It didn't take long: In 2007, I boldly told Bruce, who would soon buy my company, over lunch that I "wouldn't accept a penny less than $1.1 million" to sell my company. Why $1.1 million? Well, my company had some debt, and I owned 91.5% of it, with the rest of it owned by two loyal employees.
We signed the papers on September 7, 2007, and I remember clearly the euphoric feeling I felt upon receiving Bruce's first check for $100,000. He said, "How does it feel?" and I didn't even know what to think. 6 years of work, and it had all culminated in this one moment! Every emotion I could possibly have ran through my head. It was sheer adrenaline.
Anyway, after adding up all my monthly expenses and multiplying them out, plus adding in things like first class plane tickets, $40,000 per month was the number I wanted to aim for. So I set the intention.
I kept coming back to it every day. And, in a new twist for me, I didn't try to figure out how I was going to make it. I simply decided to let inspiration strike.
Here's How You Can Manifest Money
So, how did I get from meditating on $40,000/month of income to doing it? Here's what I've done so far, and how you can do the same thing:
Step 1: State your goal as if it has already been achieved. I started out by saying "I am making $40,000 per month." Then I listened to how that felt in my body.
Step 2: Acknowledge, then question, the resistance. At first, I felt a whole lot of resistance. So I asked each part of me that was resisting why it was resisting.
I got back a whole lot of answers! One concern was that I would work too hard and be exhausted. I replied to this concern with, "First, now that I am gluten free, I am not as tired as I used to be. Secondly, I only want to do work that energizes me. I am not interested in money-making ideas that exhaust me."
Then I asked that piece of resistance if that resolved its issue. If it did, I didn't feel it any more. (This is hard to explain in words–try it for yourself and see!) If it didn't, I went back to asking it why it was resisting.
Step 3: Do this consistently. I did this night after night, sometimes spending 20 minutes or more in a question-answer state with my body. After several nights, I no longer felt resistance. I continued every day, sometimes more than once a day, to state "I am making $40,000 per month." It got to the point where I was really excited to state this!
Step 4: Start making your external reality match your ideal reality. Then repeat all the steps.Once I conquered my internal resistance, I focused on my external world. I asked myself what my ideal reality was when making $40,000 per month. Then, based on that, I started making changes in my reality. My ideal reality included owning a house, so we went and looked at houses. Then I learned that I needed W-2 income to buy a house, so I set up my corporations to do payroll and pay me via W-2 instead of dividends.
I decided I'd be cleaner when I was making that much money, so I started filing papers and getting rid of Stuff. I purged my closet, getting rid of over 2/3 of my clothes. I shredded document after document, scanning the ones I needed a record of into my computer. I donated an entire carload of items to Goodwill. I posted old items I was no longer using on eBay. I donated over 30 books and my entire DVD collection save just three DVDs. I even got rid of Stuff that hurt a little bit, like my Kindle, because I felt inspired to live more simply and purge the house of unnecessary items.
All of this was based in large part at looking at my reality through the lens of someone who is making $40,000 per month. Would I need to hang on to old items, or could I simply buy new ones? I decided it had to be the latter, and acted accordingly.
Slowly, I was pulling my old reality into sync with my new one. And–I wasn't spending major money to do it. In fact, interestingly, I was making money doing it, by donating so much old stuff and selling items.
The real question is: What do you want? Most people fail because they don't make their intentions clear. Whether it's money, health, or relationships, anything you can intend can be yours. The challenge then is following through with where your intuition leads you.
It can be pretty scary to go where your intuition says you need to go. You may have to quit your job, move to a new city (or even country!), or break up with a loved one to get what you want. But follow through, and know that even in the darkest moments you are not alone, and you too can manifest just about anything you can dream of.
Recommended Reading:
- Take This Job and Shove It (PDF). Upcoming blog rockstar Tyler Tervooren has written a great free ebook on how to quit your job and live freely (even if you don't think you can quit right now!) Check it out.
- The Failure Manifesto. My last post…read for an interesting contrast to this post!
- Manifesting a Trip to Tahiti. I wrote about manifesting a trip to Tahiti–and then manifested it, and went to Tahiti!
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