Dream It, Do It: A Guide to Manifesting the Life You Want

Have you ever wondered if you could shape your reality just by believing in your goals fervently?

Join me, Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco, as we embark on the Self-Growth Train to explore the transformative power of manifesting. In this episode, I delve into my personal journey with manifesting and break down how you can start defining your desires with clear intent. You'll discover the importance of visualization, the magic of vision boards, and the necessity of maintaining a positive mindset that aligns with your core beliefs—be it faith in God, trust in the universe, or confidence in science. This episode will equip you with practical tools to focus your energy on what truly matters to you and harness the power of your thoughts to reach your aspirations.

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Transcript

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 0:07

Hello, my dear passengers, and welcome aboard the Self-Growth Train, a podcast that combines personal stories, opinions and research in order to better guide you through your self-growth journey. My name is Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco and I am your tour guide. First, I want to say thank you for tuning back into the podcast. You guys. It has been an amazing couple of first weeks since the relaunch of the podcast, and you guys have been giving me feedback which I love, and all of it has been super positive. You guys have even given me suggestions of things that I can improve on, and I appreciate each and every one of you for taking the time of your day to listen to the podcast and to also write back to me and tell me how you feel. If you haven't had the chance yet to reach out to me, please do so. I love hearing from you and, at the end of the day, that is the purpose of this podcast. Like I want to help myself improve, and I also want to help other people grow, so do not hesitate to reach out at any of my social media handles or even through my website. I want to hear from you.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 1:12

Well, my dear passengers, the time has come for you to buckle up your seatbelts as we dive right into our first stop of the day. That is the topic of the day, and today's topic is manifesting. And today's topic is manifesting. Manifesting is defined by psychology today as the idea that, through the power of belief, we can effectively think our goals into becoming a reality. Well, I know what you're thinking, frances. Are you talking about magic? Are you talking about wishing? Are you talking about prayer? What are you talking about? Well, my dear passengers, I am talking about positive thinking that has a purpose and, depending on what you believe in or what your belief system is, you might call it something else. But for the purpose of this podcast episode today, we're going to be talking about manifesting. For today's episode, I will not be using any research. I will be simply using my personal experiences and my opinion when it comes to manifesting. Why? Because I realized that manifesting it is a personal experience, and I want you guys to get the inside of somebody that has been manifesting for the majority of her life and how it actually works for me. And I want to leave it up to you to see if it's something that you want to try yourself, to see if it's something that you want to try yourself, or if it's something that you want to recommend to your friends and family.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 2:28

The first step is knowing what you want, and I know that I say this on literally every single episode. But if you don't know what you want, how are you going to know what you're trying to get? Once you know what you want, you're able to visualize better. And when I say visualize, I know that the first thing that comes to mind is probably going to be a vision board. And don't get me wrong, vision boards really, really help. But when I say visualize, I mean I want you to imagine and think about that thing that you really desire and have it become a constant image in your head. I'm talking about when you pray about it. I want it to come up when you dream. I want it to come up when you're thinking about it. I want it to be something that you can easily reach back into your brain and be like oh yeah, this is the thing that I'm working for. And if you do create a vision board, I want it to be big and place it in a place where you go constantly to, so that way you know what you're focusing on and it also helps you see it outside of yourself so you can start believing that it will come true.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 3:31

The second step is to refocus your mindset. When I'm talking about mindset, I'm talking about how you perceive the world around you, right? So, depending on your belief system you might believe in God, or you might believe in the universe, or you might believe in science, or you might believe. Whatever you believe in you need to refocus that mindset and make sure that it is positive and that you are asking that that you believe in for help. And when I say help, it doesn't mean that they're going to grant it to you automatically you still have to put the work in but it means that you are redirecting and realigning that with what you believe in, so that way, everybody can be on the same page.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 4:15

Step number three pay selective attention. Now, this is a very, very, very, very important step, and I think that this is where a lot of us kind of tumble and fumble, and it's because we're so used to wanting to pay attention to everything and again bringing it back to YOLO and FOMO. I totally understand, because I do the same thing, but when you pay selective attention, it means that you're purposely putting your attention on the things that matter to you, right? So, for example, for me, this podcast is a priority and what I've learned to do is that I need to make sure that I am paying attention and I'm taking time to work on the podcast and not just leave it for the end, minus the last episode that I did. But so far, what that has allowed me to do is to ensure that I am paying attention to the thing that matters to me, am paying attention to the thing that matters to me, right? Because if I don't pay attention to the things that matter to me or the things that I am striving for, then nothing is going to happen.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 5:20

It's kind of like saying, man, I wish I had a better job. And then people kept sending me job descriptions and job offers and I was like, nah, I want something better, but I didn't read the descriptions and I didn't even give it a chance, I didn't even go to an interview, I didn't do the research to see, hey, what is this job about? That's what I mean. Sometimes we're so focused on the things that we don't want that we don't realize the opportunities that we're missing. But if we pay selective attention, if we were to say again with the example of the job, if we were to say, huh, this is a new job, I've never heard about this, let me read some of it. And then you read about it and you're like, huh, this is something that I could see myself doing. All of a sudden, you're seeing an opportunity in a place that you never thought you would, and that is why paying selective, selective attention is super essential when it comes to manifesting.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 6:23

Step number four be mindful of where your energy is leading you. I'm going to repeat this Be mindful of where your energy is leading you. Now, if we go back to the beginning of the episode, I talked a lot about positive thinking, but I forgot to say positive energy. Positive energy is super, super important when it comes to manifesting and also to living a fuller life. You want to make sure that whatever you're feeling whether it be sadness, anger and any of the other negative energies do not consume your overall aura, slash energy, slash mentality, whatever you want to call it. Why? Because once you give in to those thoughts, it is going to determine where you are putting your energy, your time and your focus in. So that is why I want you to be very careful as to where your energy is leading you.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 7:26

Keep in mind, yes, it's true, we can't always be happy-go-lucky and I'm not claiming that it's going to be easy, because, trust me, it is not but you do need to be mindful of how your energy is and you also need to have a backup plan when that energy is not positive, because you want to make sure that, yes, feel those negative emotions, feel that negative energy, but don't let it consume you, don't let it hold you back, don't let it put you in a place where you cannot get out of it. And in the case that you don't know how to get out of it, that's where you go back to refocusing your mindset. Go back to that thing that you believe in, whether it be God, the universe, science, whatever you believe in and ask for help. Be like, hey God in my case, I believe in God, right, so I would literally phone God and just be like, hey God, your girl is struggling, she needs your help, please. I'm doing the work, I'm putting in the energy, but you know what my energy? Not the best right now. Can you help me clear it? Can you put somebody in my path that will Help me see things differently? Or can you send me a video? Can you send me some kind of sign that I'm heading the right way? Or can you tell me that I'm not doing the right thing? Because, either way, I want to know what I'm doing. You know and this point actually brings us to the fifth and last step, which is you have to put in the work.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 8:58

One of the biggest misconceptions with manifesting is that things are just going to magically happen, and that is not true. Whether it be through prayer, whether it be through wishing, whether it be through just positive thinking, you still need to put in the work. It isn't going to magically happen Like you. Getting an A in that test is not like you're going to wake up one day and have that knowledge. No, you need to put in those hours of studying in order to get it and you getting in that new job. That means you have to do the job search. That means you have to put in the work on working on your interview skills. It needs to be that you're working on how you present yourself. You want a romantic relationship? Okay, it means that you need to put yourself out there. You need to go to coffee shops. You need to go to bookstores, you need to go to places where people are available and that might be able to talk to you and potentially create a connection with you.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 9:56

But for you to simply sit down and expect things to just magically come your way and just come at the snap of a finger wow, how crazy is that. No, no, no, no. You have to put in the work and you have to be consistent with that work and you have to be diligent with that work and, last but not least, you have to be responsible with that work, because if you work on it today and don't work on it tomorrow, or you kind of send my work on it today and tomorrow or you're like you know what, I'm going to let so-and-so work on it for me, you're not going to get it. You're not. And that is the biggest lesson with manifesting is that it is what you put out. There is what you're going to receive. So if you're not putting anything, my dear passenger, you're not going to get anything. Well, my dear passengers, the time has come for the last stop of the day, that is, recap time.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 11:02

Today's episode discuss manifesting, which is the idea that, through the power of belief, we can effectively think a goal into becoming a reality. Now we know that manifesting is about knowing what you want and visualizing it, so that way, you can refocus your mindset and start paying selective attention to the things that actually matter to you. It also means that you are paying attention to where you're putting your energy, because you cannot let your energy become too negative or it might overwhelm you and it might overtake over your whole aspirations and lead you through a different path that you don't want to go to. Last but not least, it also means that you need to put the work in because, unlike many people think, manifesting is not magical. It's simply putting in the work and getting gains from it. So remember, whatever you put in is exactly what you're going to get out of it.

Frances Marie Rivera Pacheco : 11:51

Remember, self-growth is an endless journey towards self-improvement. However, you don't ever have to do it alone. As your tour guide, my goal is to guide you with the best intentions and the best research available. Make sure to follow me on Instagram, facebook and TikTok at the Self-Girl Train Podcast, and to follow my new website, theselfgirltrainpodcastcom. As always, all the resources used today have been added to the episode's description. Well, until the next stop, dear passengers, safe travels. Bye.