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Here’s the deal with “manifestation”…
“There are only three answers to a prayer: yes, not yet, and ‘I have something else in mind for you.’” – Elsa Dutton, 1923
Reader asks:
”What’s the deal with manifestation? Is it real?”
Taylor replies:
“Nope.”
At least not the version where the universe is a big happy dream factory* that runs on pretty thoughts and fairy dust and plops out the products of our desires on command.
But when we hack away the fluff and see “manifestation” for what it really is, it’s quite real and quite simple.
So, here’s the deal with it:
”Manifesting” simply means turning your thoughts into reality.
That’s it, that’s all.
The entrepreneur “manifests” his business, just like the artist “manifests” his work of art.
Just like marketers “manifested” the word “manifesting” to sell more books and courses.
So don’t let flowery terminology cloud the underlying principle:
Everything you have ever created is a product of your “powers” of manifestation.
And it’s a good idea to learn how those powers actually work, if you want to create more of what you want and less of what you don’t want.
Here’s the formula:
Clarity x Desire x Action = Result
Clarity means getting perfectly, vividly clear on exactly what you want (no hazy visions or vague generalities).
Desire means you deeply, honestly, authentically want it (not “other people want it so I want it too”).
Action means your behaviours move you towards what you want (not what you don’t want)…
Result means allowing life to surprise you with when and how it happens, and what form it takes when it happens (the left side of the formula is our job, the right side is not).
Notice I said nothing about affirmations or vibrations or pulling rabbits out of hats.
Simply bring your vision, your emotions, and your actions into alignment, and you’ll have more magic than you can shake a wand at.
Now, of course…
We’re all doing this, all the time.
The problem is:
- Our vision is hazy and vague.
- Our desire is clouded by fear and doubt and paranoia (or, is implanted by others rather than self-generated).
- Our actions are inconsistent and insufficient (and are often pointed in the opposite direction of what we want).
So it’s no wonder we often manifest the mess of a children’s colouring book instead of the masterwork of an artist.
To paraphrase Maestro Tyson:
Power is like fire; it can cook your food, or burn your house down.
Creative power, ie. manifestation, is no different.
So if your powers of manifestation are creating a life you don’t want, tattoo this formula across your vision board:
Clarity x Desire x Action = Result
Abracadabra!
- T
P.S. In other news, this just dropped…
- the universe is a big happy dream factory, it just doesn’t run on pretty thoughts and fairy dust. But more on that another day…
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Pregnancy roulette
Unless the internet isn’t your thing…
You might’ve heard of Lily Phillips, whose viral OnlyFans challenge a little concerned and rightly so a few weeks ago.
Now I’m not gonna get on a soap box tell you that she shouldn’t have done something as wild as that.
After all, she’s an adult and if she wants to smash 100 dudes in a 24hr window then more power to her.
We’ve all done some outlandish shit in our lives.
Personally I wouldn’t have decided to play Russian roulette with my fallopian tubes tbh and become become a walking petri dish, but that’s just me.
But there is a lesson to this. She did what she wanted to and there’s always a reasoning behind it.
YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT IT OVER HURRR IF YOU REALLY WANNA
The craziest thing is reading the comments on posts about this on Twitter, Reddit and Facebook.
And I’m not the mega religious type but my boy John once said: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her…”
People are incredibly quick to judge others on what they do if it doesn’t fit inside of some weird moral/social/ethical code. I mean yeah it kinda makes sense if you look at it from such shallow point of view.
But look at it this way. In the very short time we have on this giant globe of dirt spinning around the sun at 107,000 km/h (or about 67,000 mph for my Freedom Metric Enjoyers)
I’m here to be that little devil that sits on your shoulder and say DO THE THING.
Cause no matter what. People are gonna judge. Whether you’re bedding 100+ people in a day or so or plotting to take over the world.
Just. Do. The. Thing.
(Unless it involves hurting animals or people)
Do It.
I bet her email list hasn’t had that much action before, which is sad. LILY IF YOU’RE READING THIS PLEASE START AN EMAIL LIST…
But yeah. Start that email list. Write some crazy shit like I do. Have fun. Life is short. We’re all gonna expire one day, so we might as well have some fun while we’re at it eh?
Stop caring about what others think about you.
And do the thing…
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Just a little bit of doom, sir
Emotions are uncomfortable.
And there seems to exist this habit online that when people experience or display an emotion that makes us uncomfortable we feel the need to either, minimise it, challenge it or even correct it.
No platform is removed from this. Not Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or even in Email.
So when you express something, let’s say a doomy feeling.
…someone might show up to chastise you for that attitude.
No sir, You can’t be doomy. Doom is bad. Doom is how they win, they’ll tell you. Doom is what they want so you mustn’t feel doom!
Doom gets us nothing, you fool!
Don’t you see what you’ve done?
YOUR DOOM IS CONTAGIOUS!
But there’s always a ying to the yang.
Opposite scenario…
If you express anything that makes you happy or gives you a little glimmer of joy. You know? That thing you love that helps keep the blackness out of your stare so you don’t lose yourself? That type of joy…
It’s like if you said “I love pancakes” then some clown will reply: “so what you’re saying is you hate donuts?”
Like that shit doesn’t even make sense.
But we need to remember that we live in a world where our emotions have no utility to the world. They’re just emotions.
Yeah we display them, often and people will challenge it or even worse try and make it so that when you do show it. That it’s going against and minimising things like democracy, climate change, economy, future existence.
I mean I don’t know how me sharing my emotions will fix those problems but expressing them will help me balanced and explore me as a person.
We’re messy as humans. And the world has gone to shit in many respects, so what’s wrong with sharing our emotions and feelings?
It’s natural.
You don’t need to correct someone’s feelings, because feelings aren’t facts. If they’re happy about something and expressing joy, you also don’t need to correct that joy. I mean, how messed up is that?
You can put your own feelings on your own timeline, that’s fine. If you feel like doom is bad, and you have something to counter it, put it out into the world. That’s you getting to feel how you feel, and that’s okay, too.
It’s hard not to feel doomy right now.
It’s also hard not to desperately seek small, significant things of joy…
I guess my point to this is on the days where you feel like there’s nothing but doom and gloom.
Express it.
If you’re feeling happy about something that might seem small to someone else.
Express it.
Just don’t chop someone down if they’re doing the same thing.
If we don’t express it. It’ll consume us and we don’t want to become an empty husk of a person devoid of emotion.
Cause if we do, then how are we gonna create our art?
Stephen Walker
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A Map Of Your Mind
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly – you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.” – Eckhart Tolle
I recently shared a “Map of the Mind” inside our Path community.
It can be applied to your business, your work, your relationships, your performance, your health, your social life…
Everything you use your mind for, which is (hint) everything.
Super powerful.
Take a look:
The first four levels of mind can be divided into:
Impulse Emotion Thought Intuition And, even though they are interconnected, the real magic happens when we observe them as separate parts.
Here’s a (simplified) starter guide…
Impulse is the least intelligent form of mind:
Driven by our “lizard brain” (the brain stem), which seeks survival and pleasure.
Emotion is slightly more evolved:
Driven by our “monkey brain” (limbic system), which seeks status and social connection.
Thought is still more evolved:
Driven by our “human brain” (neocortex), which seeks understanding and meaning.
And then there is intuition…
A phenomena not fully understood (and, often misunderstood) by science.
Intuition exists on a higher order of intelligence than thought or emotion:
It is the gut, the heart, the little voice inside, the part of us that simply knows, even why we don’t understand why we know.
Getting these signals criss-crossed…
(for example)
Mistaking impulse for emotion (ie. the horny dude who thinks he’s in love with the girl he just met)…
Following emotion over rational thought (ie. an investor panic-selling during a market dip, instead of following his long-term strategy)…
Mixing emotion with intuition (ie. staying in a toxic relationship when you know it’s not right for you)…
Using thought to justify impulse (ie. “I deserve this ice cream, I had a stressful day”)…
Or, following thought over intuition (ie. remaining in a career you hate, instead of following a deeper calling)…
…Is the source of much human error.
Which means, learning to:
Notice the signal Discern which level of mind it is coming from Follow the higher, and override the lower
…Is a critical skill in the human development game.
Just keep in mind, this is a skill:
Which means it takes time and practice to develop.
Here are some simple rules to help you along the way:
Override impulses when they do not align with your higher goals. Feel your emotions fully before you make decisions or take actions. Take your thoughts into consideration, but do not mistake them as facts. Follow your intuition, even when it doesn't make sense.*
- just make sure it’s really your intuition (and don’t be so sure you know…)
If this feels confusing, at first, that’s because it is confusing.
You’re developing a higher-level human capacity, and that sh*t don’t come for free.
But make no mistake:
It will transform every dimension of your life, if you master it.
When you have a moment, I’d love to hear what insights this sparked for you:
Do you have trouble feeling intuition, or getting it mixed up with a different signal?
Do you have trouble overriding lower signals (impulse / emotion) to follow higher signals (thought / intuition)?
This is a new model I’ve been playing with, so your feedback is appreciated.
- T
P.S. To the keen eyes who noticed I said “first four levels of mind”…
…Yes, there are levels beyond intuition.
And maybe we’ll talk about them, someday.
But not today 🙂
If you’re still hungry for more, click here.
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An open letter to young entrepreneurs
Today’s email is a throwback to one of our greatest hits, originally sent in September, 2024. Enjoy 🙂
During a talk I gave at WLU business school last night, a student asked:
“How do you know which business model will work when there are so many options?”
And, whether you want to start a business, or just have a successful career (or a successful anything, for that matter)…
…There is only one honest answer:
Damn near all of them can work.
Building an organic following through social media can work.
Running paid ads to a sales funnel can work.
Podcasting and monetizing through sponsorships can work.
Service businesses can work, online courses can work, software can work, agencies can work, even fxcking Skool communities can work.
They can all work.
The catch?
They all take time to work.
Time as in years, not weeks or months.
(even Rogan didn’t make money until year five of his podcast)
Which means you’re gonna have to choose one and stick with it…
And then keep sticking with it…
Ignoring the urge to jump ship to whatever shiny new business model the gooroos are peddling this month…
Allllll the way through the slow, stubborn startup phase, showing up day after day, feeling like nothing is happening and you’re pushing a rock up a mountain with the wind at your face and the summit nowhere in sight…
Not knowing if you’re ever going to make it, wondering if all of your work will ever someday finally pay off, or if you should just pack it in…
…And maybe you should pack it in because there are no guarantees of success but also maybe you shouldn’t because other people have done it and if they’ve done it then dammit it’s possible and why not you?
There is no shortage of bodies on the way up that mountain.
But make no mistake, some have reached the top.
And if you talk to any of them, they’ll all tell you the same thing:This s#*t takes time.
And every time you jump ship from one model to another, you reset the clock.
So, choose your path…
(preferably one that you enjoy, that feels natural to you and suits the skill set you’re developing)
…And stick to it.
For years.
Godspeed.
- T
P.S. Two notes:
- The same principle applies to career success, relationship success, even success in training and/or spiritual practice.
- Choose one and stick to it doesn’t mean “blindly put your head down and keep doing the exact same thing even if it’s not working.”
It means continuously improving and optimizing and course-correcting within the model / path you’ve chosen…
…And, only switching streams when it the current is very clearly flowing in a new direction (not when a shiny new opportunity catches your eye).
Hope that helps.
P.P.S. In case you missed it yesterday, here’s:
How To Avoid Ego Games In Dating & Relationships
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The Jack Reacher school of consistency
It’s not a secret that I love Lee Child and his writing
And today I spent the day binging the Reacher series to get ready for season 3 that’s out on the 20th of this month…
Now today I didn’t want to do any work or writing or whatever and frankly didn’t want to exist to anyone in any capacity.
I just had one of those days and I know we all get them
But after binging the whole of season 2 in one sitting and honestly becoming an couch potato
I rediscovered a lesson that needs to be focused and applied by everyone…
Doing the things that need to be done regardless of how you feel or the outcome might lead to
The whole of season 2 was based on small bits of drama that got flung into Reacher’s direction and he didn’t complain, he just kept on moving
I’d love to share more detail but I don’t want to spoil it if you haven’t watched it or plan on watching it
And that’s it, that’s the major revelation I had today
Nothing magical
Nothing sexy
Nothing “ninja”
It’s painstakingly boring
So boring that you won’t see any guru’s in the online space talk about it cause it can’t make ’em money
So when you have those days where you want to crawl into a ball and do nothing at all, try stay consistent to what it is you’re trying to build…
Like for me it’s this here little community of misfits who enjoy my emails
Or it could be that book you’re writing, songs you’re producing or those drawings that need to be painted or whatever…
If it’s good enough for Jack Reacher to keep going when he doesn’t want to
Then it’s good enough for me to keep writing these emails and growing my list.
Stephen Walker
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