You’re listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast. This episode is titled, why you don’t need to believe anything to manifest your desires. You know, I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard it for many, many years. I’ve heard it. Don’t I’m tired of hearing it. The old phrase, you got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in yourself. And people talk about beliefs incessantly, the online personalities, the motivators. 
 
All these people are constantly screaming, you gotta believe. Well, what they’re really screaming and they don’t even recognize it is they don’t know how the universe works because you don’t, as I’ll show you in this episode, you don’t have to believe in yourself to manifest your desires. Keep listening. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. 
 
I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here you’re going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, 
 
feel powerful and alive and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. So as I said in the introduction, belief, I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of hearing all these motivators talk about all these Instagram videos and the reels and the Tik Toks and 
 
All these people screaming, you gotta believe, you gotta believe, and you gotta believe in yourself. I’m going to share with you right now. And I’ve done an episode on this before about how archaic archaic beliefs are, but people who talk about, you’ve got to believe in yourself. They don’t know what they’re talking about. And I’m going to show you that here in this episode, I’m going to demonstrate that to you in this episode, people who keep screaming, you know, everything is about belief. They don’t know what they’re talking about and they’re working from the lower perspective. 
 
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of human identity and human limitation. And I want to take us to a higher level. You may remember in the past, I said that I had learned from Don Juan Matus, there’s a particular phrase that he shared with me and candidly, just share. I was sitting in a channeling with him. He was talking about the fears that human beings have. And Don Juan said, he said this 25 years ago, and I always remember it. And I did not understand it back then. 
 
but he said beliefs are archaic. I think what he’s really saying is beliefs. We don’t need them. They’re, they’re a vestige of the ego. I’m tripping over my words because I was going to use his words and he would say they are a vestige of art to null T O N A L, which is the word that he uses. But when he uses the word to null, he definitely means ego. 
 
So what I want to share with you and hopefully impart to you in this episode, and it’s my sincerest desire that this starts sinking in, is that manifestation is not created from belief. It can be a byproduct of belief, but really what it’s created from is something under belief. And what’s under belief is clarity and detachment. You know, my sister, 
 
Mandy, she is married to Don Javier, has a favorite phrase that I often hear her say, everyone needs an STD. Now, of course she doesn’t mean a sexually transmitted disease, but when she says STD, surrender trust and do not doubt. And believe it or not, which as you’re thinking about this, you’re probably thinking, okay, surrender trust and doubt. what you’re probably or maybe thinking is, okay, I get it. 
 
but that is really, really, really, really hard. I wonder if you recognize that we are not surrendering, we are not trusting, and we are not doubting because even though we’re living in the universe physically, we’re not living in the universe mentally and working with energy in the way that we need to be to create what it is that we want to create in life. Surrender trust and doubting, all these things, meaning the hanging on and the not trusting and the doubting. 
 
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These are all products of the human ego. We have to let these things go. And this is so hard for a lot of people because we’ve been trained to work backwards. We’ve been trained to work from the outside in. Hence the name of the podcast is transform your life from the inside out. And for many years I did as well and I can understand that, but I had a hard time detaching from the physical world. And when I said, 
 
you know, what I just said, you can probably relate to that is that we’ve learned to identify with the physical world and we’ve learned to define ourselves by the physical world. And we’ve learned to define our identity by the physical world. And we’ve learned to define ourselves by what we do and what we be and what we have. And all these kinds of things are great. I want us to be more, do more and have more life. But at an ego level that creates literally 
 
you know, the identity of the person, but at a spiritual level and an energetic level, holding these kinds of identities and these attachments and all these kinds of things, they slow us down. I want to share a text that Don Javier sent me back in 2020. He sent it on February the 24th of 2020. Two days later, I was in the hospital for heart failure. Six months later, I had a stroke. Now the heart failure and the stroke, 
 
are the events that helped me let go of attachment. Because when I had both of those circumstances in my life, I recognized that anything boom can be gone just like that. Anything can be taken away from you. One moment you can be fine. The next moment you can be any ICU. And we don’t think that way. We don’t think during the day, okay, XYZ could happen to me, but it can. And I’m proof of that having the stroke and the heart failure. 
 
And candidly, I’m grateful for having the stroke and the heart failure because they taught me so many things that I would not have the opportunity to learn otherwise. And hopefully I can help more people, but they also taught me the value of letting go and detachment. on February the 24th, 2020, Don Hovier texted me this. I’m going to read it to you. Just remember, as I have said for many years, 
 
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You are a system of energy and there are many energies that you hold in yourself. The lowest of all is material energy, form, matter, and tinal, which is ego. That energy is dense and slower than other energies. But for now, remember intention. That is the most abundant force in the universe. And as a sorcerer, 
 
I always bring that to me and apply it with me. And I use my will to heal myself and open my heart and to heal my life and the love more so that I can serve as I always do. I hope that makes sense. So what he’s saying here is that there are many layers, so to speak of energy in the universe. There are many forms of energy. And what he’s saying is the lowest densest form of energy is 
 
the body and the material reality and the highest form of energy. He didn’t say it here, but I, said it before. The highest form of energy is mind. The highest form of energy is consciousness. Now this being said, I’m asking you listening now, if the highest energy is consciousness, then why don’t we persist and living from and working from the lowest form of energy, which is the physicalness. 
 
We want to manifest so many things in life that are physical, but we work from the physical energy of trying to manifest in a physical way. And we’re not working. We’re not leveraging the higher energy of mind. So earlier I said, and if I didn’t say I had intended to say is that for most of us, we work backwards. We’re trying to manifest, but not only that, we’re also trying to manifest backwards. 
 
We work backwards in life. And then because we’re working backwards in life, when we do a behavior like manifestation, we’re also working backwards. And this is why so many people, they go through so many manifestation programs and watch manifestation videos and all these kinds of things. And then they say, why is this not working for me? How come I’m not manifesting? How come I’m not getting the results that I want? Well, as I’m going to share in a bit, 
 
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We don’t manifest anything we project, but the reason that we’re not actually even manifesting what we want is because we’re doing it backwards. Now, as I alluded to just a bit ago, we don’t manifest anything. You listening right now, you don’t specifically manifest anything. The universe does that. What you do is with your intention, you project to the universe, the intention. 
 
and the universe corresponds to the projection, which is then the manifestation. So basically, and simply put, you are a medium for the universe to manifest through you. But many people get all cocky and arrogant and think they are the manifestor and you, they were not the manifestor. We are simply the vehicle for the manifestation. And that’s how we have to start treating it. That’s how we to start approaching 
 
our desires and things we want to create as being a vehicle for the creation of these desires. So I’m going to use the word manifestation because it’s in the social vernacular and we all understand the word manifestation. But the question is, is you’re probably already wondering how, even though I call it projection, how do we, which is why you’re listening to this episode, how do we manifest and life? 
 
It’s really easy and it’s so easy. You’re probably maybe not going to believe me the way to manifest. And I’m going to break into this and break it down for you is number one, set your intention. It’s all you have to do. Set your intention. Number two, release it. And number three, let the universe do its job. What most of us do is we don’t do any of that. We don’t set our intention. 
 
We definitely don’t release it because we’re attached to it and we don’t let the universe do its job. Because we’ve been conditioned in the world we live in to work hard and to make things happen and the hustle culture and all these kinds of things. We’ve been conditioned to think we have to go out and make it happen. That is not true. And what I’m sharing with you, set your intention, release it, and let the universe do its job. In this secret podcast, I will tell you how I manifested 
 
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Three, job opportunities. In the secret podcast, I will tell you how I manifested two job opportunities that I really, really, really desired and a place to live in New York City with zero effort. And it all happened really fast. As a matter of fact, each manifestation happened within 30 days of me setting my intention. What I can do, you can do, but we have to follow this process. And candidly, 
 
It’s a very simple process. So as we’re talking about manifestation now in full transparency for many years, I mean, if you’ve listened to the podcast for any amount of time, you know that I grew up poor and I struggled with money for many years and I read, my God, OMG. Book after book after book after book after book after book. I literally read over 5,000 books in my life and 90 % of those have been about manifestation. 
 
And we’re told all kinds of things that we have to have a vision board and you have to have it in front of you all day long. And you’ve to pin it up in sticky cards and put it on your bathroom mirror and on your refrigerator. And you have to want it. One motivational speaker said, you have to want success more than you want oxygen. How the hell can you even think that kind of way? mean, I don’t know how to even fathom that in my mind to think that I want success more than I want oxygen. 
 
Good metaphor, but it doesn’t work for me. But we’re taught you’ve got to keep it in front of you all day long and you’ve got to live it and you’ve got to believe it. Well, I’m calling bullshit on every bit of that, which again, I’ll lay off for you in this episode. See, because when you do all these things, the vision board and all the, and by the way, you can use tools, but use them within the frame I’m giving you. 
 
Now, what I mean by using tools, you can script. I’ve talked about scripting before. You can use that, but use it with the formula that I’m giving you. But many people, what we do is we use our scripting and our vision boards and our self-hypnosis, and we do all these things. But when we do these things, we are also holding the energy that we do not yet have what we desire. So what we do is by doing these things, the vision boards and 
 
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I mean, I’m really working on this and I’m really focused on it. I’m working hard on it mentally. What we’re really doing is telling the universe that we don’t have it. Plain and simple. When you’re working to manifest, think about this, I’m going to slow down. When you’re working to create your desires, we’ll use the word manifest because that’s in the social vernacular. When we use the word manifest and we think about, I am working to manifest X, Y, Z. 
 
What we’re simultaneously doing is telling the universe we don’t have it. And then we tell the universe we don’t have it that negates our manifestation. So as I’ve said before, you are a born creator. You’ve been doing it since the day you showed up on the planet and your creator is simply by the presence of your being. 
 
And then what happens is that your being projects itself into the universe via and by your thoughts, your actions and your feelings. And then what happens is the universe corresponds to what you are projecting. Now think about that. Our being, meaning who and what you are, projects itself into the universe. And we do that through our thoughts, our actions and our feelings. 
 
And then the universe corresponds to those projections. But think about what are you projecting? And again, get back to the subtle distinction. When you’re air quote, trying to manifest what you’re projecting is that you do not have. And when you actually project, you do not have the universe corresponds to, okay, you do not have that’s what you’re projecting. 
 
That’s what I’m going to correspond back to and bring back to you. I’m going to bring back to you that you’re not going to have it. Now think back to a couple of minutes ago when I read that text from Don Javier and he said, you are an energy system. And what I want to share from to, you know, with you work from the energy system, not from the biological system. 
 
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work from the energy essence of you, not the action of you. And this system, this energy system, think about this. You didn’t create or manifest the energy system that you are. The universe did, which I’ve said before, you manifest nothing. The universe does. The universe manifest every single thing in the universe and other universes. 
 
comes from the universal consciousness, the universal mind and the universal energy. Whereas you’re here trying to manifest the watch or the home or the car or the plane or the dog or the boyfriend or the girlfriend or the money or whatever. For lack of better words, you’re not in sync. You’re not in sync with the energy system of the universe. And hopefully you realize this. As I’ve just said, the universe is an energy system, but you are a reflection of that energy system. 
 
Think about that. You are a reflection of the energy system. And the reason you’re not creating what you want is because you’re not working in, I’m kind of cringe at this word, but I’m going to use it because you understand it. You’re not in alignment with the energy system and the energy system. One of the major rules is the more you try to create something, the more you can’t create it. Okay. Let me say it again. The more you try to do something, 
 
the more you cannot do it and the harder that it is. When it comes to manifestation, the harder you try to manifest simultaneously, the more you’re telling the universe you don’t have it. And again, for the second or third time, the universe is saying, okay, you don’t have it because you keep trying to manifest it, which means you keep telling the universe you don’t have it. And the universe keeps corresponding to that because you are projecting that. Now, earlier I talked about beliefs, something that I asked that you notice. 
 
is your beliefs are easy. You don’t force your beliefs. They’re a natural part of you, but whatever you believe, you project. And we project it subconsciously. Don’t believe me? Look out on the world. Look at the amount of people on, which I think it basically is toxic, on Twitter. Look at the amount of people literally fighting on the left side and the right side about politics. 
 
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All they’re doing is projecting and they’re convoluting the world with this energy and making it even more challenging for the entire consciousness of the planet. But think about this. That’s what people do. They are projectors. You are a walking projector and what you project, we manifest. And if you want to know what you’re projecting, simply look at your home, your car, your clothes, your relationship, your health. 
 
These are all things that you are projecting and the universe don’t have a year said to me one time. I love this phrase. The universe shows no mercy, meaning in what he meant was karma, but what he also meant was projection. So if you project hate, the universe is not going to show you mercy and project love and kindness. The universe is going to project back to you what you are projecting. 
 
I don’t want to go into it much right now, but I think back and it just popped in my mind many years ago, a guy that I knew was doing some things that were maybe a bit morally questionable by other people. And he wasn’t hurting anyone. I’ll just say he wasn’t physically hurting anyone or any of that. His judgment might’ve just been morally skewed a bit based upon maybe Judeo-Credition values. And there was someone else in this person’s life 
 
then literally turned this guy in to the police for what he was doing. And he got investigated and all these kinds of things. But the guy who turned him in was literally traveling on business the very next week. And I saw him afterwards at an event and his face was all beat up. And I said, what happened? He goes, I got jumped in New York city and some guys beat me up. And we talked a bit about all this because I knew him casually. 
 
We talked about manifestation and the universe and balance and all this. And he said to me, he goes, do you think the universe compensated back to me? What I just did in the pain and the hurt that I call someone else. Now, obviously I don’t know when I can’t say for sure, but I said, I wouldn’t be surprised that the universe is balancing back that energy back to the comment. The universe shows no mercy. What you are projecting is what you are creating. 
 
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I’ll say it again. What you are projecting, you are creating. And Don Hovier said that to me many years ago and I had a sticky on my desk, a little Post-it note sticky. I had this there for 15 years and it said, as you are projecting, you are receiving. As you are projecting, you are receiving. So remember, you’re projecting your beliefs, like I said earlier. And if you don’t like people 
 
project their beliefs and their politics. I mean, here in the US, look at the amount of billboards. I mean, I was just driving up to Wyoming recently from Arizona, we ran, you know, drove through many rural areas. And I saw this one billboard, which is not uncommon, and it said, Jesus loves you. Well, whoever posted that billboard is projecting their beliefs about what reality is and what it’s not and what the world is and what the world is not. But we’re constantly projecting. 
 
Look at Donald Trump, constantly projecting. Look at the other side of the aisle, constantly projecting. But the point of this episode is what are you projecting about money? And here’s what we do. When we don’t have money, and I have been there, when we don’t have money, we try to force ourselves to believe things. We try to fool ourselves, the old, fake it till you make it. 
 
We try through our actions to force ourselves to believe that we are attracting money. But notice this, when we get into force, what we’re actually in. Now, most people don’t recognize this subtle distinction. When we get into the force or we get into the hyperdrive of the vision boards and the scripting and the affirmations and all these kinds of things, what we’re really doing 
 
is we’re trying to force an outcome, but notice this, we’re forcing it from fear. Think about that. What a lot of people do, and especially a lot of spiritual people, they will say things like, well, I’m going to meditate on it. And that’s great. The mainly thinking about something while you’re meditating on it is not meditation. And in this sense of meditation, meditation is quieting your mind completely. 
 
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So if you’re trying to meditate on something, which means you’re trying to think on something, that is work. So where does this come from? All the work, it comes from your individual mind. It comes from your ego mind. And what I want to share with you also is another aha for many of you. Your ego mind is the part of the mind that sabotages your manifestation. Why? Because the ego mind says, look what Susan has. 
 
but I can’t have that or she has a bigger social media following following or this person has that or they have this or I’m not as good as them or money is always hard for me or no matter what I do, I can’t get ahead. That’s all ego mind. And when it comes to your creation, your money creation, your manifestation, your ego mind has just one job and one job only. That’s it. I’ve already given it to you, but I’ll give it again. 
 
Your ego mind has one job and that one job is to set your intention. And after that’s done, the role of your ego mind is done. That’s it. Once you’ve set your intention, leave it alone because everything else is interference from your ego mind. Because then what you do is if you set your intent and then you think about it and you meditate on it. 
 
and you do your vision boards and all these kinds of things, then what you’re doing is you’re just creating more noise and more static in the system. You know, it’s kind of like listening to Bach. I’m not, I mean, I do like classical music and I listened to it maybe 10 % of the time, but I do like Bach a lot. It’s very soothing, but imagine listening to some Bach music and it’s very sonorous and soothing and clean and pure and it moves your soul. 
 
But then you hear all the static coming in. Well, that’s interference. That’s noise. And it ruins the music. And the same thing with your manifestation and your noise. All the head noise, all the ego noise, that is all static. And it interferes with or completely delays or destroys what it is that you’re trying to create. And even with positive thinking, notice this. 
 
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When you’re trying to think positively, okay, I’m being positive now. I’m being positive and I’m being positive. And I know I’m going to get this girlfriend, their boyfriend, their money or a home or car. I’m being positive. I am positive. am po notice where you’re working from. You’re telling the universe by being positive, you’re being positive because you’re positive that you want to get it, but you don’t have it. You’re telling the universe that you don’t have it. 
 
So when you’re doing all this mental work, here’s how I suggest you look at it. Think about planting a seed and your intention is like the seed. But then imagine you dig up that seed, you plant this seed, but every day you dig it up because you want to check on it and you want to make sure that it’s growing. So what you do is you dig up the seed to make sure it’s growing and you set it back an entire day if not killed it. 
 
and you bury it again and you dig it up tomorrow and then you bury it again and dig it up tomorrow. The seed is never going to grow. But see, that’s what you do with your creation. When you’re trying to force it, when you’re working mega hard, super hard, super focused on your manifestation and you’re trying to believe and you want to believe and you’re trying to convince yourself to believe, then you’re work. Fuck it. Trust, trust the universe. 
 
The big buzzword this day and age is aligned. Guess what? No one’s going to be air quote aligned 24 seven, but we try to make ourself aligned and making ourself aligned. You guessed it is work in itself, which is interference. So plant the seed and release it. And after you plant the seed and release it, you simply hold this in mind. Am I indie? This 
 
is mine, am I any? This is mine. You know, if you’ve listened for any amount of time, I grew up a small town Texas farm boy. My grandfather, my dad were farmers and my dad was also an auto body repairman. But for many years as a kid, I helped my grandfather plant his own personal garden. We had a family garden that was one acre and I would help my grandfather plant. And I remember planting potato seedlings. 
 
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And I remember what we, you know, we would create the row, put the seedlings seedlings in, fertilize, cover them up and water. And we left them and then I’d wait for them to grow. didn’t keep digging them up every day. And that’s the same thing with manifestation. So the simple way to do this is plant the intention seed, plant the intention seed, release it, and then saying, this is mine. But no, here’s the operative word. No. 
 
that the universe, the higher forms of energy are already working on it. Remember earlier, I said, Don Javier said the lowest form of energy is the physical, but we also are the higher form of energy. So what we do is we actually plant it in the lower form of energy, but then we destroy what we planted by actually using our higher mind with the fear and the doubt and the worry and all these kinds of things to destroy what we planted. So your simple way to manifest is this. Two steps. 
 
Be clear of your intention. Be clear, crystal clear what it is that you want. Step number two, and this is the harder one for a lot of people, know that it’s already done. And let me give you a distinction. No, it’s not done physically, but because it’s not done physically doesn’t mean that it’s not done energetically and on the way to you. So today I ordered a new laptop from Apple. 
 
And I ordered it like two days ago, three days ago. Now, when I placed the order, I didn’t like check my phone because you know, you get a a little notification from Apple and all that saying, okay, your order is placed. It’s on the way. I don’t give a shit. I placed it. And then I just knew I here’s the operative word. I knew it would come. And I knew it would come in a day or two. 
 
That’s manifestation right there. Simply it’s manifestation represented. Set your intention, which is what I did when I bought it, and know that it is done. That’s your only job. That’s it when it comes to manifesting anything. Anything else other than that, you’re getting in the way. Use no longer the lower forms of energy, use the higher form of energy. And know that once you’ve done the physical behavior, 
 
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know that the universe is now taken over energetically at a higher form of energy. And it’s working out how to bring that to you. Be patient. It can be a day. It can be a month. It might even be two months, but if you’re clear in your intention, it will show up for you. And the reason you believe a lot of this crap, you believe a lot of these online personalities. You know, I don’t want to call anybody out by name, but there’s a guy, he’s pretty big online and he will say things like, 
 
You’ve got to work until your eyeballs bleed. Kind of fucking nonsense is that that dude has no clue because he thinks because he’s created material things in his life. He thinks he’s a success and he might be by financial standards. But what no one looks at is what was his intention behind the physical activities? What was the intention behind working? your eyeballs bleed. I have never once and I don’t really follow him. 
 
I’ve never really once seen any of his videos where he talks about the intention behind the action. Think from intention, think from higher mind, not physical behavior. So trying to believe in yourself, like I started this entire episode with, is just trying to convince yourself that something that is not yet true is true for you. I’ll say it again. Believing in yourself is just trying to convince yourself that what is not true 
 
is true for you. And holy crap, is that a lot of work. And notice this, if you’re trying to convince yourself that you’re rich and wealthy or any of these kinds of things, if you’re trying to convince yourself, all that you’re really saying is that you don’t believe that you have it or you are that because as I said earlier, if I didn’t say I meant to say ponder this things that you believe you don’t question and you don’t have to reinforce 
 
or meditate on or keep reinforcing things that you believe. Why? Because they’re natural and you automatically believe them. So let’s work from that premise. Stop trying to believe, surrender trust, do not doubt because I know you believe the universe works because you’re in the universe. Work from the universe, not from the individual ego. And the more effort that you exert, the harder you try, the more resistance you’re creating. 
 
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And that becomes hard work for a lot of people and makes it even harder to manifest. also just know this, your worry and all your effort, that’s all exertion. And all that exertion pushes away your manifestation. So here’s where to work from to really summarize all of this is let the effort go. Just stop, let the effort go. Because we don’t manifest through effort. We manifest through intention. 
 
And when you’re using effort, you are pushing and forcing the universe. Just let it go. Set your intention, like I talked about my computer and earlier, set your intention and then know that the job is done. A great example that I’ve used many times before and I’ll use it again is when you mail a FedEx, you don’t literally mail the FedEx and then worry about whether or not it’s going to get there. You know. 
 
At least I do in my experience, every FedEx I’ve ever sent has always gotten there. So I don’t send the FedEx and worry about it. I send the FedEx. I forget about it because I know it’s going to get there. Okay. On the secret podcast, I’m going to talk to you and I’m going to share with you how I literally manifest the two job opportunities and a place to live in New York city, which is not easy at the money that I wanted to pay and the amount of time that I wanted it. 
 
And I manifested every bit of this within 30 days. And to listen to that secret podcast episode, you can go to jimforton.com slash insiders, jimforton.com slash insiders. So your transformational takeaway is this. It’s not your job to manifest. Repeat, it’s not your job to manifest. It’s not your work to manifest. It’s your job to set your clear intention and be certain that it is all ready. 
 
Done. That is it. Set the clear intention and know that it is already done. Because when you’re doing that, now you’re working from the higher frequency. You’re working from the energy of mind. You’re working from a universal mind, not the tunnel, the ego, and the physical lower, denser energy of the body and the behavior. Thanks for listening. I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.