You Get What You Pay For

Things are not how you’d like them to be, and you don’t understand why. You’re diligent in your manifestation practice and, yet, you can’t seem to manifest any of the things you desire. Sometimes, you win little victories — you manifest a dime or a dollar here and there — but, on the whole, you can’t seem to make things play out in your favor with any consistency.

This is the story when it comes to manifestation. The above statements will apply to 95% of people reading this. In all likelihood, they apply to you, the one reading this essay right now. While you may have made some progress, you likely feel like you haven’t made the right progress yet — the big progress that sets everything straight, once and for all.

Most of the time, people will just tell you to persist when you raise these concerns. To keep on working (and waiting) until, eventually, things fall into place. Or, they might tell you to start going above and beyond in your practice — to visualize your desired outcome more vividly, more often, so that you can supercharge the fulfillment of your goals.

These prescriptions aren’t flat-out wrong, but they’re generally unhelpful.

How long are you realistically meant to persist before you manifest the things you desire? How much time are you expected to dedicate to visualizations, affirmations, and other techniques before everything finally starts to pay off?

Your problem is not that you aren’t persistent enough or aren’t working hard enough to manifest. It’s actually quite the opposite: You’re working very hard and very persistently — but your efforts are all being spent on manifesting things that you don’t want instead of on things that you do.

Spiritually speaking, you always get exactly what you pay for. If you’ve been struggling to manifest successfully, it’s not the case that you’re a “bad manifestor.” You’re just a bad bookkeeper. You’re struggling to keep track of what it is you’ve been paying for. You’re setting out to save money but forgetting that you have thousands of dollars of monthly expenses on auto bills that are draining your bank account.

This fact can make manifesting frustrating, but it’s also what makes it simple and easy once you begin to see things clearly. So, if you’ve been struggling to make sense of your life and why your efforts to manifest have thus far gone unrewarded, read on so we can begin solving the problem.