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.