Manifesting your horse life?

[jw1970]

Do you believe in the power of manifesting your goals / dreams / life?

I’ve had a number of experiences where I’ve practiced manifesting techniques regarding goals in my life around horses.

I’ve experienced this through less refined technics and am starting to believe I’ve really limited my life by setting the bar too low. I wanted to earn X amount of money to afford horses in a particular way and that’s exactly where I have gotten. Now I’m realizing I should have made the goal/dream bigger.

In my 50s is it too late to rewrite my story? Any tips, authors, pod casts you enjoy and have found helpful in recreating your life’s vision?

[islgrl]

No advice but 50’s is not too late to change your life. I think if you want to change you should go ahead and try!

[Foxglove]

My ma started her first newspaper at 50 --maybe not a big step as she was a successful newspaper reporter until then. I remember reaching 50 myself and thinking what a big step that was --I started teaching and pretty much did the same job for 40 years until I retired–never wanted to advance to anything more --I loved the classroom.

Ma sold her newspaper after 5 years to a bigger newspaper on condition they hire her to be an editor --unusual for a woman in the 1960s --but she did that job for another 20 years until computers forced her out --she could never successfully edit on a computer screen and that was the future of newspapers.

[Texarkana]

I feel this.

I’m not very good at the whole “manifesting” thing. But at the same time, I’m at a crossroads in my life and I would like to find a way to seize the reins and take it in the direction I want, so to speak.

Curious to follow along and see if anyone has any tangible suggestions on ways to get started rewriting your story.

[NaturallyHappy]

@Texarkana

Curious to follow along and see if anyone has any tangible suggestions on ways to get started rewriting your story.

Me, too. I am very good at helping others, but fail miserably when it comes to me.

[Scribbler]

@jw1970

Do you believe in the power of manifesting your goals / dreams / life?

I’ve had a number of experiences where I’ve practiced manifesting techniques regarding goals in my life around horses.

I’ve experienced this through less refined technics and am starting to believe I’ve really limited my life by setting the bar too low. I wanted to earn X amount of money to afford horses in a particular way and that’s exactly where I have gotten. Now I’m realizing I should have made the goal/dream bigger.

In my 50s is it too late to rewrite my story? Any tips, authors, pod casts you enjoy and have found helpful in recreating your life’s vision?

I don’t believe particularly in wasting my time energy and money to listen to self help gurus tell me how to get ahead.

What has worked for me is setting goals that have concrete steps, having fall back strategies and then putting in the work to learn to do.the thing

It is true that after a certain point you get enough stability that you don’t want to needlessly risk that by tearing off on a new tangent. Whether that stability feels trapped and limiting or else like a sense of accomplishment and safety is up to the individual.

[rulex]

@jw1970

Do you believe in the power of manifesting your goals / dreams / life?

I don’t know that I would know how to do it, but in retrospect there are times when I can’t help but wonder if I somehow did? We spent a long time looking for just the right horse property. Looking at google maps I found an area that I thought would be the ideal location. But properties didn’t often come up for sale, or when they did they were over our budget. I remember doing a drive by of one property that was listed but over our budget. I loved the area and wished we could move there but accepted that we could probably never afford it.

Several months later a property came up in that area that ticked all our boxes. It was still over our budget but our realtor helped us move quickly and put in a lowball offer. To our surprise, the sellers accepted it. I still feel the urge to pinch myself when I’m riding around the neighborhood and can’t believe we live here.

I will say that times I dreamt for something and then it happened, it was never smooth or handed on a silver platter. An opportunity will present itself (one of hundreds of others that you need to grind through) and ultimately you need to just go for it even if it’s out of your comfort zone at the time.

[CinchyMare]

In regards to manifesting i like to replay what i want before i go to sleep at night…so i turn on youtube and play videos of what i aspire to be before i fall asleep.

[LilRanger]

@jw1970

In my 50s is it too late to rewrite my story?

Definitely not too late. Ghengis Khan didn’t start his empire building till he was well into his 50s either.

[Argo]

I will say that asking how to manifest can be like asking how to piaffe on a horse…without learning how to halt, walk and trot. Manifesting comes after identifying the egoic mind and social conditioning.

If you reach an age and stage where you’re saying ‘Is this it? I want more!’, then you’re still seeking, grasping outside yourself. ‘Getting ahead’…. of what? The person next to you? That is egoic superiority. Ego can also present as a suffering victim mentality like ‘If only I had a different life story.’ Once you can recognize how complete you already are, despite the mind’s chatter and comparisons, you can be relaxed, content and use your mind rather than have it run you.

What kinds of opportunities and ideas could come up once you’re able to see them and accept them? Can you see how many delightful surprises are within every day? How do we feel around people who are needy, ambitious, striving, or satisfied, peaceful and calm?

You’ll be ‘swimming against the stream’ at first, then see the stream for what it is and simply step out of it. Recommended authors include Viktor Frankl, Peter Levine, Ichiro Kishimi, Susan David, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Eckhart Tolle.

I like the saying ‘If you want butterflies, don’t grab a net and go chasing, tend to your garden instead.’

[Heinz_57]

@jw1970

Any tips, authors, pod casts you enjoy and have found helpful in recreating your life’s vision?

I came across the 369 Journal in the course of my work, and I like the approach. I’m not sure how effective the 3-6-9 journaling part is as I have only been writing in mine for a couple weeks, not really enough time for anything to “come true” as it were, but I will say I’ve noticed a drastic change in the way I think about things (and how I phrase them to myself). The way we talk to ourselves has a huge impact, IMO. I have been using mine to manifest financial goals but I’d love to put it to use in the horse aspect, too.

FWIW the one I have is the Limitless Edition, black cover. I haven’t looked at any of the other versions.

[Texarkana]

@Argo

I will say that asking how to manifest can be like asking how to piaffe on a horse…without learning how to halt, walk and trot. Manifesting comes after identifying the egoic mind and social conditioning.

I like this analogy. It makes sense to me. It also helps me realize what I’m missing when motivational types say things like, “start living the life you want!”

I speak for myself when I say my motivation isn’t about bettering my neighbor or having a victim’s mentality. It’s more about figuring out how I can take the gifts I have and have been given and take everything to the next level. I feel like there’s a next step in my life, I just don’t know how to reach it… if that makes any sense. I need to learn those W/T/C basics for manifesting.

You mention Viktor Frankl. I recently read A Man’s Search For Meaning. It left me… underwhelmed. I was more swept up in the atrocities he and his fellow men endured than understanding how to apply his theories to myself.

[Argo]

After reading a number of personal development books, there does seem to be a theme of ‘here are some examples of absolutely awful circumstances some other person went through’ and I wonder about the value of that.

In terms of ‘OK, what’s next?’, it implies dissatisfaction with what IS NOW. Tolle’s writings could help.