How to Manifest - Step 3 - Taking Action

Taking Action to Manifest Your Desires

This step is a bit disappointing to some people who are investigating the idea of manifesting their desires. They were hoping that manifesting involved just sitting on their couches and imagining that they already had what they want, then opening their eyes and discovering it all around them. (Personally, I thought this should be an effective method for losing my extra weight and put it into practice, sitting on that couch, for years.)

Sorry.

That’s not how it works.

Once you get over the disappointment that manifesting isn’t actually a magic trick, you may be happy to discover that it can still be a fun and joyous process, called “living your life.”

Once you have the idea of what you want firmly implanted in your unconscious mind, the next thing to do is to think of something you could do to move toward achieving that vision in the real world.

There are two keys to this action-taking.

Manifesting: The Action Steps

1. Don’t let yourself become overwhelmed by what feels like the distance between your current reality and your visualized reality. It may feel like a large distance, but it isn’t. Don’t worry that if feels like there are 120 years worth of work between here and there. Just think of something small that you could do to move toward it today.

2. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly the right thing to do first to move toward manifesting your visualized reality. It’s not necessary to know exactly the best thing to do. It’s only necessary to do SOMETHING. If you happen to have several ideas of things you could do, pick whichever one most strikes your fancy. If you only have one idea, just do that one. Try something. Once you’ve done that one thing, you can see whether it seemed to move you closer to your visualized reality or not. If it did, then do the next thing on the same path. If what you tried didn’t seem to work, then think of something else to try, and do that next.

If you can’t think of ANYTHING that you could do to move you toward the visualized reality, then you can do one of two things.

(a) Look yourself dubiously in the eye. Can you REALLY not think of ANYTHING that might move you closer to what you want, or can you think of things, but you don’t want to do them? Do they perhaps make you afraid? There’s almost always SOMETHING you can think of that MIGHT move you closer to what you want to manifest. Don’t let fear stand in your way. It doesn’t matter if the thing you’ve thought of won’t work. Try it anyway. What would be so terrible about just giving it a try?

(b) If you’re 100% convinced that you have NO idea what you could do that might move you just a tiny step closer to manifesting your desires, then ask yourself a question, right before you start your next visualization, meditation session. Ask yourself, “How can I move just a little closer to X?” Just ask yourself the question quietly, and then meditate and wait for the answer to come to you. If it doesn’t come the first time, ask it again the next time you visualize and meditate. Remind your unconscious mind that you’ll be asking this question until it provides an answer. It soon will, if just to get you to stop bugging it.

And that’s it. Keep taking some small step each day in the direction of the desire you want to manifest.

The magic comes as a little time passes and you discover that the tiny steps you took, without being sure they would even work, have begun to snowball into some actual progress. People and events and objects begin to come to your attention, that you realize can be of great help in manifesting your desires. Include them in the next steps you take, and your progress will speed up exponentially, until you’re moving rapidly closer to manifesting everything you desire!

Our next post will help you during your journey, both before, during, and after you’ve manifested the reality that you desire.

See also:

How to Manifest - Introduction
How to Manifest - Step 1 - Know What You Want
How to Manifest - Step 2 - Feel What You Want
How to Manifest - Step 3 - Taking Action
How to Manifest - Step 4a - Don’t Worry While Manifesting
How to Manifest - Step 4b - Release the Result