Manifesting What You Want...and how it really works!

I have never really been one to believe in the whole "you manifest what you want" or those sayings that people say "the energy you put out is the energy you get back"...blah blah blah. I've spent most of my life being taught that you get where you want to go in life by not only hard work but networking and knowing the right people in the right places. My father has been in sales my entire life, and networking was one of those key things he taught me growing up. With teachings like 'never burn a bridge', 'always save a contacts information', 'have a strong introductory presence' and so on.

I've spent the majority of my life in sales, in the beauty industry to be exact and I've been fairly successful at it. Finding out a clients needs and then finding them a solution is something I've always enjoyed doing, until recently. When I landed my dream sales job that required me to travel 75% of the time, be with clients in store 4 days a week and networking. Until after about 8 months I realized that I hated my "dream" job, so I left it. In search of what truly made me happy, and how to make money doing what made me happy.

Fast forward to the hit of COVID-19. I lost what small freelance sales work I was doing and felt like I had failed. In the past I've read the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and I've heard a lot about manifesting what you want out of life. I read the book, and then kind of started trying it out by putting or saying what I wanted into the universe to be truthful I whole heatedly didnt believe it was real. How can someone just say what they want into the sky every day and then just magically get it, there was no way. After losing my job and spiraling into one of the deepest and darkest places I've ever been, I needed to do something. I needed to change the energy I was exuding. This was the time to really give manifesting a shot right? I literally had nothing to lose, I was jobless, heartless, and depressed.

I started by creating a list of things i'm grateful for every day, weather I actually already had them or not. Things like the following...

1. I'm grateful for making good money doing something I truly love.

2. I'm grateful for creating closer bonds in female friendships.

3. I'm grateful for the ability to truly save money.

4. I'm grateful for being able to let go of relationships/people that no longer serve my soul and I'm grateful for creating stronger bonds and relationships with people who do serve my soul and value what I bring to the table in a friendship.

5. I am grateful for just starting something new and stopping having the mindset that somethings going to just happen for me.

Every day I create these lists of things I am happy to have in my life, again even If I don't have them yet. I limit myself to a focus of 6-10 things a day. I speak them out loud every single morning over my cold brew. Ya know what? just a couple of months ago the first one actually came true. I was invited onto a boat with a group of 7 other girls as a 'girls day'. These girls i'd hung out with once or twice before, but they had no idea how badly I needed them, how badly I had been manifesting for better female friendship in my life. Now, every month we as a group of girls do something and I also have had the courage to reach out and hang out with some of them one on one.

Then, I found out about this very media outlet, this very community of people. Having always had a secret desire to be a writer, never thinking what I had to say could matter to anyone I found this very outlet. Vocal, a place where I could write about literally whatever I wanted, any topic and get PAID for it. WHAT??? I found out about Vocal when it just appeared infront of me one day on social media, I was in awe at the fact that there was a place for me to write about multiple topics in small form and possibly get paid, like paid REAL MONEY for doing something I love to do!!

I was in awe, I am amazed. Things that I have wanted so badly, that I had spoken into the universe every single morning for 3 or 4 months actually started to happen for myself. It is real... from one non believer to another I can honestly say, I thought it was all a bunch of hocus pocus until now.

So, My advice? Get out there and be consistent in your manifestations, be grateful for things you don't even have yet, say it out loud every single day. Show the universe that you are deserving of every thing you truly want and deserve in this life and the universe will deliver, It's happening for me now so I can almost guarantee it can happen for you too!