Let’s talk about ~*Manifesting Your Dream Life *~ ✨
You do not want to be on your death bed wishing that you never went after your dreams.
Time goes fast and there is no time like the present.
Let’s not wait until later to manifest our dream life.
6 Steps – Let’s go!
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Step ONE: If You Had a Personal Genie – What Would you Wish For?
You can have whatever you want – but you have to know what you want.
If a Magic Genie popped out of a lamp and granted you 3 wishes, would you know what you’d want? 🧞♂️
The thing about manifestation is that we are constantly manifesting whether we mean to or not.
The trick is aligning ourselves properly so we manifest the things we actually want.
But what if I don’t know what I want?
When we are kids, we are so aware of our likes and dislikes and the things that light us up. Then we grow up and forget how to tune inward to see what our soul is drawn to.
Here are some ideas for identifying your desires:
💡What can you spend literally hours doing without getting bored?
💡If someone handed you $1 Billion, what would your life look like?
💡What was your dream job when you were 7 years old?
💡How was your favorite way to play when you were 5?
💡What areas of your personality do people compliment you on?
💡What skillsets do you have that come naturally to you?
These are clues 🔍 about your life’s purpose and our deepest, most-aligned manifestations usually relate to our life’s purpose.
✈️ If you loved playing travel agent → would you want to travel the world? Or book trips for others?
🍳 If you are unnaturally good at cooking → have you considered a food blog? Or catering?
If you want Free Journaling Prompts to help you uncover the things you want to manifest into your life, grab them here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
This step is meant to be easy and fun…don’t stress the details.
At this point, you just need a general direction.
Step TWO: Visualize EXACTLY What You Want
Once you’ve uncovered a ~general idea~ of what type of life you want to manifest, it’s time to let your subconscious help you plan the details.
This is where Pinterest comes in to save the day.
Create a new board for your Dream Life Manifestation, call it something that makes your tummy flutter (ie when I was planning a move to Europe, I had one called EuroVision).
Now, look for pictures that have the aesthetic that makes you go ooooooh YES, that.
Save them to the board. Save hundreds of photos if you want.
Once you’ve saved a stack of them, see if you can identify any patterns.
✨What colors are you seeing a lot of?
✨What is the general vibe?
✨Is there a geographical location consistently present?
✨Are there other people involved in this vision?
✨What are the emotions you see in the pictures?
✨What elements do you see that make you envious and excited at the same time?
These are all things that you WANT and wanting things is your compass. Your soul is telling you to manifest those things.
Step THREE: Find the Areas Where YOU are Blocking YOURSELF
Now for the tricky bit. If you deeply want something and don’t yet have it, there is a good chance that you are holding yourself back from getting it.
Let me explain.
🎭Maybe you want to be an actress, but your subconscious is so hell-bent on protecting you from rejection that you don’t even let yourself accept auditions, or maybe not for the roles you really want.
👶🏽Maybe you want to be a mom, but the overwhelming fear of messing it all up is subconsciously leading you to overworking so you have “no time” for a baby right now.
💰Maybe you really want to save your money, but you were told that rich people are assholes so as soon as you get money you spend it so you won’t be considered a rich asshole by whoever instilled that message into you (maybe your family).
The hardest first step will be to recognize where you are blocking yourself.
It’s hard to admit (at first) that you are holding yourself back from your dreams. But we ALL do it, so no shame.
Cut yourself some major slack, though. Because we block ourselves out of love and a desire to protect. Maybe you experienced pain or trauma in the past and your brain is being wayyy too overprotective so it won’t happen again. Thank your brain! Then move forward…
Step FOUR: Fake It ‘til You Make It (Manifestation-style)
🗣️ Story time:
I recently started speaking Spanish as a second-language and my native Spanish-speaker husband says I speak great (which I doubt). But, I recently came home to visit my family where I heard my Portuguese step-dad “speaking Spanish” that was literally 85% Portuguese with a few Spanish words sprinkled in. I turned to my husband AGHAST and asked him if that is the way he’s always spoken Spanish. My husband smiled and nodded. HOLY SHIT. This man has been confidently speaking mainly PORTUGEUSE and calling it Spanish for literally years. Meanwhile I’m over here stressing about tiny grammatical details.
The Big Takeaway: People Less Capable Than You Can Have Your Manifestation FASTER If You Don’t Learn to Fake Confidence and Raise Your Self-Worth
It’s better to show up confident and then grow your ability than to “earn” confidence once you’ve perfected your ability. It takes vulnerability and trust, but ya gotta do it.
So how do we apply this to manifestation? FAKE that your manifestation is coming, even if you’re still working through blocks like self-doubt, self-protection, or insecurity.
Practice Micro-Actions to Inch Closer to Your Dreams
💗Manifesting a partner? Uplevel your self-love and read Why You Are Worthy of Love and Respect
💰Manifesting money? Create a savings goal and read a guide like How to Get Rich and Build Wealth
Basically start morphing into the version of you that already has your dream life.
What skills does she have that you need? Work on getting those!
Step FIVE: Wish For It, Then Let It Go
Now for the hard part, especially for those of us who love to control things in our lives.
Once we know what we want, have identified and are working through our blocks, and are aligning ourselves with our highest self so we can have our dream life……now we have to let it all go.
The Universe doesn’t like clingy, controlling, impatient behavior (who does)? And we have to put out the energy of trust.
“I know I deserve beautiful things and I know good things are coming.”
Then, you go about your current life and wait for your manifestations (or something even better) to come to you at the perfect time.
There’s magic to this stuff, and we have to trust that sometimes we can’t plan all the details and timelines because we don’t have enough information yet. That’s where we let the mystery of the Universe take over and have our back.
Step SIX: Be Grateful While You Wait
While we want for our quantum leap into our dream life, we have to still be grateful for what we already have.
If you have a roof over your head and nutritious food to eat, you are already so blessed.
Look around, smell the flowers, watch the birds, listen to the children laughing.
If you can’t enjoy what you already have, chances are you won’t fully enjoy your dream life manifestation when that arrives either.
Look for joy and you will find it.
In fact, it’s already looking for you.
Wrapping This Up: Your Dream Life Is Already Reaching for You ✨
Manifesting your dream life is all about remembering who you are, what you want, and what lights you up from the inside out.
Because the moment you decide you’re worthy of the life you want…
the Universe starts rearranging itself to bring it to you.
Your dream life isn’t some far‑off fantasy. A version of you that already exists and is patiently waiting for you to meet her halfway.
Do not wait for “someday.” Because “someday” is not guaranteed. We only have NOW.
Don’t wait for the perfect timing, the perfect confidence, or the perfect plan.
✨Start now.
✨Start messy.
✨Start with curiosity and courage and a tiny spark of belief.
But you don’t have to do it alone. Join the Candlelight Collective community and let us hold space for you and keep you accountable on your journey of manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams!
xx Bri