💗 What is hidden in plain sight

Hello from Australia!

Hello my soul-led CEOs and leaders,

The jet lag’s been killing me.

This should have gone out yesterday but 14-hour time zone changes can hit you like a freight train.

I am currently enjoying a cup of coffee in Canberra, Australia.

While I wait for my cousin to wake up.

And in a few days, I’ll be visiting my friend-now-client Peta in Tasmania.

This is abundance.

This is love.

And you never have to earn it.

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😰 4 years ago…

I signed up for a course to learn how to “manifest” from a coach named Cathy Heller for $2997.

I was still slogging away in my 9-5 then.

I felt burnt out, scared, and uncertain if I would ever get to live my dream life of travel, time freedom, and abundance.

Today, life has never felt more abundant.

The ROI on that course has been 100x+ just in terms of “money.”

But the real value has been the feelings of freedom, love, gratitude, and creative expression.

✨ Here are 3 manifestation tips that sum up 4+ years of adventure & abundance (from a skeptic-turned-believer):

1. Don’t visualize the money. Visualize the thing money will buy you.

I’ve made this mistake too often.

The mind will tell us we need to have the money first before we can travel, or before we can get married, or before we can feel happy.

But I’ve learned that the mind often lies, but it’s the heart that is never wrong.

Visualize the heart’s greatest wishes, and leave the mind to serve the heart.

If you had asked Renee-in-her-engineering-era what it means to “follow the heart,” she couldn’t tell you.

I worshipped the mind too much then, and valued logic too highly.

What is the heart, anyway?

Does it think?

What even is “thinking”?

What does the heart and stomach “know” that the mind does not?

I couldn’t tell you.

In our limited humanness, we think that goal-achievement looks like stepping stones.

If I can just get the money —> then I can retire —> then I can finally travel.

But for complex, emotionally-involved goals, like living your dream life, “goal-achievement” is rarely linear.

Life is not a paved path.

Life is a soup of every possible scenario happening all at once.

And you get to choose which one you want.

Money is simply an accompanying attribute. — Reality Transurfing

The clearer, more specific, and more tangibly you can visualize the way you want to live your life, the more likely it will occur.

And every time, the money to make it happen will flow in automatically to support the visualization.

I don’t know how.

I don’t know why.

Some people call it “quantum physics” and some people call it God.

I argue it doesn’t matter.

It won’t happen the way you think it will.

And it won’t always happen on the timeline you want it to, either.

• Don’t visualize the money.

• Visualize the thing money will buy you.

The money will take care of itself.

2. You are the source of the resistance.

You think you need to earn their approval.

So you try harder.

Work harder.

Flog yourself harder.

You think you need to write more emails, increase the intensity, hire more people.

So you work 18-hour days.

Isolate from your family.

Buy the BMW to impress your mom, who never quite loved you the way you needed.

The depth of love, validation, gratitude, awe, and joy you desperately want to feel cannot be accessed by working harder, trying harder, or pushing harder.

I learned this lesson this past summer:

• There are people who will never love you.

• And then there are people who will love you for absolutely no reason.

• They just love you.

These people will become your family members, your friends, and your clients.

You don’t need to fight for their approval.

You don’t need to wake up earlier, stay up later, or convince them.

You just need to be yourself.

The work is finding these people.

And releasing the fear that if you don’t push harder, you’ll “never” get anywhere.

While consistency, intention, and a solid work ethic are necessary for goal achievement, it’s only going to get you so far.

I no longer listen to any business guru who tells me to work harder.

As they say in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,

The process is the goal.

Enjoy it.

And learn that everything you were searching for was here all along.

3. Feel your feelings fully.

In the spiritual community, it can be considered virtuous to maintain a “high vibration.”

That means to feel more positive feelings more often.

I would struggle with this, judging myself if I felt anxious, sad, hurt, or scared.

But the emotion would never go away.

It would knock on my door until I let it enter, transpire, and leave.

So I might as well let it in.

Practice acceptance, and you will feel the fullness of your spiritual power.

To judge yourself for feeling anxious, sad, hurt, or scared is to deny thyself.

It is to cut yourself into pieces.

It is the Ego’s attempt to find salvation.

I’ve noticed that when you love yourself and your anxiety, sadness, hurt, or fear, you bring the pieces back together.

You feel more whole.

You feel more powerful.

You feel more loved, cherished, accepted.

It is God’s way of saving you.

Next time you’re upset, take a walk. Take a nap. Take a drive. Get the ice cream. Get the Sour Skittles. Lift the weights. Run on the trail.

You are the creator of your life and atmosphere.

You deserve equilibrium.

You deserve acceptance.

You deserve love.

The rest will take care of itself.

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It’s cold here in Canberra!

Hope you all have a blessed week.

Love,

Renee