I recently came across a cool way to build up your money manifesting muscles on Steve Pavlina’s website. I thought it was a great idea so I’ve been trying it out over the last couple of weeks with great success. I wanted to share it with today so you can try it out yourself. It’s quite easy and fun to do.

The basic principle of the technique is that you slowly increase the amount of money that you are trying to manifest while at the same time keeping it fun and lighthearted.

I think the fun and lighthearted part is a key part of what makes this technique work so well. Often when we’re trying to manifest money, we’re doing it because we need it for something. This causes a lot of mental and emotional stress which blocks the whole manifesting process. By keeping it fun and light, you take the pressure and stress out of the equation and open yourself wide to let financial abundance start flowing to you.

If you want some extra evidence that the manifesting process works, you can add something to your intention. So if you’re working on manifesting one dollar, you could intend that you receive one dollar and an apple (or anything else you can think of). When that dollar shows up, look for the apple show up around the same time. The apple might be a physical apple, or it might just be an image of an apple that you see when the dollar shows up. Either way, it’s a nice way to confirm that what you receive is because of your intention and not just a coincidence. Plus, this type of confirmation can boost your confidence in the manifesting process and help you continue to manifest even bigger amounts in the future.

What I Did…

As I mentioned earlier. This technique requires that you slowly increase the amounts you are trying to manifest. So I started with pennies. I simply intended that I receive unexpected pennies. I thought about this periodically throughout the day and imagined having a pocket or jar full of pennies that unexpectedly showed up for me.

Within less than two days I was starting to find pennies while I was out walking my dog. I don’t even walk my dog where you would normally expect to find pennies. I usually stick to wooded paths or residential areas. I mean, really, how often do people drop pennies while walking in a residential area? In or around a store would make more sense when you actually have to handle your money.

Anyways, after a couple of days, I was confident in my ability to manifest pennies so I increased the amount to include loose change in general. Two days later I felt compelled to take my dog for a walk fairly late at night (I usually walk her mid-day). Anyways, while I was out on this walk, I found a quarter and several pennies just lying in the middle of the street near my house. Again, in an area where I usually wouldn’t expect to find lost change.

By this point I was feeling confident enough to increase the amount to a dollar. But this time I decided to include chocolate with it. So I put the intention out there to receive an unexpected dollar and chocolate. The very next day, a package shows up in the mail with a very expensive chocolate bar in it as a gift. I didn’t specifically receive the dollar, but this chocolate was free and worth well over a dollar so I chalked it up as a successful manifestation.

From there I moved on to five dollars and pizza. Less than two days later I find a pizza on sale in my local grocery store for exactly five dollars. This seemed like a sign, so I bought it. The day after my pizza purchase, I received just over five dollars from an online revenue stream that rarely generates more than a dollar or two a day. This was just way to weird to be a coincidence.

By this point I’m laughing to myself and looking forward to my next manifestation. So now I’m working on receiving an unexpected ten dollars and I’m full of anticipation to see how this one shows as I’m sure it’ll make me laugh some more. This has turned into such an entertaining game for me that I plan to keep increasing the amounts as I go along. Sooner or later I’m sure that I’ll be manifesting a hundred thousand dollars just for fun.

- update – May 2, 2010 – I’ve completed $10 and $20. I’m now working on $50  =)

Give It a Try Yourself

Give this process a try for yourself and start building your own money manifesting muscles.

To get started, just put the intention out there and think about it a few times a day. I suggest that you start small and try manifesting pennies. When you are regularly finding pennies, increase the amount to change in general. From there go to a dollar, then five dollars, ten, twenty, one hundred…

You only want to increase amounts when you’re confident about the amount you’re working on now. If jumping from five dollars to ten dollars seems like a stretch, then stick with five dollars for a while longer, or just increase it to six. You don’t want to have any pressure or doubts while you’re doing this. Keep it fun and easy, you’ll have much better results if you do.

If you want some extra evidence that the money you are receiving is a result of your intentions, include something odd with your intention like five dollars and pizza. The results of these types of intentions are sure to bring you some laughs and they’ll also increase your confidence in the process.

Finally, don’t impose any time limits on your manifestations. There are no limits to what the Universe is capable of, and it can bring you a penny just as easily as it can bring you a hundred thousand dollars. All to often it’s our own limiting beliefs that cause things to take extra time. If you believe it’s more difficult and takes longer to manifest fifty dollars compared to a penny, it will. That’s why it’s best to start small and slowly increase the amounts as you feel comfortable doing so. Build up your manifesting muscles (confidence) slowly. If you go to high to fast, you’ll have doubts which will block the whole process from working for you.

If you try this process out, please leave a comment below to share how it’s worked out for you. I’d love to hear the cool ways that money is manifesting for you.

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This is the fourth post in a series on how to change your life. If you want to start at the beginning of the series, head on over to: How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear.

Before we talk about taking action, lets quickly recap what steps you should take before you move on with this one:

1. Become clear about what you want in your life.
2. Align your thoughts and feelings with what you decided in step one.
3. Learn what you need to know in order to create the life you desire.

If you’ve taken care of the first three steps, you’re ready to begin taking action!

Why is Taking Action Required?

Over the years I’ve come across many books and articles that say that if you want to change your life, you only need to become clear about what you want and then align your thoughts and feelings with your desire. Once you do that, supposedly the law of attraction will magically bring whatever you desire into your life.

I completely disagree with this! Every story I’ve ever read about a successful person who achieved what they wanted in life, involved them taking action to get where they wanted to go.

Now, I’m not saying that I don’t believe in the law of attraction. My personal belief is that the Universe will bring you what you want through the actions you take. It might drop what you want in your lap, but you’ll have a better chance of succeeding if you start taking action.

If all you did was sit around visualizing all day, people in overalls will eventually show up at your home and start repossessing all your stuff.

So How Does Taking Action Work With The Law of Attraction?

If you first align your thoughts and feelings with your goals, then take action, three things will occur:

1. You will notice a lot more opportunities showing up in your life.
2. You will notice that your actions are easier and more effective.
3. You will start having more ideas on how to get what you want.

This is the Universe working the law of attraction in your favor. By helping you move toward your goals instead of just giving them to you.

Why Won’t The Universe Just Give Me What I Want?

I believe that the reason that action is almost always required is that it accomplishes three things:

• First, you will have a much bigger sense of accomplishment and boost to your self-esteem if you had to work to get what you want.
• Second, you tend to appreciate what you’ve achieved more when you had to work for it. And gratitude is a wonderful feeling!
• Third, when you take action, you often encounter problems and difficulties that will force you to grow and become a better person. Growing as a person allows you to become the type of person who is capable and responsible enough to have what you desire.

How To Begin Taking Action

The first thing you need to consider is that if you truly want something, you can’t make excuses as to why you can’t go and get it.

If you think you’re to busy, what can you give up doing that really isn’t as important as your goals and dreams? Learn to prioritize where you give your time and energy so that they go to things that are truly important to you. Make sure devote time every week, or (better yet) every day, to doing things that will help you achieve your goals.

Once you’ve allocated the time to take action, the simplest way to decide what actions to take is to ask yourself this question:

What one thing can I do today that will move me at least one small step closer to my goal?

If your goal seems way to big to know what you can do to move closer to it, break it down into smaller sub-goals.

Keep The Momentum Going

Getting started is the hardest part. Once you begin taking action, you will find that it’s easier to keep going. Use this to your advantage and make sure that you regularly schedule time to work toward you goals. After a while, you will find that it starts to become a habit.

Don’t Waste Any More Of Your Life

Stop settling for the life you have if you desire something more. Remember, time is going to pass by anyways, so you might as well be moving toward what your goals.

This concludes the taking action step. Make sure to join me in the next post where we’ll be putting together all the steps of how to change your life.

For more information on the action step of how to change your life, check out the book Taking Action!

Other Posts In The Series: How To Change Your Life

How To Change Your Life: Part 1 – Become Clear

How To Change Your Life: Part 2 – Align Your Thoughts And Feelings

How To Change Your Life: Part 3 – Learn What You Need to Know

How To Change Your Life: Part 5 – Putting it all Together

If you haven’t heard of the law of vacuum, don’t worry, most people haven’t. Since the movie The Secret came out a few years ago, it seems like everyone is solely focused on trying to master the law of attraction. However, there are many laws which govern how the Universe operates. The more of them you understand, the better you will be able to master your life.

Today we’re going to focus on the law of vacuum. If you can understand how this law works, you can apply it in your own life to help get what you want.

What is the Law of Vacuum?

What this law states is that nature abhors a vacuum. It will do everything it can to fill an empty space.

The best way to explain this is through an illustration. Imagine you go out into your yard, or a nearby field, and you clear out all the grasses and weeds in one area. If you leave that area empty, over the next few days and weeks it will quickly begin to fill in again with new weeds and grass.

This is the law of vacuum in action. You created a ‘vacuum’ on the surface of the ground by clearing away all the plants that were currently residing there. Nature quickly took it’s course and started to refill that ‘vacuum’ with new plants and weeds.

Nature does not like empty space. It is a law that that space must be filled in again.

This is the law of vacuum.

How Can You Use This Law To Get What You Want?

The same principles apply in your own life as they do in nature. If you create an empty space, something must eventually fill it.

In order to get what you want, you must create space in your life for it.

• If you want a new relationship, make room in your closet, garage, and home for another person to come in and fill that space with their things. And get rid of anything you’re holding onto from any past relationships you’ve had.
• If you want new furniture, get rid of your old furniture.
• If you want a new clothes, go through your closet and get rid of everything that you never wear anymore. This will make room for new clothes.

If you know what you want, get creative and figure out how to make space for it to come into your life. Once you clear out the space, something must fill it. That’s the law of vacuum.