E12: Is manifestation as simple as ordering a sandwich?

On today's episode, I take you back in time to 13 months ago when I first talked about the Correlation between Manifestation and How you order a Sandwich.  As always I invite you to connect with me online or inside of the Mindful Mindset Coaching Group.

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Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of the Positive Voice Podcast. This is your host, Coach Chef Kim. So, guys, listen, um, one of the things I've been thinking about a lot lately is how I am in a season of transition. I can literally feel it. Like the energy around me feels different. Um, the things I think about are different, the signs that I'm seeing are different. You know how like people are like they see angel numbers all the time or they see repetitive numbers. Um, I keep seeing sequential numbers, which typically indicates that you are in a season of transition. So I literally every single day see one, two, three, four on the clock. I see it at 12:34 a.m. and 1234 p.m. Um, I see 111 222 333. Um, I I see these numbers on a daily basis, and so I'm very aware that the universe is alerting me that something is happening. Um, to the point that this past week I did a prayer of clarification, or did a prayer for clarification. So let me kind of explain to you just a little bit what that looks like before we hop fully into this episode. So um for me, what that looks like was I was, you know, asking the universe, asking God, whomever you believe in, right? Asking source to help me see things clearly. If there is something or someone that is in my life um and they don't need to be, make that known. Like there's no doubt, no question about it. It's a hard no, right? Like I need hard no's in my life right now. If we are supposed to be in a different place, I wanted that to be known as well. And within about 12 hours, uh like I woke up the next morning to something that alerted me that it was time for me to physically move out of the space that I am in to somewhere else. Well, I'm still waiting on the clarity of where we're going, but it's a hard no on staying where I am currently, and so it got me to thinking about last summer, where last summer um I had this not it didn't feel like this yet. It it wasn't this strong last summer. I had an idea, I had thought that I wanted to try living on the road, and the reason that that thought kind of came up was 2020 and 2021, right? When we were in the thick of the pandemic, I was like, my life looks really different now. My kids are older. Um, I was, I think I had just gotten divorced at this point when I first had this thought, and I was like, well, what does the next season of my life look like? Because I had never really imagined what my life would look like, not being married, not having kids, not homeschooling, um, not running my bakery. And so I was no longer married, um, which meant I wasn't having any more children, which, and then I was injured in November of 2020, so I wasn't running the business anymore. So my life looks very, very different, and I was like, well, what's next? And the idea came to me that, oh, we should live on the road. That was fun. Um, so that was a thought that I had last summer. And well, I had it the summer before. Then Airbnb did a contest, and I entered the contest, I did not win. Um, shout out to the families that did win the Airbnb contest where they literally let you jump Airbnbs for a year, they let you live the life of a nomad. And I was like, man, this is really interesting. And uh the thought never left, right? Like at that time, it was just a thought, it was just a seed, and now here we are, two years later, and that's no longer a thought, like that is hardcore a knowing in my body. I can feel it in my bones that we're supposed to be doing this, and so now I'm trying to figure out how do we do it. And so, as I was thinking about it, um, I came back to this thought, you know, number one, it's not up for me to know how. That's that's not my job. The how is not on me. Um, however, I do have to listen to the knowing, and I have to know when if I feel apprehension, if it's a no, or if it's a knowing. And this is not a no, this is very unknown to me, um, but it's not a no, it's a knowing. And so I was like, okay, Kimberly, go back to the basics. What do we do when we're about to transition into a season that we don't really understand and we're not sure what to do? And it reminded me of a podcast episode from last summer where I talk about how to properly order a sandwich and how your sandwich order will teach you about manifestation. And so I made a decision that instead of completely re-recording it, I'm just gonna play the one that I did last summer. So we are gonna jump right into that. I hope you guys enjoy it, and I'll talk to you soon. You think about kids who were born in the late 70s, earlies, um, early 80s, and then even some of the early 90s. Um, there was this, I don't know, like this commandment that we needed to go to college. We needed more than a high school diploma, we needed a bachelor's degree. Uh, if we were lucky, we would get a master's degree or move on into a PhD level degree or have some sort of you know specialist degrees, things of the sort, right? We're the generation that that was put on. You know, it was a gift and a blessing for some of our parents to be able to attend college. Um, and then for their children, for those kids born between the 70s and the 90s, like college was like really heavily forced onto us. And then our children, we are not doing that. I can tell you right now, yes, my son is at school on a full scholarship, but if he didn't have that full scholarship, his mother would not have forced him. I actually didn't force him to go there, and I keep trying to tell him he doesn't need it, but that's a story for another day. So, anyway, right? So, we're the generation in the middle. We're the ones that you know had to grow up with the this is drugs, this is your brain on drugs, any questions. All every time I see somebody fry an egg, that's that's all I see, right? Is that no, I don't do drugs. I don't want my brain fried like an egg. We are that generation, and so what happens when that generation of people wants to change something in their lives, it's hard. Like it's not easy to be like, okay, I'm gonna completely change the way I was raised and completely change the way I think about things. It's difficult to do that. And so for the past year, as I've been on this manifestation journey and on this wholeness and wellness thing, I've had to kind of work through blocks, right? And so our blocks are sometimes called limiting beliefs. Um, but then some of them are a little more specific. So today I want to talk to you about how you can work on some manifestation blocks. And I feel like um when I give you this, it is gonna make sense, it's gonna resonate, and you're gonna be like, oh my God. Okay. So let's talk about how to order a sandwich. Okay. So you guys know I'm a chef. I'm a pastry chef. I was I'm a trained pastry chef. Um, but I also have degrees that have nothing to do with food, right? And so this is what I want you to think about. When you go into a sandwich shop, you are not gonna walk up to the counter and say, Let me get a sandwich. If you do that, the person at the counter is going to look at you like you're crazy. And they're gonna ask you, what kind of sandwich? What kind of bread do you want? What type of toppings do you want? Do you want meat on it? Do you want cheese on it? Do you want me to warm it up? Do you want it cut in half? Do you want it cut in thirds? Like you can't walk up to a counter at Subway and say, I want a sandwich. Now imagine you walking up to the universe, who is the person on the other side of the counter and saying, I want a sandwich. The universe has the exact same response. What kind of sandwich? What do you want on it? Do you want a hot one or a cold one? Like, what do you what do you want? Do you want lettuce or do you want spinach? Do you want tomatoes? Do you want pickles? Do you want olives? What do you want on your sandwich? Do you want meat? Are you a vegetarian? What what do you want? That's what the response is going to be. I'm gonna bring this home for you. When you say, I want to manifest having money, what you're actually saying is I want a sandwich. Stick with me. When you are manifesting, and I know if you were born between the late 70s and the 90s, I understand. Hear me when I say, I know this is gonna be hard for you to grasp, but I need you to stick with me. This is your opportunity to be selfish. This is your opportunity to be as detailed as humanly possible. You want a sandwich. I want a sandwich on this particular bread with this particular meat. I want these toppings, I want this dressing, I want this side, I want this drink. When you go for lunch and you're hungry, you know exactly what you want to eat. Same thing applies to when you are trying to manifest the life that I am manifesting right now. When I decided to get very, very specific with it, and I mean very specific. I am not saying I want to meet my soulmate. Absolutely not. I am so specific, and I know they've told us you can't do that, right? You can't be that specific in qualities that you're looking for in a person. Why not? You can't be that specific when starting a business. Why not? Please tell me why. Because what I'm looking at is that my mother, who has retired, was able to travel the world on the dime of a corporation. We reap the benefits of her being able to break through glass ceilings as a black woman in corporate America, or she was in the minority, not only as an African American, but as a woman, and then a woman of her age on that particular level of influence that she had in her field. As her child, and then her subsequent grandchildren, we have reaped the benefits of that by being able to use freaking flyer miles and to be able to take trips and do all these things without having to come out of pocket because she did the work, right? My children, my daughter specifically, is obsessed with Twitch. If you all don't know what Twitch is, um, I would encourage you to look up the Dream SP. And I want you to just look at how something that they created during quarantine two years ago now has produced millionaires that are under the age of 25. These children are millionaires from playing Minecraft. They have podcasts now, they have YouTube channels, they are being paid left and right sponsorships. One of them even has a burrito named after him at Chipotle or something. It's insane to watch how these young people have taken things that we were told we you will never make money playing video games. Stop playing video games, put your head in a book. These kids are millionaires for playing Minecraft. You have to understand that the way we were raised and the things we were taught no longer apply. Those rules don't apply. We're playing a different game, right? And as if you think about your preferences and your choices in life when you want to order a sandwich. Sometimes you want one particular sandwich, and other times you want something different. Manifesting is the same way. You're allowed to change your mind. Once you grow, like, think about this. Have you ever been eating? Like you go somewhere and you're like, Man, I really want um Olive Garden. I'm gonna just use this because this happened recently. I really want Olive Garden, and you know specifically what you want from Olive Garden, and you talk yourself out of paying the $18 for that meal from Olive Garden, and you go downstairs and you make spaghetti, you eat the spaghetti, but the craving never left, you're no longer hungry, but you're also not satisfied. That's how manifestation works. If you decide that you're not gonna go for that thing that you actually want, which in this case is the $18 meal from Olive Garden, if you decide you're not gonna go get that thing you actually want to satisfy the craving, and you decide to substitute it with something that will make you no longer hungry, but doesn't actually fulfill you, you still want the Olive Garden. Nine times out of ten, within the next 30 days, you're still gonna go to Olive Garden. You're still gonna go pay $18 for that meal that you should have just bought in the first place. When you're manifesting, don't say I want to manifest um making $100,000 a year. Don't do that. I made $100,000 last year. And let me tell you something. It's not as much money as you think it is. That's number one. Um, number two, especially if you're an entrepreneur, when people say I have a six-figure business, here's something you should start asking them. Is do you take home six figures or does your business make six figures? Because that's two different things. My business made six figures last year, but I also spent half of what I brought in buying supplies for this new business that was making all this money. You have to be real specific, right? So, like this year, I'm like, I want my business to make multiple six figures so that I can pay myself a salary that's six figures and take-home pay. That is two different things to manifest. When you're manifesting, it's like ordering a sandwich. You cannot walk up to the counter and say, Yeah, let me get a sandwich. You have to tell them what you want, and when you are manifesting, you have to tell the universe what you want. And let me set you free on this piece. Your desires are not wrong. Uh, your desires are not too much. If you have the desire in your heart, the universe can give it to you. The universe can give it to you if you're open and you're willing to receive it. Like there's there's no ifs, ands, buts about this. It's going to happen if you're open to receiving. And if you're not receiving what you've asked for, I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself, do you actually want it? Because the same way you can speak it out of your mouth, and this is what I want, the universe also knows your thoughts. Number one, do you actually want that? Number two, are your own limiting beliefs keeping you from getting it? Number three, if your limiting beliefs are keeping you from getting it, please understand you're allowing chaos to come into your life. When chaos comes into your life, you can have it stop. All you gotta do is change your mind that you actually do want whatever that thing is. But if you are living in duality and you are teetering and you're trying to figure out or you're trying to talk yourself into believing you are worthy of having something, I need you to do that work before you start manifesting. I need you to do that work before you start speaking things into existence because you're gonna start speaking things into your life you don't actually want. Get real with yourself, dream big, dream big, dream bigger than you've ever dreamed before. Millionaires aren't millionaires because they didn't have big dreams, millionaires and millionaires because they were delusional as hell, and when people told them that's not gonna work, they said, Okay, you don't believe me? Google the stories of Facebook, Amazon, Twitter. Take your pig. Amazon started in somebody's garage. Y'all, I live within 15 minutes of my home. There are six different Amazon warehouses. That's just near my house. Six Amazon warehouses within 15 minutes. It started inside of somebody's garage. Be delusional. Trust yourself, trust your intuition, dream big and stop walking up to the counter and ordering a sandwich. Tell the universe what you actually want, and then come back and let's talk about it and let me know if your manifestation practices have changed. Thank you guys so much for tuning in today. I told you it wasn't gonna be deep and heavy today, it's just an exercise. Go practice manifesting, be real specific on what you want and go for it. Let me know about it, let's have this conversation.