Why your manifestations aren’t working

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Have you ever felt like you’re doing all the things and for some reason your manifestations just aren’t coming to fruition? Well, today’s episode of the podcast is just for you. Because I’m going to be talking about the ways that you might accidentally be sabotaging your success when it comes to creating those big goals in your life.

Let’s have a chat about what’s going on if your manifestations just don’t seem to be working, if they don’t seem to be coming together.

Here’s a couple of the key things that I’ve noticed that tend to be going wrong when things just aren’t clicking into place. The first thing, perhaps you might be being too specific about the thing that you want and expecting it to come in a very specific or particular way.

So I think back to the days when I was single. And I wrote my list of my ideal man. And when I was writing this list, the first two things on there were dark hair and tall. And my husband, you know, he’s definitely taller than me, but not by much. And he does not have dark hair. But it’s so funny when I think back on that list, because my husband ticked almost everything else that was written on that list. And I nearly skipped over him because he didn’t tick the certain, very superficial, unnecessary traits that were on my manifestation list. I didn’t know it was a manifestation list back then. I was just writing a list. But when I think about it in hindsight, I was trying to be too specific that I nearly missed out on something even better than what I could have imagined.

There’s been other times that I’ve done this as well. I’ve been launching something and I’ve set myself a very specific income target and I wanted it to come from a particular launch and it hasn’t come together. And I’ve got really deflated and thought, why isn’t this working? And then the income comes to me and my business in a different way. And then when I reflect back on it, I’m like, Oh my gosh, I’m actually really glad that that didn’t happen because this is actually a really cooler way for me to be making money right now.

When you are getting too specific with your manifestations, you aren’t being open to minor variations to the plan or of something coming in, in a slightly different way.

I bet you can think of times in your life where you’ve set a goal for yourself and you’re super clear about it and it doesn’t quite come together, but then something even more amazing comes along in its place. So, sometimes I think that being too specific. can actually block your manifestations. You need to be a little bit more open to things coming into you in different forms.

So there’s a saying that I love to say when speaking about the specificity, is that a word? I don’t know specificity of manifestations. And it’s this, you can say this or better so I’m open to it coming in this way or something that’s even better. And I’m open to receiving in that way.

Now, the next reason why I believe your manifestation mightn’t be working is almost in complete contradiction to the reason before. And this one is that you’re not specific enough. And I would say that being not specific enough applies to most people when they are attempting to manifest.

I’ve been a coach, a mentor for nearly eight years now. And whenever I sit down with a new client to do the goal setting session, which is what we always do in our first session together, it is extremely rare that someone actually knows what they really want. Usually they think they know what they want. The things they share with me are usually quite vague. For example, I want to have a good savings account. And I’m like, what’s a good savings account? To some people, a hundred dollars. If my kids had a hundred dollars savings account, they’d think that’s awesome. For some, what a good savings account looks like is different for different people. So I’ll be like, how much do you want in your savings account? Is that one of many savings account? Is that over and above your mortgage? Let’s get really clear about what that looks like. They also say things like, I want to upgrade my car. And I’ll say, oh, so what kind of car do you want? Oh, maybe a newer model. What model do you want? Of what kind of car getting really clear about what you desire is a really important part of the manifestation process. I often find too, when people are setting their business goals, that they say things like, I’d like to have a team of five. And I’ll be like, why five, like, what does that look like? What roles do you want to have in your team? When they’re telling me how much money they want to be making, most people in their head will have an idea of an income goal or an income target, but rarely if ever to people actually have a clear profit goal that they are chasing. And if you’ve been around this podcast for a while you will know that I am a big believer in growing your business in a profitable way, rather than chasing those top line figures.

Some other ways that you might be specific enough when you’re setting your goals is saying things like, I want to get fitter and healthier. What does that look like? How will you know if you’ve been successful in that space?

So I recognize that this is in conflict to the thing above where I’m saying don’t be super specific, but also don’t be really vague with your goals. If you aren’t super clear about what you’re chasing, then it’s going to be really challenging for you to start to materialize these things into your life. The clearer you can get, the more easily your manifestations are going to materialize.

The next reason that you might accidentally be stopping your manifestations from working is that you have a set of subconscious beliefs that are blocking them from coming into your world. If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you’ll have heard me talk about your subconscious limiting beliefs. So when I say subconscious, these aren’t things that you are intending to be thinking, they’re They are belief frameworks that sit below your conscious mind and usually these are limiting stories that come from our experiences in either in our childhood or in our adult life. These subconscious beliefs can be things that I don’t really deserve that thing that I’m saying that I desire, or I’m really scared to chase that thing. What if I don’t get there? What if I do get there and it’s not as good as I thought it would be? We all have belief frameworks that are operating on autopilot in the background. And often these beliefs are sabotaging our manifestations. They are blocking us from getting what we really want in our lives.

So a lot of the work that I do in my course accelerator that I spoke about in the intro is around helping you to understand what these limiting beliefs are, bringing consciousness to them, and then helping you to reprogram them so that you can freely step into your next level from a state of confidence and clarity.

Identifying and working through your subconscious beliefs is a game changer when it comes to creating your manifestations.

The next reason why the things that you want might be coming into your life just yet is because you aren’t an energetic match for them yet. I truly believe that there is energy that connects us to the things that we say that we desire. You will have things that you are an energetic match for right now in your life.

For example, There will be an income amount that you are pretty used to hitting in your business. For example, it might be $10, 000 a month and some months you might go a bit above it and you go, yes, that was a big month. Some months you might go a bit below and you’d be like, Oh, that was a bit of a bad month. But most of the time you’ll land about $10, 000 a month. That’s a pretty clear sign that you are an energetic match for $10, 000 a month in your business.

When you have a big business up level, if you don’t feel worthy and deserving of it, what will happen is you will accidentally sabotage those results and end up back to where you feel comfortable, where you feel like you are in energetic alignment.

So again, inside my course accelerator, I teach a lot about energy, how to up level your energy, how to break through those limiting mindset beliefs that you have so that you start to become an energetic match for better relationships, improved health, greater income in your business, more savings.

Anything that you desire, you need to be an energetic match for so that if you do get there, you don’t push it away.

An example of this, and I’m sure you’ve heard about this before, most of the time when people win the lottery, they will lose it all in a very short period of time. And this is because often people who win the lotto are not used to having money. And when they suddenly get a ton of money, it brings up all kinds of things that they feel really uncomfortable with it. They’re like, I don’t identify as a millionaire. This is weird. And so usually what they’ll do, they’ll either give the money away or they’ll squander it as a subconscious way of getting back to where they feel they are an energetic match. The things in your life that you have right now are what you are an energetic match for. And if you want to create an up level, In any area of your life, you need to consciously shift your energy to get in alignment with the new outcomes that you want to create.

If you want to go deeper on this work, I do cover all of this inside my mindset course accelerator. We really go deep into particular strategies, talking about how to find up leveled friends and energy to be around. We go a lot deeper and more specific inside the course and remember, as I said at the start, it is closing in a few days. So if you do want to go deeper on this work, make sure you go and check that out.

The next reason why your manifestations might not be coming into fruition is because you aren’t willing to do what you need to do to make them happen. People will often tell me, I want to create X in my life. And I say, go and do this. And it’s amazing how many times they won’t be willing to do what they need to do.

An example of this, if you are wanting to find a life partner, And you know, you’re not going out a lot. And I say, well, you either need to be on the dating apps or you need to go and approach people and, and start conversations so that you can build connections and people like, whoa, I am not willing to do that. Well, it’s going to be pretty hard for you to meet someone. If you’re wanting to up level your visibility and marketing in your business, you’re wanting to And showing up on social media, you say, I’m not going to do that. If I say you need to get more consistent with your content, be it a podcast, be it your emails, you say, no, I don’t want to do that. And I’m not having a go at other people because I know I do this myself too. I say that I want the thing and then don’t take the action to get there. And because I have the consciousness. around mindset and manifestation. When I find myself doing that, I get to go through that process and unpick the story, the fear, the limitation that sits behind it. Because I know to create different outcomes in life, you have to do things differently. So this might be one of the reasons why you are stuck in a particular area of your life. You’re not willing to do what you need to do. And spoiler alert, it’s usually going to be something different to what you’ve been doing in the past.

And the last reason that I want to highlight why your manifestations aren’t happening is maybe they actually are, perhaps they are on their way to you and you are being impatient. It’s funny to witness this in other people because my kids, I talk about the dream house so much that my kids are getting frustrated. They’re like, why isn’t the dream house here yet? We want the dream house. We want a swimming pool and a slide off our roof. I haven’t told them that that’s actually not part of the dream house vision yet. It is for them. Patience is actually also part of the process. Some of the most amazing things that have happened in my life took time. And when you get there and you look back on it in hindsight, you think, what was I in such a rush for? I know when I was waiting to get married, I was like, why is this not happening sooner? And now 10 years later, I’m like, gosh, would it have mattered if it was three or four years? It doesn’t really matter.

In the process of creation, often we are getting very impatient. You know, you might’ve just put the order in and you’re like, why hasn’t it shown up yet? Just sometimes things do take a little longer.

Today I’ve shared with you some reasons why your manifestations might not be working. And like I said, sometimes things come into our lives really quickly once we set the intention out there we’re in alignment and we’re taking action really rapidly. Other times our manifestations do take a bit longer.

If you are wanting to go deeper on this manifestation work, like I said, the doors to my course, Accelerator, are closing in just a couple of days. I really encourage you to go and check it out. We’ll be going really, really deep into your limiting beliefs, your energetic match, and also the actions that you need to take both in and out of your business to rapidly uplevel your life.

Thank you so much for tuning into today’s episode of the Clare Wood podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, I’d be so grateful if you could share it with your audience or a friend.

I hope you have a magical week and I look forward to chatting to you very soon.

* Transcript created by AI – may contain errors or omissions from original podcast audio