Codie Sanchez used an "anti-manifestation" exercise to save her failing company: she deliberately imagined worst-case scenarios like employees quitting and running out of cash, then sat with the fear until she realized she could survive them. Once the fear lost its grip, she could rebuild.
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If you're right now struggling in business because you think you're not good enough, I don't want you to spiral. I'll tell you what I did when I almost lost my business. It's called the anti-manifestation. So alone at night, I want you to walk through every single worst-case scenario. What if every employee leaves your business? What if your customers hate you? What if you go broke? What if you lose everything? What if you have to go back and fill out job applications? Feel all of it and then realize you could probably survive that. Like, your ego's not going to like it, but you could do it. I think that is the moment when fear It's when it stops controlling you. It's when it stopped controlling me and it starts to clarify instead what I have to do next. You know, at that point for me, I rebuilt the entire company structure and we all moved forward. This is the only way to win. It's not actually manifesting every single day. It's saying all the big scary things out loud and doing it anyway. So say it, sit with your own worst nightmares and realize you probably aren't gonna die.