Manifesting Ideal Results

An Insight About Intentions

I did something slightly differently this year when I set my goals…

I’m sure you have heard many people talk about the importance of having specific and measurable goals, but for me there has always been some resistance to that. I can see the value of it, but it just never has felt like the best place to focus my full attention.

I consider this whenever I am speaking about the fourth step of our Manifesting for Non-Gurus approach, Letting Go of Attachments, because focusing on very specific goals has always felt to me like focusing on the ‘how” that we find it so valuable to be detached from.

So, this year when I looked at what I intend to accomplish in 2011 I started with some very general goals… earn more money, improve my endurance, strength and flexibility, expand my spirituality, improve my relationships with immediate and extended family, etc. Then I created very specific and measurable criteria for each one. A dollar figure, a distance in a certain time running goal, number of days meditating, etc. And then I backed off again to the more general goals, and for the most part it’s the general goals I have been focusing on.

General… Specific… Back to General.

In terms of our manifesting approach, this is working GREAT for me. The specific and measurable part allows me to create a vivid image in my mind that really taps me into my desired feelings and emotions, and backing off to the more general view prevents me from getting attached.

Try it… let me know what you think…

Manifesting Distinctions from a Master

I’m in New Orleans getting ready for our latest Transformational Leadership Council (www.tlc8.com) meeting. On the plane coming her I was reading a book by one of my fellow members, Mike Dooley. The book is called “Manifesting Change”; can you see why I might want to read that??? It turns out Mike and I are very like minded (whew!) and I was able to get some nice distinctions from his book… here’s a favorite…

Do you ever get frustrated when you set an intention to accomplish something and find yourself arriving at a completely different destination? I think we all have… The question is, how do we react when that happens? Do we ask ourselves why it all went wrong? Why we asked for one thing and got another? I know I sometimes do…

Mike Dooley suggests a different approach… how about any time you intend one thing and attract another if you simply see that “wrong” destination as a stop along the way to where you intended from the beginning. Hmmm… that’s a different approach. And for me a breath of fresh air.

You see, I periodically find myself trying to figure out how (yeah, I know… I teach people NOT to do that…) I ended up at the “wrong” place. I like Mike’s idea better, just think of it as a stop along the way to where I ultimately want to be. Such a time and energy saver!

I’ll share some other distinctions in the next few days after I have a chance to compare manifesting notes with Mike…

Manifesting Backwards?

Some have reported that this manifesting approach, although amazing as a tool to attract results quickly and easily, can get a bit repetitive… Asking and answering the same five questions every day does get us anchored in a very productive state, but is there a way to mix it up a bit? Well, here’s an idea a few of us tried last week… try doing the questions backwards, especially if there is some action you are resisting…

Start with that action, then ask yourself what attachments are getting in the way… are you worrying about what others will think? Judging yourself or your abilities? Wanting it now, wanting to know how or wanting to do it yourself? Could you let that go? How do you want to be feeling? How will you feel when that action is complete? What intention will taking that action move you in the direction of? And is that action, that intention, in alignment with who you really are?

Going backwards will mix things up for you… and I suspect leave you in the same place of being inspired to act… whatever works!

Maximum Benefit from Your Accountability Partnership

Wow! I was talking to my dear friend Stephanie Perez this morning about accountability partners. Both of us have been in accountability partner relationships over the past several years with mixed results. You know this arrangement, right? It’s simple. You and your partner call or e-mail each other every day and make specific action commitments. You start the call by reporting on how you did yesterday and then make commitments for what you will get done today. The premise (a very accurate one in my opinion!) is that we will often do something when we commit to someone else that we would not do if we “only” committed to ourselves.

Stephanie and I both agreed that the hard core “do it or suffer the consequences” approach did not work for us with accountability partners, and that, in fact, it sometimes created ADDITIONAL resistance to taking action.  The five year old boy in me comes out, saying, “You can’t make me!”

So here’s the idea we came up with this morning, one that any accountability partnership can use: structure your accountability call using the Manifesting for Non-Gurus approach. Each day check in with your partner and tell him or her who you are, what your intention is, how you expect to FEEL when that intention is manifested, what attachments are showing up and what actions you are committed to accomplishing today. Wow. The conversation ends up at the same place – action commitments – but feels totally different than it does when we just focus on actions and consequences…  And it only takes a couple of minutes to structure the conversation this way.  Time well spent if you ask me…

Stephanie and I started this new approach to our accountability partnership today. I invite you to try it too.

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“She just doesn’t care…”

I was watching my 12 year old daughter Lise play softball this past weekend and once again she taught me something valuable about this concept of manifesting, attracting the results we want quickly and easily…

Lise pitched her team’s first game yesterday and was, as usual, amazing. She throws hard, she consistently throws strikes and even when something goes “wrong”, (the other team gets a hit, a fielder makes an error, an umpire misses a call….), she keeps her composure and gets out of the jam. She is truly a great example of manifesting excellent results, living by the manifesting approach we practice here…

One of her teammates was scheduled to pitch the second game. This player is at least as skilled as Lise, but in the past has had trouble staying focused when things are not going her way. Before her game to pitch, I offered to share Lise’s secret to success. She was genuinely curious, but quite surprised when I shared that Lise’s secret to success is that she really doesn’t care. When I said that I was greeted with a very incredulous look and a response something along the lines of, “huh?!?!” Because she knows how serious Lise is, that Lise plays hard, stays focused and wants to win as much as any player on the team…

So I got to explain a little something about step four of the Manifesting for Non-Gurus approach, letting go of attachments. When I said Lise doesn’t care, what I really meant was that Lise is laser focused on her intended outcome, AND she knows that win or lose, strikes or balls, strikeouts or home runs, the sun is still going to come up the next day, her Mom and Dad are still going to love her, her brother is still going to be a little bit annoying, etc. THAT’S what I meant by “she doesn’t care”, and after that explanation a knowing smile crept on to the face of our other pitcher. She nodded her head… She got it. And she went out and pitched a GREAT game, maybe the best I have ever seen her pitch, against a really good team. She got all sorts of bad breaks, and none of them bothered her. She just “didn’t care”… she had fun AND played really well, manifesting at its very best.

The whole team played great and still we lost the game. But who cares, (if you know what I mean!)

“I am” vs. Limiting Beliefs

Have you been on one of our teleseminar Q&A and sharing calls lately? Our participants share the most amazing insights into this manifesting work on these calls… Today we were discussing how getting clear about who we really are helps us more quickly and easily overcome our limiting beliefs. Thus was a powerful insight for me… As we have done this manifesting work together, I have observed over and over again the power of having a clear sense of who I am, and I have seen over and over again how limiting beliefs seem to be less of an issue for those who are making our profoundly simple five step approach a habit, but I never made the connection between the two… Now it makes so much sense, especially in the context of the four part diagram we teach from that starts with our “I am” belief. The more clear we are about THAT, the less likely we are to be derailed by limiting self-talk on the way to getting into action. So, take the time to get clear about who you are… and then enjoy watching your limiting beliefs take a back sest to inspired action!

Manifest on…

Manifesting with Julia

My wife and I were watching a favorite movie last night… “Pretty Woman” with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. There are so many great scenes and lessons in this movie – the shopping scene where Vivian goes back to the store that wouldn’t serve her and let’s the sales girls know they had made a “big mistake”, the scene where Edward is walking around barefoot on the grass to get himself grounded… But the line that jumped out at me last night was from Julia Roberts as Vivian the hooker, deflecting a compliment by saying “the bad stuff is easier to remember”. Isn’t that true for so many of us? That we have been programmed so deeply with our weaknesses, limitations, faults and problems that we overlook our strengths, accomplishments, possibilities and gifts. I was reminded in that moment just how important this manifesting work is, especially our step numbr one, “who am I?” Because when we are clear about who we are we hear and believe the “good stuff”, which of course is all true…

Manifest on…

Lessons From a Crazy Race

Just a couple of weekends ago I had the chance to be part of a 12 person relay team that ran a 200 mile course in Oregon from the top of Mt. Hood to the town of Seaside. The Hood to Coast Relay is the largest race of its kind with over 100 teams. I tell people it resembles a combination of a marathon, a frat party and a car rally all wrapped into one event. It’s quite an accomplishment to finish, and it’s a lot of fun. Kind of like the manifesting work people are doing in our community…many remarkable accomplishments and a lot of fun!

The real reason this race reminded me of the work we do in helping people break through limitations and create change is because of the difference I felt running this race as part of a team relative to the way I have felt running other races on my own. Our work here has been set up as a Community because we all seem to perform better, being willing to do things we othewise would not be willing or able to do, when we have the support of others and a structure of accountability. One of the team names in the Hood to Coast race was “Don’t Walk Until the Van Passes”, and that says it all. When we know we have the support of a team and when we know the team is counting on us, we push ourselvers further than we otherwise would. And knowing that our teammates will (in a loving and supportive way) let us know if we let them down is a good motivator too.

Our approach to manifesting is new to most people. And we are here to support you in making our approach to quickly and easily creating more of the results you really want a new habit. We offer teleseminars and coaching to help keep you on track no matter what you want to manifest. Even if it’s to finish a crazy 200 mile relay race!

NOTE: Our team, “Last Legs”, finished in the top 13% of teams overall and 3rd in our Mixed Masters (coed over 40) division with a time of 25 hours and 30 minutes. That’s a pace of 7:47 per mile, not bad for a bunch of old folks!

An Important Distinction About “Who am I?”

The first question we ask in the Manifesting for Non-Gurus approach is “Who am I?”  We look at our core self, the roles we play, our skills and talents, and the contribution we wish to make.  All of this together gives us a strong sense of who we are, which is a very powerful way to show up in our daily lives.  During our recent teleseminar series, an interesting insight emerged about the concept of contribution and how it relates to peoples concerns about money and finance…

We often think of “contribution” in the charitable sense, considering it to be an outflow of money.  These days, for many people, that is a stretch.  We are feeling like we need to earn more before we can give more away.  But this does not necessarily take away from the concept of contribution, it simply reframes it and helps us see it as a CHOICE.  In order to get ourselves to a place where we can make significant CHARITABLE contributions, we can start by making significant VALUE contributions.  When we contribute value and are open to recieve, the flow of money is toward us.  THEN we can think in terms of charity.

So, when you consider who you are in terms of the contribution you wish to make it is OK and, in fact, completely appropriate to think in terms of where you stand financially and whether you should be contributing in a way that attracts financial resources (delivering value) or in a way that shares financial resources, (charitable giving).  Wherever you are now, I hope you will share my ultimate goal to be doing BOTH kinds of contribution on a regular basis and on a large scale.  Delivering huge value and giving back to my community…

1. Delivering Value
2. Charitable Giving
3. Both!

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