Something happened this week that made me stop and think.
A new private advisory client came to me through a text message from a source I had never even met.
No funnel. No long nurture sequence. No complicated campaign. No months of trying to get in front of the right person.
Just a text message that led to a significant private advisory client.
And the reason it caught my attention is that, for quite a long time now, I have been very intentional about the assumption that things come to me with ease.
Not because I think I should sit at home doing nothing and expect life to magically deliver everything to my door. That’s not how I live and it’s certainly not what I teach. Without taking any action towards your desired result at all, nothing will change in your life.
But I have always been very intentional about what I’m going to achieve – and it’s not about hustle and long hard hours.
One of my assumptions is that opportunities, people, money and possibilities can come to me in ways I could never have planned.
And that’s what happened again this week.
It made me think about just how many things in my life I’ve achieved when, according to the circumstances at the time, they really shouldn’t have happened.
This isn’t a story about ‘manifestation’ in the classic sense – I’ve always been far more fascinated by the human brain, the mind, and the science behind intentional results.
The word ‘manifesting’ comes with so much baggage now that it can get in the way of something much more useful.
Let me share with you what I mean – and how I actually do it…
When I was nine, I wanted to be in the school play – even though all the teachers told me I was 2 years too young for the group and that all the parts were taken. But I still continued to turn up daily to watch them rehearse (note the action here – not just wistfully dreaming). A week before the play, someone had to back out after an injury, and they had no option but to offer it to me. I knew the moves because I had taken the action of watching them rehearse every day.
At 15, I wanted a job in the shop everyone wanted to work in. It was the coolest shop in town and getting a Saturday job there felt like winning the lottery. But they never took on Saturday girls. One day I was in the store and intentionally went to chat to the lady who managed the media and music section. I remember mentioning that she had a dream job. That’s it. A few weeks later I was walking past and she ran out of the shop and asked if I’d be interested in becoming her Saturday helper. Again – the reaction to the action I had taken.
At 18 I wanted to go to a #1 University in the UK for Business and Management, despite not getting the grades I was supposed to get. I got into a different University that was hundreds of miles away. But I still decided I was going to move to my preferred choice. At the end of my first year, I wrote to my old school headmaster and asked him to help me transfer. He did. I moved before the second year started. Again, I took action, backed by my assumption that I’m the kind of person things work out for.
At 27, only a few weeks after qualifying, I saw a role advertised for a Head of Finance role at British Aerospace. Everyone told me I was being crazy, that I didn’t have enough experience yet.
I applied.
I got the job.
Years later, I moved to Sydney and decided I wanted an apartment overlooking Sydney Harbour – throw in some amazing, friendly neighbours, and I’ll be sorted, I thought.. Initially I lived somewhere outside the city because Sydney Harbour apartments are ludicrously expensive. But I applied for a very well-paid role (action), I kept looking for a new apartment (action) and within a year I was living in the building- my – neighbour on one side was Russell Crowe, the other – Delta Goodrem and Alf from Neighbours (you’ll have to be an 80s child to know who that is) underneath
They were wonderful neighbours.
It continues – I wanted children, despite circumstances that made that future look far from straightforward.
I have two of my own despite being 40 before having them.
When I discovered Bob Proctor’s work, I decided I wanted to be in his inner circle.
Within six months, I was.
I wanted my first £100,000 month.
I created it.
I wanted to build a million-pound business, and I did it without social media, without funnels, without networking, without an email list, without ads and without any of the things people now tell you are absolutely essential if you want to grow a business.
The list goes on.
And one of the reasons I know this isn’t just selective memory is that I have an absolute record of so many of these things. I know what I wanted, what the situation looked like at the time, what people told me was realistic, what action I took, and what happened next.
But this isn’t an article about ‘Good for you!’ – I want to show you how I do it.
What I’ve actually done, over and over again, is become very intentional about what I allow my mind to focus on, what I decide I’m going to achieve – and crucially, what action I take to make it inevitable.
Every single time, I’ve made that decision before there was any evidence to support it.
That is the part I find fascinating.
Most people wait for reality to change before they let themselves think differently.
When the money arrives, then I’ll feel secure.
When the business grows, then I’ll believe I’m successful.
When somebody gives me the opportunity, then I’ll see myself as capable of operating at that level.
When I’ve got enough experience, then I’ll go for the bigger role.
When I understand exactly how it’s going to happen, then I’ll believe it can happen.
It sounds perfectly sensible, but the problem is that you are allowing your current reality to tell your mind what your future is allowed to be.
There is also a huge body of work out there in the manifestation world that implies it’s a passive process – dream it, and it arrives.
If I had done that throughout my life, a lot of my life simply wouldn’t exist.
So this weekend, I want you to ask yourself a very simple question.
What do you really want?
Not what seems reasonable.
Not what you think you can probably get.
Not what somebody else would tell you is the sensible next step.
Not the version you have watered down because you don’t want to disappoint yourself.
What do you actually want?
And before your brain immediately starts coming up with all the reasons why it might not happen, ask yourself something else.
What if it could?
What if the thing you’ve decided is unrealistic, too big, too late, too expensive, too ambitious or simply “not for someone like me” was actually possible?
What would that change?
And I mean genuinely change.
Would you stop tolerating things you currently tolerate because you assume there is no other option?
Would your dominant day-to-day feeling be lighter? Freer? Safer?
Your mind is always moving towards something. The question is whether you are directing it deliberately or allowing old evidence, old assumptions and other people’s opinions to do it for you.
The key is to free your mind from the negative ‘what ifs’-and instead to build a default state of expectation that things always work out the way you want them to.
That, to me, is the science of mind direction.
Not pretending something is true when you don’t believe it.
Not forcing yourself to “stay positive”, or chanting affirmations over the top of fear.
It’s being intentional about what you think about.
And crucially – what ACTION can you take to make its achievement more likely?
We can’t ignore current reality – but we can choose to believe “I’m simply the kind of person that things always work out for..” and with that logic behind you, the action becomes logical.
Looking back, I realise I’ve been doing that for most of my life.
And it always started with a vision.
Free your Mind. Expect the Extraordinary.
Guinevere
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