This week the word manifestation has been on my heart. I can’t seem to listen to enough Wayne Dyer podcasts and YouTube presentations. I had a spiritual shift in my mindset. You are in charge of your own happiness. I am in charge of my own happiness.

This time of year is hard for me. The change in seasons is hard because I don’t like the dark. I can’t run later in the day anymore, and colder weather is coming. The cold doesn’t stop me from running; but I’m just a summer, loving kind of girl.

How does this relate to manifestation? Well, the word has been on my mind and I have been making many changes in a more positive direction. I have changed my diet to eat clean again. I have made a commitment to stick to my training schedule for the Dopey Challenge, and I am cross-training regularly.  I want to feel better about myself both inside and out.  But more importantly, I am seeing that things I have been manifesting are unfolding in front of me.

Different Types of Thinking

I was talking to my husband about the way that I think, and I told him that I am always the glass half empty person.  I always think the worst case first and am not the type of person who is more positive.  He told me that how a person thinks can be changed, and I didn’t disagree.

Deficiency Motivation

Wayne Dyer talks about that type of thinking.  He called it deficiency motivation – “Where I am I don’t Like”.  From July, 2017 until March of 2018 I was living in a place in my life that I didn’t like.

When you think that way, you are always trying to fix what you don’t like. You feel like something is wrong with you. You never arrive where you want to be in life because your life is a series of trying to get someplace else.  What happens, is that is you become a sufferer of always wanting MORE.  When you are living in deficiency you are always feeling like you don’t have enough, even when you met the goal you wanted. You are never satisfied.

No Limit Motivation

A no-limit person never operates from a lack in their life.  They never say I don’t have enough.  In your mind you are already everything you need to have total bliss.  No limit people take what they are and accept.  They see no deficiencies about themselves.

How Is Manifestation Affecting Me

I want to be the type of person who takes their life in their own hands and understands that everything that comes your way is an opportunity and a blessing.  I am finally getting to that place.  I am learning how to be happy where I am and with what I have.

I used to keep looking backwards and seeing my failures in a negative sense.  I was focusing on my deficiencies.  I wasn’t believing that what happened in the past was necessary to get me to where I am today.  I would say it out loud, but I wasn’t truly believing it 100% until a few weeks ago.

I used to keep reaching for more.  But I am now learning to celebrate every little thing that is coming my way.  And let me tell you, things have been coming my way that I never expected that I would receive.  This is what has happened for me in the past six months:

I lost my job

I actually manifested on an airplane home from a conference two days before that, that I wanted to start my dream job.  I wanted to do whatever it would take to be my own boss.  That gift was given to me two days later.  However, for a long time I was focusing on the negative part of that.

I attended conferences

I met some wonderful new friends.  I had grown my relationship with one of my friends from several years ago.  We had the chance to spend more time together and build our relationship.

I won contests at these conferences!  I won a gift card which I used to purchase a new camera.  I told my roommate at that conference that I wanted to get a new camera to help with my business.  I won a Google Pixelbook and a JBL Pulse 3 speaker.  Thank you Best Buy!  I had said I wanted to get a new computer to upgrade for my business!

I also won a $250 gift card at the third conference I attended this year!  In fact, the morning of the drawing I was getting dressed and putting on my make up and I said OUT LOUD, “I am going to win that gift card”.  And I did!   Thank you Genius At Play!  I was shocked and had to share my story when I accepted the card.

That was the smack in my face that told me that when you manifest your visions and dream they will come true.  I told my husband about the gift card and we both thought the same thing.  That is the gift we needed to help with our children’s Christmas gifts this year.

I am building relationships

I had the pleasure of rooming with Claudia in NYC in August for the BlogHer Conference.  She and I had been friends and had been able to spend time with each other at conferences, but this time we had more time together by rooming with each other.

Having that time together, I was also able to enjoy dinners and free time with Claudia.  I I was also introduced to some amazing women!  I had been talking on the phone with one of the members in our social media group, and Claudia surprised me because that same person was at the dinner!  It was so great to meet Annita in person!  Also at the table were fellow Omag Insiders of Claudia’s and also a fellow Best Buy Ambassador Kelly.  I was so happy to finally meet some of these women in real life.

Claudia had another surprise for me.  I was invited to join her for a tour of the Oprah Magazine office in the Hearst Building in NYC!  I couldn’t believe it.  I want to be an OMag Insider and I am manifesting this dream.  Being in the same office space that Oprah spends time and breathes the same air!  I was so grateful for that experience.

I am learning how to be me

Wayne Dyer says, “being means seeing the greatness and uniqueness in you, and never letting anyone else to make you think the contrary.”  I am learning how to “be”.  I am learning how to be my true self.  I am seeing the good that I am capable of.  I am no longer letting how I had been treated or made to think negatively about myself define me.

I had an amazing experience at that conference.  I was given the opportunity to give a presentation about messenger bots.  This was a first for me at a social media conference.  And the session was great!  I had amazing feedback from some of the attendees, and I was so surprised at how many people attended my session.

I was having a conversation on Facebook with someone and this is a message she sent to me about my change into working for myself this year:Someone else believes in me and they are seeing me succeed!  I love this.

Just before I left Cedar Point to fly home, I went to the amusement park and took a ride on the very high swings.  I wanted to fly high and toss my negativity into Lake Eerie.  I didn’t want to bring it back home with me.

Things are happening to me that I never imagined before.  When I started to believe in myself doors began opening for me.  I am getting so busy with clients, that there may come a point when I will have to hire a virtual assistant!