March 5 - Manifesting?

I listened to a great podcast yesterday morning on the power of manifesting. I feel like manifestation is all the rage right now and I could not decide if I found it legit or to be a big pile of made-up nonsense. It’s hard to wrap your mind around the idea that if you wake up every morning and think to yourself I am lucky that you’re actually going to be lucky. Huh? Why? Where’s the science?

Mel Robbins showed me the science. Turns out, I’ve been looking at manifesting all wrong.

Mel’s explanation of manifestation makes a whole lot more sense than the ‘lucky girl syndrome’ or any of those other (let’s call it how we see it) made-up, fake-sounding life hacks. Her point is that manifesting isn’t actually about the final goal, but instead about preparing yourself for the steps you need to take to achieve that final goal.

If you want to run a marathon, it’s not going to do you any good to imagine yourself in all your glory crossing the finish line to shouts of congratulations. Instead, imagine yourself getting out of bed at 5am in the dark in 15º weather to complete the 10 mile training run you told yourself you were going to do. Because then, when the situation you’ve imagined becomes your reality, you’re prepared. Your brain has already been there.

Today I played some more pickleball. It’s becoming a bit of a (healthy) addiction. One of my friends just could not get their serve. The ball was going left, right, too short, too far. Each time, he got more and more aggravated and negative about himself and the way he was hitting. I’m so in my head, I know this one is going to go out.

Mel would not have liked to hear that.

You’ve gotta imagine greatness, I called to him from the opposite side. This ball is going in. Picture it in all its glory.

Honestly, coming from my competitive side, I shouldn’t have said anything. Because, and I don’t know if it was pure luck or manifesting, his serves for the rest of the day were golden.