Katie McManus says manifestation without action doesn't work. She points to a client who trained hard and qualified for the New York Marathon, then talks about her own goals: keynote speaking, a bestselling book, scaling her business. All required coaching, money, and actual work.
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Manifestation won't get you shit if you're not actually doing the work. Here's an example. A client of mine just ran the New York Marathon, okay? She had to train so hard for it. She had to qualify for it. She had to train to qualify for the marathon. Let me tell you, I could sit here and say that I'm training for the New York Marathon. I could try to manifest it. I could visualize what it would be like to win. I could make a vision board of all the things that I would need to do to do it. I could even create, like, an action plan that, you know, would be great to train. But if I don't actually take action, if I don't actually do the things on the action plan, if I don't actually train, it's never gonna fucking happen. Now, I'm probably never gonna run a marathon because I don't want to, okay? If I'm running, I better be being chased by something very scary. But there are a lot of things that I do want to do that scare the shit out of me that are a lot of steps. Things like becoming a keynote speaker, things like becoming a bestselling author or growing my business into a major empire. I get to help thousands upon thousands of people to build their own businesses. Now, there are a lot of parts in there that I'm very confident and I know how to do it, and I'm already doing a lot of it, okay? But there are a lot of parts in there that I'm also terrified of. It's outside of my comfort zone. I don't really know what I don't know. So I probably need some guidance. I need to invest in someone who can take me through the process and explain to me what the action steps are. And most importantly, I have to actually do the work. I can't just sit here and manifest it and hope it's all going to come to me. That's not how it goes. Because.