3 Tips To Manifest Your Purpose

Three tips can help you manifest the life you desire right now. They are simple, easy to implement, and available to you at this very moment. In this talk, I'll describe the tips, tell you a story about how they've worked in my life, and then outline a few steps for you to tap into to assist you on the journey. I can't wait to see what you will manifest.

Transcript

The three little secrets to manifest in your dream life.

You are capable of anything your mind can imagine.

Now hold that thought in your head while I share these tips with you because I'm not just talking about other people,

I'm talking about you.

There's a quote by Marianne Williamson,

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination.

In this short talk I'm going to share with you three tips to manifest the life you desire.

They're very simple and they're tips that you can take action on immediately.

I'll tell you a little bit about my story and why I feel qualified to share these tips with you and I will give you questions that you can reflect on so that you can take your own actions.

Now I've been mentoring people to unleash their potential for over 10 years.

I founded a non-profit organization that teaches about well-being in prisons and communities and in organizations and with solopreneurs.

I'm a published author and a digital creative and before all of that I'd built a successful career as a project manager in the IT sector and yet I'd always thought I'd never come to much.

That's what my dad had told me and I believed it.

I'm not unique or brilliant and I didn't have a great starting life.

I was neglected and abused as a child,

Considered slow at school.

I eventually left without qualifications to take care of my invalid mother.

However,

Somehow I managed to get myself an education including a couple of degrees,

Work my way to the top of my IT career and run a successful project management consultancy and then 10 years ago changing direction to work in the non-profit sector.

Now what's the secret?

How did I manifest that life for myself with that poor start?

Since I've been in the well-being arena I've studied what makes people do well and what makes them do not so well.

I've realized that whether a person has had a good start,

Money,

Education or not there are certain factors that contribute to a manifestation of a life well lived regardless of circumstances.

One,

Action.

Being willing to try things out or take action.

Two,

Humility.

Being able not to take thought seriously.

Three,

Knowing.

Being able to tune into your inner guide.

You may or may not know about these facts but I didn't and the fun fact is they work anyway.

Here's a short story about me that encapsulates all three elements.

In 1984 I worked as a data input clerk in a builders merchants.

An office of eight women took the purchase notes from the counter where all the bricks and tools were sold and we typed them into a computer system.

This was pre-Microsoft era and everything was manual.

The huge computer disks whirred in a large room just behind our office and I'd see the computer manager,

Ruth,

Going in every evening to remove the daytime disks and carry them down to an iron safe in the basement.

I would often help to carry the disks and we became friends.

I need an assistant,

Ruth said one day,

As we carried the heavy disks down the concrete stairs.

I'll apply,

I said.

A few weeks later I sat squirming before the general manager.

What makes you think you can do the job,

He said.

His squinty eyes pierced me over the top of his silver rimmed glasses.

Thin hair greased back from his stern pale face.

Oh well,

I stuttered.

My own face hot from the closeness of the room and the threat of humiliation.

I wished I could disappear and never have to face this man again.

A sudden flush of indignation spread through my body and washed away the insecure thoughts.

Who am I not to do this job?

What makes you think I can't,

I thought.

I found a voice that didn't seem to be mine and told him why I was capable and what I was capable of.

You won't get your old job back if you fail,

He warned.

I won't fail,

I said and sat up straight in my chair.

That drove me.

I did so well at the job that I soon outgrew it and decided to go to night school to learn computer programming.

During the next 20 years I worked and studied.

I gained a computer science and ergonomics degree,

A master's degree in networking technologies and the confidence to succeed.

I started my own project management consultancy,

Climbed the career ladder and by 2010 I'd become the head of operations and customer services for a premium finance company.

I showed him.

Now I used to think it was indignation that drove me all those years.

The thought of another man like my father telling me that I'd fail was grist for the meal of success.

But it wasn't that.

Much later I realized it was down to the three tips that I'm going to share with you.

Number one,

Action,

Being willing to try things out.

The biggest thing to hold people back is not taking action.

Purpose isn't some ephemeral vision that comes to people in a flash.

Being able to manifest doesn't mean sitting around and thinking things into life.

To me,

Manifestation and purpose come from following the nudges and trying stuff out.

Have you thought about stuff you'd like to try but decided you couldn't and then talked yourself out of it?

Are you listening to this and thinking,

I'd love to write,

I'd love to publish a book,

I'd love to leave my job,

I'd love to travel the world?

The only way to make those things happen is to take action.

Of course I'm not saying hand in your notice tomorrow or publish your first shitty draft and be done with it.

It's gentler than that.

There are small steps along the way to make the bigger steps possible.

I realized that before the indignation of that general manager saying I couldn't do the job,

Before even applying for the job,

I took the action of thinking I could.

I took the first step,

Why not try?

The next step of applying for the job and the step after of being interviewed and the step after of doing the job,

Despite the naysayers,

They all followed.

But I had to take the first step first,

The step of deciding I would try.

Some questions for you.

What's your first step?

What's the smallest action you could take right now?

What small thing that seems huge can just be done today?

Number two,

Humility.

Being able not to take thought seriously.

All thought is created equal.

Yep,

You heard that right.

There are no good thoughts or bad thoughts,

Nor are there important thoughts and frivolous thoughts.

According to the innate health paradigm,

Thought is an energy that gives us the power to navigate through life.

We use it for decision making,

Creating feelings and experiencing life.

But thought does not have meaning on its own.

It's our minds that give thought meaning.

It's your filters,

The lenses you look at the world through that give thought meaning.

When I believed I was thick,

I didn't think that was a thought.

I believed it was a fact.

So when I got tongue tied,

I automatically thought it was because of my stupidity.

When I got something wrong,

I thought I was the only person who did this all the time.

It turns out that I scored a mental IQ of 142 in a pre-mental application test.

So it was never my capability that created my experience.

It was my filtered thoughts about myself.

Innocent thoughts.

I learned humility to ignore my own thinking and to take action anyway and not to take my thoughts so seriously.

Many years later,

When studying the way our experience is created,

I discovered that when we realize the fact that we think instead of thought being something we have to battle with,

We automatically increase our psychological well-being regardless of the content of our thoughts.

Questions for you.

What thoughts are no longer serving you?

What do you believe about yourself that could be stale old thinking?

What could you do regardless of what you think?

Number three.

Knowing.

Being able to tune in to the inner guide.

Long before I discovered that our experience of life is created from within our own minds,

Before I found my confidence and overcame my self-doubt,

I had a knack for following my insights sometimes.

I didn't know about the power of insight.

I didn't even really know what an insight was.

But I would have a spark of something.

Like that moment in the interview when I thought,

Who am I not to do this job?

And I would follow the something.

This happened to me many times over in my life.

I just didn't really realize what it was.

What I did know was when I followed those sparks,

They always turned out well.

When I doubted myself and I wouldn't follow the sparks,

I would regret it.

Our minds experience clarity and cloudiness on a moment-by-moment basis.

We know that we can overthink something.

We know when we're at peace with something.

But we don't always recognize that these two states are clues to the barriers we are facing.

We've also been led to believe that other people know better than us.

So we tend to look at the experts.

Questions for you.

What if your own knowing could guide you way more than anything else?

What would your life look like if you were able to tune into that knowing in any situation?

Now I'm going to talk about how you can use these three hot tips to manifest your purpose and anything else you want in your life.

These things I'm talking about are natural to all human beings.

The power of potential already exists inside of you.

There are no set ways to unleash inside of you.

There are no set ways to unleash that power.

The most important guide is your own.

However,

If you're like me,

It can take a bit of practice to start listening to what's good about yourself and stop listening to what you think is faulty.

So I've outlined a few steps to help you on your way.

My invitation to you is to do what feels right to you and ignore the rest.

Choose a time of day when your mind is at the quietest.

No matter if you live on a paradise island or are locked behind a prison cell door.

There'll be a few minutes,

Possibly more,

When you have a less busy head.

It could happen when you first wake up,

Take a shower,

Exercise or even listen to loud music.

Notice how you feel during that quiet time.

Notice any positive actions that occur to you that you normally later dismiss.

Notice the feelings of wellness or okay-ness.

During your quiet time,

Allow the next inspired action come to you.

It might seem unrelated to your goals or dreams,

But don't fight it.

Let it occur to you and then follow it.

Number two,

Ignoring the negative thoughts.

You can tell if something is right for you by the quality of the feeling.

Does it feel wholesome,

Gentle and useful?

Do you feel calm?

Nerves and anxiety may overtake this feeling once your personal thinking kicks in.

Those thoughts colour your experience,

But will often be coming from your lived experience of what others have said about you and those are not the thoughts you want to listen to.

When we see a lot of barriers,

They're merely reflections of fear and insecurity.

Don't let yourself get lost in the noise of overthinking.

Ignore your ego,

Thank your head for its input and let your thoughts flow.

I know I can see a pattern and I know hundreds of people I've worked with can see it too.

The pattern is when I see a lot of barriers,

I'm usually tying myself in knots and I need to simplify.

Compared to when I see solutions or I'm just getting on with it,

I'm either not having insecure thoughts or I'm ignoring them.

Remember,

Inspired action will never hurt yourself or another human being.

It comes from a place of love and compassion,

Even if the action is tough.

It comes from a place of knowing.

It comes from the inner guide.

Take the smallest step possible towards your purpose.

This small manifestation will be a step that occurred to you in your reflective time.

The one that felt good before your insecurity kicked in.

Ask yourself,

If the action seems impossible,

How could that be simplified?

What would be a more minor step before that?

Don't overthink,

Let it occur to you.

Number three,

Tune into your inner guide.

Allow yourself to reflect on when things flowed in your life,

When you noticed more synchronicity and things felt like they were meant to be.

I used to think these flow states were random or I had to be a certain way to find them.

I now know they are more common than we think.

Let your stories of flow percolate.

Don't get heady about the logic of why things worked out the way they did.

Just let the ideas bubble up for you.

Each person will get answers bespoke to their needs in the moment.

Notice how things look different depending on your state of mind,

Cloudy or clear.

Start to look for the spark that lives within you.

Play with some questions like,

What would your life be like if you weren't afraid to try?

How would things be different if you could ignore the nagging voice in your head?

See what baby step your inner guide suggests and take it.

You have all you need to know within your own consciousness right now.

Do that.

I hope you've enjoyed this talk on manifestation and finding your purpose.

If you'd like any clarification let me know in the comments and I'll help you as much as I can.

You may want to listen to this exercise a few times and you may want to sit in quiet and journal.

Do what feels right for you.

Until next time,

Lots of love.

Reviews

Thank you for this incredibly helpful talk. It’s exactly what I needed to hear and put into practice.

Jacqueline, this was brilliant, so helpful, clarifying, and inspiring! Just the spark and guidance that I needed at the beginning of this new year! Thank you for for this beautiful offering.

🙏Gentle wisdom! Thank you for sharing what feels intuitively true!

Excellent Talk... Very thought provoking!! Will definitely have another listen! 🙏🏽✨🙏🏽