling overwhelmed and unable to act. It might just be you have to fight to keep your vibration high or you feel anxious. It could be you feel super anxious.

Resistance is normal. Your job is to let it go.

There are lots of ways to do that. You can tap it away with EFT (google it). You can enlist someone to help you through it. The sooner you get through it, the closer you are to manifesting.

Are you ready to do your part and let the universe do its part?

You might find it challenging to believe or to take action. Ditto for keeping your vibration high and letting go. You will probably need to reach deep within you to release resistance. This is all part of co-creating with the universe.

Don’t give up. Just keep going.

 

Did you know the universe can help you manifest anything you want? Including more clients and cash?

The universe is always supporting you in manifesting your deepest inner desires. This gets tricky sometimes because the universe will help you manifest things you didn’t even know you asked for.

As humans, we all have conflicting desires and the universe picks up on your strongest signals. So in order to manifest what you want, you need t
o learn how to amplify your signals – by getting super clear on what you want.

The first step is to make a list of what you want. There are no right or wrong lists, but there are things you can do to make sure you are clear in your desires and sending the universe the right signals.

Here are five tips for asking for what you want with clarity:

#1 Be specific.

Your job is to be clear about what you truly desire.

As easy as it is to understand this concept, it’s also one of the hardest things for most of us to do. In general, people have an idea of where they want to go, but no idea what it will look like once they have it. We say we want abundance, joy and happiness. But what does that look like in your life? An abundance of what? Happiness about what?

If you stay general, the universe will decide for you how abundance, joy and happiness arrive.

If you want to be happy, the universe might send you all kinds of things that make you happy – that you don’t really want.

What if you asked for joy and the universe brought you a baby?

What if you want abundance and instead of sending you clients, the universe sends you a rich husband you don’t love?

Stuff like this happens all the time. The universe is funny that way.

It is your birthright to choose how you manifest your desires. So be specific about what you actually want. It will save you a ton of time and frustration.

Here are a few questions to help you get started:

• What do you want?
• What do you desire?
• How do you want to feel?
• What will your life be life be like when you do receive it?
• What will it feel like to have this in your life?
• What is your true intention

There is no such thing as being too specific. You do your part and the universe will the do the rest.

#2 Check that everything on your list excites you.

This is your life.

That means everything on your list should excite you. You have the right to be in love with what you do, your business. Exercise that freedom. If you are not in love with what you do or who you help, or what you are offering, change it.

Remember, there are no shoulds or have tos. You set the rules.

#3 Don’t ask when something will happen.

Scratch all requests that sound like, “I want to know when I will have abundance.”

The universe doesn’t decide. You do.

You decide it’s yours to claim and then the universe helps you get it. That means you must assume it’s yours for the taking and it’s possible now.

Replace those types of requests with requests for guidance. “How can I manifest even more money now?”

Assume everything is possible. Better yet, assume it’s already done.

#4 Forget negatives statements.

Scratch anything from your list that’s in the negative.

For example:

• I don’t want to be poor.
• I don’t want these clients.
• I don’t want to take more training.
• I don’t want to gain another ten pounds.

There are three reasons for this.

First, the negative doesn’t mean you want the opposite. For example, what does not being poor look like?

Second, the universe doesn’t actually hear the word don’t (and can’t). When you state things in the negative, you are actually saying them in the positive. “I don’t want to be poor,” turns into “I want to be poor.”

Third, the law of attraction says you attract what you focus on. By focusing on what you don’t want, you attract more of it.

Want what you want because you desire it, not because you don’t have it.

Scratch all negatives and replace with positive affirmations.

#5 Stretch the amount you request.

Go beyond wanting just enough. Just enough to pay the bills. Just enough to be comfortable, but not too comfortable.

It’s not somehow wrong to ask and to receive all you desire.

It’s your birth right to ask for of all what you want. You aren’t at this planet to be miserable. You have the right to be happy and rich if that is what you desire.

It is also possible for you to manifest it.

Ask for everything you want, plus a bit more to enjoy life.

You can stretch as much as you like, but you must believe it’s actually possible to receive it. You can ask for a million dollars, but if in your mind it’s impossible, it’s going to be impossible to manifest.

Specify something that is possible. Keep stretching it as you get closer to it.

You have a birthright to ask for everything you want. (Click to tweet.)

Remember, we manifest what we want by being specific and double-checking we actually want what’s on the list.

Then we replace negative statements with positive.

Don’t forget to stretch beyond your comfort zone and leave room for the universe to figure how to bring clients and money to you.

Get your list ready because I’ll be back next week with tips on how the ask the universe for what you want.

 

I used to be in the business of chasing clients.

I did everything with one goal in mind: get people (it didn’t matter who) to hire me and fork over some money. I gave lots of free stuff with the expectation that people would buy from me.

Very few did.

Time went by and I grew disappointed and frustrated. I just

couldn’t figure out what was happening. I was usually so good at getting things done. Then my business coach rocked my world. She told me this, “You are not in the business of chasing clients.”

That’s when the lightbulb when on. My job wasn’t to convince people to buy from me. My job was to get out there, give people choices, and let them choose for themselves I didn’t need to pull clients to me, I needed to let clients come to me if they so choose.

I stopped chasing clients that day.

I’m now having more fun in my business than I have in years. I’m also helping way more people. That feels awesome.

The only way to manifest more clients is to stop chasing them and let them come to you.

Have you been chasing clients? Ready to stop?

Here are 3 things you must do if you want clients to do the chasing instead.

1. Be helpful without expectation.

Make a decision right now that you are no longer in the business of chasing clients. Write down, “No Chasing.” on a sticky note and stick it to your computer. That’s just not what you do anymore.

Instead go out and be helpful.

Avoiding doing it because you want people to hire you. Give from the heart.

Trust me, you’ll receive hundreds of heartfelt thanks!

I’m not saying let go of the need and desire to have paying clients. You need that desire in order to manifest it. What I am saying is stop deciding how that should happen. Tit for that just doesn’t work.

2. Become the Magnet

As an entrepreneur you have a magnetic ability.

As a magnet, you extend your energy outward into the universe. This energy then magnetized potential clients to you. The beauty of it is that it’s based on free will.  As a magnet, you do not attempt to convince. As a magnet, you simply let people know who you are and how you can help them.

Your job as a magnet is to let people get to know, like, and trust you.

To do that you must create opportunities for people to get know, like, trust you. You need to create lots of these opportunities. And you must do so consistently. Remember it takes seven touch points before people know, like, and trust you enough to buy from you.

3. Answer this, “What do I want?”

In order for the universe to help you, you must know what you want. In order for you take action and to believe that things possible, you must first know what you want. In order to go out and become the magnet you are meant to be, you must first know who you want to attract.

Don’t believe me? Consider this example.

When I first thought Theta Healing (energy healing modality), I was super clear that I wanted to teach classes so that I could afford to take more Theta Healing classes. Within 8 months I had manifested 25K and 42 students. More than enough to cover the cost of the training.

As soon as the training was done, I stopped manifesting students.

It wasn’t for the lack of trying though. I was lucky to get one person for a weekend workshop. The people that I did manage to book mostly cancelled. As hard as this was, I wasn’t surprised. I knew was because I just didn’t know if I wanted to teach or not. The universe heard my confusion and kept my classes empty.

You must help the universe by knowing what you want. Start with the following questions:

• What do you want?
• Who do you want to work with?
• What problems do you solve for them?
• How do you solve it from them?
• How much tie do you want to spend working in a week?
• Do you really want to leave your day job?

If you don’t know what you want, that’s totally cool. Give yourself permission to start with baby steps. You don’t need to have it all figured out. What does your heart tell you? Listen to it, it will guide you.

Everything is possible, but you must first know what it is you want.

So I’ve just shared with you 3 things you must do if you want to stop chasing clients and have clients chase you.  Go out and be helpful and become so magnetic that people can’t resist you. Before you do that all of that, don’t forget to clear on what you want.

If you need a little 1:1 help to call your clients into your life, check out “Super Charge Your Client Magnet.”

So now I want to hear from you:

Are you still chasing clients? If not, any hints for the rest of us?

Let me in the comment box below.