January 10, 2025 • 26 mins
What’s one goal you want to manifest in 2025?
What small step can you take today toward your goal?
Today, Jay dives into the mindset and practices needed to manifest the life you truly desire in 2025. Picking up where last week’s strategies and habits left off, Jay explores the often-overlooked internal components of goal achievement—your mindset, subconscious programming, and visualization techniques.
He begins by redefining the idea of manifestation, emphasizing the importance of understanding the deeper emotional drivers behind your goals. Whether it's confidence, safety, or self-esteem, Jay explains how aligning with these core desires rather than just material outcomes can unlock true abundance.
Jay also shares actionable steps for cultivating a manifestation mindset, starting with mastering those subconscious moments just before sleep and upon waking. By integrating affirmations during these times, you can rewire your thought patterns and reinforce your intentions. He introduces the “Rule of Your Most Repeated Thought,” explaining how consistent positive affirmations shape your reality over time.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How to Rewire Your Mind with Affirmations
How to Visualize the Process, Not Just the Outcome
How to Align Your Energy with Your Goals
How to Avoid Distractions and Stay Focused on Your Target
How to Surround Yourself with Positive Reinforcements
You have everything you need to build the life you envision; it starts with belief and is fueled by consistent effort. Stay focused, stay inspired, and trust in the process—because the life you’re dreaming of is already waiting for you. Keep moving forward; you’ve got this!
With Love and Gratitude,
Jay Shetty
What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:20 Achieving Goals Need the Ability to Visualize
03:20 Step 1: Deeply Know Why You Want What You Want
05:53 Step 2: Master the Subconscious Moments
10:13 Step 3: You Will Manifest Your Most Repeated Thought
11:52 Step 4: Visualize the Process not the Result
15:08 Vision Boards, Verbal Boards
18:25 What’s Growing in Your Life?
21:07 How to Stop Living a Misaligned Life
23:15 Keep Books Open in Random Places
25:11 Write Things Down and Post it Around You
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You don't just want that car. You want confidence that
you think comes with that car. You don't want that home,
you want safety that you believe comes with that home.
You don't just want that business, you want the self
esteem that you believe comes from that business building it.
(00:24):
And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important
that you also create a verbal board, a verbal board
of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into
the number one health and wellness podcast set Jay Shed. Everyone,
(00:47):
welcome back to On Purpose. Here we are weak two
of the year, and I really really hope that you're
feeling clear about your goals this year. I hope you
feeling clear about what you're trying to manifest this year.
Last week, I gave you the hacks, the habits, the tools,
(01:07):
the practices in order to make sure you achieve your goals.
I gave you my tried and tested, proven method. And
today I want to give you that shift in your mindset. See,
achieving your goals is both an external and an internal
aspiration and method. What I mean by that is externally,
(01:30):
you need the strategies, the steps, the habits, the hacks,
the tools. Everything I gave you last week, And what
you need today is the mindset, the internal belief system,
the ability to visualize, to create from within your mind.
The power that exists within our mind is so underestimated
(01:52):
and so underrated, and a lot of people will discard
it as woo woo, or they'll discard it as esoteric
or whatever it may be. But the truth is, there's
enough research now to prove that the power of the
mind is unbelievable. And I think we watch people do
incredible things every day, whether it's athletes, musicians, singers, performers.
(02:17):
We have to recognize that the ability to stretch and
build our minds to achieve unbelievable things exist within all
of us. And today I want to walk you through
that manifestation mindset. If you are going to make this
year the year that you attract what you deeply desire
(02:38):
and want in life, then I want to help you
get there through the right mindset. Sometimes you can get
somewhere by pushing, and sometimes you get somewhere by feeling pulled.
I want you to have both inside your toolkit. Right.
I think we know we need to push forward, we
(02:58):
need to work hard. I'm not going to sit here
and say Hey, you'll just receive and you'll just attract.
I don't believe in that, and I don't think that's
a healthy idea to have out there. At the same time,
I know lots of people who keep pushing, but they
never feel pulled by what they're building. So let's start
with step one of the manifestation mindset. Step one is
(03:23):
deeply know why you want what you want, and how
are you going to use it to serve and improve
the lives of others. This is such an important point
that is often overstepped. We always make it about us,
and just think about that for a second. When you
(03:45):
make something about you and you alone, you've actually limited
the energy. Manifestation is all about abundance. It's about creating beyond,
it's about impacting beyond. Peter de Amande's put it best.
He said, I want to redefine the word billionaire to
be someone who impacts a billion people. That's really what
(04:09):
someone's doing. When someone creates something large, big, humongous, they've
done it because they've affected a lot of people. They've
directly or indirectly improved the lives or affected the lives
of lots of people. And therefore the size of their
success is equivalent to the size of the problem they've solved.
(04:34):
If our only wise to solve our problem, which, by
the way, in the beginning, survival is totally fine as
a method of manifestation. But if we can extend it
a little bit further, for it to be about improving
the lives of others, for it to be about representing
and creating an impact, for it to be about service,
(04:56):
incredible things can happen. Think about it. Are you trying
to change the life of your kids. Are you trying
to change the life of your partner or your parents.
Are you trying to change the life of your community.
Are you trying to inspire future generations. It's not that
(05:18):
you think you're that big, it's not that you think
you're that important. It's that you know you're being driven
by more than just numbers and data. I think so
many people give up on their goals because their only
motivation is to do it for themselves, and their only
motivation is to provide for a limited capacity. But if
(05:43):
we truly want to align with abundance, we also have
to think abundantly. Now, how do we do this? Step
number two is mastering the subconscious moments. There are two
two times of the day where we're most in our subconscious,
(06:04):
that state between being awake and being asleep. Notice how
when you're just about to fall asleep, maybe having a
conversation with someone. You're talking to someone and you can
still hear your voice, but you can hear it get
quieter and then slowly it turns off. Or in the morning,
(06:25):
when you wake up and you allow yourself to just
settle for a few moments, you haven't fully opened your eyes,
you haven't grabbed for your phone yet. You know you're
awake and you're not fully asleep. These two times of
the day are such a powerful time to manifest because
(06:47):
what we're doing is we're planting ideas deep in our
subconscious that then have the ability to grow fruits and
bear fruits as they grow throughout the day. So what
I've been practicing for a few years now is that
in these subconscious moments, I will implant my affirmations, and
(07:11):
so I will affirm the mindset I want to live by.
I am living a life of service and impact. I'm
doing it because I believe that everyone deserves the tools,
and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to
share it with billions of people across the world. When
you use those moments, what happens is that cynical, doubtful
(07:36):
part of you is a bit quieter, that part of
you that's always challenging, maybe even having negative self talk
towards your ideas, is a little bit more silenced, and
you have the ability almost to sneak past that cynical
god and plant that thought. And all you have to
(07:57):
do is just stop yourself from reaching for your phone
for that thirty seconds to one minute. Have three affirmations
that you've rehearsed, that you know off by heart, that
you remember to say just in that moment. And hey,
by the way, when you first start this, you're going
to get it wrong. You're going to reach for your phone.
And what I want you to do is just let
(08:18):
go of your phone and maybe even make it the
background of your phone. Make your three affirmations the background
of your phone so you see them, Put your phone down,
close your eyes again, and read them to yourself. I
am followed by whatever it is that you wish to be,
that you wish to become. Now, what does this do.
(08:39):
It's not magic in the sense that all of a
sudden you wake up and the thing you asked for
is there. That's not how manifestation works. What we're doing
is we're training our subconscious that is already being pulled
towards a negativity bias, that's already being distracted by everything
else that's going wrong. Right, what we find for a
(09:00):
lot of us is we want to solve the easiest issue,
even if it's not the deepest issue. Right. You want
to solve the problem that makes you feel like you're busy,
as opposed to solve the problem that actually makes your
life easy it's really interesting. And our mind does the
same thing. It rushes towards the things we can solve
(09:21):
and make us feel productive, even though the thing we're
actually trying to solve is something we're ignoring. And in
these subconscious moments, you get to rewire that. You get
to rewire your attention, your energy, and your focus subconsciously
towards the things that really matter, towards the things that
(09:42):
you want to be immersed in. If you say that
in the morning, I promise you when it gets to midday,
you'll still be thinking of it subconsciously and you'll actually
make the right decision. If you repeat I am happy,
I'm healthy, and I'm healing, you will make choices that
day to be happier, to be healthier, to be healing.
But when the mindset we wake up with is oh God,
(10:04):
I'm just so tired, I'm just exhausted, I just I
wish I didn't have to go to work today. Now
that's what you're feeling throughout the day. I call it
the rule of your most repeated thought. You will manifest
your most repeated thought. You can even monitor. This is
(10:25):
step three. What are your most repeated words to someone?
If someone says, hey, what are you excited about for
this year? And your answer is, oh, I don't know, really,
I haven't really thought about it, and you keep saying that,
what ends up happening. You keep saying it, and you
keep thinking it, and you keep believing it. What we say,
we think, we believe what we think. We say it
(10:48):
and then believe it. Our beliefs are based on what
we think and say consistently and repeatedly. Your most repeated
thought comes your reality. The thought that you say the most,
the thought that you think the most, is the thought
that you will believe the most and some of the
(11:11):
things we've said to ourselves for weeks, months, years, and
decades define our trajectory without us even knowing. We have
to shift at a subconscious level to transform our reality.
I know you can do this. I believe you can
do this. And when you repeat these affirmations and these thoughts,
(11:34):
I want you to mean it in your mind. I
want you to feel it in your heart, and I
want you to believe it in your body. It's really key,
and in these sub conscious times, you're actually able to
do that. Mean it in your mind, believe it in
your body, and feel it in your heart. Step four.
(11:54):
Visualize the process, not the result. I'll explain what I
mean if I ever say to someone, hey, close your
eyes and visualize who you want to be, where you
want to be. We often visualize the podium, not the process.
We visualize winning, not training. You visualize achieving not building.
(12:20):
You visualize the ending, not the starting. If you want
manifestation to work for you, if you want to attract
the life that you truly desire, it's about visualizing the process,
not perfection. So many of us wegte so much time
and energy focused on what it will look like when
(12:43):
we get there. And while it's important to feel that
in our body, it's more important to also train ourselves
to visualize the process waking up early, meditating, working on
our health, building that skill. What does that look like,
because that's the life we have to live. We have
(13:03):
to visualize the life we have to live in order
to get to the place we want to be. And
it's the life that we live that makes us great enough.
That's what greatness is. Greatness is not achieving the trophy
or winning the award, or getting top of the list.
That's not greatness. Greatness is the discipline you developed. Greatness
(13:24):
is the energy you harnessed. Greatness is the effort you
put in. Greatness is the skills you learned, the iterations
you made, the improvements and changes you worked hard to
deliver on. That's greatness. So visualize that process. I would
program when I lived in the monastery what I wanted
(13:48):
my thoughts to be in the morning. I see as coding.
At night, I would code my mind to say I
will wake up fresh, healthy, energized and enthusiastic to meditate.
And whenever I would do that and set that intention
at night, I saw that it programmed and coded my
mind to wake up with that in the morning, and
(14:11):
if I decided to skip that, I could force myself
to feel that in the morning. But it was so
much easier to code that the night before. You set
your alarm the night before to wake you up the
next morning. You don't set it when you want to
wake up. You set your intention, you set your coding,
you set your energy the night before. Visualize the process.
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Visualize yourself doing the hard things. Visualize yourself strengthening your body,
lifting those weights, going on that run, starting that podcast,
recording an episode. Visualize the parts that are the hard parts,
because those are the parts that your life will be
made up of. Visualize the discomfort, not the comfort, because
(14:57):
that's what your life will be made up of. Visualize
the hard, not that easy, because that's what your mind
and heart and life will be made up of. Now,
when we talk about visualization, people often talk about vision boards.
I'm a big fan of vision boards. Why because again,
we're giving data to the mind. When I was growing up,
(15:20):
I remember my wall was covered in lyrics, posters of rappers,
music lines from interviews. It was surrounded I was fully
immersed by musicians, lyricists, poets. I would stick up all
this stuff with tac on my wall. My mum it
drove her crazy because it would ruin the wallpaper or
(15:42):
the paint or whatever she had under it. But I
loved it. And what happened that was my life. Everything
that I said sounded lyrical, everything that I felt affected me,
Everything I listened to was transforming my life. That's what
vision boards are, not an activity you do for two
hours and then just stick it up there. It's something
(16:04):
that allows you to immerse. And it's also picking things
that really motivate you. I think sometimes we do a
vision board very theoretically, but does that specific thing, does
that specific feeling mean something to you? And if it
is just a thing, a material thing, we have to
(16:24):
realize what does it stand for? What am I really
looking for? Because sometimes you're not really wanting that car.
You're wanting confidence. You're not really wanting that home. You're
wanting safety. Let's think about that for a second. You
don't just want that car. You want confidence that you
(16:46):
think comes with that car. You don't want that home.
You want safety that you believe comes with that home.
You don't just want that business, you want this self
esteem that you believe comes from that business building it.
And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important
(17:10):
that you also create a verbal board, a verbal board
of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into.
This is the biggest mistake people make with vision boards.
They only have things, and then when they get the thing,
they're unhappy, and when they don't get the thing, they're unhappy.
But when you recognize that that thing represented a deeper
(17:32):
feeling that you were craving, that you were chasing, that
you are pursuing, that becomes a worthy pursuit. Pursuing confidence
is greater than pursuing the car, and the car will
come anyway. Pursuing safety is greater than pursuing that home,
and the home will come anyway. Pursuing joy and abundance
(17:54):
will attract more than pursuing a material thing that may
look like it stands for that. As much as you
pursue and have a vision board, have a verbal board
of emotions and emotional vocabulary that you're pursuing. Our purpose
in life is to pursue that vocabulary, is to pursue
(18:17):
those emotions, is to pursue those feelings and figure out
where they come from and where they arise. The next
step as you're manifesting is you have to ask yourself,
what's multiplying in my life? So what's going well? Because
you need to zone into that. I think a lot
of the time we only focus on what's going wrong.
(18:38):
And when you only focus on what's going wrong, you're
not able to double down on what's going well. So
first start with what's multiplying in my life, what's cascading,
what's just growing in my life and doing extremely, extremely well?
And then what's actually needing to be subtracted from my life?
(18:59):
And then and what do I need to edit in
my life. One of the things I love, which I
learned about through speaking to some of my friends who
are therapists, is the seven seven seven method. The seven
seven seven method evolves writing down what you are trying
to manifest seven times in the morning and seven times
(19:22):
at night for seven days in a row. Again, what
are we doing here? What we're doing is we're programming
your mind to be focused, We're programming your energy to
be directed. I speak to so many people who say, Jay,
I want to start a podcast, I want to start
a business, And when I say to them, well, what
have you been reading about for the last seven days?
They go politics. I go, got it, all right, Well
(19:44):
that isn't align. There is an alignment there. Someone will
say to me, Jay, I already want to write a book,
and I go, great, what have you been reading recently?
What have you been learning about recently? And they say, oh,
I've just been watching the football and I go okay,
Well that is an align. Gandhi said it better. He
said that you experience harmony when what you think, what
(20:04):
you say, and what you do are in alignment. And
I think a lot of us are misaligned. And so
I want you to really reflect on how are you
spending your free time? Is your free time does it
sound like the life you want to live? When your
free time becomes immersed in the life you want to live,
(20:25):
your non free time becomes that life, And so you
want to practice, You actually want to build that skill,
You want to build that life that you so want
to live in that free thirty minutes you have per day,
rather than say I really want to do that, but
that's not what I'm focused on. I really want to
build that, but that's not where my energy is. And
(20:48):
I think so many of us are living a misaligned life,
and that's actually what's causing our challenges. Our stress and
challenges are not created because we don't have good intentions,
we don't have God, we don't have clear ideas. It's
because our energy and our focus are misaligned and distracted.
You can't attract the life you want if you live
(21:12):
a distracted life. You can't create alignment if you're living
a misaligned life. If your energy is all over the
place and your focus is dispersed, it won't suddenly shift
into feeling like an arrow. It just doesn't work that way, right,
(21:36):
It doesn't work that way if you're shooting lots of arrows,
or if you're looking everywhere, like let's say you're saying
this is how it actually goes. You're saying, I want
this arrow to hit the bull's eye. I wanted to
hit that red dot in the middle. But I'm actually
looking around at the leaves. I'm looking around at the trees.
I'm looking around at the person over there who's kicking
(21:56):
a soccer ball around football, looking over that side because
someone's playing with their child and looking over that. You know,
it's like, but my energy is so distracted, how can
I attract that goal? And then, by the way, when
you take the shot, you miss the target. Every ounce
of our being has to be focused and fixated on
that target. And you say, well, Jay, how can I
(22:18):
because I have so many other responsibilities, And you're right,
you do and you have to do all those responsibilities.
But at the same time you're thinking about that target.
You're thinking about how what you're learning here applies to
that target. You're not seeing it as a space of friction,
like these things are against each other. You're actually saying,
if I solve that target, I'll actually be better at
(22:39):
all these things I'm distracted by, right, I'll actually make
better decisions. I was saying this to a friend recently,
where he was trying to solve something for his family,
and he's also trying to build his business, and I said, well,
if you've built that business, you'd be able to solve
that problem for your family. But while you think you're
trying to solve the problem for your family, you actually
just creating longer term issues because you're not solving the
(23:03):
root of the problem. Often, if you look at a tree,
you can try and spray the leaves, you can take
care of the branches. But if we're not watering and
nourishing the roots, it's not going to survive. One of
my other favorite methods is keeping books open in random places.
A book near my bedside table, which is all about sleep,
(23:24):
a book on my office table, which is all about creativity.
A book in my living room, which is all about
community and relationships. Even if you read one paragraph while
you're walking through that room, I promise you it's enough.
I've spent years reading, you know, trying to read a
(23:45):
book a day, trying to read a book a week.
It's been amazing. I've learned a lot. But that's just
not practical for most people. But if you just read
one paragraph a day, one line a day, here's the thing.
You can read a whole book and it will don't
change your life until you live one line. Read one
(24:06):
line of a book and try to live it. Then
read the next line and try to live it. Not
only will this make you want to read the next line,
it will make you realize how powerful every line is,
and you won't just understand it, you live realized how
knowledge can transform your life because you applied it. Read study, apply,
(24:32):
read study, apply, read study, apply, read, study, apply, apply
what you're reading. Keep books open in random places. Read
one line. I promise you if you keep them open
on a page, your eyes will be drawn to it,
rather than this idea of well, I'm scrolling on my
phone walking through this place. Books on a shelf, haven't
opened it, don't know what the first page is about,
(24:55):
right it just you keep putting it off. This is
how manifestation works. You're surrounding yoursel in that space with
the energy that you want it to have. Remember, as
I said in things like a monk, location has energy,
time has memory. And the final step I want to
share with you today is write things down on post
(25:16):
it notes near your mirror, your bedside, and on your laptop.
Those affirmations, those belief systems, the ideas, they have to
be around you so that your subconscious is just absorbing
them like a sponge. Our subconscious is like a child.
It absorbs whatever atmosphere it's in. And what ends up
happening is we often say, oh, when I'm at home,
(25:37):
that's when I get immersed, but when I'm at work,
I'm not there. We want to stay connected and rooted
to that energy at all times throughout the day. I
really hope, actually, I know, this will help you manifest
the life that you desire. If you practice these principles,
share them with me on Instagram, on TikTok, share your clips,
(26:00):
share your stories. I want to see what you're learning,
how you're growing this year. I'm with you all the way.
I'm with you all the way. I'm rooting for you
on forever in your corner. We're building this together. Twenty
twenty five is your year. This is the year on
Purpose is going to help you there. I'm going to
help you get there. Stay committed, stay connected here, and
(26:21):
I'll be back. Thank you so much. If you love
this episode, you will also love my interview with Charles
Douhig on how to hack your brain, change any habit effortlessly,
and the secret to making better decisions. Look, am I
hesitating on this because I'm scared of making the choice,
because I'm scared of doing the work, Or am I
sitting with this because it just doesn't feel right yet
You don't just want that car. You want confidence that
you think comes with that car. You don't want that home,
you want safety that you believe comes with that home.
You don't just want that business, you want the self
esteem that you believe comes from that business building it.
(00:24):
And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important
that you also create a verbal board, a verbal board
of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into
the number one health and wellness podcast set Jay Shed. Everyone,
(00:47):
welcome back to On Purpose. Here we are weak two
of the year, and I really really hope that you're
feeling clear about your goals this year. I hope you
feeling clear about what you're trying to manifest this year.
Last week, I gave you the hacks, the habits, the tools,
(01:07):
the practices in order to make sure you achieve your goals.
I gave you my tried and tested, proven method. And
today I want to give you that shift in your mindset. See,
achieving your goals is both an external and an internal
aspiration and method. What I mean by that is externally,
(01:30):
you need the strategies, the steps, the habits, the hacks,
the tools. Everything I gave you last week, And what
you need today is the mindset, the internal belief system,
the ability to visualize, to create from within your mind.
The power that exists within our mind is so underestimated
(01:52):
and so underrated, and a lot of people will discard
it as woo woo, or they'll discard it as esoteric
or whatever it may be. But the truth is, there's
enough research now to prove that the power of the
mind is unbelievable. And I think we watch people do
incredible things every day, whether it's athletes, musicians, singers, performers.
(02:17):
We have to recognize that the ability to stretch and
build our minds to achieve unbelievable things exist within all
of us. And today I want to walk you through
that manifestation mindset. If you are going to make this
year the year that you attract what you deeply desire
(02:38):
and want in life, then I want to help you
get there through the right mindset. Sometimes you can get
somewhere by pushing, and sometimes you get somewhere by feeling pulled.
I want you to have both inside your toolkit. Right.
I think we know we need to push forward, we
(02:58):
need to work hard. I'm not going to sit here
and say Hey, you'll just receive and you'll just attract.
I don't believe in that, and I don't think that's
a healthy idea to have out there. At the same time,
I know lots of people who keep pushing, but they
never feel pulled by what they're building. So let's start
with step one of the manifestation mindset. Step one is
(03:23):
deeply know why you want what you want, and how
are you going to use it to serve and improve
the lives of others. This is such an important point
that is often overstepped. We always make it about us,
and just think about that for a second. When you
(03:45):
make something about you and you alone, you've actually limited
the energy. Manifestation is all about abundance. It's about creating beyond,
it's about impacting beyond. Peter de Amande's put it best.
He said, I want to redefine the word billionaire to
be someone who impacts a billion people. That's really what
(04:09):
someone's doing. When someone creates something large, big, humongous, they've
done it because they've affected a lot of people. They've
directly or indirectly improved the lives or affected the lives
of lots of people. And therefore the size of their
success is equivalent to the size of the problem they've solved.
(04:34):
If our only wise to solve our problem, which, by
the way, in the beginning, survival is totally fine as
a method of manifestation. But if we can extend it
a little bit further, for it to be about improving
the lives of others, for it to be about representing
and creating an impact, for it to be about service,
(04:56):
incredible things can happen. Think about it. Are you trying
to change the life of your kids. Are you trying
to change the life of your partner or your parents.
Are you trying to change the life of your community.
Are you trying to inspire future generations. It's not that
(05:18):
you think you're that big, it's not that you think
you're that important. It's that you know you're being driven
by more than just numbers and data. I think so
many people give up on their goals because their only
motivation is to do it for themselves, and their only
motivation is to provide for a limited capacity. But if
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we truly want to align with abundance, we also have
to think abundantly. Now, how do we do this? Step
number two is mastering the subconscious moments. There are two
two times of the day where we're most in our subconscious,
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that state between being awake and being asleep. Notice how
when you're just about to fall asleep, maybe having a
conversation with someone. You're talking to someone and you can
still hear your voice, but you can hear it get
quieter and then slowly it turns off. Or in the morning,
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when you wake up and you allow yourself to just
settle for a few moments, you haven't fully opened your eyes,
you haven't grabbed for your phone yet. You know you're
awake and you're not fully asleep. These two times of
the day are such a powerful time to manifest because
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what we're doing is we're planting ideas deep in our
subconscious that then have the ability to grow fruits and
bear fruits as they grow throughout the day. So what
I've been practicing for a few years now is that
in these subconscious moments, I will implant my affirmations, and
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so I will affirm the mindset I want to live by.
I am living a life of service and impact. I'm
doing it because I believe that everyone deserves the tools,
and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to
share it with billions of people across the world. When
you use those moments, what happens is that cynical, doubtful
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part of you is a bit quieter, that part of
you that's always challenging, maybe even having negative self talk
towards your ideas, is a little bit more silenced, and
you have the ability almost to sneak past that cynical
god and plant that thought. And all you have to
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do is just stop yourself from reaching for your phone
for that thirty seconds to one minute. Have three affirmations
that you've rehearsed, that you know off by heart, that
you remember to say just in that moment. And hey,
by the way, when you first start this, you're going
to get it wrong. You're going to reach for your phone.
And what I want you to do is just let
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go of your phone and maybe even make it the
background of your phone. Make your three affirmations the background
of your phone so you see them, Put your phone down,
close your eyes again, and read them to yourself. I
am followed by whatever it is that you wish to be,
that you wish to become. Now, what does this do.
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It's not magic in the sense that all of a
sudden you wake up and the thing you asked for
is there. That's not how manifestation works. What we're doing
is we're training our subconscious that is already being pulled
towards a negativity bias, that's already being distracted by everything
else that's going wrong. Right, what we find for a
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lot of us is we want to solve the easiest issue,
even if it's not the deepest issue. Right. You want
to solve the problem that makes you feel like you're busy,
as opposed to solve the problem that actually makes your
life easy it's really interesting. And our mind does the
same thing. It rushes towards the things we can solve
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and make us feel productive, even though the thing we're
actually trying to solve is something we're ignoring. And in
these subconscious moments, you get to rewire that. You get
to rewire your attention, your energy, and your focus subconsciously
towards the things that really matter, towards the things that
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you want to be immersed in. If you say that
in the morning, I promise you when it gets to midday,
you'll still be thinking of it subconsciously and you'll actually
make the right decision. If you repeat I am happy,
I'm healthy, and I'm healing, you will make choices that
day to be happier, to be healthier, to be healing.
But when the mindset we wake up with is oh God,
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I'm just so tired, I'm just exhausted, I just I
wish I didn't have to go to work today. Now
that's what you're feeling throughout the day. I call it
the rule of your most repeated thought. You will manifest
your most repeated thought. You can even monitor. This is
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step three. What are your most repeated words to someone?
If someone says, hey, what are you excited about for
this year? And your answer is, oh, I don't know, really,
I haven't really thought about it, and you keep saying that,
what ends up happening. You keep saying it, and you
keep thinking it, and you keep believing it. What we say,
we think, we believe what we think. We say it
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and then believe it. Our beliefs are based on what
we think and say consistently and repeatedly. Your most repeated
thought comes your reality. The thought that you say the most,
the thought that you think the most, is the thought
that you will believe the most and some of the
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things we've said to ourselves for weeks, months, years, and
decades define our trajectory without us even knowing. We have
to shift at a subconscious level to transform our reality.
I know you can do this. I believe you can
do this. And when you repeat these affirmations and these thoughts,
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I want you to mean it in your mind. I
want you to feel it in your heart, and I
want you to believe it in your body. It's really key,
and in these sub conscious times, you're actually able to
do that. Mean it in your mind, believe it in
your body, and feel it in your heart. Step four.
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Visualize the process, not the result. I'll explain what I
mean if I ever say to someone, hey, close your
eyes and visualize who you want to be, where you
want to be. We often visualize the podium, not the process.
We visualize winning, not training. You visualize achieving not building.
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You visualize the ending, not the starting. If you want
manifestation to work for you, if you want to attract
the life that you truly desire, it's about visualizing the process,
not perfection. So many of us wegte so much time
and energy focused on what it will look like when
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we get there. And while it's important to feel that
in our body, it's more important to also train ourselves
to visualize the process waking up early, meditating, working on
our health, building that skill. What does that look like,
because that's the life we have to live. We have
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to visualize the life we have to live in order
to get to the place we want to be. And
it's the life that we live that makes us great enough.
That's what greatness is. Greatness is not achieving the trophy
or winning the award, or getting top of the list.
That's not greatness. Greatness is the discipline you developed. Greatness
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is the energy you harnessed. Greatness is the effort you
put in. Greatness is the skills you learned, the iterations
you made, the improvements and changes you worked hard to
deliver on. That's greatness. So visualize that process. I would
program when I lived in the monastery what I wanted
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my thoughts to be in the morning. I see as coding.
At night, I would code my mind to say I
will wake up fresh, healthy, energized and enthusiastic to meditate.
And whenever I would do that and set that intention
at night, I saw that it programmed and coded my
mind to wake up with that in the morning, and
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if I decided to skip that, I could force myself
to feel that in the morning. But it was so
much easier to code that the night before. You set
your alarm the night before to wake you up the
next morning. You don't set it when you want to
wake up. You set your intention, you set your coding,
you set your energy the night before. Visualize the process.
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Visualize yourself doing the hard things. Visualize yourself strengthening your body,
lifting those weights, going on that run, starting that podcast,
recording an episode. Visualize the parts that are the hard parts,
because those are the parts that your life will be
made up of. Visualize the discomfort, not the comfort, because
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that's what your life will be made up of. Visualize
the hard, not that easy, because that's what your mind
and heart and life will be made up of. Now,
when we talk about visualization, people often talk about vision boards.
I'm a big fan of vision boards. Why because again,
we're giving data to the mind. When I was growing up,
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I remember my wall was covered in lyrics, posters of rappers,
music lines from interviews. It was surrounded I was fully
immersed by musicians, lyricists, poets. I would stick up all
this stuff with tac on my wall. My mum it
drove her crazy because it would ruin the wallpaper or
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the paint or whatever she had under it. But I
loved it. And what happened that was my life. Everything
that I said sounded lyrical, everything that I felt affected me,
Everything I listened to was transforming my life. That's what
vision boards are, not an activity you do for two
hours and then just stick it up there. It's something
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that allows you to immerse. And it's also picking things
that really motivate you. I think sometimes we do a
vision board very theoretically, but does that specific thing, does
that specific feeling mean something to you? And if it
is just a thing, a material thing, we have to
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realize what does it stand for? What am I really
looking for? Because sometimes you're not really wanting that car.
You're wanting confidence. You're not really wanting that home. You're
wanting safety. Let's think about that for a second. You
don't just want that car. You want confidence that you
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think comes with that car. You don't want that home.
You want safety that you believe comes with that home.
You don't just want that business, you want this self
esteem that you believe comes from that business building it.
And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important
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that you also create a verbal board, a verbal board
of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into.
This is the biggest mistake people make with vision boards.
They only have things, and then when they get the thing,
they're unhappy, and when they don't get the thing, they're unhappy.
But when you recognize that that thing represented a deeper
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feeling that you were craving, that you were chasing, that
you are pursuing, that becomes a worthy pursuit. Pursuing confidence
is greater than pursuing the car, and the car will
come anyway. Pursuing safety is greater than pursuing that home,
and the home will come anyway. Pursuing joy and abundance
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will attract more than pursuing a material thing that may
look like it stands for that. As much as you
pursue and have a vision board, have a verbal board
of emotions and emotional vocabulary that you're pursuing. Our purpose
in life is to pursue that vocabulary, is to pursue
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those emotions, is to pursue those feelings and figure out
where they come from and where they arise. The next
step as you're manifesting is you have to ask yourself,
what's multiplying in my life? So what's going well? Because
you need to zone into that. I think a lot
of the time we only focus on what's going wrong.
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And when you only focus on what's going wrong, you're
not able to double down on what's going well. So
first start with what's multiplying in my life, what's cascading,
what's just growing in my life and doing extremely, extremely well?
And then what's actually needing to be subtracted from my life?
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And then and what do I need to edit in
my life. One of the things I love, which I
learned about through speaking to some of my friends who
are therapists, is the seven seven seven method. The seven
seven seven method evolves writing down what you are trying
to manifest seven times in the morning and seven times
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at night for seven days in a row. Again, what
are we doing here? What we're doing is we're programming
your mind to be focused, We're programming your energy to
be directed. I speak to so many people who say, Jay,
I want to start a podcast, I want to start
a business, And when I say to them, well, what
have you been reading about for the last seven days?
They go politics. I go, got it, all right, Well
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that isn't align. There is an alignment there. Someone will
say to me, Jay, I already want to write a book,
and I go, great, what have you been reading recently?
What have you been learning about recently? And they say, oh,
I've just been watching the football and I go okay,
Well that is an align. Gandhi said it better. He
said that you experience harmony when what you think, what
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you say, and what you do are in alignment. And
I think a lot of us are misaligned. And so
I want you to really reflect on how are you
spending your free time? Is your free time does it
sound like the life you want to live? When your
free time becomes immersed in the life you want to live,
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your non free time becomes that life, And so you
want to practice, You actually want to build that skill,
You want to build that life that you so want
to live in that free thirty minutes you have per day,
rather than say I really want to do that, but
that's not what I'm focused on. I really want to
build that, but that's not where my energy is. And
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I think so many of us are living a misaligned life,
and that's actually what's causing our challenges. Our stress and
challenges are not created because we don't have good intentions,
we don't have God, we don't have clear ideas. It's
because our energy and our focus are misaligned and distracted.
You can't attract the life you want if you live
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a distracted life. You can't create alignment if you're living
a misaligned life. If your energy is all over the
place and your focus is dispersed, it won't suddenly shift
into feeling like an arrow. It just doesn't work that way, right,
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It doesn't work that way if you're shooting lots of arrows,
or if you're looking everywhere, like let's say you're saying
this is how it actually goes. You're saying, I want
this arrow to hit the bull's eye. I wanted to
hit that red dot in the middle. But I'm actually
looking around at the leaves. I'm looking around at the trees.
I'm looking around at the person over there who's kicking
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a soccer ball around football, looking over that side because
someone's playing with their child and looking over that. You know,
it's like, but my energy is so distracted, how can
I attract that goal? And then, by the way, when
you take the shot, you miss the target. Every ounce
of our being has to be focused and fixated on
that target. And you say, well, Jay, how can I
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because I have so many other responsibilities, And you're right,
you do and you have to do all those responsibilities.
But at the same time you're thinking about that target.
You're thinking about how what you're learning here applies to
that target. You're not seeing it as a space of friction,
like these things are against each other. You're actually saying,
if I solve that target, I'll actually be better at
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all these things I'm distracted by, right, I'll actually make
better decisions. I was saying this to a friend recently,
where he was trying to solve something for his family,
and he's also trying to build his business, and I said, well,
if you've built that business, you'd be able to solve
that problem for your family. But while you think you're
trying to solve the problem for your family, you actually
just creating longer term issues because you're not solving the
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root of the problem. Often, if you look at a tree,
you can try and spray the leaves, you can take
care of the branches. But if we're not watering and
nourishing the roots, it's not going to survive. One of
my other favorite methods is keeping books open in random places.
A book near my bedside table, which is all about sleep,
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a book on my office table, which is all about creativity.
A book in my living room, which is all about
community and relationships. Even if you read one paragraph while
you're walking through that room, I promise you it's enough.
I've spent years reading, you know, trying to read a
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book a day, trying to read a book a week.
It's been amazing. I've learned a lot. But that's just
not practical for most people. But if you just read
one paragraph a day, one line a day, here's the thing.
You can read a whole book and it will don't
change your life until you live one line. Read one
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line of a book and try to live it. Then
read the next line and try to live it. Not
only will this make you want to read the next line,
it will make you realize how powerful every line is,
and you won't just understand it, you live realized how
knowledge can transform your life because you applied it. Read study, apply,
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read study, apply, read study, apply, read, study, apply, apply
what you're reading. Keep books open in random places. Read
one line. I promise you if you keep them open
on a page, your eyes will be drawn to it,
rather than this idea of well, I'm scrolling on my
phone walking through this place. Books on a shelf, haven't
opened it, don't know what the first page is about,
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right it just you keep putting it off. This is
how manifestation works. You're surrounding yoursel in that space with
the energy that you want it to have. Remember, as
I said in things like a monk, location has energy,
time has memory. And the final step I want to
share with you today is write things down on post
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it notes near your mirror, your bedside, and on your laptop.
Those affirmations, those belief systems, the ideas, they have to
be around you so that your subconscious is just absorbing
them like a sponge. Our subconscious is like a child.
It absorbs whatever atmosphere it's in. And what ends up
happening is we often say, oh, when I'm at home,
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that's when I get immersed, but when I'm at work,
I'm not there. We want to stay connected and rooted
to that energy at all times throughout the day. I
really hope, actually, I know, this will help you manifest
the life that you desire. If you practice these principles,
share them with me on Instagram, on TikTok, share your clips,
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share your stories. I want to see what you're learning,
how you're growing this year. I'm with you all the way.
I'm with you all the way. I'm rooting for you
on forever in your corner. We're building this together. Twenty
twenty five is your year. This is the year on
Purpose is going to help you there. I'm going to
help you get there. Stay committed, stay connected here, and
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I'll be back. Thank you so much. If you love
this episode, you will also love my interview with Charles
Douhig on how to hack your brain, change any habit effortlessly,
and the secret to making better decisions. Look, am I
hesitating on this because I'm scared of making the choice,
because I'm scared of doing the work, Or am I
sitting with this because it just doesn't feel right yet
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Jay Shetty
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