Why Your Manifestations Fail and How to Fix It Today

Summary

The School of Greatness – Episode Summary

Episode: Why Your Manifestations Fail and How to Fix It Today

Host: Lewis Howes
Date: December 17, 2025

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Overview

In this energizing and practical episode, Lewis Howes breaks down why most people struggle to manifest their desires, debunks common myths, and gives a step-by-step roadmap to creating lasting, real change. Drawing from his personal journey and the wisdom of leading manifestation experts, Lewis provides a toolkit for shifting from wanting to becoming, from stress to gratitude, and from dreaming to doing. If you’ve ever felt stuck despite your best efforts to visualize a better future, this episode gives you the immediate mindset shifts and actions to start manifesting more powerfully.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Why Most People Fail at Manifestation

[01:04 – 07:00]

• Manifestation isn’t magic: Lewis explains that it’s a skill, not luck or miracles. Most people do it “backwards,” visualizing briefly, hoping for miracles, and blaming the universe when nothing changes.
• You can’t manifest from confusion or negative emotion:

  "Manifestation doesn’t respond to anxiety. It responds to alignment. It responds to identity. It responds to who you’re being, not just what you’re wishing for."
  — Lewis Howes [02:04]

• His personal story: After his football career ended, Lewis hit rock bottom. He was manifesting from fear and scarcity, which only attracted more of the same.
• Shift from want to identity:

  "Nothing changed in my life until I shifted from wanting something that I didn’t have to becoming someone."
  — Lewis Howes [03:32]

• Clarity is key: The universe doesn’t respond to vague wishes—get specific.

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2. The Formula: Clear Intention + Elevated Emotion

[05:11 – 07:00]

• Causing an Effect: Lewis and a manifestation coach discuss the shift from waiting for external changes (old model) to generating internal change to influence your external world.
• The power of “an elevated emotion”: Holding onto a clear intention and deeply feeling the positive emotion associated with your vision anchors your manifestation.
• Quote from Dr. Joe Dispenza:

  "All you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion... The stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision, and you can begin to remember your future."
  — Dr. Joe Dispenza, recounted by Lewis Howes [06:11]

• “Remember the future”: Lewis reflects on how this phrase reframed his process, making it easier to draw the future you want closer.

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3. Step One: Get Crystal Clear on What You Want

[06:30 – 07:00]

• Practical Challenge: Lewis gives listeners a journaling prompt—complete the sentence, “In the next 12 months, I am becoming the person who…”
• Manifesting from identity:

  "Manifest from identity, not fantasy. And there’s a big difference in the two."
  — Lewis Howes [07:11]

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4. Step Two: Feel the Future Before It Arrives

[14:24 – 17:00]

• Your emotional state is your “manifestation frequency”:

  “You don’t manifest what you want, you manifest what you feel.”
  — Lewis Howes [13:54]

• Rhonda Byrne’s perspective:

  "You gotta have it like your name... no separation between you and it."
  — Rhonda Byrne [14:45] “If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand.” — Bob Proctor (via Rhonda Byrne) [15:27]

• Gratitude as a gateway to abundance: Focus on what you’re grateful for, no matter how small. This breaks the cycle of lack and scarcity.
• Personal example: Lewis details his experience sleeping on his sister’s couch, stuck in negative thoughts, and how daily gratitude changed everything for him.
• Action Challenge: Take 60 seconds each day to not just visualize, but deeply feel your future as if it’s already real.

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5. Step Three: Take Bold, Imperfect Action

[26:19 – 29:50]

• Action is essential:

  "Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation."
  — Financial Advisor [26:19]

• You have to move before you feel ready:

  "The day my life changed was the day that I started to take massive, massive, courageous, bold, imperfect action, messy action."
  — Lewis Howes [27:21]

• Overcome fear of rejection and failure: Consistent action, no matter how “imperfect,” builds momentum and attracts new opportunities.
• Challenge: Each day, ask “What is one courageous step my future self would take today?” and do it.

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6. The Number One Block: Self-Sabotage

[33:12 – 36:00]

• You can’t receive what you keep sabotaging:

  "You cannot receive what you keep sabotaging in your life."

• Common blocks:
  • Self-doubt disguised as realism
  • Fear disguised as practicality
  • People-pleasing
  • Staying small for the comfort of others
• The power of environment: Your environment and circle will either fuel your growth or anchor you to your past.
• Proximity is power: Surround yourself with supporters of your vision, and be courageous in setting boundaries when needed.

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7. Why Manifestation Becomes Addictive

[37:00 – 41:00]

• The three steps (clarity, emotional alignment, bold action) bring immediate shifts in confidence and evidence of progress.
• Becoming a new identity:

  "You are the creator, you are the catalyst, you are the author of what comes next in your life."
  — Lewis Howes [41:19]

• **You’ll notice “micro wins,” opportunities, and positive changes as you consistently practice.

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8. The 24-Hour Manifestation Challenge

[41:35 – 47:00]

Lewis gives a “repeatable daily challenge”:

• Step 1: Write a clear vision
• Step 2: Fuel gratitude—really feel it
• Step 3: Take one bold, imperfect action toward your dream today

"That’s your future self screaming at you through the goosebumps, saying, please take action today. Please take that step, because you’re meant to become that thing."
— Lewis Howes [45:20]

• Embrace failure as feedback: Don't wait to feel ready—act now, fail, learn, and adjust. That's how momentum is built.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Manifestation doesn’t respond to anxiety. It responds to alignment. It responds to identity." — Lewis Howes [02:04]
• "All you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion… The stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision." — Dr. Joe Dispenza (via Lewis Howes) [06:11]
• "You don’t manifest what you want, you manifest what you feel.” — Lewis Howes [13:54]
• "If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand." — Bob Proctor (via Rhonda Byrne) [15:27]
• "Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation… That’s the formula." — Financial Advisor [26:19]
• "The day my life changed was the day that I started to take massive, massive, courageous, bold, imperfect action, messy action." — Lewis Howes [27:21]
• "You cannot receive what you keep sabotaging in your life." — Lewis Howes [33:12]
• "Proximity is power. And the day I started surrounding myself with people who lifted me up… my manifestations multiplied like crazy." — Lewis Howes [36:00]
• "You are the author of what comes next in your life. And that is powerful, my friend. That is freedom." — Lewis Howes [41:19]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:04] Main theme—why most people’s manifestation efforts fail
• [03:32] The critical turning point: shifting from wanting something to becoming someone
• [05:11] Model of causing an effect and the key manifestation formula
• [06:11] Dr. Joe Dispenza’s insight on intention and emotion
• [13:54] “Emotional state is your manifestation frequency”
• [14:45] Rhonda Byrne’s advice: “You have to have it like your name…”
• [15:27] Bob Proctor’s core principle on vision
• [26:19] Formula: Conscious thought × Action = Manifestation
• [27:21] The importance of bold, imperfect action
• [33:12] The #1 block: Self-sabotage
• [36:00] The power of proximity and supportive environments
• [41:19] Realizing you are the author of your next chapter
• [45:20] The “24 hour manifestation challenge” and summary of action steps

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Repeatable Action Steps

1. Get clear on your vision—the universe responds to specificity.
2. Elevate your emotional state—practice gratitude and feel your future self.
3. Take daily, bold, imperfect action—don’t wait for approval or perfection.

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Tone

Lewis’s tone is warm, motivational, direct, and often deeply personal. He mixes practical advice with vulnerable stories and brings in the language and wisdom of well-known manifestation teachers. The episode is structured to both inspire and give listeners very actionable, step-by-step practices to change their lives.

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Bottom Line

If you want to manifest more effectively, stop wishing and start becoming. Gain clarity, feel gratitude, and take courageous steps—every single day. Your environment and emotional alignment matter. You’re not stuck or waiting for permission. Manifestation becomes magic when you commit to these practical steps.

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Transcript

[Lewis Howes]

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[Manifestation Coach]

To direction, cause and effect. You know, waiting for your healing to feel gratitude, waiting for your abundance to feel worthy or successful. You know, waiting for your relationship to feel love. You know, the old model of reality, of cause and effect, the new model of reality is Causing an effect.

[Lewis Howes]

Causing an effect. Yeah.

[Manifestation Coach]

The moment you feel gratitude, your healing begins.

[Lewis Howes]

Wow.

[Manifestation Coach]

The moment you're empowered and you're worthy, you're stepping or generating abundance, you're stepping towards your success. Now, the moment you're in love with yourself, in love with life, and you see beauty in all things, it's natural that you'll attract an equal. So that's causing an effect.

[Lewis Howes]

Right?

[Manifestation Coach]

And so all you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion. And when you combine that clear intention and elevated emotion, just like when a person is remembering the past and feeling the emotion, if you start holding the intention and you feel the emotion, the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision and you can begin to remember your future.

[Lewis Howes]

I love this quote from Dr. Joe Dispenza where he says, all you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion. And when you combine that clear intention and elevated emotion, just like when a person is remembering the past and the feeling of that emotion, if you start holding on that intention, you feel the emotion. The stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision and you can begin to remember your future. When I first heard him say this, it, like, blew my mind. I was like, remember the future? How do we remember something that hasn't happened yet? A lot of us remember the past, and we think about the clear memory of the past, and then we have this elevated emotion linked and tied to that memory. And when he taught this to me, I was like, wow, it blew my mind. To go one more. We could visualize a future, imagine a future and create an elevated emotion. We send a signal out into the world and elevate our joy and excitement around that. And then we fuse the memory of a future that hasn't happened yet. That's how you bring it closer to you. People tattooed Remember the future on their arm after this interview. And it just blew my mind because it's something we as humans, for whatever reason, we hold on to. The memories of the past stronger when they're painful than thinking about a beautiful future that we can create from our imagination and drawing that closer to us. And that's where we need to start things. And when I first wrote down my vision for the school of greatness, what I've created here, this was over 13 years ago. It wasn't perfect. I wasn't sure exactly, like, how to make this perfect thing, but it was clear. I was super clear that I wanted to serve people, that I wanted to reach a hundred million lives weekly, that I wanted to learn from the best that I wanted to share my wisdom of what I was learning from these experts, that I wanted to improve and grow every single day. And by getting clear on that, man, year after year, it has grown and impacted the world in ways that I couldn't even imagine. That clarity became a magnet. It allowed me to book big guests. It allowed me to be in rooms that I thought I shouldn't be in. It allowed me to create opportunities that just fell into my lap. And the more I showed up consistently, opportunities started finding me. I. I didn't have to seek them. They started finding me. So I have a challenge for you. I want you to write this statement right now. You can write this in your phone, you can write it down in a journal, but write this down in the next 12 months. I am becoming the person who does this. And whatever that does, this is for you. I want you to write that thing. I'm becoming the person who speaks on stages. I'm becoming the person who writes books. I'm becoming the person who does a podcast. I'm becoming a person who is healthy. I'm becoming the person who has beautiful relationships. I'm becoming the person, whatever it is for you, write that down. Write that down. Because I want you to manifest from identity, not fantasy. And there's a big difference in the two. So the end of step one is to get crystal clear on what you want. Now step two is another big step in the process. We must feel the future before it arrives. And we talked about this briefly with Dr. Joe Dispenza. But here's why this is important. The School of Greatness is brought to you in partnership with Airbnb. The holidays are such a special time to travel and gather with loved ones. Think about some of your best trips. Those cozy spaces, thoughtful touches, and the feeling of being right at home wherever you are. Now imagine getting to provide that same experience for someone else. Because when you travel, your place is just sitting empty while you're away. Hosting on Airbnb can be a no brainer. 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Your emotional state is your manifestation frequency. You don't manifest what you want, what you desire, you manifest what you feel. And this is why it's so important to shift how you think and how you feel. Even when you don't feel good, you.

[Rhonda Byrne]

Have to believe you have it already. You've just got to. And so that you believe you have it already, it manifests. Simple as that.

[Lewis Howes]

If we don't believe that we can have something already, yeah, we have to have it.

[Rhonda Byrne]

You got to have it like your name. Like, you have your name. You've got to have it like they're your feet and your hands. Like no separation between you and it. You know, if you have something like your home or the clothes that you're wearing, like there isn't a separation for you about those. They're one with you. That's what it's gotta be like. Like you already have it. Like, I already have that house, I already have that car. I already have that company. I already have that promotion. Yeah, I already have it. I can feel it. I see it in my mind. And that's all you have to do. I think Bob Proctor would say, see it in your mind and hold it in your hand.

[Lewis Howes]

That's true, right? I love what Rhonda just shared here. And the quote from Bob Proctor at the end, if you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand. And the big lesson here is, this is why gratitude and generosity are the gateway to abundance. Gratitude shifts your energetic state faster than anything else. It literally shifts it. When you think about something you're grateful for, it can be the tiniest thing. I'm grateful for the sunshine. I'm grateful for a friend texting me. I'm grateful I woke up today. I'm grateful I can see. I'm grateful I have another experience of this life today. I'm grateful I get a paycheck. I'm grateful. Whatever it is, I'm grateful I have food right now. When you think about what you're grateful for, it's really hard to be angry and grateful at the same time. So gratitude shifts you out of fear, out of stress, and into alignment. And the more you repeat it every single moment or every single hour throughout the day, you build the habit of being grateful. And when you build a habit of being grateful, you shift your energetic frequency to allow you to attract more opportunities faster. It opens your heart, it calms your mind, it activates the parts of your brain that notice opportunities instead of danger. And this is a big part of manifestation and being aligned to things that bring you more of what you want. It activates the parts of your brain that notice opportunity instead of danger. And if you're always looking out for danger, you don't have a clear vision for your life. You don't have clarity. You're not in an open, energetic state. Your heart is closed. It's in fight or flight mode. It's in scarcity mode. And there are moments that we need to be discerning. I'm not just saying be lollygagging around all day long without worrying about what's happening around you. We have to be discerning in relationships. We have to be, you know, courageous when we're taking on business opportunities and make sure we're doing the right things and follow the steps and all these different things. I get it. But in general, we need to be thinking about gratitude. We need to be allowing ourselves to expand our heart to receive. Because if we're always closed off, it's going to be very hard to receive what you want. And this gets you into the emotional state where your future finally has somewhere to land. Now, let me say this again, this gets you into the emotional state where your future finally has somewhere to land. Now, let me give you some context here. When I was starting with nothing, sleeping on my sister's couch, broke, no money, living off credit cards, student loan debt. The economy was crashing in 2008, 2009. At first, I didn't do this. I was focused on all the problems I had in my life. Why am I broke? Why am I struggling with these credit cards? Why do I have student loan debt? Why won't the government just forgive this student loan debt so I don't have to deal with it? Why did this happen to me? Why did I get injured and break my wrist? Why is it taking longer? It's taking six months to get out of a cast. Why is this Happening to me? Why did this accident happen to my father? Where you got into a car accident at the same time as well? Why? Why, why, why? Why? Why are all these bad things happening to me? I was focused on scarcity. I was focused on lack. I was focused on upset, anger, frustration, insecurity, self doubt, blame. I was focused on everything else except for gratitude. Everything but gratitude I was focused on. And what did I create? All of that focus on everything that I was not grateful for created more energy of things that I wasn't grateful for. More of that elevated feeling that we talked about in Section one. I would think about it, I would ruminate on it, I would focus on it. And then I would feel frustrated, I would feel depressed. I would feel the weight of resentment of, why is this happening to me? Why did these people do this to me? Why did I struggle? Why? Why? Why? Instead, the moment everything started to shift was when I said, you know what? I'm going to practice gratitude every morning. I'm just going to wake up and say, you know what? I'm grateful to be alive. I'm going to find something to be grateful for. I'm grateful for my sister who's given me a place to sleep for free for a year and a half. Man, it's a pretty good big sister. I'm grateful for my sister. I'm grateful for my sister giving me food because I couldn't afford food. I didn't. I didn't find gratitude in big things. I was just like, how can I find gratitude in the littlest things? Throughout the day, when I started putting my focus and attention on all these little things, ah, it's. I was like the Grinch. It was like my heart just like started to get bigger. It's like it doubled. And I just got more joy. More gratitude brings more joy, more love. And I started seeing things differently and I started acting differently and I started engaging with people differently. I started asking questions and being curious about others instead of focusing on what was wrong with me or what I was struggling with and putting all this victim energy and victim frustration on myself. I started looking outward. I started service mindset. I started asking questions, being curious. And that is literally how my business grew. By building relationships by asking questions, by taking action on what I was learning. I was grateful for the couch that I slept on, for the books that I could borrow, for the one person who believed in me, for the mentors who showed up. And that gratitude lifted my state. It helped me think differently, it helped me act differently, believe differently. And when Your state changes, your results change as well. 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Like I want to be on a big stage to 10,000 people where I get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just imagine what you want, see it, and then I want you to feel it and actually walk yourself through the future like a memory of the past where you walk yourself in the past of pain. I want you to walk yourself into the future of purpose and feel the emotion. You're backstage, you've got your mic in your hand, or they're miking you up around your ear, around your mouth here with a little earpiece. You've got your suit on, you've got a certain outfit on, you're getting excited, you're doing your pre speech warmup, you're talking to people behind the scenes. There's photographers, there's a videographer. They announce your name, you walk out, they open the curtain, you go on stage, the audience erupts. Feel that excitement, feel that joy. Put yourself in the future of your life that you want to become. That identity of who you're becoming. If you can do that every single day for 60 seconds and then act on the person you're becoming to create the skill set, to create the relationships, to create the personal brand, the awareness that attracts that your life will completely change. Use this challenge to your advantage. Feel the future before it arrives. In this next section, I want to talk about the third step, which is bold, imperfect action. That is step three. Take one bold, imperfect action. Every single day. Every single day. Take one bold, imperfect action. The universe responds to movement. You cannot sit still and expect a new life. You can't think your way out of fear. You have to move through it. Check this out.

[Financial Advisor]

So it's conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation, which I then read later in ancient text. That's what the assured is. CT multiplied by A equals M. Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation.

[Lewis Howes]

Wow.

[Financial Advisor]

That's the formula. And you can't get to that formula. Unless you go through that process. And these ancients knew this a very long time ago, and because they knew this, that reaffirmed in me. I can really create the reality that I want to be a part of. Yes, there will be things to come and blindside you. Yes, there will be things that will sidetrack you. Yes, there will be hurdles to overcome. But those things are all just problems that need to be. Need to, have to. You have to find solutions to those problems instead of seeing those things as negative. Or this thing is attacking me, or this is. This is it. It's over for me. It's okay. We have a problem now. How can I be a part of the solution to this problem? Wow.

[Lewis Howes]

Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation. That's the formula. You can't just only think about what you want and have clarity on what you want and then not act to go create the skill set, go create the momentum, go build the relationships. You have got to have courage on a daily basis. And it takes bold action every single day. It takes putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to be rejected by people. People are going to say no to you, and that's okay. It's you showing up consistently, and the universe is going to reward you the more you show up. But if you can't deal with rejection or you can't deal with embarrassment by other people judging you, then it's going to be hard for you to create what you want because that's the entry price for creating and attracting all the things in your life. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to put yourself out there. You have to be willing to be misunderstood by people. And unfortunately, sometimes the people closest to you, your spouse, your partner, your parents, your siblings, your friends, teachers, people may misunderstand your vision, but your vision is not their life. And you have to be willing to focus on what you want. And their opinions of you are not your business. So don't allow them to hold you back from going with what you want. Now, story for me to share with you right now is that the day my life changed, it wasn't the day that I had a clear vision, because I wrote down my vision for different things I wanted. I would frame the vision. I would put it on the wall. I would actually put the date of when I wanted to accomplish these visions by, and I would have those on my wall, and I would look at them every day. Now, that was part of the action step, was getting clear on what I wanted. But it's not just going to happen if I don't take bold action. The day my life changed was the day that I started to take massive, massive, courageous, bold, imperfect action, messy action. I mean this is like sloppy messy, you know, embarrassing action over and over again. But when you take action with courage and you put yourself out there and some people, they want to help, they want to feel useful, they want to give, they want, whether it's advice or give you an opportunity. And so many people have given me opportunities throughout my seasons of life at different stages. Dave said, yeah, I'll give you a shot. Yeah, I'll take 10 minutes. Yeah, I'll do the interview with you. Even though I was small time, whatever it was, people gave me opportunities because I shot my shot. I reached out to mentors, I went to events, I showed up uncomfortable. I would go on Greyhound buses around the country, I would stay in hostels, I would just find a way to meet people and put myself out there. I would make uncomfortable calls, I would post cringe worthy videos online. But I showed up before I felt ready. If I didn't show up before I felt ready, I wouldn't have never have gotten anything because I still don't feel fully ready. And that's the secret is showing up before you feel ready. When you do that, you become more ready over time. An imperfect action creates momentum and momentum creates opportunities. That's the game changer. So I got a challenge for you. I want you to ask yourself, what is one courageous step my future self would take today? If you had all the courage in the world, if you are you five, ten years away with all the infinite wisdom that you're going to gain over the next five to 10 years in your life. If you could step into the future and tap into this memory bank as an artifact that you create over the next five to ten years of memories and new skills and new wisdom. And you said, what would my 5 to 10 year future year self do? What actions would they take? What calls would they make? How would they show up? What skills would they learn to get me to my future self? Ask yourself, what is that one courageous step that my future self would take today? And you've got to do that every single day. You can't just do it once, you've got to do it consistently. I want you to send the message to whoever you need to send it to right now. I want you to apply for the job, I want you to start the project, sign up for the program, have the conversation, whatever it is that you need to do. I want you to have that bold action right now. Do it right now. Text the person, call the person, start the thing, write the email. Whatever it is, do it right now. Because bold action is the bridge between intention and manifestation. And man, this is a game changer. Take one bold, imperfect action today. Now, this next section is the blocks that sabotage manifestation. Now that you know the first three steps, here's the number one block that kills manifestation. Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? I don't know if you are, but here's the number one block that kills manifestation. You can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Oh, man, this is a good one. You cannot receive what you keep sabotaging in your life. And if you have been someone who has sabotaged anything in your life, then let me know in the comments or send me a message on social media and let me know that you have sabotaged yourself. Because I know I have in the past, and it has crippled me. It has held me back. No one else has done this to me. I did this to myself. Because you can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Manifestation is not just about attracting what you want. It's about removing what's blocking you from creating what you want. And here are the biggest blocks. You ready? This is big. I want you to write this down, and I want you to reflect on. 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Because for years I kept people in my life who doubted my dreams or who held me back emotionally and I just kept them. I didn't create the boundaries I needed to create. I didn't have the courageous conversations because I was so afraid of people liking me. I didn't want to offend people. I was an extreme people pleaser. And you know, it wasn't because these people were bad people. It is because I didn't value myself and I lacked the courage to either let go of their approval or let go of them completely. And proximity is power. And the day I started surrounding myself with people who lifted me up, who challenged me in an empowering way, and who supported my vision, my manifestations multiplied like crazy. Proximity is power. If you want to create anything in your life, it is about getting clear on the vision that you have. Clear, crystal clear. And if people around you are not supportive of that vision, then in some Ways you're sabotaging yourself now, it doesn't mean you have to kick everyone out of your life and your family and your friends. That's not what this is about. You know, it's not that black and white, but it is about you being courageous and saying, hey, this is my dream, this is my goal, this is the vision I have for my life. And I would love for you to be on board with this. Just by empowering me, don't limit me. Don't say negative things, don't try to hold me back. But knowing that this is my vision, this is my dream, this is my goal for this season of life. Can you at least support that? Can you at least be behind it and not say negative, critical things? That's my request. Can we create an agreement that we are in alignment on that? And whatever your dreams are, I'm going to be in alignment with what you want me to be supporting you as well. Because your environment is either fueling your future or it's anchoring your past. So you need to choose wisely who is in your life and what is in your environment. Now here is why you become addicted to manifestation in one day. Once you practice clarity, emotional alignment, and bold action, you feel different. You think different, you act different, you become a different person. And you start to see proof all around you. It's like, it's like the Matrix. Like things open up and you're just like a manifesting machine. You see proof, you see evidence of how you can believe in yourself rather than doubt yourself. You see doors opening, people start emailing you opportunities. You just feel like, oh, life is happening in my favor. Like I'm just luckier. You just feel luckier. You feel like things are just falling in your lap. But it's because you've done these three things to get you there. You've gotten clear on your vision. You're really taking the actions in a different way. And you're feeling the emotion of that future that you're looking to draw into you. And again, you start to see proof. You start to see micro wins, new connections, creative ideas, aligned opportunities. And the more you see proof, the more your confidence grows, it becomes addictive, like you're becoming a new identity. You're literally shedding the old skin of the old identity, which is your thinking and your emotions around thoughts, around beliefs. You're starting to shed those beliefs, shed that thinking, shed those feelings that are familiar but are not supporting you. Just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's good. Just because you feel stress and anxiety doesn't mean it's helpful. Manifestation becomes addictive because you realize you. You are not powerless, you are not stuck, you are not waiting for permission from anyone. You realize it because you are the creator, you are the catalyst. You are the author of what comes next in your life. And that is powerful, my friend. That is freedom. It doesn't mean you're going to get everything you want. It doesn't mean it's always going to be easy. It doesn't mean everything's going to be perfect. It might be some messy seasons, but man, you have incredible power when you realize you are the author of what comes next. And so I want to give you a 24 hour manifestation challenge that if you could repeat this over and over again, I'm telling you, it is going to unlock everything for you. So here's your 24 hour manifestation challenge. I want you to step one, write a clear vision. And if you're not sure how to do this, the greatest mindset, unlock the power of your mind and live your best life. Today is the New York Times bestseller that this is the book that I Wish I had 10 years ago, 20 years ago to help me get clear on writing that clear vision and how to follow these steps step by step. This is the book. Go get this book. It's got tons of exercises and examples. It's like a workbook for your dreams coming true. Get the greatness mindset right now and it'll show you a step by step process of how to step one, create this clear vision for yourself. Step two, feel the future with gratitude. Fuel your soul with gratitude. The more fuel of gratitude you have in your body and your heart and your mind. I'm telling you, you are going to be. You're just going to feel better. Even if nothing better happens to you. Even if you don't manifest what you want, you don't create what you want. You're just going to feel better and people aren't going to want to be around you. And it's a better life when you feel better. And step three is to take one bold, imperfect action today on the thing that you've been ruminating on. Fearful of, afraid of, thinking about, dreaming about for years. Because I know if you're watching this, I just have a sneaky feeling if you're watching this, you've had something inside of you not for a few weeks, but for a few years that you wanted to take action on. Am I right? Maybe you've wanted to write a book you've had like this little dream, this little, like, crazy dream. I want to write a book. Maybe you've wanted to speak on stage. Maybe you wanted to launch a side hustle. Maybe you've wanted to ask the person out that you've always had a crush on. Whatever it is you have chills or goosebumps around something that excites you. That's your future self screaming at you through the goosebumps, saying, please take action today. Please take that step. Because you're meant to become that thing. If you're feeling it and thinking about it and desiring it, you might just mean to become it. But the longer you wait, the longer time you hesitate, you sabotage, you delay, the more resentment you're going to build up for not the world but yourself, the more you're going to not trust yourself because you've been afraid of taking bold, courageous actions over and over again. Or maybe you tried to take an action and you got humiliated or you got embarrassed, or you failed. But I'm telling you, failure is the key to success. You must fail. You must embrace failure and say, I want to fail more because I know failure is feedback. It doesn't mean I'm a failure. It just means there's information, skills, tools, knowledge that I need to learn so that I can be successful. The more you take one bold, imperfect action every single day in this 24 hour challenge, you do it over and over again every 24 hours, the more you're going to learn. And it's going to be painful when you make a mistake and you say, oh, now I have wisdom on what not to do, I'm going to do something different and I'm going to keep doing that new thing over and over again until I get the results I want. Do this challenge and watch how fast things shift in your life. Because manifestation isn't about obsessing over what you want. It's about becoming the person who naturally attracts it. That's power, that's freedom, that's calm, that's peaceful. And I want that for you. I want you to feel emotionally free. I want you to feel light in the way you think. I want you to attract what you want. But it's going to take you taking these three steps over and over again and expanding your mind with a level of thinking that is grateful for what you have, even if you have nothing, even if you feel like you've been beaten down emotionally, physically, financially, relationally, whatever has gone in your life. I remember the time on my sister's couch for a year and a half. It was not fun. It was a struggle. I felt depressed, I felt worried. I had no clarity of how I was going to make any money or get off my sister's couch. It suffocated me psychologically and it was so hard to think about anything I was grateful for. And it felt so much like I just had to hit rock bottom every day over and over again and feel feel this pain. Until one day I made a decision. I said, louis, no longer I'm going to sit here in suffering. I don't like this situation. I don't enjoy this. This is not the situation I want to be in. But I need to find something I'm grateful for. And that was when everything started to shift. Once I started with gratitude and I started appreciating what I had, appreciating the experiences, even appreciating the pain and saying there must be a greater lesson. Thank you for giving me this lesson. I don't know what it is yet, but I'm grateful for this experience because one day it's going to make sense. Appreciating the Unknown when you start to live your life in gratitude and generosity, that becomes the gateway to abundance. Again. When you start to live your life with gratitude and generosity, that is the gateway to abundance. I want you to apply this, take action on this, and become the person who naturally starts to attract what you want in your life. 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[Lewis Howes]

And ETFs, sort of like your meats.

[Financial Advisor]

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[Lewis Howes]

One big, juicy investment. Mmm.

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