Do you secretly wish you could manifest money to travel the world — but part of you is still skeptical AF. Like... does manifestation actually work??
You want to believe it’s possible. You see other people talking about overflow, aligned clients, stripe notifications coming in. But when you sit down to write the affirmations, they feel fake. You aren't sure if you are doing it wrong- or if this whole manifestation thing is hot nonsense.
In this episode, I’m walking you through the exact manifestation process I used to manifest my six-figure business
You’ll learn:
Why your affirmations are falling flat — and how to write ones that actually shift your reality.
How I use custom Spotify playlists to speed up my manifestations.
The counterintuitive thing to journal on — so it doesn’t sneakily block your manifestations.
Read through this blog to finally understand why your manifestation practice hasn’t been working — and how to make it wildly effective.
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Recently it hit me…
Everything I’m living right now was once a sentence in my journal.
This is not a metaphor. I’m talking about an actual sentence in my journal from back in 2019.
I had just quit my residency and moved to South Korea to start teaching English, and on the evenings and weekends I was working on building up my business.
Every single day, I’d write some version of:
“I have a six-figure coaching business that gives me the freedom to travel the world.”
It was the most exciting thing I could even imagine at the time. To be making enough money from something I loved doing- that I could travel around the world.
And to have the freedom to work from cafes, make my own schedule, take spontaneous trips- without having to get my vacation time approved by someone.
It felt like a dream.
And on Monday, I was working from this stunning cafe in Montenegro when I realized…. I am living this right now. I am living the exact life I used to dream about. To the tee (but honestly even better than I imagined).
Here’s a photo from the cafe so you can understand why this was such a pinch me moment.
But here’s the thing: it didn’t happen because I just wrote pretty sentences over and over again.
It happened because I figured out how to actually use manifestation — in a way that was honest, emotional, and aligned.
So in this post, I want to walk you through the 3 biggest mistakes I see people making when it comes to manifestation — and how to shift each one so you can finally start seeing the results you’ve been journaling about.
1. You’re Manifesting From "Shoulds" or Superficial Desires
This is probably the most common one. You’re writing affirmations or scripting your future, but what you’re actually asking for? It’s not what you truly want. It’s what you think you’re supposed to want.
It’s often driven by timelines, pressure, fear, or comparison — not desire.
I’ve had conversations with friends and clients about this — where they’re manifesting a relationship, a certain income goal, or paying off debt — and when we actually slow down and talk about it, they realize they don’t even want that thing, or at least not right now.
Maybe you’re manifesting a 10K month because it sounds like the industry standard. But it doesn’t light anything up in your body.
Or maybe you’re calling in a partner… not because your heart is truly craving connection, but because your brain is afraid you won’t have one later.
When your desires are based on “supposed to’s” or fear of missing out, it’s really hard to create emotional momentum around them.
What to do instead:
You have to learn how to clear away the noise and tune into what you genuinely want — even if it feels weird, even if it doesn’t make sense to other people, even if it’s not something you want forever.
You don’t have to want a six-figure business or a luxury lifestyle.
But you do have to want something so much that it cracks you open a little bit.
The more emotionally connected you are to the desire, the more power you bring to the manifestation process.
2. You're Writing Affirmations Over Your Doubts Instead of Addressing Them
This is what I call Febreeze Manifesting — like when you go number two and instead of opening a window, you just spray Febreeze and hope for the best.
And that’s what a lot of people are doing in their manifestation practice.
You're writing out affirmations on top of deep self-doubt, unprocessed fear, and limiting stories — without actually looking at them. And that buried stuff is still running the show.
You’re writing:
“I’m a magnet for money,”
but inside you’re thinking:
“Who am I to even charge for this?”
You’re trying to be high vibe, because you think looking at the fear will manifest the fear — but that’s not how this works. The fear is already in there. Avoiding it doesn’t make it go away.
💡 What to do instead:
You need to name the fear.
Write it down. Bring it into the light. Process it.
This is part of what I teach in my upcoming program Script Your Freedom.
Because you can’t just script your desires and skip over the parts of you that don’t believe you can have them.
I do this daily — I write out the “CMIs” (aka Crazy Mad Ideas from A Course in Miracles). These are all the limiting beliefs and inner critic voices that say things like:
“You’re being irresponsible.”
“You’re not successful enough.”
“You’re gallivanting around, who even do you think you are?”
You don’t have to focus on them forever. But you do have to see them, so you can release them. Otherwise, you’re manifestation game will feel like driving with the e-brake on.
3. You're Manifesting From the Mind Instead of from your State.
This is a big one. So many people are approaching manifestation like a to-do list.
You journaled ✔
You wrote affirmations ✔
You visualized ✔
But you didn’t feel anything.
You didn’t lock in the emotional state that actually shifts your energy.
You’re trying to manifest mentally, when the real shift happens through your emotions. That’s what matches the frequency of what you want. That’s what magnetizes it.
💡 What to do instead:
You need to shift your emotional state — not just check off mindset boxes.
For me, one of the most powerful ways to do that is music. I’ve created specific Spotify playlists that help me feel the reality I’m calling in.
Recently, I got clear on how I wanted to feel about money, and I realized I want to feel like “money has a crush on me”. Like… why is money so obsessed with me. It just keeps coming to me, and it can’t get enough of me.
It’s the energy of having a crush. Playful. Flirty. Giddy. Euphoric.
I made a playlist called “Money Chooses Me” and filled it with songs that cultivate these feelings.
Then after I journal out the crazy mad ideas, I end my journal session by listening to one of the songs on the playlist. To put myself into the state of “it’s already done.” I’m already living it.
When you can shift your state and feel as if it’s already happened, it’s so much more powerful than just writing down a bunch of affirmations to check a box.
It IS that deep though
Manifestation isn’t just writing down the thing you want and hoping it shows up. It’s so much deeper than that.
It’s about connecting to what you truly want — not what you should want.
It’s about looking at the doubts and stories that say, “You can’t have that” — and clearing them, not ignoring them.
And it’s about shifting your emotional state in a way that actually locks in the energy of the thing you’re calling in.
This is the process I’ve been using and fine tuning consistently over the last six years.
It’s how I’ve built a six figure business, work from cafes all over the world, and go on more bucket list trips than feels reasonable.
This is how, everything I used to dream about in my journal became my real life.
And if it’s possible for me, it’s possible for you too.
I’ll be teaching you my exact process for manifesting inside of my new mini course Script Your Freedom.
XO, Coach Chels
