Why Your Manifestations Fail and How to Fix It Today

I'm breaking down why most people visualize for two minutes, hope for a miracle, and wonder why nothing changes in their lives. I'm sharing the exact three-step process that pulled me from sleeping on my sister's couch, broke and directionless, to building a thriving business and podcast empire. The secret isn't more visualization or positive thinking. It's about becoming someone who naturally attracts what you want through clarity, elevated emotion, and courageous daily action. I'll show you why your emotional state is your manifestation frequency and how gratitude literally rewires your brain to notice opportunities instead of danger. Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer LifeThe Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life TodayThe Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest LivesThe School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a LegacyIn this episode you will:Discover why manifesting from fear and scarcity only creates more of what you don't want in your lifeTransform your future by learning to feel it before it arrives, using your brain's inability to distinguish between imagination and memoryLearn the four blocks that kill manifestation and how to break through themUnderstand the manifestation formula that ancient texts knew: conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestationMaster the 24-hour challenge that combines crystal-clear vision, gratitude-fueled emotion, and one bold imperfect action to create unstoppable momentumFor more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1864For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Rhonda ByrneDr. Joe DispenzaJim Curtis Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  Most people never manifest what they want. And it's not because they're not trying, but because they're doing it completely backwards. They visualize for two minutes, they hope for a miracle, and then wonder why their life still feels stuck, stressful, or just out of alignment. But manifestation isn't about luck. It's not magic, it's a skill. And when you finally learn how to do it correctly, you become addicted to it. Because it finally starts working for you, and it does feel like magic when it starts to happen. And today I'm breaking down the exact process that changed my life when I felt broke and broke and directionless.

• 0:41Lewis Howes?

  And if you skip this video, you're gonna miss the one shift that flips manifestation from something you wish would happen to something you can create on command. My name is Lewis Howes, and let's go ahead and dive in. The first section is all about why most people fail at manifestation. You can't manifest from confusion. And this is a big thing you need to understand. Most people try to manifest from stress, scarcity, or emotional chaos. And then they blame the universe when nothing changes. But manifestation doesn't respond to anxiety. It responds to alignment. It responds to identity. It responds to who you're being, not just what you're wishing for.

• 1:26Lewis Howes?

  And this is so big, I wish I knew this sooner. When my football career ended, I was at one of the lowest moments in my life. I was injured, I had a surgery, I was broke, I was broken, I was sleeping on my sister's couch, and I was pretending I was gonna be okay. But I wasn't. I wanted success, I wanted this thing in the future that I just didn't know how to hold on to. I wanted purpose, I wanted clarity, but I didn't have any of it. And the reason I was struggling for manifesting is because I was manifesting from fear. The fear of failure, the fear of judgment, the fear of being stuck forever. It was like, I felt like I was suffocating because I didn't know how to get out of this.

• 2:10Lewis Howes?

  A scarce moment in my life. And when you manifest from fear, you simply attract more of that fear. You attract more of what you're thinking about. You draw that closer to you. You see it everywhere because you're thinking fearful thoughts. But when you manifest from scarcity, you attract more lack as well. Nothing changed in my life until I shifted from wanting something to becoming someone. Now, let me repeat this for you. Nothing changed in my life until I shifted from wanting something that I didn't have to becoming someone. And this is where things start to get interesting. That's when manifestation started working.

• 2:53Lewis Howes?

  And the first step that you need to focus on is get crystal clear on what you want. This is everything. If you can't clarify it, you can't create it. If you're just living in scarcity and fear and thinking about all the things that you don't want, how are you going to create what you do want? If you can't clarify, you can't create it. Most people manifest vague wishes. I want more money. I want a better relationship. I want to feel fulfilled. But the universe doesn't respond to blurry signals. It responds to intention and it responds to direction.

• 3:31Speaker 01

  Cause and effect, you know, waiting for your healing to feel gratitude, waiting for your abundance to feel worthy or successful. You know, waiting for your relationship to feel love. You know, the old model of reality of cause and effect. The new model of reality is causing an effect.

• 3:48Lewis Howes?

  Causing an effect.

• 3:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, the moment you feel gratitude, your healing begins.

• 3:52Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 3:52Speaker 01

  The moment you're empowered and you're worthy, you're stepping or generating abundance. You're stepping towards your success. Now, the moment you're in love with yourself and love with life and you see beauty in all things, it's natural that you'll you'll attract an equal. So that's causing an effect, right? And so.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  All you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion. And when you combine that clear intention and elevated emotion, just like when a person is remembering the past and feeling the emotion, if you start holding the intention and you feel the emotion, the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision and you can begin to remember your future.

• 4:30Lewis Howes?

  I love this quote from Dr. Joe Dispenza where he says, "All you need is a clear intention and an elevated emotion." And when you combine that clear intention and elevated emotion, just like when a person is remembering the past and the feeling of that emotion, you start holding on that intention, you feel the emotion, the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember the vision and you can begin to remember your future. When I first heard him say this, it like blew my mind. I was like, remember the future? How do we remember something that hasn't happened yet? A lot of us remember the past and we think about the clear memory of the past.

• 5:11Lewis Howes?

  And then we have this elevated emotion linked and tied to that memory. And when he taught this to me, I was like, wow, it blew my mind. I go, wow. We could visualize a future, imagine a future and create an elevated emotion. We send a signal out into the world and elevate our joy and excitement around that. And then we fuse the memory of a future that hasn't happened yet. That's how you bring it closer to you. People tattooed "remember the future" on their arm after this interview. And it just blew my mind because it's something we as humans, for whatever reason, we hold on to the memories of the past stronger

• 5:54Lewis Howes?

  when they're painful than thinking about a beautiful future that we can create from our imagination and drawing that closer to us. And that's where we need to start things. And when I first wrote down my vision for the School of Greatness, what I've created here, this was over 13 years ago. It wasn't perfect. I wasn't sure exactly like how to make this perfect thing, but it was clear. I was super clear that I wanted to serve people, that I wanted to reach 100 million lives weekly, that I wanted to learn from the best, that I wanted to share my wisdom of what I was learning from these experts, that I wanted to improve and grow every single day. And by getting clear on that, man, year after year, it has grown and impacted the world

• 6:38Lewis Howes?

  in ways that I couldn't even imagine. That clarity became a magnet. It allowed me to book big guests. It allowed me to be in rooms that I thought I shouldn't be in. It allowed me to create opportunities that just fell into my lap. And the more I showed up consistently, opportunities started finding me. I, I didn't have to seek them. They started finding me. So I have a challenge for you. I want you to write this statement right now. You can write this in your phone. You can write it down in a journal, but write this down. In the next 12 months, I am becoming the person who does this. And whatever that does this is for you. I want you to write that thing. I'm becoming the person who speaks on stages.

• 7:23Lewis Howes?

  I'm becoming the person who writes books. I'm becoming the person who does a podcast. I'm becoming a person who is healthy. I'm becoming the person who has beautiful relationships. I'm becoming the person, whatever it is for you, write that down. Write that down because I want you to manifest from identity, not fantasy. And there's a big difference in the two. So the end of step one is to get crystal clear on what you want. Now, step two is another big step in the process. We must feel the future before it arrives. And we talked about this briefly with Dr. Joe Spenza, but here's why this is important.

• 8:06Lewis Howes?

  Your emotional state is your manifestation frequency. You don't manifest what you want. You manifest what you feel. Oh my gosh. Think about this for a second. Think about how you think and feel on a daily basis.

• 8:26Lewis Howes?

  What are your thoughts and what are your feelings like? Are they scarce thinking? Are they stressful thoughts? Are they fearful thoughts? Are you living in self doubt, worry, anxiety, depression? If so, that thinking where you're creating this energy in your thoughts, in your mind, it transmutes in your body. It connects to your heart, it goes into all your cells, and it connects to your body. And you're linking the thought into your physical cells, into your body. And then you're creating life based on that feeling. You're creating life based on the feelings that you manifest daily.

• 9:09Lewis Howes?

  Your emotional state is your manifestation frequency. You don't manifest what you want, what you desire. You manifest what you feel. And this is why it's so important to shift how you think and how you feel, even when you don't feel good.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  You have to believe you have it already.

• 9:30Lewis Howes?

  Uh huh.

• 9:30Speaker 02

  You've just got to. And so that you believe you have it already, it manifests. Simple as that.

• 9:38Lewis Howes?

  If we don't believe that we can have something already.

• 9:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, we have to have it. You've got to have it like your name, like you have your name. You've got to have it like they're your feet and your hands. Like no separation between you and it. You know, if you have something like your, your, your home or the clothes that you're wearing, like there isn't a separation for you about those. They're one with you. That's what it's got to be like, like you already have it. Like I already have that house, I already have that car, I already have that company, I already have that promotion. Yeah, I already have it. I can feel it, I see it in my mind. And that's all you have to do. I think Bob Proctor would say, see it in your mind and hold it in your hand.

• 10:24Lewis Howes?

  That's true.

• 10:25Speaker 02

  Right?

• 10:25Lewis Howes?

  I love what Rhonda just shared here and the quote from Bob Proctor at the end. If you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand. And the big lesson here is this is why gratitude and generosity are the gateway to abundance. Gratitude shifts your energetic state faster than anything else. It literally shifts it when you think about something you're grateful for. It can be the tiniest thing. I'm grateful for the sunshine. I'm grateful for a friend texting me. I'm grateful I woke up today. I'm grateful I can see. I'm grateful I have another experience of this life today. I'm grateful I get a paycheck. I'm grateful, whatever it is. I'm grateful I have food right now. When you think about what you're grateful for,

• 11:11Lewis Howes?

  it's really hard to be angry and grateful at the same time. So gratitude shifts you out of fear, out of stress and into alignment. And the more you repeat it every single moment or every single hour throughout the day, you build the habit of being grateful. And when you build the habit of being grateful, you shift your energetic frequency to allow you to attract more opportunities faster. It opens your heart, it calms your mind, it activates the parts of your brain that notice opportunities instead of danger. And this is a big part of manifestation and being aligned to things that bring you more of what you want. It activates the parts of your brain that notice opportunity instead of danger.

• 11:56Lewis Howes?

  And if you're always looking out for danger, you don't have a clear vision for your life. You don't have clarity. You're not in an open energetic state. Your heart is closed. It's, it's in fight or flight mode. It's in scarcity mode. And there are moments that we need to be discerning. I'm not just saying be lollygagging around all day long without worrying about what's happening around you. We have to be discerning in relationships. We have to be, you know, courageous when we're taking on business opportunities and make sure we're doing the right things and follow the steps and all these different things. I get it. But in general, we need to be thinking about gratitude. We need to be allowing ourselves to expand our, our heart to receive.

• 12:40Lewis Howes?

  Because if we're always closed off, it's going to be very hard to receive what you want. And this gets you into the emotional state where your future finally has somewhere to land. Now, let me say this again. This gets you into the emotional state where your future finally has somewhere to land. Now, let me give you some context here. When I was starting with nothing, sleeping on my sister's couch, broke, no money, living off credit cards, student loan debt, the economy was crashing in 2008, 2009. At first, I didn't do this. I was focused on all the problems I had in my life. Why am I broke? Why am I struggling with these credit cards? Why do I have student loan debt?

• 13:25Lewis Howes?

  Why won't the government just forgive this student loan debt so I don't have to deal with it? Why did this happen to me? Why did I get injured and break my wrist? Why is it taking longer? It's taking six months to get out of a cast. Why is this happening to me? Why did this accident happen to my father? Where he got into a car accident at the same time as well? Why, why, why, why, why? Why all these bad things happening to me? I was focused on scarcity. I was focused on lack. I was focused on upset, anger, frustration, insecurity, self doubt, blame. I was focused on everything else except for gratitude. Everything but gratitude I was focused on. And what did I create? All of that focus on everything that I was not grateful for,

• 14:09Lewis Howes?

  created more energy of things that I wasn't grateful for. More of that elevated feeling that we talked about in section one. I would think about it. I would ruminate on it. I would focus on it. And then I would feel frustrated. I would feel depressed. I would feel the weight of resentment of why is this happening to me? Why did these people do this to me? Why did I struggle? Why, why, why? Instead, the moment everything started to shift was when I said, you know what? I'm going to practice gratitude every morning. I'm just going to wake up and say, you know what? I'm grateful to be alive. I'm gonna find something to be grateful for. I'm grateful for my sister who's giving me a place to sleep for free for a year and a half.

• 14:53Lewis Howes?

  Man, it's a pretty good big sister. I'm grateful for my sister. I'm grateful for my sister giving me food because I couldn't afford food. I didn't, I didn't find gratitude in big things. I was just like, how can I find gratitude in the littlest things throughout the day? And when I started putting my focus and attention on all of these little things. Ah, it's, I was like the Grinch. It was like my heart just like started to get bigger. It's like it doubled and I just got more joy. More gratitude brings more joy, more love. And I started seeing things differently and I started acting differently. And I started engaging with people differently. I started asking questions and being curious about others. Instead of focusing on what was wrong with me or what I was struggling with and putting all this victim

• 15:38Lewis Howes?

  energy and victim frustration on myself. I started looking outward. I started service mindset. I started asking questions, being curious. And that is literally how my business grew by building relationships, by asking questions, by taking action on what I was learning. I was grateful for the couch that I slept on, for the books that I could borrow, for the one person who believed in me, for the mentors who showed up. And that gratitude lifted my state. It helped me think differently. It helped me act differently, believe differently. And when your state changes, your results change as well.

• 16:23Lewis Howes?

  And I have a challenge for you. I want you to take 60 seconds right now, and I want you to feel your future now. Not just think about it or just see it in your mind, but I want you to actually feel it. Your brain doesn't know the difference between imagination and memory. So I want you to use that to your advantage. And what this could look like as part of this exercise. If I'm seeing the future of something I want to create. I want to write a book. I want to be a best seller. I want to speak on stage in front of 10,000 people and get paid a certain amount of money. I want to be in this beautiful relationships. I want to have the, this, this health that I've never had.

• 17:06Lewis Howes?

  Then I want you to see it. And just start imagining for 60 seconds, like I want to be on a big stage to 10,000 people where I get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just imagine what you want. See it. And then I want you to feel it and actually walk yourself through the future. Like a memory of the past where you walk yourself in the past of pain. I want you to walk yourself into the future of purpose. And feel the emotion. You're backstage. You've got your mic in your hand. Or they're miking you up around your ear, around your mouth here with an earpiece. You've got your suit on. You've got a certain outfit on. You're getting excited. You're doing your pre-speech warm-up.

• 17:51Lewis Howes?

  You're talking to people behind the scenes. There's photographers. There's a videographer. They announce your name. You walk out. They open the curtain. You go on stage. The audience erupts. Feel that excitement. Feel that joy. Put yourself in the future of your life that you want to become. That identity of who you're becoming. If you can do that every single day for 60 seconds. And then act on the person you're becoming to create the skillset, to create the relationships, to create the personal brand, the awareness that attracts that. Your life will completely change. Use this challenge to your advantage.

• 18:35Lewis Howes?

  Feel the future before it arrives. In this next section, I want to talk about the third step, which is bold, imperfect action. That is step three. Take one bold, imperfect action every single day. Every single day, take one bold, imperfect action. The universe responds to movement. You cannot sit still and expect a new life. You can't think your way out of fear. You have to move through it. Check this out.

• 19:09Speaker 03

  So it's conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation, which I then read later in ancient texts. That's what the shirt is. C T multiplied by A equals M. Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation. Wow. That's the formula. And you can't get to that formula unless you go through that process. And these ancients knew this a very long time ago. And because they knew this, that reaffirmed in me, I can really create the reality that I want to be a part of. Yes, there will be things to come in blindside you. Yes, there will be things that will sidetrack you. Yes, there will be hurdles to overcome. But those things are all just problems that need to be, need to have, you have to find solutions to those problems. Instead of seeing those things as negative or this thing is attacking, or this is, it's over for me. It's okay, we have a problem.

• 19:54Speaker 03

  Now, how can I be a part of the solution to this problem?

• 19:56Lewis Howes?

  Wow. Conscious thought multiplied by action equals manifestation. That's the formula. You can't just only think about what you want and have clarity on what you want, and then not act to go create the skill set, go create the momentum, go build the relationships. You have got to have courage on a daily basis. And it takes bold action every single day. It takes putting yourself out there and allowing yourself to be rejected by people. People are going to say no to you, and that's okay. It's you showing up consistently. And the universe is going to reward you the more you show up. But if you can't deal with rejection, or you can't deal with embarrassment by other people judging you, then it's going to be hard for you to create what you want.

• 20:40Lewis Howes?

  Cause that's the entry price for creating and attracting all the things in your life. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to put yourself out there. You have to be willing to be misunderstood by people. And unfortunately, sometimes the people closest to you, your spouse, your partner, your parents, your siblings, your friends, teachers.

• 21:04Lewis Howes?

  People may misunderstand your vision, but your vision is not their life. And you have to be willing to focus on what you want. And their opinions of you are not your business. So don't allow them to hold you back from going with what you want. Now, a story for me to share with you right now is that the day my life changed. It wasn't the day that I had a clear vision. Because I wrote down my vision for different things I wanted. I would frame the vision. I would put it on the wall. I would actually put the date of when I wanted to accomplish these visions by. And I would have those on my wall and I would look at them every day.

• 21:46Lewis Howes?

  Now, that was part of the action step was getting clear on what I wanted. But it's not just gonna happen if I don't take bold action. The day my life changed was the day that I started to take massive, massive courageous, bold, imperfect action. Messy action. I mean, this is like sloppy, messy, you know, embarrassing action over and over again. But when you take action with courage and you put yourself out there. And some people, they wanna help. They wanna feel useful. They wanna give. They want, whether it's advice or give you an opportunity. And so many people have given me opportunities throughout my seasons of life.

• 22:32Lewis Howes?

  At different stages, they've said, yeah, I'll give you a shot. Yeah, I'll take 10 minutes. Yeah, I'll do the interview with you, even though I have a small time. Whatever it was, people gave me opportunities because I shot my shot. I reached out to mentors. I went to events. I showed up uncomfortable. I would go on Greyhound buses around the country. I would stay in hostels. I would just find a way to meet people and put myself out there. I would make uncomfortable calls. I would post cringe-worthy videos online. But I showed up before I felt ready. If I didn't show up before I felt ready, I wouldn't have never have gotten anything because I still don't feel fully ready. And that's the secret is showing up before you feel ready.

• 23:16Lewis Howes?

  When you do that, you become more ready over time. And imperfect action creates momentum and momentum creates opportunities. That's the game changer. So I got a challenge for you. I want you to ask yourself, what is one courageous step my future self would take today? If you had all the courage in the world, if you were you five, 10 years away with all the infinite wisdom that you're going to gain over the next five to 10 years in your life, if you could step into the future and tap into this, this memory bank as an artifact that you create over the next five to 10 years of memories and new skills and new wisdom.

• 23:58Lewis Howes?

  And you said, what would my five to 10 year future year self do? What actions would they take? What calls would they make? How would they show up? What skills would they learn to get me to my future self? Ask yourself, what is that one courageous step that my future self would take today? And you've got to do that every single day. You can't just do it once. You've got to do it consistently. I want you to send the message to whoever you need to send it to right now. I want you to apply for the job. I want you to start the project, sign up for the program, have the conversation, whatever it is that you need to do. I want you to have that bold action right now. Do it right now.

• 24:40Lewis Howes?

  Text the person, call the person, start the thing, write the email, whatever it is, do it right now. Because bold action is the bridge between intention and manifestation. And man, this is a game changer. Take one bold imperfect action today. Now this next section is the blocks that sabotage manifestation.

• 25:06Lewis Howes?

  Now that you know the first three steps, here's the number one block that kills manifestation. You ready for it? Are you ready for it? I don't know if you are. But here's the number one block that kills manifestation. You can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Oh, man, this is a good one. You cannot receive what you keep sabotaging in your life. And if you have been someone who has sabotaged anything in your life, then let me know in the comments or send me a message on social media and let me know that you have sabotaged yourself because I know I have in the past. And it has crippled me. It has held me back. No one else has done this to me. I did this to myself.

• 25:51Lewis Howes?

  Because you can't receive what you keep sabotaging. Manifestation is not just about attracting what you want. It's about removing what's blocking you from creating what you want. And here are the biggest blocks. You ready? This is big. I want you to write this down and I want you to reflect on is this something that you've done? If it is, again, take notes, write this down. And also, if you're getting any value out of this, please share this with one friend that you know could increase the quality of their life, that you know has so much potential. Send this to them so they can start unlocking new levels in their life. If you see potential in them, if you see opportunities in them,

• 26:35Lewis Howes?

  but they've been blocking themselves, please send them the link to this episode right now. And here are the biggest blocks. Self doubt disguised as being realistic. Fear disguised as being practical. Staying small so others feel comfortable. People pleasing instead of pursuing your purpose. Oh, man.

• 27:04Lewis Howes?

  Just give me a nod or a sigh or raise your hand virtually if you if you feel that, if you've done any of those things, because for years I kept people in my life who doubted my dreams or who held me back emotionally. And I just kept them. I didn't create the boundaries I needed to create. I didn't have the courageous conversations because I was so afraid of people liking me. I didn't want to offend people. I was an extreme people pleaser. And, you know, it wasn't because these people were bad people. It is because I didn't value myself and I lacked the courage to either let go of their approval or let go of them completely. And proximity is power.

• 27:46Lewis Howes?

  And the day I started surrounding myself with people who lifted me up, who challenged me in an empowering way, and who supported my vision, my manifestations multiplied like crazy. Proximity is power. If you want to create anything in your life, it is about getting clear on the vision that you have. Clear, crystal clear. And if people around you are not supportive of that vision, then in some ways you're sabotaging yourself. Now, it doesn't mean you have to kick everyone out of your life and your family and your friends. That's not what this is about. You know, it's not that black and white. But it is about you being courageous and saying, hey, this is my dream.

• 28:29Lewis Howes?

  This is my goal. This is the vision I have for my life. And I would love for you to be on board with this just by empowering me. Don't don't limit me. Don't say negative things. Don't try to hold me back. But knowing that this is my vision, this is my dream, this is my goal for this season of life. Can you at least support that? Can you at least be behind it and not say negative critical things? That's my request. Can we create an agreement that we are in alignment on that? And whatever your dreams are, I'm going to be in alignment with what you want me to be supporting you as well. Because your environment is either fueling your future or it's anchoring your past. So you need to choose wisely. Who is in your life and what is in your environment?

• 29:16Lewis Howes?

  Now, here is why you become addicted to manifestation in one day. Once you practice clarity, emotional alignment, and bold action, you feel different, you think different, you act different, you become a different person. And you start to see proof all around you. It's like, it's like the matrix. Like, things open up and you're just like a manifesting machine. You see proof, you see evidence of how you can believe in yourself rather than doubt yourself. You see doors opening, people start emailing you opportunities. You just feel like, oh, life is happening in my favor.

• 29:59Lewis Howes?

  Like, I'm just luckier. You just feel luckier. You feel like things are just falling in your lap. But it's because you've done these three things to get you there. You've gotten clear on your vision. You're really taking the actions in a different way. And you're feeling the emotion of that future that you're looking to draw into you. And again, you start to see proof. You start to see micro wins, new connections, creative ideas, aligned opportunities. And the more you see proof, the more your confidence grows. It becomes addictive. Like, you're becoming a new identity. You're literally shedding the old skin of the old identity, which is your thinking and your emotions around thoughts, around beliefs.

• 30:42Lewis Howes?

  You're starting to shed those beliefs, shed that thinking, shed those feelings that are familiar but are not supporting you. Just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's good. Just because you feel stress and anxiety doesn't mean it's helpful. Manifestation becomes addictive because you realize you are not powerless. You are not stuck. You are not waiting for permission from anyone. You realize it because you are the creator, you are the catalyst, you are the author of what comes next in your life. And that is powerful, my friend. That is freedom. It doesn't mean you're gonna get everything you want. It doesn't mean it's always gonna be easy. It doesn't mean everything's gonna be perfect.

• 31:28Lewis Howes?

  It might be some messy seasons, but man. You have incredible power when you realize you are the author of what comes next. And so I want to give you a 24 hour manifestation challenge. That if you could repeat this over and over again, I'm telling you, it is going to unlock everything for you. So here is your 24 hour manifestation challenge. I want you to step one, write a clear vision. And if you're not sure how to do this, The Greatness Mindset, unlock the power of your mind and live your best life today. Is the New York Times bestseller that this is the book that I wish I had 10 years ago, 20 years ago. To help me get clear on writing that clear vision. And how to follow these steps, step by step.

• 32:13Lewis Howes?

  This is the book, go get this book. It's got tons of exercises and examples. It's like a workbook for your dreams coming true. Get The Greatness Mindset right now. And it'll show you a step by step process of how to, step one, create this clear vision for yourself. Step two, feel the future with gratitude. Fuel your soul with gratitude. The more fuel of gratitude you have in your body and your heart and your mind, I'm telling you, you are going to be, you're just going to feel better. Even if nothing better happens to you, even if you don't manifest what you want, you don't create what you want, you're just going to feel better. And people are going to want to be around you. And it's a better life when you feel better.

• 32:56Lewis Howes?

  And step three is to take one bold imperfect action today. On the thing that you've been ruminating on, fearful of, afraid of, thinking about, dreaming about for years, because I know if you're watching this, I just have a sneaky feeling if you're watching this. You've had something inside of you, not for a few weeks, but for a few years that you wanted to take action on. Am I right? Maybe you've wanted to write a book, you've had like this little dream, this little like crazy dream. I want to write a book. Maybe you wanted to speak on stage. Maybe you wanted to launch a side hustle. Maybe you've wanted to ask the person out that you've always had a crush on. Whatever it is, you have chills or goosebumps around something that excites you.

• 33:41Lewis Howes?

  That's your future self screaming at you through the goosebumps saying, please take action today. Please take that step because you're meant to become that thing. If you're feeling it and thinking about it and desiring it, you might just mean to become it. But the longer you wait, the longer time you hesitate, you sabotage, you delay. The more resentment you're going to build up for not the world, but yourself. The more you're going to not trust yourself because you've been afraid of taking bold, courageous actions over and over again. Or maybe you tried to take an action and you got humiliated,

• 34:24Lewis Howes?

  or you got embarrassed, or you failed. But I'm telling you, failure is the key to success. You must fail. You must embrace fail failure and say, I want to fail more because I know failure is feedback. It doesn't mean I'm a failure. It just means there's information, skills, tools, knowledge that I need to learn so that I can be successful. The more you take one bold and perfect action every single day in this 24 hour challenge. You do it over and over again, every 24 hours. The more you're going to learn and it's going to be painful when you make a mistake. And you're saying, oh, now I have wisdom on what not to do. I'm going to do something different and I'm going to keep doing that new thing over and over again until I get the results I want.

• 35:09Lewis Howes?

  Do this challenge and watch how fast things shift in your life. Because manifestation isn't about obsessing over what you want. It's about becoming the person who naturally attracts it.

• 35:24Lewis Howes?

  That's power. That's freedom. That's calm. That's peaceful. And I want that for you. I want you to feel emotionally free. I want you to feel light in the way you think. I want you to attract what you want, but it's going to take you taking these three steps over and over again. And expanding your mind with a level of thinking that is grateful for what you have. Even if you have nothing, even if you feel like you've been beaten down emotionally, physically, financially, relationally, whatever has gone in your life. I remember the time on my sister's couch for a year and a half. It was not fun.

• 36:07Lewis Howes?

  It was a struggle. I felt depressed. I felt worried. I had no clarity of how I was going to make any money or get off my sister's couch. It suffocated me psychologically and it was so hard to think about anything I was grateful for. And it felt so much like I was just had to hit rock bottom every day over and over again and feel this pain. Until one day I made a decision. I said, Louis, no longer I'm going to sit here and suffering. I don't like this situation. I don't enjoy this. This is not the situation I want to be in. But I need to find something I'm grateful for. And that was when everything started to shift. Once I started with gratitude and I started appreciating what I had.

• 36:51Lewis Howes?

  Appreciating the experiences, even appreciating the pain. And saying, there must be a greater lesson. Thank you for giving me this lesson. I don't know what it is yet, but I'm grateful for this experience because one day it's going to make sense. Appreciating the unknown. When you start to live your life in gratitude and generosity. That becomes the gateway to abundance. Again, when you start to live your life with gratitude and generosity, that is the gateway to abundance. I want you to apply this, take action on this, and become the person who naturally starts to attract what you want in your life. My name is Lewis Howes, and I want to remind you, if no one has told you lately,

• 37:35Lewis Howes?

  that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad-free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well. Let me know what you enjoyed about this episode in that review. I really love hearing feedback from you, and it helps us figure out how we can support and serve you moving forward. And I want to remind you, if no one has told you lately,

• 38:20Lewis Howes?

  that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And now it's time to go out there and do something great.