Hiya Visionary,
Recently, we talked about dreams (aka passions, visions, desires). I walked you through how to manifest what matters most to you. Lots of folks flipped for this blog, if you didn’t read it you can check it out here.
Today I’m sharing a real-life example of how dream planning works. And while I have many personal experiences with bringing my dreams to reality, I’m excited to share someone else’s story. She means the world to me, is a huge part of my life and I think anyone can relate to her journey—at least the beginning of it—the action part is up to you, dear one.
It’s better if she tells it herself… take it away Corinne!
Thanks, KC!
Eight years ago, I realized I’d been living someone else’s life. My first step to figuring out my own path was to quit my job and head to an ashram for a month. I spent the following year freelance writing and teaching yoga, but something still didn’t feel right about my career path. Something was missing.
I want to pause here and say that making these changes wasn’t easy. I left behind a dependable job with benefits. I took on a large chunk of financial debt to take a hiatus from working and pay for yoga training. I had student loans and a mortgage to pay. And almost everyone in my life thought I was insane (I was the responsible one, not someone who would go on an Eat-Pray-Love journey). But the alternative for me was a life of boredom and regret. So, I chose to take a chance and have faith instead.
Now that doesn’t mean you need to walk away from your full-time job like I did. You can certainly work on your dreams in your spare time. Sara Blakely is a perfect example of that. She built her dream business, Spanx, while selling fax machines by day and working on her idea by night! The point is that when what you do doesn’t align with who you want to be, there are other options out there for you.
OK, let’s get back to what happened next. One night, I returned home from teaching yoga and caught the end of Kris’ documentary film, Crazy Sexy Cancer on TLC. Instantly, a light turned on inside me. I resonated with her message so much that I turned to my husband and said, “I’m going to work for that woman someday.” Kris and her mission were my missing piece.
What follows are the main keys to my manifesting success: my vision board, affirmations and taking action.
Creating my vision board
Over the next few weeks, I scoured the internet for everything Kris had written, bought a juicer, gave my diet a plant-based makeover, and started thinking more about prevention, animal welfare and self-care. I also became an avid follower of Kris’ blog and started posting comments and interacting with her community. Lots of people were talking about vision boards at the time, so I decided to give one a try.
I tore through magazines with scissors in one hand and a glue stick in the other. I pulled out every image that would help me piece together my hopes for the future and pasted them on a piece of poster board—a garden, Oprah, a yoga mat, the home of my dreams. And you know who was in the center of that vision board? Kris, of course. I posted the vision board where I’d see it everyday so that the imagery would stay fresh in my mind.
Saying affirmations
I also began reciting daily affirmations. Each day I would say “I am happy and grateful to invest in my personal health on a daily basis and that I have a career in wellness working for Kris Carr.” I said this in the car, on my meditation cushion, in the shower, before I went to bed and any other time I had the chance to focus for a few seconds on my dream.
Taking action
I had also started a blog and would often write about the many ways Kris had inspired me. One day I checked on a post only to find that Kris had commented! I jumped around the room, yelled downstairs to my husband, printed out the comment and stuck it on my vision board. “Maybe this really works,” I thought.
As soon as Kris’ online community launched, I started thinking about ways that Kris’ mission could grow. Finally, I decided to send her a message and tell her about my ideas. I pressed send and waited. Minutes later, she messaged me back telling me to call her. I couldn’t believe it! Before I could get nervous, I dialed her number. We hit it off over the phone and a few days later she asked me to meet her in NYC to brainstorm in person.
The whole time I had no idea where this adventure would take me. I was flying by the seat of my pants with zero insurance that things would work out, but I knew that it felt right in my heart. Over the next few months, I got to know Kris and her husband Brian. We turned out to be a pretty rockin’ team. I started as a volunteer and over the past eight years I’ve grown in ways I never imagined possible. Today, rather than sitting in a cubicle wondering if things could be different, I’m the Vice President of Crazy Sexy Wellness (Kris’ business) and still pinching myself.
Small steps can lead to very big things.
And lastly, thanks, Kris and Brian. For taking me along on this crazy, wonderful, fulfilling, business-building ride. Back to you, KC!”
Is she incredible or what? Corinne is like a sister, mother, daughter, family to me and I’m blessed that she manifested her way into my life. The truth is, I was manifesting her too.
Your turn: Share your manifesting story—they are SO inspiring. And if you don’t have one, start manifesting your dreams today by daring to declare one thing you want in the comments below. Let the manifesting begin!
Peace & vision boards,
Excellent article & a good read. Thanks for sharing!
This is so powerful. Congrats to Corinne! 🙂
I manifested many things and im grateful for that. Im now manifesting my beautiful relationship with My Yasunobu Kuboki ?❤️ Growing stronger and sweeter. Im sooo grateful to have him in my life ❤️
I declare that I am not giving up mon my vision, on my dream. I declare that I choose faith and most importantly I chose to trust and believe in my soul’s voice, what it is saying to me. I have found my husband to be, the father of my child ( dren) my life partner, the one I want to ride this crazy beautiful roller coaster ride of life with. Even though we are not physically or intimately together right this moment, I still choose my soul’s voice telling me to not give up because it is him! I want to be the poster child for even when a situation seems hard to achieve, everything is possible to achieve when you listen to what your soul is telling you! Cheers to believing, having faith and not giving up on your soul’s purpose and your vision you have for your happiness
You are a Grande Donna Kris Carr!!! I love, adore, admire and respect your soulfulness, freshness and vitality!! It would be awesome to join forces on a project, I am a Movement and Dance teacher and dancer in Tuscany, a huge hell yes and warmest hug from Italy!!
To live compassion
Love this website! Thank You for sharing so many health minded topics. Manifestation is a product of intention. Thankfully we are all born with, heaven on earth potential . To choose, which becomes a positive powerful tool or enemy, if used ignorantly against, oneself. Namaste
Thrive.
I want to thrive. I was diagnosed with breast cancer June 28, 2016 (my birthday). 16 rounds of chemo, four surgeries, 10,000 tears (some of joy, some despair and fear), 120 life lessons, 4 kimonos and 6 tubes of lip gloss later, I’m JUST BEGINNING to explore what I’ve intuitively known but never heard – that “our biography becomes our biology”. I do not believe I went through this past year to do the same ole Stace shuffle, falling in a marching line with a huge bubble of longing to just be who I am, peel off my armor, unzip my skin and give what I was made for to the world.
Thrive
Powerful story. Thankyou for sharing this. I initially came across your picture in a Prevention magazine, Kris. I didn’t know who you were but tacked your picture on a vision board of mine where you were cross legged meditating. Now, probably 2-3 years later, I watched your talk on Super Soul Sunday. I have a progressive neuromuscular condition, which does not have a diagnosis as of yet. I’ve been through a lot of testing but unfortunately no answers yet. Something I’ve been enjoying lately is cheering others on over social media who have health issues, I don’t know any of them personally but I feel it’s my calling to pray for them and write comments and blessings for them on their Instagram page. My manifestation declaration today is to work towards an easy and full healing of my body. I desire that my body grows stronger everyday and returns to the abundant level of health and beauty, long hair, style that I had in 2011. I desire that my family unit continues to remain happy and strong. I desire that I create a career where I can pray for those in need and send little cards in the mail to cheer others on. I desire an easy life where I am happy and kind and not comparing myself to anyone. I desire to eat a broad variety of yummy foods and taste them all. I desire to feel beautiful and intelligent.
Nice story girls, since it did bring u together, I know about building boards and planing goals, using action each day , making foot prints leading to my goal, but was is my goal, I guess it’s be and emulate love, I know it sounds like my obstacles is loving my self, I know all to well that happy thoughts lead to a happy life, when I read your email I do get warmth,love,joy, a release of tears, but I still haven’t made any foot prints, am i forcing, if it was faith i would know it’s coming, but all i see is blankness, maybe I’m not lining up with source, sorry for rambling, sending u brian, Corrine & rest of your business family all my love Jeremy Michael Tobias
I truly needed to read this post just now. I feel imprisoned in my current soul-depleting job – (a secretary) and I know that I must break free or it will break me. What I want to manifest is a successful wellness career. I am a licensed massage therapist, a certified herbalist, and a certified nurse assistant. I am a certified herbalist and I study Naturopathy. I am vegan and wish to incorporate health coaching with my clients; learning new tricks through Kris’ writings. In March, I intend to begin to train to be a Holy Yoga instructor…which should come into full fruition & certification in November 2017. I sometimes feel like I am trying to make myself bullet-proof before I step out = scared to death of failing.
Wow – this is EXACTLY what I needed to read today. I was just simply looking to Kris’s green juice and got off track with her abundance articles somehow…. obviously the Universe wanted me to see this. Thank you thank you to this article and all the comments I read through. I know it’s going to be okay.
I’d like to manifest HEALTH in my life.
I had a cancer in my leg when I was ten years old. I received chemotherapy for a year and had an operation to “take off” the tumor in my bone and the “around”: some muscles, and stuff (I’m not very technical hahaha) Fortunately it saved my life and my leg and I never had any relapse. However, to keep my leg going… I had almost 14 operations in the last 10 years. That means a huge part of my life in hospitals, and so many agressions to my body (the anesthesia, transfusions, antibiotics…). It left my body completely destroyed, exhausted and full of pain.
The traditional medicine saved my leg and my life but couldn’t do anything to help my body getting recovered of all these agressions. So I moved on to all kind of natural remedies, tried so many different diets, supplements, complements… I should recognize it helped me a lot and the pain was every time more bearable. However it wasn’t enough so my journey continues! I tried natural therapies such as acupuncture, aphitherapy and bioresoncance…). Day by day I felt a bit better. But after some years the quick changes I felt at the beginning where now very slow moving. So being honest to myself (even though my ego didn’t want to) if I was pretending to continue this way I would get recovered (with a bit of lucky) at the age of 60!!!
This was so miserable! Sooooo don’t know why I get to a therapist to help me assume the situation I was living and surprisingly for myself I had very strong headaches at this time, everything I ate made me feel bad, the pains, etc… but after some sessions (remembering so many emotions and memories that were kept in key for a long time) some of my headaches were getting better and even the pain all over my body continues disappearing a bit (also family constellations, hypnosis and EMDR) So now I’m focusing on the power of mind over body and see what’s happening… (I’ll cross my fingers XD and focus on a picture of myself strong, healthy and beauty!) xxx
Thank you, allowing myself to open these links today have been just what I need to gently bring me back on track. I am moving forward one step at a time toward my goals, the everyday bumps in the road sometimes knock me around a little too much but I am not allowing it to separate me from what I want. I’m grateful I have another day to best the best person I can be, to allow my self to be open to all the abundance live has to offer. ~EC
It is funny how thing happen to lead you to a new way of doing things.I left my job of 33 years 4.5 years ago after having my kidney function get very low( was born with left kidney only).I didnt feel the Dr’s were doing the right thing for me I change to and alkaline diet.Than found Dr Bradley nelson emotion code.I got onto a lady in Australia that does it she helped my kidney than I said need to help my grandson( who had been in a domestic violent relationship alone with my daughter)The lady that fixed me said I should do the course which I did.I also have a mate that is a Hypnotherapist and I ended up doing a lot with him and learnt a lot more a lot faster.It has been an amazing journey since I finished course nov 2014.How we can control so much in our own health by what we say do and think. Biggest problem is a lot dont understand that there thoughts are the biggest problem to them
Thank you for this. Shortly after starting to read this post, I stopped and just sobbed. I have recently traveled back from New Zealand after finding my partner of five years cheating. Left everything behind, including my dog and have struggled emotionally and financially through the past year. There was a point when I was living in my car (out of choice) — searching desperately for a purpose and new life. That was six months ago. I’ve relocated and found a great job that is now being affected by a literal overnight bout of RA (I think?!). Incredibly upsetting as I’ve always been very active and led a healthy lifestyle. So my tears were out of frustration and pain but also out of love for people like you that inspire us to keep on going.
On a side note…a co-worker approached me the other day saying “I know who you remind me of, it’s been driving me crazy! Do you know Kris Carr?” Unfortunately I didn’t up to that point but she begged me to check you out. So here I am. Nice to meet you 🙂
Such a great story!! Thank you so much for sharing. It is so encouraging to hear this, just what I needed today! Thank you for the reminder to trust and take action on small hunches.
I am just getting starting on a new career, which is a series of leaps of faith. Thank you for the encouragement and reminder to keep going!
I applied similar principles after a major loss and my life has made huge positive changes. Hope my blog encourages others like yours has Kris and Corinne! So thankful for the message to keep going!
Much Respect and Love,
Erika
I want to have both feet here, on the planet, with mountains of love and acceptance for myself. I want there to be so much authentic, genuine light in me that there is no room for shame or suicidal thougjts to even form in my mind.
I’m glad that you mentioned taking action. Most people that Ito manifest their own reality believe that all they have to do is think positive thoughts and their desires will just magically fall out of the sky. When it doesn’t happen like that they give up. It takes a lot of practice to tune your frequency to the frequency of your desire but then you also have to position yourself to receive that desire by taking action.
What an inspiring story – love it! 🙂
Hi Corinne and Kris,
Your synchronistic experience is inspiring and I appreciate you sharing it.
Yet, I remain terrified to begin such an adventure because I can’t get a clear picture of what I really want!
I am a teacher, which used to be an awesome gig, but as I age, parents parent less, and the reverence of an honorable profession decreases day by day, I have lost my connection and commitment to being an educator.
So I ask myself, now what? I am also a licensed nutritionist but again, feel like my voice is only a whisper because so many people are in denial that they are, in fact, the only person in control of their own health and wellness, not the dr. prescribing the meds which will only mask any symptoms and cover the doc’s own bottom.
Nevertheless, I am at the beginning stages of attempting to “do the work” of finding my right path and appreciate any encouraging success stories. Thanks for yours, somehow I’m sure it is serendipitous and will bring me just what I need to continue my journey. I’m off now to read the section on myths and finding one’s purpose…
Juice on,
Robin
So beautiful story. I will make my own visión board today!!!! Thank you for sharing ???
Kris – So glad I found you! I’ve been a healthy eater for the most part since living on my own but it’s been a journey. My website is below and if you have a quick second to read the “about” page, you’ll understand quickly that things railroad your great health – jobs changing, divorce, moving, etc.. But for the most part I’m lucky to be healthy. My partner, though, recently ended up in the hospital twice in one week and basically, he works too much (70+ hours a week), sleeps too little and the doctor said he was burning both ends and the bottom fell out. So naturally I’m on a quest to FIND ANSWERS!!! (that was a booming Morgan Freeman like voice, obviously) I was getting the newsletters and (of course) signed up for the wellness seminar where I’ve “seen” you and today it was a lot of you. Thank you for that, by the way. For being real and vulnerable. It’s the most difficult part of my writing for over 4 years now.
On another front, I’ve been on a quest (off and on for a couple of years) to find my passion and do my thing and be happy, etc… I love vision boards and use them. But still sometimes there’s that STUCK point. I know I love to write (writing a book currently), I know I love public speaking (did lots of it at my last job but it still wasn’t entirely for ME), I love health and fitness and coaching but it’s tough to figure out the who, what, where, when and how of life. And make money so I don’t have to work at someone else’s dream. So there (Whew!). I’d love any input and look forward to following you!! (I hope that sounds just a tad creepy, stalker-ish because that’s what following someone feels like, but in a good happy way!)
Oh this is such a great story! I love hearing about meetings like this that were meant to be.
I totally believe that we can make our dreams come true. I do not know EXACTLY what forces conspire to set us on our path but I do know that they exist because I’ve seen them work their magic before my very eyes.
Life is all about priorities and knowing what to place in the top few spots is a key ingredient to living in alignment with your values. Mine top 3 are Love, Adventure and Creativity. In my 20’s I decided to follow Adventure first, and moved to the west coast mountains where I could be outside exploring every day. Although I had a super fun life, Love and Creativity were not quite where I wanted them to be, so I started dreaming about what my ideal life would look like. I didn’t know that this was called manifesting at the time, but I had a clear vision, an open heart, and wrote down my dream scenario which I tucked into a tiny little wooden box. I thought about that scenario every single day: being outside playing in the mountains, living in a little cabin with a black dog + a mountain man, and doing creative work.
I knew that I wouldn’t be able to find the type of work I wanted to do in my ski town, yet I couldn’t bring myself to move to a big city and leave my life of adventure behind. This is when I knew that I had to invent my own job. That was 7 years ago, and I’ve been running my design + illustration business ever since, working remotely from – yep you guessed it – a cabin in the woods.
I found the little notes I had scribbled down in their wooden box recently, as I’d forgotten all about them, and it was almost eery how many of the details had come true. Eery in a good way, obviously!! I have my ups and downs, but I can say for sure that I am living the life I’ve always wanted. 4 years ago I met the mountain man I had imagined, who arrived with the black dog I had also imagined. I work from 7AM-2PM and go out to ski, bike or climb mountains every day.. not your typical work life, but it’s exactly the right one for me.
Like I said, I don’t know exactly how this all works, but this is for sure: Dreams do come true.
xo Emily
Stand for YOUR values and what YOU believe in, not what somebody elses values are or what they believe such as “animal welfare”, etc. I stand for the core values my Mother instilled within me, and that speaks volumes for who I am. I am a leader and not a passive follower. Good Luck and God bless your success!
I love this story Corrine and Kris. It’s a great story about manifesting what you want and taking action to make it happen. It is also a great post to share how to get noticed while not stalking someone. Thank you for sharing this. I wish you both so much abundance and traction for your movement. xo
I’m in the process of starting my business and this is so inspirational and so very important. I’m going to focus even more of my energy inwards and trust that everything is going to work out the way it is supposed to.
Love and unicorns to both of you!
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So thrilled for you! Keep it up. xo, kc
Wow! This really proves that it is worth going that extra mile, and not let yourself be stopped by that thought of you ‘being too much’. What I mean is I have avoided sending people I am inspired by emails, contacting companies again from which I have been rejected for a position previously, engaging in their communities at times even because I felt I already taken up too much space there, and believing in that gut feeling that can just sound insane when you say it out load the first time…
This really says to me – go for it! Trust that gut feeling – big things definitely are awaiting! I am gonna shape up my blog once and for all, build my portfolio, apply for those UX design jobs I dream about and make that graphic novel once and for all!
Thank you for this post. It’s the perfect time for me to read it. I am busy starting a new project and I am so into it and I want it to work out so badly, but at the same time I keep thinking that it could be a waste of time. I am currently working on this project in my spare time, and I sometimes I feel like a crazy person spending so much of my free time on this without any results yet. But I know that I need to follow my dreams because I’ll never be content if I don’t. Thank you for sharing this story, you’ve helped me to realize that my dreams can come true, I just need to keep working towards them and never give up! <3
Kris,
A little over 5 years ago I was in a very unhappy place in my life. I finally had enough and left an unhappy marriage, went to culinary school and left my miserable job working for a miserable boss after 15 years to scoop ice cream and work part-time in a local bakery (with 2 kids to support). Finding the courage to do those things opened up a whole new world for me. This past summer, I left my full-time bakery job to start my own residential bakery. Business has been slow to grow but I do have some repeat customers and have had nothing but positive feedback from the people who have bought from me. Just last month, I began a new, online business as a social media manager for the sustainable travel and tourism industry. I love to travel and I love animals and the environment! My mission is to earn money by promoting those companies that strive to be sustainable and give back to their local communities. In return I want to donate some of my profits to different conservation and wildlife organizations. This is the business that will make me location independent so that I can travel and see the places and animals that I strive to save for future generations. I am just getting started and it’s tough and slow-going but I KNOW I am meant to do this, to make a difference in this world. I am not here to just slave away for shit money, pay bills and die!
Amazing! Love your story. Thanks for sharing.
This all sounds right to me, but what do I do, if I know I want something more, but I don’t know what it is?
My recommendation would be to stay open and focus on the intention to figure it out over time–journal, make a vision board, do more things that inspire you, surround yourself with more positive people, and give it time. The answers will find you!
I manifest a wellness similar to yours, that is also unique to me. 🙂
I have a really hard time with manifesting as a practice. I feel like I have had a rocky road in life so far, and that most frequently things are quite difficult. If it’s not family, it’s money, if not those two things then it is physical pain, if not that then something else. Or even worse but very true, all of these things going on at once.
So when I try to set my mind to manifesting, my pessimism is just endless. For example, if I want to think about having the most ideal home for my family, but then I think “well nothing has ever been ideal so let’s be realistic and not ask for much”. I feel like the purpose of the manifesting is to call into your life what you truly want and need, and to really set your sights on the big dreams in your life. But I am convinced that it is not in the stars for me to have those things that I truly want and need. Does anyone else feel this way?
I feel ya, maybe go easier, like manifesting feelings of peace/love more often, and try EFT/tapping on those beliefs of: it can’t ever happen, I don’t deserve it, it hasn’t happened so far. Our primal brain is naturally tending towards negativity, especially when we haven’t had those wonderful experiences we hope for. Tapping, journaling, therapy, exercise, etc. can help. Also, I was saying just this this morning in a reiki/eft circle that we tend to kinda play it safe if we don’t get our hopes up, we won’t be disappointed, but if we get our hopes up and we get disappointed, so what? At least you had times where your hopes were up, and if something great happens then hey you win! What’s the worst that can happen if you hope for the best? You get disappointed, nothing happens, well nothing’s happening and you feel disappointed already anyway, so might as well try and hope 😉 Not saying it’s easy, that’s why having a practice is important, but even a li’l willingness to just be a li’l open to it may let more light/love in. Also you can be daring, hey Universe show me! I’m losing hope here, I’m starting to believe it’s not in the cards for me, I need you to show me how… regain or create my trust in you and myself! Help me create these magical lives people on this site speak of. And just see what happens. Maybe nothing will, maybe something will, either way, you put it out there, and that’s powerful. You are powerful, even when you don’t believe it. We all are 😉
Manifestation does work! Years ago I was living the dream in Hawaii with my husband, just did not love my job. We’d always wanted to adopt and started learning about the process but it seemed like a whole lot of work so we put it off ‘until we own a house’. I wasn’t worried about it happening, I knew the right child in need of a loving home would find us. In the meantime I’d made a list of all of the things I wanted in a home – an herb garden, a vegetable garden, certain plants I would have, an Asian meditation garden, etc. Out of the blue my sister-in-law in California calls and says our baby is being born and we need to get paperwork to the hospital ASAP or the baby will go to the county. WHAT?! So we call every lawyer in the phone book, only one answers, and we make the quickest appointment we can. Within three hours we were faxing a stack of documents 18″ high to the hospital, and on our drive home from the lawyer’s office we get the call ‘IT’S A BOY!!!’ Truly a miracle how it happened. Fast forward to today, we moved back to California, I have a rewarding job I love, our son is eight and thriving, and we have gardens galore, every single thing I’d put on my list!! We eat (and juice!:) fresh veggies from our garden daily year-round, it is my absolute zen, especially sharing it with my family. I could not have made a child more perfectly suited for us if I tried, he is the love of our lives!! Wishing you manifestation bliss!! 🙂
Wow! That’s awesome!! 🙂 It resonated with me, in that I am living what was once only a dream, but we are always expanding, and a little restlessness isn’t a bad thing, to want more to create more, so we can be even happier! Thanks for posting this! 🙂
So powerful! I have been working toward similar things myself. In September 2014, I gave birth to my daughter, the light of my life, and with a well of emotions hitting me, I made the decision to quit my job. I had been prepping for it because I knew, if I was going to have to leave my baby and go to work, I sure as hell wasn’t going to go to a place that brought me nothing but anxiety, depression, and a copious amount of self-doubt. I had little support from certain key family members because it made no “logical” sense to the outside world. I had no idea what I was going to do, I mean, I had gotten my real estate license while I was 8mo pregnant (most stressful time of my life!) so that I had something I could show to my family as income and that I wasn’t completely insane. But I knew all along it wasn’t what I actually wanted to do. But when my daughter went to daycare, and I had the time to myself, I would work on what I wanted to manifest. THEN the absolutely amazing Kris introduced me to Marie, and B School and holy guacamole, I was instantly smitten. Then Marie introduced me to Danielle, and this became my power trio of ladies. My inspiration. The 3 women who constantly remind me to keep going, dig deeper, live soulfully and be true to myself. I did B-School 3 times during the course of 2015, because I would get halfway through an idea and it still wasn’t exactly what felt right. Then in August of 2015, it clicked and I launched my company, The Deep Green Shop. Still figuring it all out, but everything feels so right, I can’t even describe it. I haven’t felt this way in so long, it’s amazing to be doing this. I will be doing B School again this year to keep my business up to speed and generate new ideas for it! By the end of 2016, I hope to have transitioned to working The Deep Green Shop full time! THANK YOU KRIS. For EVERYTHING you do.
Such an inspirational story today. Corinne’s story is just great. Focus, hard work, determination and belief. Its a keeper to re-read on a bad day when dreams feel drowned. Thanks for sharing. And what a great job Corinne!
Thanks, Michele! Best to you.
I am working on manifesting health, happiness and a satisfying work life for myself. I have been very unwell the last few years and over the last year and a half have been working very hard on my mental/emotional/spiritual space. I recently made two vision boards, one next to my mirror and one next to my bed. I also do affirmations each day and use visualisations daily – I visualize my self well and whole and doing what I love. As part of this changing my life, I have come to learn that my current job is really not the big picture for me. I have felt for a long time, and felt it much more strongly since I have been tuning into my deeper self, that there is something much bigger for me. I have realized that my intellectual job does not allow for the creativity that my true self desires and needs to express. I have come to learn that I have been trying to fit myself into the box of what I thought I should be but have learnt that what I truly am is something quite different. My true self wants to write – to write my story, to write cookbooks, to create tools for people who are wanting to improve their health. So, that is what I am working on manifesting for myself – a healthy body and a life where I am happy and successful and doing what my heart and spirit REALLY want to be doing. Thanks for your encouraging blog today. Love it.
Your courage is strong and beautiful to go for your dreams while not feeling well! It takes so much grace to be able to find that place in ourselves that keeps on going and believing! My Illness experience as been very long but I still continue to do my Healing work with people, I play my flute and drum to help others heal, It strange being a Healer that is not well sometime, it is very humbling!! I know you will keep moving forward and being surrounded by love and your dreams and visions. Seeing wellness!
Amanda Christan
Blue Sky Woman
Hey Kris! You are awesome as usual! You rock too Corinne! Just gotta say I know there’s more for me out there, but I need to know what the heck to put on my vision board in the first place! I could put Kris Carr, sure, and Deepak Chopra and Marie Forleo and Dr. John Douillard. As much as I adore these fab humans, what does that mean I should be doing? I love yoga, singing, I am a graduate of IIN and lover of all things natural and spiritual. When I try to focus, my possibilities while numerous look like berries in a blender! Help me you gorgeous guru you! Peace & Love, Christine
Put everything on your board that resonates with your gut feelings! Things may not be clear now, but they will over time. I didn’t have a clear plan when I created my vision board, but I knew what felt good in my heart. When I look back at my vision board now, it all makes sense.
I have thought a lot over the years of returning to school to get my Batchelor’s degree and I went to a conference last week that finally cemented that I really want to do this. I have already applied to a college that caters to women, requested my transcript, filled out a FASFA, when I thought I was done with that since my youngest is now in her senior year in college. I am in the process of looking for grants, scholarships and any form of tuition assistance. I work in a school and am putting together a proposal to ask them to help me also! I really want this to happen and affirm it daily!
this is exactly what I needed right now. Thanks for being an inspiration
What to you do when you know there is something else you were meant to do, but I have no idea what that is?
Hi Jacqueline,
There’s a great program/course from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. It’s not just for artists but for anyone wanting to live a more creative life. One of the key tools of the program are Morning Pages (3 pages stream of consciousness you write first thing in the morning) – you’d be surprised to see what all comes out on those pages. The program/course really seems to establish a direct conversation with your inner creative self, and you can learn a lot from it about what it wants to create in the world. I highly recommend going through the program if you feel in any way blocked/unclear.
hope this helps xx
I have this book as and I need to revisit it!!
What I want to manifest has eluded me for a long time. And it seems silly to write about because there are bigger and I guess more important things that I could be manifesting but I’ve never experienced this before, so I guess that’s why it’s always on my mind: I want to manifest a meaningful, loving relationship with a caring, emotionally available man. That’s what I want.
I read this (and so many similar stories ) and sat at my table, alone, and cried!! Then binge ate-out of sadness–and then cried some more!! I love this story and resonate with it 100 percent. I am not doing the work I dream about. I feel, however, that I must stay where I am because my family depends on my share of the income. I make good money teaching and on 7 years away from a pension. Yet I sit here and cry (has become my pattern… for years and tears) bec as use I wish I’d gone into a different field…. health care, massage school, the arts, art therapy…..something along those lines. Well… I feel better just getting that out. I’m done crying now.
Sometimes the path we’re on is just right for us Lisa, even if it might not seem so, key might just be in surrendering and trusting that the Universe has our back (and we can back off trying to control it all. — Easier said than done though, I know!!).
I also believe it’s never too late to commit to a passion, even when retired. There’s quite a large number of acclaimed artists, even business people, that did their best work late in life. Not that you’d need to be publicly acclaimed to enjoy your passion of course.
Take care, sending you lots of love! xxx
Thank you so much Mojca!!! Great words of wisdom!!
I want to create a photo book about women working in male dominating fields. I’ve done the vision board, I’ve journaled, I’ve taken some e-courses about manifesting my dreams. I still think it’s too good to be true sometimes, like I’m just being unrealistic and silly, however the book idea keeps being with me.
“TODAY I MANIFEST THAT I’M STARING MY MASTERS DEGREE IN AUGUST OF 2016 AND THAT BY DOING THAT AND BECOMING AN ORGANIZATIONAL INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGIST I WILL BE ABLE TO HELP MORE PEOPLE BECOME HAPPY EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THEIR LIVES WITH THE WORK THEY ARE DOING AT THE MOMENT.” Kris and Corinne thanks for sharing your amazing stories, they keep us all inspired and with a positive mindset which is the key to be on the right path to success. NEVER STOP. Love, Laura!
I love your affirmation & wish you the very best!! Corinne
I have been dwelling in restlessness for some time now and wondering what it is that I want to manifest. I have my vision board and always on it is my dream to have a dog, my work with the rescue, my dream of inspiring others, and words like “peace” “love” “carpe diem”…
When I see my true happiness it is being a voice for those who cannot/will not speak, being change, smiling every day. When I picture my dream life I wake up with intention and excitement.
The hard part is knowing what that means…starting my own doggy day care as an extension of the rescue I volunteer for now? Going back to working with kids at-risk? I can’t put my finger on it…
I think what I need to manifest at this time is a vision of what my true happiness looks like., where do I want to be, and where is my true joy…
I am dreaming of a body that feels GOOD!
Thanks so much for sharing your story Corinne. Personally, I have struggled a lot in trying to create the life I want. I’m more successful in this than ever before, but am constantly experiencing the “am I there yet?” feelings … While it is very inspiring to hear about your success, I am wondering if you have any advice for those of us who have less success right out of the gate and are still struggling. There seem to be a lot of stories out there of seemingly overnight wins.
Hi Natalie! Although my story may seem like an overnight success when you read the summary—living it was not as speedy. 🙂 Up until I met Kris I had struggled my whole life to connect with what was missing. I’d even gotten a graduate degree in something I could have cared less about, and yet I was so disconnected with myself I didn’t even know it! Once I met Kris we started a journey together that was inspiring and awesome, but also had the ups and downs that all start-ups experience. What I’m trying to say is that I’ve had doubts, stops, starts, and struggles along the way like everyone else and that having faith in the big picture goal is what’s gotten me where I am today. Also, Kris has taught me that our ultimate purpose is just to be & love ourselves. Passion and dedication to your living is wonderful, but at the end of the day, what matters is being true to yourself. I hope that helps! Corinne
My teen-aged daughter and I manifested her high school! It is a private school with a tuition level far beyond our means. If we could not get her into that school, we were faced with having to move to another city, another thing we could not yet afford to do. This school meant the world to my daughter, who had struggled in several schools she’d been enrolled in, primarily because she’s an artsy free spirit with passions for drawing, writing, theater. This small private high school encourages students to follow their passions.
We decided to put our energy and focus into manifesting her admission to this school and somehow — miraculously — finding the money to pay the tuition. We did energy “experiments” on the power of focus, first picking colors of cars and types of coins. We were playing with a teaching of physics: Whatever you focus on expands. Once we had fun with that we directed our focus on imagining her as a student at that school; I imagined myself walking into the school as a parent of a student. Our language changed; we began talking as though she were already enrolled there. We also practiced letting it all go and leaving it in the hands of the Universe because everything that happens, happens for us and not against us. So whatever happens, we accept.
One day, when she had a holiday off from the school she was then attending, I got her up early and told her, “We’re going to school.” She was in her pajamas and protested that she had the day off from school. I said nothing, just showed her to the car. She got in and we drove off. She kept asking what I was doing. I drove down the street of the private school and pulled into the parking lot. I told her, “Here you are. Hope you have a great day. I’ll pick you up when school is over.” She got emotional. She thought I’d heard from the school that her admission application had been accepted and they were going to give us the money for tuition. But I had heard no such thing; I told her we were signaling the Universe that this is your school. She understood, got out of the car, walked around for a few minutes, and then we drove off. We did a few errands and went back to the private school, she opened the door, got out, came back into the car and started telling me about her day there!
It sounds crazy as heck. But within such a short time, we got surprising news that our income would be doubling (that’s another story), and the school called to say they wanted my daughter to attend and they would cover half of her tuition!
That was over a year ago. She is the happiest at school I have ever seen. She says every day how much she loves it there. She’s finally found a school “home,” with the most amazing group of friends and teachers who “get” her. I’m over the moon.
One key element here: I had to seriously work on changing my deeply held beliefs about lack in order to believe it was possible to afford this school. My parents grew up in the Depression; I grew up believing there was only so much to go around, that the rich are (fill in the negative blanks), and I’ll never have enough of anything good. Those were big blocks until I questioned those thoughts (I’m a big fan of Byron Katie and the Work on this).
Thanks for letting me share this story — I am so grateful for those who have also shared their stories; they inspire me. Thank you!!:-)
Thank you so much for sharing this story! I love what you said about the Universe working for us, not against us. I really needed to hear this today. I SO SO SO love hearing people’s manifesting stories. This is something I’ve not given enough attention to in the past. Your story gives me a lot of hope 🙂
Thanks, Jessica — that’s pretty cool because that is my daughter’s name, Hope:-)
This is so inspiring! Thank you Corinne. I am a health and wellness coach and spirit junkie. I love Kris so much! She has been an inspiration to me for years. I have all of her books and try to always get to her events. I just started working on a new vision board to grow my business. Integrating more spirituality and mindfullness as well. I’m going to keep my eye out for freelance openings as well. You never know….. xoxo
I love this story! Corinne, I can totally relate. Last month I went to Crazy, Sexy Miracles in NYC… (I know Gabby from college and wanted to see her speak)… Kris had me laughing so hard, I cried. I turned to my friend Elaina, and said, “I need to be friends with her! She is amazing.” (Kris, I’m the crazy lady who too afraid to hug you because I wasn’t sure if my natural deodorant was working! Lol!). Kris, you are one of a kind, and so inspiring. Thanks for sharing your story, Corinne!
Thank you for such an inspiring story Corinne. My dream of running a retreat in the mountains in Spain was one step nearer a few days ago and one step back today! You’ve just given me a massive boost to keep my belief and dream going. Anything is possible! :-)) Sat nam X
You are SO welcome! Good luck!
What a great story!!! I love manifesting stories and know I can manifest anything I want in my life. The manifesting part isn’t challenging for me. It’s the “knowing what I want” part that I stumble over!!! I’ve literally spent the last 10 years not having the slightest idea….. I meditate, I contemplate, I throw it in the air and leave it up to a higher power. All the searching )or letting go!) has not yielded anything….so it has kind of left me in limbo. I can’t ever really get excited enough about something for a long enough period of time to call it a “passion”. I jump from one thing to another and after all this time, nothing really speaks to me. I want to do something new, not what everyone else is doing. Anyone else in this weird space????
Erin – just wanted to let you know that yes I also have that ‘but what do I want’ problem. Recently I had some clarity with a realisation of what has consistently caught my attention in the last 10/20 years and I’m attempting to build on that. My problem is I’m up & down, when I’m up I have ideas coming out my ears, but when I’m down I have no idea what I’m doing & doubt everything! Talk about weird space!!
Hey Erin and JB,
I’ve had similar issues for quite a few years. When I’m up, millions of ideas AND I’d like to do them all at the same time (of course not possible!). And when I’m down in the dumps I could just do nothing + feel even worse about it.
I think one reason surely is that I have so many interests and not ONE that clearly stands out. At the same time I could define myself as a ‘perfectionist’ – but the nasty kind that would stop me from even starting (out of fear of whatever I did not being perfect!)! I’ve been hearing about this type of obstacle to progress in life a lot in the past year from various sources (blogs, videos, interviews..) so I figured it must be trying to tell me sth.
To my great delight, recently a message managed to get under my skin a little, finally – that it’s not so much WHAT I do but HOW I do it. In which case, anything I do will be done with my best self at the forefront and that can never be bad!
I’ve gotten it on a rational level before, that it doesn’t matter so much what I do, cause no matter what path I take, with the right attitude I’ll attract what’s best for me in life. But only recently I’ve started to really ‘get it’, it’s gotten visceral. (I credit this new awareness at least in part to the course I’ve been going through from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way – the way to recover your creativity. I’m not an artist btw, the book works for everyone.)
I might still have a down-swing in terms of certainty and doubts about it, I actually almost expect it, but I hope I won’t let it sway me anymore. Cause I’ve had the awareness, and it took a huge burden off my chest. It even helped me find a new enthusiasm for the business I’ve been trying to build/grow for the past few years but several doubts had me veer off-course periodically.
Hope you find what brings you most joy too! Xxx
Hi Erin,
I definitely understand where you’re coming from as well! I consider myself a “multipotentialite”, a term I just discovered from a Ted Talk by Emelie Wapnick I also recommend Elizabeth Gilbert’s SuperSoul Session about this very thing. For so long she was telling people to find their “one passion”, but she was leaving out the people like us who like multiple things/don’t have a single passion. She recommends continue to try things because you may one day discover your passion. I highly recommend both of those talks, and just continue trying new things because you never know what you’ll discover!
Thanks everyone!! Good to know I’m not alone! My biggest lesson through all this is to just be “ok” with not knowing what I want as there is a little quiet voice somewhere saying “it’s ok, just enjoy life for now!” So I’m working on that…just “being”, I guess. I’m such a “doer” that is hard not to be actively working on something…maybe that is the lesson!!!
Erin, I feel this very same way! I can never pinpoint my passion!! I love some many things, and never stick to just one thing. I’ve recently explored the idea Mojca mentioned about perfectionism. Just giving up or not even starting because things aren’t going the way I planned. Mojca, your comment about not what you do, but how you do is great. Thank you both.
I was just getting ready to tell a friend how frightening it is to step out and do something different. Then I received this email. Love it!
I am definitely in this club. When I think about what I want in a long term way I just get into panic which surely blocks any inspiration. I wonder if it’s more helpful to focus on what you want in the next 10 minutes, and like Martha Beck advocates, starting a practice of trying to only do things which give you joy/peace, moment by moment. Somehow, trying to think about the next 10 years blocks me immediately. Another person who talks about this topic is Marie Forleo. Xx
1000000% agree with all of this!!! I left corporate America 18 months ago and they can eat my yoga mat dust. I lost “Friends” BUH BUH!!!, was told I was crazy, was asked if I was having a mental breakdown. etc..so I can relate!!! In 18 months, I have started Graduate School to become a teacher, I have revamped my whole life to become the boho-gyspy, arse kicking girl I always knew I was, I am working on my yoga certification, I have been able to rescue several animals, I am a mom, wife, mala coloring book fool , quirky, funny t shirt wearing, flip flops and cut offs, all around life junkie and I could not be happier. I make mind maps…the one I did recently has abundance in the middle and then branches off to all the things that I want abundant in my life and I do believe it’s working. Rock on ladies!!!
I wanna be you!!!!!
Be your awesome you!!!
I LOVE your boho gypsy arse kicking girl comment. Hope you don’t mind if I borrow that for my vision board. 🙂
Spread the boho gypsy arse kicking love!!!!
Thank you for sharing your manifesting story with us Kris and Connie! A reminder that anything is possible with the right energy.
I have been working with my spirit team, (I am Spiritual Medium) on manifesting my healing business that includes some pretty cool and different modalities of healing. From food and lifestyle choices that are best for the individual to messages from Spirit and a whole new approach to healing one’s life. I often use Kris as a reference for the client to go to for further connection to what Spirit is saying in the reading so they better understand why a certain message matters. It also empowers the individual to take the steps to heal themselves.
I also wrote a book which is now with an editor… whom I just love, and was totally aligned from manifesting with Spirit! And have sent it off to my dream publishing house with lot’s of prayers and Angelic intentions.
I find that calling on my higher power (God) for directing my desires to align with my soul work is how I can always achieve the highest vibrational outcome.
Thank you
Blessings
xx Jeanne
So beautiful Jeanne. Good luck with getting your book published! I hope it works out with the pub house you want, if it doesn’t then it’s meant to be at a different house. Either way, it will be published. 🙂 xo!
Love this. Great to hear the story of how you two connected. Sending much manifesting love to both of you! xoxo
This is so beautiful and inspiring. I am going through some major changes in my life right now, by my choice. Scary but I am jumping off that cliff! I know affirmations and visualizing, as well as gratitude, meditation and prayer, have taken me far. Now I need to get the vision board thing down. Thanks Kris and Corinne!!!
I hope you’ll get started with that vision board today, Elizabeth! xo, kc
Another super inspiring article, thanks so much Kris (and Corinne)! It’s crazy how we sometimes forget that just doing something towards our dream can have a great snowball effect.
I wanted to share how I manifested my perfect love over 7 years ago, or soulmate if you wish, but the post got waaaay too long for a comment 😀
So I’m just sharing 3 key things I believe made all the difference to my single self at that point (and I had been single for most of my then 25-year long life).
1. I invited any and all love I felt inside me to flourish, even if it was the love I felt from a crush on someone I knew I could never be with. Main thing – love is a great thing, and I felt privileged to be feeling it, regardless of the circumstance, so I encouraged it instead of repressed it.
2. I thought of SPECIFICALLY what I wanted in a soulmate/partner. The inexhaustible mutual love, respect, acceptance, and independence at the same time. A little adoration was allowed too 😉
3. I decided to let it all go. I released the attachment to the outcome by saying to myself – “I may or may not be destined to have such perfect love in my life. I do want it, but if it’s not meant to be, I’ll be fine on my own as well.”
I guess it’s needless to say that within a month or 2 I met the love of my life, it’s taken us less than a month to get together and we’ve been as happy as I could ever imagine ever since, over 7 years now!
Hope this helps anyone else with manifesting. For me, it was a really intuitive process, apart from thinking SPECIFICALLY about what I wanted in a partner, that one I had to make myself do. But I was so richly rewarded that I’m convinced it’s definitely a key part of manifesting!
Lots of love!! xxx
Mojca,
Wow, this is so powerful! Thank you so so much for sharing. I know your words will help many. xo! kc
Thank you Mojca for sharing.
Kris is right, you’re words will help many!
It’s amazing how sometimes we find what we need (like you’re lovely post) at the very point we’re looking for some guidance.
Cynthia –
Wowoowo. I’ve been praying for 10 years for a partner… thank you for sharing..
Thank you for sharing — these steps resonate with me 🙂
Sending you lots of <3 <3 hearts xo
This is such a powerful message and moving personal story- thank you Corinne (& Kris)!! I am from Germany and have been studying Business and Sociology over the past 4,5 years, which really sucked life out of me for several years. It was something that I thought I SHOULD do but it never felt RIGHT. I am talking depression, anxiety, self-hatred… Luckily for me I have always been really aware of my emotions and my mental health. I never NOT worked on my self and I never quit looking for ways to turn my life around. While my therapy and such helped me alot, the true gamechanger was when you (Kris) came into my life 1,5 years ago. You have been my guide, mentor and inspiration and I cannot thank you enough for what your knowledge, wisdom and humour have done for me.
I finally am following my bliss and my true vision. And while I am still finishing up with my studies, I have started a health coaching training and decided not to pursue a career in business (screw the naysayers!). I know I am finally on the right track, even if I don´t know where it will take me..I know, I just KNOW I have so much inside of me that can still be realeased to make me grow, flourish and shine and impact other peoples life as well.
This may sound funny but it´s actually true. First off, I have been thinking/dreaming about the possibility to do an internship with Kris Carr (yes you 😉 ) for weeks now. I don´t know how or why this idea popped into my head and I have been putting it away as “impossible and unrealistic”. Then I was reading up on an old post of you Kris just the other day (Manifesting Your Desires: A Guide to Asking & Receiving). This post inspired me immensely and I have been calling out for the universe to show me what my next step could be in bringing my dreams (of pursuing a career in the wellness industry) to life.
And now comes THIS post and I am all like: “Is this the sign from the universe?”
So while I know this is a very far shot I am just going to go for it: Is there ANY way at all to do an internship with you (or really ANY way to learn from you)? 🙂
Wow – now I felt like I´ve written an book. Thank you for sticking with me!
Blessings to you and your team Kris xo
Sarah
I’m so thrilled that this story resonated with you, Sarah! Keep your eye on Kris’ Instagram feed. We post there about freelance openings at Crazy Sexy Wellness. I can tell that you are really connected and open right now, which is the perfect place to be to manifest big things! Wishing you the very best. Corinne