Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

I manifested $4k in one day

4 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, entrepreneur and podcast host Lewis Howes recounts a personal manifestation experiment he conducted while staying in New York. Each morning he recited affirmations that "money comes to me abundantly and freely" and deliberately sought out pennies as symbols of money. He picks up a 1945 wheat penny from the subway, thanks it, and later discovers—after researching its rarity—that such a coin recently sold online for about $4,000. Howes uses the anecdote to illustrate the power of focused intention, gratitude, and looking beyond surface value to uncover hidden wealth, framing the experience as proof that manifestation can attract unexpected financial abundance.

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Can you manifest millions? Yes. I was in New York last week. Every morning when I woke up and when I went out of the hotel, I said, money comes to me abundantly and freely, and I see it everywhere. Someone was carrying a box and a penny fell, and I was like, all right, it came to me. Let me do this again. The next day I go to New York City and I'm in the subway. I see a penny heads up and I thought to myself, this is filthy. This is dirty. It's not valuable. It's not enough money. I don't need to pick this up. But I was like, no, I'm doing this experiment. Money comes to me abundantly and freely, and I'm going to manifest money, right? And so I pick it up, put it in my pocket, and I just say, thank you, money, for coming to me. The next day I put it on my bedside table. I don't think anything of it. The next day I wake up and I look at this penny and I notice something. It said 1945 on this penny. That's an 80-year-old penny. And I go, huh, that's unique. I haven't seen a penny that old in a long time. And I flip it over. I get chills thinking about it. I notice it's a wheat penny. I look it up and I Google 1945 wheat penny value. And one just sold, guess for how much? I have no idea. $4,000. No way! Online. There was more value inside of that penny than what met the eye originally. And all I had to do was be willing to look for it. Yes. Be willing to pick it up and say, "I receive. Thank you."