How to Manifest

If I think back on my life, the trouble started when I graduated college. That’s when I became lost.

You see, ever since I was a kid, I loved to write. I wanted to be very good at writing, I mean, really good. So when I went to college, I chose to major in English Literature without a moment’s contemplation.  

No matter how much society tells us otherwise, we can’t afford to do what we don’t like for the sake of security alone.

So many of us are used to giving up on our dreams and what our hearts truly yearn for, for the sake of security and because “everyone does it.” But mark my words: it always catches up to us.

It’s really simple and quite logical, if we quiet our mind enough and tap into our hearts.

Last blog, I talked about the second (out of five) epiphanies I had in getting myself out of a financial funk.

Before we get into my third epiphany, "Creating a habit of doing everything successfully," I want to talk about attitude and perception.

Most people who are in a financial funk tend to look at it as something “bad” happening to them, since the experience is so overwhelming, stressful, and anxiety-ridden.

My friend Trish is going through a tough time. This isn’t your ordinary tough time, like going through a break up or screwing up at work. Trish is going though some scary stuff, the stuff that makes people stay up late into the night worrying.

How scary, you ask? Well, at the moment, she’s homeless, jobless, and living out of her car with a child, eating one meal a day. (You can read more about her on this blog post)

There was a time I was in a big, ugly financial funk that lasted for four god-awful years.

It was a scary time and a very lonely time.

I remember this time being extremely stressful, as I’m sure you can imagine it to be. Ironically, the most stressful part wasn’t the constant anxiety of not knowing whether we’ll have enough money to pay for bare essentials next month. It was the embarrassment of the situation, our apparent incompetence to provide for ourselves.