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- 0:00Michelle Gauthier: We really attract what we pay attention to.
- 0:08Michelle Gauthier: You're listening to Overwhelmed Working Woman, the podcast that helps you be more calm and more productive by doing less.
- 0:15Michelle Gauthier: I'm your host, Michelle Gauthier, a former Overwhelmed Working Woman and current life coach.
- 0:20Michelle Gauthier: On this show, we unpack the stress and pressure that today's Working Woman experiences.
- 0:25Michelle Gauthier: And in each episode, you'll get a strategy to bring more calm, ease, and relaxation to your life.
- 0:35Michelle Gauthier: Hello, friend.
- 0:37Michelle Gauthier: In the spirit of it being a new year and vision boards and much talk about manifesting, I want to share a quick tip with you for how to manifest something or anything that you want in your life.
- 0:52Michelle Gauthier: If you roll your eyes at the idea of manifesting and the idea that you can just think about something and you can have it in your life, that is fine.
- 1:01Michelle Gauthier: That's okay if you think that.
- 1:02Michelle Gauthier: Just stick with me and trust me.
- 1:04Michelle Gauthier: I'm going to tell you how to think about manifestation, why it works, and give you one cool trick that you can try.
- 1:13Michelle Gauthier: So my car has been in the shop.
- 1:15Michelle Gauthier: It's got something wrong with it.
- 1:17Michelle Gauthier: And so I've had a loner car for two weeks now, a long time.
- 1:20Michelle Gauthier: The car is nothing special that would necessarily catch your eye.
- 1:24Michelle Gauthier: It's just a small silver SUV.
- 1:27Michelle Gauthier: And so the other day, my daughter pointed out as we were going through a drive-thru to get coffee, she pointed out to me a matching SUV to this loner car that we have.
- 1:36Michelle Gauthier: And she said, Why do I see those everywhere we go now?
- 1:39Michelle Gauthier: And I said, I will tell you exactly why you see those everywhere we go right now if you really want to know.
- 1:45Michelle Gauthier: Because guess what?
- 1:46Michelle Gauthier: My kids don't think it's cool that I'm a life coach and I'm into these kinds of things.
- 1:50Michelle Gauthier: And she's like, Yeah, seriously, tell me why.
- 1:52Michelle Gauthier: So here's what I explained to her and what I also want to explain to you.
- 1:56Michelle Gauthier: Here's why we keep seeing this car that we have been driving for two weeks.
- 2:01Michelle Gauthier: It's because of our reticular activating system or the RAS, which is a part of our brain that acts as a filter for information.
- 2:09Michelle Gauthier: This part of our brain filters the millions of pieces of stimuli and information that we get in a day and decides which ones are important enough for us to focus on.
- 2:20Michelle Gauthier: So for example, once we had this car and we would be walking out of somewhere and in the parking lot and looking for our particular car, both of our brains decided, oh, okay, that is something that should come to consciousness when you see that car.
- 2:34Michelle Gauthier: So we have been driving past probably the exact same amount of silver medium-sized SUVs.
- 2:40Michelle Gauthier: But now that we have one or we temporarily have one, we keep noticing it and seeing it everywhere we go.
- 2:47Michelle Gauthier: And it's not because there are more in the world, it's because our brain was trained to look for that and to pay attention to that.
- 2:54Michelle Gauthier: And so she was like, okay, well, that's kind of interesting.
- 2:58Michelle Gauthier: I said, just pick a thing that you want to see and you want to come into your consciousness in the next day or two.
- 3:05Michelle Gauthier: It can be anything.
- 3:06Michelle Gauthier: So she's thinking about it in the car, and we're kind of going back and forth on a couple of things.
- 3:10Michelle Gauthier: She's like, Okay, this is so random, but gnomes.
- 3:12Michelle Gauthier: I want to see a gnome.
- 3:13Michelle Gauthier: I'm like, okay, perfect.
- 3:15Michelle Gauthier: Done.
- 3:15Michelle Gauthier: You put the message in, you will definitely see a gnome.
- 3:18Michelle Gauthier: And this was on Sunday.
- 3:20Michelle Gauthier: And later that night, she was playing some game that she plays on her phone.
- 3:23Michelle Gauthier: I don't even know what the game is.
- 3:25Michelle Gauthier: And she got a new character that she didn't get to pick, and it just popped up and it was a gnome.
- 3:30Michelle Gauthier: She's like, Mom, there was a gnome.
- 3:32Michelle Gauthier: I totally manifested a gnome.
- 3:35Michelle Gauthier: But I think based on the explanation that I just gave you, it makes so much sense because she could have had that same thing happen.
- 3:41Michelle Gauthier: But if she wasn't looking for a gnome, that gnome would have still popped up, but it just wouldn't have meant anything to her.
- 3:48Michelle Gauthier: Okay, so maybe being able to attract a gnome into your life via a video game is like, yeah, so what?
- 3:55Michelle Gauthier: Who cares?
- 3:55Michelle Gauthier: But I think it's just an important reminder to us that we really attract what we pay attention to.
- 4:02Michelle Gauthier: So if you translate that, the idea of looking for a gnome into looking for a great relationship or looking for calm or looking for clients or looking for any opportunity that you want in your life, it simply cannot hurt to bring that idea to consciousness.
- 4:23Michelle Gauthier: It probably will not be a surprise to you that I love vision boards and that I'm very into manifesting.
- 4:29Michelle Gauthier: And I'm gonna do more on this topic.
- 4:32Michelle Gauthier: I'm gonna actually share with you how to create a vision board in case you want to make one for this year and tell you exactly what's on mine.
- 4:39Michelle Gauthier: And then I'm gonna schedule an episode on my calendar to give you updates on how often these things are coming true and in what form they come true.
- 4:48Michelle Gauthier: So, in order for you to get on this journey with me to open the idea that manifesting is possible, I want you to choose your own thing.
- 4:56Michelle Gauthier: Is it a gnome?
- 4:58Michelle Gauthier: Is yours seeing a cardinal?
- 5:01Michelle Gauthier: It can be literally anything you want, something so random, something that you might not even see at this time of the year.
- 5:07Michelle Gauthier: My friend Susan Hyatt, who's also a coach, tells a story about how she was very skeptical about manifesting.
- 5:14Michelle Gauthier: And so she was doing a course in the summer, and the teacher was encouraging them to pick something, and she picked a fruitcake, thinking there's no way I'm gonna see a fruitcake in the middle of summer.
- 5:24Michelle Gauthier: And on her flight on the way home, she was reading one of those in-flight magazines that has like every random gift in them.
- 5:29Michelle Gauthier: Do they even still have those magazines now that I think about it?
- 5:32Michelle Gauthier: But you know what I'm talking about.
- 5:34Michelle Gauthier: They used to have all this cool stuff in them.
- 5:36Michelle Gauthier: And one of the things that they had that you could order was a fruitcake, and she was like, Okay, I'm sold.
- 5:41Michelle Gauthier: I saw fruitcake two days after thinking of it in the middle of July.
- 5:44Michelle Gauthier: That kind of stuff just happens all the time.
- 5:47Michelle Gauthier: So pick your fruitcake, pick your gnome, and send me a message when you see it.
- 5:51Michelle Gauthier: I can't wait to hear, and we will continue in this journey of learning how to manifest.
- 5:56Michelle Gauthier: Because if the universe wants to give you and show you everything you want, why not place an order?
- 6:03Michelle Gauthier: Thank you for listening to the Overwhelmed Working Woman podcast.
- 6:10Michelle Gauthier: If you want to learn more about my work, head over to my website at michellegauthier.com.
- 6:16Michelle Gauthier: See you next week.