119: How to Easily Grow Your Business With Manifestation Rituals

If manifestation rituals are supposed to grow your business… why does it still feel like you’re stuck in hustle mode?

This week on the Live Life Unapologetically podcast, we’re going deeper than vision boards and affirmations. I’m walking you through the manifestation ritual no one talks about and why it’s the secret step that makes all your “acting as if” actually work.

You can’t step into the version of you who runs an aligned, abundant business if your life is cluttered with habits, energy, and environments that SHE would never choose.

In this episode on using manifestation rituals for business growth, you’ll learn:

• Why your manifestation energy feels blocked no matter how many affirmations you say
• The difference between embodying your next-level self and performing her
• How physical, emotional, and energetic clutter sabotages your ability to act as if
• The exact prep work that makes your manifesting practices stick
• Why building systems isn’t just strategy, it’s a manifestation technique that actually works
• How to create space (mentally + literally) so success has room to land

Whether you're just starting your business or scaling into your next level, this episode will help you release what’s outdated, organize your life to support alignment, and tap into manifestation rituals that actually move the needle.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Actions Before Affirmations – My book that helps you declutter and align your life to support manifestation
• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza* 

*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Chapters

• 0:42 Introduction to Manifestation Rituals
• 2:33 Breaking Habits of Being Yourself
• 5:30 Acting As If vs. Performing
• 7:54 Creating Space To Receive
• 11:26 From Worker to Business Owner Mindset
• 16:29 Your Business Serves You

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:21

Today we are jumping right into moving forward in our businesses with manifestation rituals to easily grow your business and in fact, we are going to focus on one in particular. If you are new here, I am Shannon and I welcome you to the show today For my returning listeners. How are you? As you know, I took last week off for my son's graduation and it was incredible. The actual graduation ceremony and the out-of-town excursion and the grad party were chef's kiss. It was truly amazing, enjoyable and relaxing, though on our way back into town we did run into the severe thunderstorms and had to stop and wait it out for an hour at a truck stop, so that was definitely an adventure I was not counting on.

Speaker 1: 1:03

But driving that 12 hours, which turned into 15 hours in one day, gave me tons of time to construct this episode in my mind as I drove. You see, we talk a ton about how we have to embody the person we want to be in business and in life, to be an energetic match for her. We chat about manifestation rituals like scripting, vision boarding, visualizing. We chat about manifestation rituals like scripting, vision boarding, visualizing, affirmations and more. I do believe the most powerful of them all is acting as if. But there is another manifestation ritual that you need to perform before you can begin to act as if and to truly do it with your whole self, to truly bring your whole self into acting as if, and that my love is letting go to let in creating space for the version of you that you want. In a nutshell, you can't embody her, the her you want to be, in your business, in your life, if it is too full of shit that she wouldn't choose, which means it's time to release some things and do some prep work so you can truly step into acting as if without outdated stuff getting in the way. So grab your favorite drink, cozy up and let's get started. I want to ask you a serious question how are you acting as if and embodying the woman you want to be when you are in a loop of old habits and stale energy? The person you are today, that which is in your life today, the results that you get in your business right now, are a direct reflection of your habits.

Speaker 1: 2:35

Dr Joe Dispenza has an entire book called Breaking the Habit of being Yourself, which I will link in the show notes, and I highly recommend. When I first saw the title of the book, I was like damn, does that mean who I am isn't good enough and I need an overhaul? I think for me, I always want to reiterate to you guys that who you are isn't broken and that there is nothing wrong with you just as you are. I think this is important because many times we are made to feel like there is something fundamentally wrong with us and within us that needs healing or fixing, and that isn't the case when you are a woman who is starting a business. You're doing something new, so you have to break the habits and energy of the old to step into a new adventure. We create and attract from our beliefs, and we have to build our beliefs to match our new desires, our evolved desires.

Speaker 1: 3:33

When I say evolved desires, I'm talking about those of you who may have had business for some time, but you want to revamp what you're currently doing to match a new desire of something that has come up. You're just evolving and that just means breaking habits. The habits we go through are really just ways of being that have been stored in our subconscious and they dictate most of what we do. So we have to break the version that no longer serves us and create a new version to match the new desire. When I talk about old habits, especially for business growth, I'm talking about the habit of being the worker instead of the visionary. If you've spent your life working for others, that you is the habit that comes into your business. That was me. It's all of us, because that is what is known to our subconscious. There are worker habits that need to be released and visionary habits that need to replace them because, make no mistake, you are the visionary of your business. There may be habits of hustling, grinding or going above and beyond that drain you because of the societal pressure of the old you to prove your worth through your output or trying to beat out the person for the promotion In business. You're not competing to be promoted. You're building to make impact. I want you to think about the business you want, the life it affords and how you want to be in your business.

Speaker 1: 5:03

Do your current habits, actions and daily life authentically and truly match that woman? Do you see her show up daily or do you tell yourself that you will be her once you make six figures or once you hit certain milestones in your business? You can't act as if to match your desires if you're holding on to old habits and energies. That's like trying to swim upstream. Now, I've talked about this before in a previous episode. But acting as if is not the same as faking it till you make it. You aren't performing, you are embodying. You are making decisions that direct you as if you are her, whatever her is to you. You see, if you are performing, then you say well, a CEO boss bitch would get up at 5 am and work out, then she'd eat all natural foods for breakfast, then she would do a 27-step morning routine, and then and then, and then you get the point Basically performing, based on some social media vlog you saw of some other kick-ass woman who is doing business with success. But what if you hate those things? Well then you're just performing and not embodying the true you that you seek. So first you need to figure out what that version of you's day-to-day actually feels like. Then you need to create an environment for her to thrive. You need to create the conditions necessary for you to act as if, consistently, so you can get where you're trying to go quickly.

Speaker 1: 6:40

To do this, I always say start with your physical environment, because that matters so much and it is often the place of preparing to act as if that gets lost. You cannot embark on acting as if without a little prep work. You can't just wake up tomorrow and decide to act as if and your whole environment is disheveled. You need to just prepare your way there, because if your environment feels distracted, frustrating or overwhelmed, then you're not going to be able to hold the thoughts, feelings and take the actions of the her you are seeking to call in. So clean up your shit. I have an entire book that walks you through the process so that you can open up to the physical space. It's called Actions Before Affirmations and I'll stick that in the show notes as well.

Speaker 1: 7:29

We've chatted about habits and energy and your physical space, because all of that clutter can block your alignment and you have to get into alignment of who you are trying to call in. Once again, whatever you see in your 3D reality today is because of the habits of yesterday. So whatever you are doing at this very moment is going to attract the same thing in your future. So we have to be in the habit of the person that we want today to be, as if today has already happened In my business. I learned that when I created systems.

Speaker 1: 8:03

As a business owner the business owner I wanted to be not only did I have more time because things were organized, because one of my desires was that I didn't work all the time, so I had to get some stuff together to embody that, but not to mention that but that organizing my life gave me more time to embody the me I was trying to be with manifestation practices, making choices and being able to say yes to things that make me happy, because I created space to receive those things. Now you're probably thinking about how you have to do all of the things in your business because you're a one-lady operation. I'm still a one-lady operation, so when I asked myself how can I embody the person that has a team to help her, it occurred to me that I needed to be prepared to hand off tasks. I have a blog process, a Pinterest process, a podcast process, a content process. I have a system for every aspect of my business. At any moment, I can hire a person to do any of the things and it is ready to be done in a way that suits my needs and time schedule. That is part of the unspoken ritual to manifest easy business growth the ritual to once again.

Speaker 1: 9:18

Let go to let in In all ways possible, including your habits, your energy and your environment. I started by cleaning up my Google Drive and building quick systems so that I had time Time to travel, time to say yes to opportunities without being stressed, time to serve clients in the way I wanted to. I didn't want to rush my clients and, honestly, I'm that coach that is all up in your stuff holding your hand along the way, so I wanted to be available for that. I couldn't embody the business owner and coach. I wanted to be without organization. I also do not work well in mess, so I needed a cleaning system for my home, because I work from home and I don't have a janitorial staff like corporate offices do. So I needed to organize that to stay focused. My habits needed to be changed to not work like the worker but like a boss. I am a master worker and I'm pretty sure you're a master worker too, because master workers are the ones who usually go out there and start their businesses. I'm telling you I'm a superior employee and I worked my entire life perfecting, being the model employee.

Speaker 1: 10:38

I had to shift my mindset and let go of so much to transform into the businesswoman I want to be, not because I sucked at business, but because I was new to it. It was something I had never done before. Just like I learned and developed habits to be a great employee, I needed to do the same thing to be a great business owner, and I'm still learning what that means to me. That's why in the beginning, when I was talking to you, I said it doesn't mean that you're broken or there's something wrong with you or that you need to heal. Many times when we're acting as if and embodying who we want to be, it's because we're going on a growth and learning process to be that person, to develop those habits, because acting as if is having the thoughts, emotions and actions. That's what create habits and our habits go to our subconscious. They become as easy as breathing or driving. That's when you step into her. That's when you quantum shift.

Speaker 1: 11:43

Not because there was something fundamentally wrong with you, not that you have to be a better you. It's just a new you, because you have a new desire or you're taking a new path. When I was on my trip and driving, we were going through roads in Backwoods, alabama, because we went to Alabama and it's not as developed, as where I am from in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, and I was looking at us going down the road and the road was completely surrounded by trees. It's truly just roads through forest. But think about it Before that road was put there, it was simply forest. That path had to be forged to go from one place to another place, and that is what it is when you are embodying, when you're acting as if You're clearing away and making a path to get from where you are to where you want to go.

Speaker 1: 12:43

Not because you're broken, you're just trying to go on a new adventure. So you need new habits because the new place you're going to be different than you were in the old place, and that's okay. Change is okay, and I think that's what gets lost and I really want to stress that today when we're talking about acting as if, because many times people will tell you that you are this, that and the other thing because your thoughts are wrong, because your thoughts are incorrect and you need to change your mindset and thoughts to get where you need to go. No, you're changing your mindset and thoughts because you have a new desire. That's it. You're just releasing what no longer serves you and going to thoughts, emotions, actions that serve where you're trying to go. Now that's it. And to do that, we do have to let go. We have to break those old habits, those old energies, those old thought processes, because they're just not serving us anymore. And that is okay. Like I said, I was a great worker, but being a worker does not serve me as being a business owner, so I have to break the worker habits. Still, I have to break the worker habits.

Speaker 1: 14:05

I caught myself acting like in my business if I don't get this done, you know I'm going to get in trouble, like you know, when you don't complete something at work and you get a write-up because you don't get your job done, like I had that mentality, like that pressure or that stress, and I thought, well, I have to put that pressure and stress on myself so that I do meet deadlines in my business, because you can't do business willy-nilly. But really it is a different mindset how do I want my business to flow? When do I want things to be done by and how does it serve me? Not how does this serve the business, like you would serve a boss, but how does this business serve me. And that's when I got to organizing and doing things. I do have deadlines. Like I said, I didn't do a podcast last week because it didn't serve me last week. I don't think it's the end of the world, but there would have been a day where I would have felt like I had to double my workload to get ready to go on vacation. Like that's worker mentality I have to get all this stuff done and prepared so I can go on vacation, so things can run smoothly while I'm gone. But I didn't have that and that's the first time I actually haven't had. Okay, because my business serves me and I have great systems, so when I come back I can just step right back into it.

Speaker 1: 15:21

So what does that look like for you? Because acting as if is the most potent manifestation ritual you can use. Why is that? Because it encompasses your thoughts, your feelings and your actions, which is the powerhouse of manifestation. You can't act as if if you're saddled with old habits, old spaces and old energy. You can't bring in the new if you don't let go of the old. You need to create space for things.

Speaker 1: 15:48

I like to say you can't add new silk undies to an already full panty drawer. You got to get rid of some to have spots for the new ones. Okay. So this week I need you to identify old habits that are keeping you as the worker and not the visionary. Start to map out systems to make your business flow efficiently and get rid of junk, both physical and mental, that are dragging your energy down. If you want to step by step and to get your hand held through this process, go get my book action before affirmations to guide you through so that you can act as if from a place of embodiment and not performance that is fake. I will chat with you next week.