4 Common Manifestation Mistakes

I believe in Manifestation but I know for certain that it can go horribly wrong. Here are four ways manifesting my future bit me in the ass.

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I was riding my beach cruiser slowly, weaving back and forth along the River Trail, literally trying to smell the flowers, when I was hit with a strange thought. The mountains were bright green, the flowers were at peak bloom, and everybody I passed by was sunkissed and smiling. I was almost overcome by how awesome my life was…and how much it had changed in two short years.

And that’s when it hit me: I manifested all of this.

Just two years earlier, I was sitting along the banks of a different river, in the full bloom of Summer but I wasn’t so cheery. I was thinking about killing myself. It’s a long story but I can summarize it like this — rough childhood, two tours in Iraq, too much alcohol, and the existential crisis that often accompanies graduation.

I ultimately decided not to do it, obviously.

In the days and weeks that followed, I realized that if I was going to go on living this life, a lot of things had to change. A question bounced around in my mind — what would life have to be like for me to want to live it? The answer I came up with still makes me…