Why You Can't Manifest Money (And It Has Nothing to Do With Your Vision Board)

So for me, this meant letting go of things like my anger, resentment, judgment, self-doubt, irritation, frustration, all the things.

And how many of us co-mingle these exact negative emotions or any variation of with our concept of money? And I'm willing to bet that it's probably most of us to some degree.

Or you wouldn't be tuning into this podcast.

Maybe you call yourself a shopaholic, you call yourself frugal or money savvy.

Maybe you talk about treating yourself when you know that purchasing something isn't in alignment with where you are financially.

All of these create narratives and identities that we associate with money.

Even if we're not aware of the current identity that we're operating under, it's running in the background.

So as a kid, I remember two times I was given cash for special occasions around the ages of like roughly 8 and 10 or 8 and 12, actually.

Both times I treated the money like it was the last I would ever see of it.

So I held on to the cash I was given, meticulously trying to determine what to buy with it.

Because in my mind, when would I ever see that kind of money again? And so I was anxious about choosing the wrong thing, regretting my choice, and then wasting that money, or what I thought would be wasting that money.

Because my concept of money at the time, or the energy that I had around money, it was extremely fragile.

I thought that money would just be whisked away from me.

And I couldn't hold the energy of large amounts of wealth, or any wealth, really, because my parents couldn't.

And they didn't.

And you know what? My parents praised me for this behavior.

They called me so mature, responsible, rational.

I had a good head on my shoulders.

And I was rewarded for adapting my dad's scarcity mindset.

And so I started associating this concept of frugality with being a good person.

I thought that to be frugal was to be good, kind, thoughtful.

And in a way, I was almost extremely pious about it.

So if scarcity mindset was a religion, I was extremely devout.

And I've held on to this identity that I'm frugal forever.