Jenn Stevens | Spiritual Life + Business Coach
I get messages from people all the time wondering WHEN their manifestation is going to show up.
Obviously, I can’t ever answer that question! I’m not a psychic for one thing. And I’m not the Universe itself either. (OK fine technically we all are but you know what I mean ???? )
But when people are messaging me asking when their manifestation is coming it actually raises a big red flag:
Getting stuck in the why, the when and the how means you’re not actually manifesting yet!
When you’re busy wondering if it’s ever going to actually happen for you, then you definitely haven’t stepped into deciding much less into calling your intention in.
It’s definitely not about hoping and wishing and waiting for something to show up.
It’s about projecting your desires out from inside you into the outer world. That requires your belief and faith and action.
I love to empower my students to take matters into their own hands!
So I’m here to remind your own power over and over and over again.
You create your reality! And the most important part of manifesting is the decision.
One you truly decide and start taking action with faith, things fall into place very quickly.
If you’re in a place of wondering and wavering, it’s time to go back to manifesting basics. Your wish is your creation! So instead of sitting around wondering and waiting, it’s time to double down on your commitment to the process.
Here’s my three-step guide to help you DECIDE and make your manifestation intentions come true!
A decision is a true commitment. But you may have missed this crucial step by putting a lot of attention onto your desire but not actually following through with the decision itself.
It’s really just flicking a mental switch inside your own mind! This is how your intention goes from all the questions and uncertainty into deeply knowing.
So take some time right now to truly commit to your intention. Decide it’s yours no matter what and very soon it will be. Simply thinking about how great your intention is is not the same thing as deciding! So make sure you get this part straight.
The next phase is to feel into what that future Already Have It And Got The T-Shirt version of you. So tell me, if your wish was totally done and dusted and you were just rocking your life with your intention just being a part of your normal reality, how would you feel?
This might feel kind of strange at first because we’re so used to putting extra shine on the things we want! We’re not used to imagining our wishes as being real without some crazy Hollywood ending to match.
Don’t get me wrong though! When our wishes do actually appear, they will feel pretty amazing for a little while! But then we quickly adapt to them just being around. They simply become part of our new normal.
So it’s not the whoa crazy energy you want to connect to. It’s the energy of already being there, just doing your thing and enjoying your life with your intention in it. So spend some time visualizing that and feeling into the havingness of it all. The more you can connect with this energy, the faster you’ll call your wish in!
Let’s face it, when you know with all your heart and soul that your wish is yours, you would act a whole lot differently.
For one thing, you would not be sitting around asking “when/how is it going to happen?” ☺️
There aren’t any questions anymore! It’s already yours and you simply know it. But that doesn’t mean you can just kick back and do nothing. It’s important to also take action from this place of inner confidence.
When you’re in that state of feeling into the future you, you also get to feel into the knowledge that future you has.
As True Detective so infamously told us: time is a flat circle. That means you and your future selves (and past selves!) are all actually existing at exactly the same time.
I know that’s a big concept to wrap your head around so let’s just concentrate on what we need to do here: connecting with that future version of you. So what does Future You want you to know? What have you already done to get there? Spend some time thinking on it and take notes if you want. And keep an open mind.
This isn’t always about taking the kinds of action your rational brain usually goes for (although it might be). Everyone will be different! But the most important thing is that you simply choose to act from that deep place of knowing instead of from desperation or thirstiness.
I hope this post inspires you to truly decide on your intention and to take action to make it happen! This is your life after all! You owe it to yourself to be bold enough to go after what you really want.
Thank you so much for reading!
PS Looking for more? You might also want to check out this post about how to control time or this one about how to finally feel good.
Want to create a new life?
It’s just one decision away.
It’s tempting to look at our lives and feel like the victim of circumstances. But in reality, it’s our decisions that have brought us here.
Your life is sandwiched between your minimum and maximum thresholds. Most people’s minimum thresholds are incredibly low while the maximum threshold is not high enough.
But what if you’re “basic minimum” was your normal level? What would happen if you could shift your whole life up a few notches on the awesomeness scale?
Those thresholds might not have been a conscious decision but make no mistakes: they are a choice. They are your invisible lines in the sand. Your friends, family, career and everything will fit inside of them so it’s important to make sure you’ve picked the right thresholds.
We think “this is just the way life is” and forget to even DREAM of anything bigger and better.
We fall asleep at the wheel and we forget entirely that we’rethe ones running the show.But your life has not been pre-determined.It is never too late for you to choose something different.You can opt out or opt in whenever you like.Deciding to live a new life is a split moment decision with the power to impact everything.
It’s as simple as dropping old unhelpful mental loops and thought patterns. It’s as simple as dropping the plan we made for our life over ten years ago and moving towards something fresh.
As a human, you’re constantly growing and expanding. And sometimes we expand past what we used to want.
It’s totally okay if your goals change or move. You are a different person now than when you first set them. You don’t have to keep going after the same old things.
You can re-decide on the rules any time you like.
Before I made the decision to move to Berlin, I felt very trapped by my life.
(Even though I created every little bit of it!)
I was in a job that didn’t pay well and didn’t respect its employees.
I had a mortgage on a beautiful flat (the only problem being that the permanence of the mortgage began to feel like a chain around my neck).
I remember feeling so deeply torn about wanting to make a move and feeling like I wasn’t able to.
Until I realized, I could do anything I wanted.
The only thing holding me back was me!
I didn’t have to stay in the crap job. And I could sell the flat.
It seems so obvious now looking back but I definitely remember how trapped and unhappy I felt at the time.
But what I didn’t see back then was that all the reasons I had for not doing it were just EXCUSES.
I felt that because I had worked so hard to get where I was that I couldn’t just change things.
Which is so crazy!
Looking back now, I honestly cannot even imagine what I would have been had I NOT decided to move to Europe and become an entrepreneur.
Of course, this road hasn’t always been easy. But it was right for me. It was that little voice in my heart. And if I hadn’t listened, the voice would have only gotten louder and more demanding over time.
At the time, not everyone understood my motivations but I cannot live my life for other people. The disconnect between what I wanted and where I actually was was much too large to keep ignoring.
I walked around with a huge weight on my shoulders until I realized I could just DECIDE.
Maybe what worked for you last year isn’t working for you now! And that’s okay. You’re growing and evolving and your dreams are too.
And once you realize that, you can start to make some new decisions about the things that aren’t serving you.
You get to change and grow and go for new goals and that’s your fucking job as a beautiful constantly growing human being.
You don’t have to be and do the same things for years on end if you’re not happy.
Life can be fun. It can be easy. And often you’re the only thing that’s talking out of going after your true happiness.
So don’t think you have to stay the same forever.
Don’t think you get to choose your life only ONCE and never again.
Don’t think that you have to make up for your past mistakes.
Don’t think that because you no longer want something that you have to feel shame about growing and changing.
Our choices are not set in stone. Most of us are constantly expanding past our old goals but we’re not in tune with what we do want.
We get addicted to talking. To thinking about all the possibilities for our future but not going after them. We put off making a decision because that would require (*gasp*) real work, energy and the possibility of failure.
Ask yourself what you really want in life.
Decide on actually achieving it.
Once it’s a decision, you become active about achieving it.
You act “as if”. You act with faith. You start working from divine inspiration.
Deep down in your heart, you know already know exactly who you want to be. It’s time to step up and become that person.
So throw yourself into the work of getting it done.
This isn’t a dress rehearsal! The longer you sit on the sidelines NOT deciding the longer it will take for you to feel truly empowered and happy.
The truth is it’s not the hard work or energy holding you back.
It’s your lack of commitment to yourself.
It’s your fear of change. (Because no matter how much we say we’re not okay with who we are and what our current life is like, picking something new requires us to get out of the COMFORT ZONE we’ve created.)
But most people’s comfort zones are pretty shitty.
Yeah, it’s comfortable. But do you want to be broke/single/underemployed forever?
Or do you have enough guts to DECIDE on what you really want to be.
Pick a goal. Write it down. And start pursuing it with your whole heart.
Tell people about the new business that you’ve launched (that maybe you’ve never even signed a client up for).
Tell people that you’re serious about fitness, saving money, becoming a leader, finding a partner.
What would you do if you were that person? What would you say? What would your energy be like? What would it all feel like?
Because the real trick is that you can opt-in to that reality RIGHT NOW.
And the only person with the magic wand is you.
So again I dare you. Dream the dream. Make the decision. And BECOME that person who you were really meant to be.
I hope this post inspires you to take some positive action in your own life. Transformation isn’t always easy but it’s so necessary to create the life we really want.
Thank you so much for reading and have a beautiful week!
PS Looking for more? You might also want to check out this post about how to use the Law of Attraction in 6 steps or this one about why you shouldn’t try to manifest happiness.
