Manifesting your wildest hopes and dreams is not as ‘woowoo’ or unachievable as you might think.
I believe the key to manifesting starts with your mindset and mastering your vibration, aka your energy.
Do you let your thoughts roam free or do you monitor those niggly negative thoughts, rein them in, let them go and then replace them with a positive thought?
This is what I’m doing more of lately.
One of my words for 2019 is MINDSET. So, I thought it would be a great opportunity to chat to Gemma Benad from The Manifesting Mums about how to manifest our dreams into reality for yourselves and our clients.
Here we chat about all things manifesting, mindset and juggling business with family life.
If a thought doesn’t serve you, uplift you, empower you, nurture you and inspire you, then why give it attention?
Gemma Benad, The Manifesting Mums
So tell me, what was that ah-ha moment that made you decide to start The Manifesting Mums?
I’m going to call it Divine Guidance. I had a hobby business for about 9 months but couldn’t get my mojo to flow under those brands. Then one uneventful Tuesday afternoon this voice inside me said “Become The Manifesting Mum and share your journey”. So I did. I trust my intuition implicitly and knew that I was being guided towards where I needed to be.
You’re a busy Mum juggling your business and babies, how do you do it all!?
I have realised that despite my strong belief that I can do it all and I can have it all, I also believe that I don’t have to do it all TODAY. Or in this exact moment. I have complete faith in myself and the Universe that each day I will create what needs to be created. I also prioritise soul nourishing activities that are aligned with my highest values and purpose within my business and life. I also go with the flow. Flow is crucial in manifesting and fighting against the flow is counter-productive. The flow always wins out, so I may as well get in rhythm with it.
You’re all about manifesting your best life for yourself and your clients, what steps can we take to manifest our dreams into reality?
- Keep it simple.
- Get super crystal clear on the outcome you’re trying to create for your business, life, relationships, parenting, health etc.
- Totally embody the version of yourself that already has it in their life.
- Take inspired and imperfect action.
- Get out of your own way.
I’m all for having a positive mindset but when you’re a solopreneur, some days are tough! What are some of the tips and strategies we can do today to beat that negative self-talk and boost confidence in ourselves?
Yes, some days are tough. But ‘tough’ is an interpretation. The key is that if you can’t change your circumstances, then change how you process and interpret them. It’s all in your perception and we have total control over that. I have also learnt to be selective with my thinking. Most of us spend our days lost in thought. Move to a higher level of thinking and realise that as a thinking, sentient human being you are the thinker of your thoughts and have total power over what you think. If a thought doesn’t serve you, uplift you, empower you, nurture you and inspire you, then why give it attention? If I notice negative self-talk going on, I stop it and move my attention to something more positive and purposeful. With practice it becomes second nature.
When you work from home, one of the hardest things is procrastination, how do we stop ourselves from folding washing or cleaning the house, so that we can focus and just get on with the task at hand and get it done?
I have fallen into the ‘trap’ of overwhelming myself with work many times and being ‘busy’ for the sake of being ‘busy’. Now I keep my work days to 3 high value tasks. These tasks are in alignment with the vision for my business, my purpose and are non-negotiable. I practice focusing on each task and completing them before moving to the next. I also treat my work days as work days. When I’m in the office, I’m working and I stick to my hours. I love my work, so find it easy to focus on that as it doesn’t feel like work. It brings me soulful joy!
Which Instagram accounts do you follow for inspo and why?
@iamjimfortin who is my Transformational Coach
@jameswedmore who is a business mentor I am yet to work with but look up to
@lightworkerslounge for spiritual inspiration
@manifestationbabe for all things manifesting
What has been your biggest accomplishment with owning your own business so far?
Taking 7 days to decide on, record and launch The Manifesting Mum Podcast. Helping my beautiful academy members inside The Manifesting Mums Academy. They inspire me endlessly! And finally stepping out of my fears (yes we all have them) to launch my Rapid Manifesting Private Coaching Program which sold out in 24 hours.
If you could go back in time, is there something you’d love to tell your younger self?
Everything that is happening is preparing you for what is to come. Be kind to yourself and most importantly, love yourself, because you’re perfect just as you are.
It’s easy to compare ourselves to others and be disheartened by what they are doing, that we haven’t achieved yet. What are your tips to stopping the comparison game?
Great question and something that I struggled with a lot up until this year.
Firstly, we don’t know someone else’s Karma. We don’t know their lessons, their challenges and their purpose. Let me assure you, we are all on this planet to fulfil our purpose, which at its foundation is to grow and evolve our being so that we can help others (in whatever way that looks).
There is no one else like you. There is no one else that can do what you do in the way you do it. The world needs each and every one of us to show up as we are.
I also see others in my industry ahead of me and ‘achieving’ things that are on my vision board and when I see them doing it, I get excited. The fact that I am witnessing it means it’s in my energetic vortex and it’s only a matter of time before I too ‘achieve’ something similar. I have also chosen to see those doing amazing things as proof that it can be done. We’re all the same. We’re all connected, it’s one of the most fundamental principles of manifesting; The Law of Oneness. So, if she can do, you better believe that I can do it too.
Finally, the grass is never greener. Focus on watering your own garden while admiring your neighbours and you better bet that getting into jealousy, comparison and envy are negative energetic experiences, and based on the law of vibration, you’ll attract back situations, experiences and people into your life that match that same energy.
Move your attention to focus on your gifts and share them with the world freely.
Now for some fun to finish off…
Q:
What would we find in your camera roll?
A:
Inspirational quotes, screenshots of my pearls of wisdom from my
Transformational Coach with a spattering of photos of my kids
Q:
What’s your ideal weekend?
A: Reading, meditating.
Q:
Netflix binge sesh?
A: Hubby and I just became obsessed with “The Making of a Murderer Part 2”.
Q:
Business love?
A:
Vision driven tasks and helping people
Q:
Guilty pleasure?
A: Wine
About Gemma
Gemma is a passionate manifesting and mindset mentor, unwavering believer in the power of the universe and a full time manifesting mum committed to helping Mum’s dream big and realise their potential with courage and confidence. Gemma is also known within her community as The Manifesting Mum and it is her deep passion to empower Mum’s to believe in themselves and their ability to create dreams bigger and wilder than they can possibly imagine and her ultimate purpose is to share everything she can to help Mum’s make it all a reality in the easiest and most joyful way possible.
Gemma Benad
Rapid Manifesting Coach
The Manifesting Mums
Instagram: @themanifestingmums
Facebook: @themanifestingmums
Website: http://www.themanifestingmums.com
Podcast: The Manifesting Mum Podcast
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