Get Off You're Butt and Start Manifesting your Dreams.By Jonna Ivin
In 2006 the movie The Secret wasreleased on DVD and people were buzzing with excitement over the idea thatanyone was capable of manifesting their wishes and desires. The biggest key wasto believe that it was already true, that you already had love, prosperity,good health and anything else your heart desired. All you had to do was believeit to be true and it would be. Sounds easy, right? So why was it so hard?

It was in the believing part that Ifailed miserably. Sure I could cut out pictures from magazines and glue them toa vision board and as a writer I was an expert at focusing on every pretenddetail of my storybook made-up life. The color of the walls in my futurekitchen, or the way my future husband's dimples always make me smile, nothingwas left to chance. It was laid out perfectly in my mind. Too bad I never thoughtit would actually happen. For years, I read books, tookclasses and did everything I could think of to try and force The Secret to workin my life. As I sat in numerous mediation and visioning groups, I'd repeatsilently, "I am surrounded by love. The man of my dreams loves me."Unfortunately that nagging voice of reason in the back of my mind would rudelyfollow with, "Except, I am going home alone to an empty house." Affirmationsdeclaring my endless prosperity were swiftly dismissed with my thoughts of, "IfI'm so prosperous why is my phone about to be cut off?" I couldn't manifestjack-diddly-squat.
Then in 2008, Hurricane Ike hit thecoast of Texas and my life would never be the same. I volunteered for the RedCross having no idea I was on my way to manifesting the biggest dream of mylife. When I arrived in Beaumont, Texas I met a man. He was a 20 year veteranwith the Army Special Forces and after knowing him for a short time, andeventually falling in love I heard a whispering of intuition that I was goingto write a book about him. Finally the The Secret had paid off and I hadmanifested the man of my dreams. Not only was he the love of my life, but I wasalso following my dream of becoming a writer. I'd manifested two dreams for theprice of one. I could never have foreseen theroad my life would take with this man, or where I would end up as a result.Never in my wildest dreams did I think this Cali girl would move to the swampsof Louisiana and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas or that my dream man wouldturn out to be my worst nightmare. Eventually I did leave the south and thisman behind to head to the Pacific Northwest where I eventually wrote my memoirWill Love For Crumbs. It was not the book I thought I would be writing. It wasmuch better. When I sat down to begin the writingprocess it was the first time in my life I wasn't pushing and struggling to tryto make something happen. I just knew. I just believed without a doubt that Iwould finish writing and publish this book. How it would happen or when itwould happen didn't matter. All I knew was that it would happen no matter what.Finally, after all these years Iunderstood what it meant to manifest. It wasn't about how hard I could pray, orthe thousands of times I repeated the same mantra. It was about seeing the goalin front of me and each day taking one step closer to achieving it. Even when Ididn't know what I was doing or what I would do next, I kept it simple. Onetask at a time was all it took and yes, the Universe rose up and supported mydream.

I finally understood that therewere two components to manifesting your dreams; believing it was possible and getting off your butt to dosomething about it. One cannot exist without the other. Affirmations, prayer,meditation and positive thinking keep you focused on the right path. Effort andwork keeps you moving forward.



Jonna Ivin currently lives inVancouver, Washington. She is busy working on the film adaptation of her memoirand editing Loving For Crumbs - An Anthology.An audio book version of Will LoveFor Crumbs will be released in the summer/fall 2012

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Dang! Jonna that was post that shock and shook me up. Makes me want to read your book. Thank you so much for sharing. It was truly exceptional.