I know it might not sound like a huge number to some of you, but given the fact that I manifested this almost 6 years ago when I was just a college going kid and coming from a lower-middle-class family where all I had seen was my parents struggle with money, it was a pretty big deal for me. And coming from a third world country, it still would be crazy, even today 🙂
And the funny thing is, I had only recently discovered manifestation. I had just read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and discovered the Law of Attraction. I was fascinated by the whole idea, but I was also very new to it, so I had my fair share of doubts. Honestly speaking, I used to think this was some kind of voodoo shit lol. I was naive and definitely didn’t have a perfect understanding of the law.
Idk if you care about the details, but I don’t like to gatekeep, so I’m spilling exactly what I did to get that 💵
So, it was during lockdown, and honestly, I had a lot of time to kill. As any other teenager, I was glued to my phone and used to spend an unhealthy amount of time on Instagram. So I made a niche page where I just used to post outfit ideas from 90s TV shows. I grew it to 25K followers, and it had crazy engagement cause my posts were all over the explore page. All of it was completely organic.
One day, I found out that people bought and sold Instagram accounts. So I thought, why not sell mine? I put it up for sale, announced it on my account, and the DMs started flooding in.
Now, this is where I used The Secret Magic Check method. I wanted to sell my account for $1,500 because it would be exactly six figures in my currency. I know it’s a huge ask for a mere 25k account but back then it was a big deal and I just wanted to test the law. So, I wrote myself a check for $1,500 and saved it in my Notes app.
Every morning, during my gratitude practice, I would look at it and simply say, “Thank you, Universe. I am grateful for receiving $1,500.” That’s literally it. I wasn’t doing elaborate techniques or scripting or affirming it all day.
For years I thought it was the Check method but looking back at it now, after years of reading and learning about LOA, I can actually see the key principles I was unknowingly following which actually helped me to manifest this:
- Having fun with the Law
When you are genuinely having fun with your manifestation, you’re not treating it like a life-or-death situation. I wasn’t desperate at all. I was like, if this happens, it will be fucking crazy but if it didn’t, I honestly couldn’t care any less. I was having fun with my page anyway. I liked posting and building it. And if nobody wanted to pay for it, I was completely okay with keeping my account and growing it further.
- Less resistance
As I mentioned, I wasn’t desperate or obsessed with the outcome. I wasn’t constantly checking the 3D for proof or wondering when it was going to happen. And because of that, I don’t think I created much resistance around it.
I think sometimes, when we care too much or put our manifestation on a pedestal, we unknowingly create resistance. We start treating it like, “I need this to happen,” instead of simply knowing, “This is mine.” And that desperate energy can keep us stuck in the state of wanting instead of having.
- Not settling for less
So, after the DMs started flooding in, there was just one problem: everyone was offering me ridiculously low amounts. $500, $300, even $100. And whenever I told them my asking price, they either laughed, ghosted me, or told me, “That’s way too much. Your price is too high. Nobody is going to pay that. You’re being delusional.”
And honestly, I don’t blame them. It was indeed a ridiculously high ask. I could have easily taken the $500. It would still have been a lot of money for me at the time. But I didn’t want to. I wanted my $1,500, and that was the truth.
So I simply told them, “It’s okay if you don’t want to pay that much. I’ll keep growing my account. I don’t mind. But I wouldn’t sell it for less”
Then, on the third day, someone reached out with an offer of around $1,000. Still, I didn’t budge. Instead, I started explaining why I believed my account was worth $1,500. I showed them my insights, the crazy engagement, and the numbers on each and every post. They were really impressed and eventually agreed to buy the account for exactly the amount I wrote myself a check for 3 days ago.
What I learned from this manifestation:
You don’t have to get obsessed with your manifestation or spend every waking minute visualising, affirming, scripting, or doing technique after technique just to have it. You can simply decide it’s yours and go live your life. Don’t depend your life on it and just have fun with it. Enjoy the process. Let yourself be surprised by the bridge of incidents instead of constantly trying to figure out how it’s going to happen or is it even going to happen.
Also, don’t listen to people trying to tell you that you’re asking for too much. The 3D doesn’t get to decide what you’re allowed to have. It’s YOU, who gets to decide.
So when the 3D serves you something you didn’t ask for, simply reject it; just like you would at a restaurant if the waiter brought you the wrong order. You wouldn’t sit there thinking, “Oh no, I guess this is what I’m getting now.” You’d simply say, “Sorry, this isn’t what I ordered.” Then you’d wait for what you actually asked for.
So don’t hesitate cause the Universe is not on a budget, remember? wink wink
