Manifesting Anything Episode #2 Getting Clear on What you Want- The Birthday Cake Method

The seemingly simple act of making a birthday wish holds the key to manifestation success—if only we approached our deepest desires with the same focused intention. Shannon Miller reveals why most people struggle with manifestation: they haven't made clear decisions about what they truly want.

"Vague wishes bring vague results," Miller explains, challenging listeners to move beyond general desires like "more money" to specific, measurable goals. Whether you're aiming for $5,000 monthly in your cleaning business or an ambitious $83,000 weekly income, the specificity creates a tangible target for your subconscious mind. This clarity becomes the foundation for effective manifestation work.

The heart of successful manifestation lies in three powerful questions: What do you want? Why do you want it? How will you know when you have it? That final question unlocks the energetic component of manifestation—connecting with the feeling of already having achieved your desire. Miller touches on how people in love naturally attract prosperity because they operate at higher vibrational frequencies, demonstrating how our emotional states influence our manifestation abilities. By learning to cultivate specific intentions paired with aligned emotional energy, you create the perfect conditions for your desires to materialize.

Ready to transform your manifestation practice? Try Miller's three-question exercise today and join us for the next module as we continue exploring the art and science of conscious creation. Your journey to manifesting with precision and purpose has only just begun!

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and Black Eye Explanation
• 2:07 The Birthday Cake Wish Analogy
• 3:14 Clarity Creates Manifestation Targets
• 4:32 Vibrations and Feeling Your Desires
• 5:00 Three Essential Manifestation Questions

Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:00

Hello everyone. You get to look at my eyeball here because when I was filming this course, I fell and gave myself a big fat black eye, so I decided not to have my face on screen, so you get to look at my beautiful eyeball right here. So, for those of you who don't know, this is Shannon Miller and we're in module two on getting clear of what you want. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not knowing what they actually want, and I always reference the birthday cake. So every year on your birthday you get this big fat juicy, whatever flavor you pick I'm a vanilla ice cream frosting type of person, but there are chocolate afflictionados and strawberries, but I like vanilla and every year on your birthday, you are allowed to make a wish, right? They always say make a wish and you're like, oh my gosh, what am I going to wish for, right? So when you're starting to learn to manifest, you're basically taking that wish and you're amplifying it and amplifying it and amplifying it with intention and focus and mantras and affirmations and exercises to help shift your mindset and your energy level to get what you want, and I wish that they would actually teach us in school. I've been practicing this for many years and I still consider myself a student. I've practiced under Madeline Gerwick. You might've heard me mention her a time or two before. She runs Polaris Business Guides if you're interested in getting her astrological guide. So I see a lot of mistakes because the people just don't. They haven't made a decision. We always decide what we don't want, but we have a hard time deciding what we want. Vague wishes bring vague results. Instead of saying I want more money, say I want to earn $5,000 a month in my cleaning business, or I want to earn $15,000 a month in my cleaning business, or I want to earn $20,000 a week in my cleaning business, or I want to earn 20 grand a week in my cleaning business there's one for you. Or I want to earn $83,000 a week in my cleaning business. There's a couple of you guys out there I know you're there.

Speaker 1: 3:12

Clarity creates a target for your subconscious mind. There is a little bit of an exercise that I use. So you have to decide what you want. You have to decide why you want it and how will I know when I have it. So a lot of it goes down to being an energy feeling. How would it feel once you were there and you already achieved what you want and this is probably the hardest part of learning how to manifest is that energy, that feeling.

Speaker 1: 3:42

We've always seen couples who are in love and suddenly they attract all this prosperity because they operate at a different subconscious level than the rest of us. Being in love is a really high vibration. Not being in love is a really low vibration. And we can talk about vibrations on another podcast or in another course. I mean, I could talk for hours and hours and hours on the code and the different vibration levels, but this is just a basic start, your course. But those three exercises what do I want? Why do I want it and how will I know when I have it? See you in the next module.