It’s move in day and you could JUST pinch me !!!
In my line of work as a life coach I live and breath intention, vision boards and manifesting…however, manifesting this Dream HOUSE, for ME and my children, in the ease and timeliness that it was found and came to me still has me over the moon excited and just blown away in a miracle of JOY. Read on below to find out more.
It was June, I received a notice that made me think.
Less than 90 days ago…. I received a letter from my daughter’s school for residency. It had been less than a year since I had left my previous live-in boyfriend. (That conscious uncoupling break up is a story for sharing on another day!) The need to prove where I lived brought up the question in me, is this the right place? Is this where my kids and I need to be right now? Maybe it was time to consider change? Perhaps I needed a new plan. But, what was that plan?? I wasn’t sure.
I folded up the school letter, tucked it into my “to work on” file and jumped on a plane to LA. I’d had a business trip planned for months and I wanted to focus on my re-entry to working full time as a coach again. I didn’t want to be distracted off course thinking about a move. Ahh, I don’t have to worry about this now I thought, as I headed to LA. Of course the question kept looping in my head prodding at my attempt to travel in peace. In response I thought, no no, I can do this, I can stay in California another year, my current situation isn’t ideal,.. but enough of it is “okay”. After all I need to just keep doing what I’d been doing, focusing 100% on regaining my optimal health. Please, I can’t think about a move right now. I am comfortable…Ugh. I said that word. Comfortable. eek. That’s not my word. That thought left me unsettled but I still tuned out the need to think about a move just yet.
When your friends become examples…
Fast forward 6 weeks later. I received another nudge. My dear and close friend, Erin, who just so happened left Oregon the same year I left Oregon was leaving the Bay Area. Her and her husband and their 3 girls had packed up and left for Idaho. We met for a farewell walk on the beach and a nice goodbye dinner. In our lengthy conversation we agreed how hard it is as Mom’s, athletes and trainers to really make a living and afford a house in the increasingly expensive and overpopulated Bay Area.
It made me think again of the statistic of how only 10% of people KNOW what they really want….well Erin and I sure have known for a long while what we wanted. Fitness, happy family life and successful businesses.
Well I came home from that goodbye beach walk and dinner and thought about it. It’d been a while since I thought about the Big Picture. So much had changed in my life since fighting a brain tumor the last 2 years. I’d been so focused on getting a clean MRI reading, living less migraine days and keeping on top of medical bills…. “Mere” Erin’s voice echoed, “you gotta think about more then just paying the medical bills”. Oh yah, I thought, there is more to life then this !! Oh yah,… who was I before I got sick?? What was I dreaming about? I had gone back to survival mode, otherwise known as settling or playing small. *Note to self, time to start the dream intentions again. Then dream bigger. Stop with the small stuff or the settling. Obviously I’d gotten off course a bit.
Life Coaching Exercise for Manifesting
The next morning in my meditative, writing time, I turned to a life coaching exercise.
- I took out a sheet of blank copy paper.
- On the top I wrote: “If I had a million dollars… I would ________________”.
- I closed my eyes and thought.
The Answer I got:
Move to Eugene and buy my Ex-Father in Law’s House
Oh!….
With this exercise you utilize the notion that you act {AS IF}. As soon as you act {AS IF} your true hearts dreams and desires can get through. Without blocks, limits, or excuses in the way your clarity can come.
What blocks, limits or excuses you ask? Come on, you know them; the resistance loops of “I don’t have the time”
“I don’t have the money”
“I don’t have the energy”
“I don’t have the time, money or the energy”…
Delete those. Step into and focus on living in the possibility of what it could be for you.
Back to the Answer I got: Move to Eugene and buy my Ex-Father in Law’s House
I got my answer, now what..
Well it was July and it just so happened that for a year and a half I had heard through my Ex that his Father was about to sell his house. Why did this matter?
For years I had loved this house. In my married days I’d spent many holidays and bbq’s there. I looked at pictures of this house that called to me and lit up my heart’s desires. I made a list of what spoke to me about this house and why I loved it.
Here is the list:
- I loved the windows
- I loved the wood work
- I loved the huge kitchen with a gas stove
- I loved the decks to enjoy the outside (there were 3)
- I loved the gorgeous well kept landscaped garden
- I loved the various trees that surrounded the property
- it was in Eugene, close to my EX so my kids could see their Dad more
- it was in Eugene, which meant I could get a much needed break from the go go go of city life
With manifesting, you recognize your heart’s desire and you repeatedly say “I desire THIS… or something better” and so I did this. I completed this exercise and did the mantra. I spent time meditating on my heart’s desire and why (both in the morning 5-10 minutes and in the evenings 5-10 minutes before I went to bed). I pictured the house. I saw myself in the house. I saw my kids in the house. I envisioned the friends, clients and gatherings I’d have in the house. I set my intention of a place that would be a sacred quiet sanctuary to recharge myself and raise my kids.
I focused on this house for a couple of weeks. Talked to my ex about buying it. Worked out what it would look like in my personal life and my business life, with my kids and my schedule to actually uproot from California and trek back up to Oregon, re-root and make Eugene, home base again. I saw the plan unfolding and the steps it would take to make it all happen.
Then an amazing thing happened. The door Closed.
I didn’t get my Father-in-law’s house. The one on my vision board. The house went on the market and it went to someone else. HUMPH! Now what? I didn’t miss a beat. Seriously! Not even a moment.
Apparently, I was completely in alignment with the idea of “this or something better”. Hmm, this door has closed. I stayed in high energy, I stayed in curiosity. I didn’t abandon my hopes and dreams for this gorgeous sanctuary house. I had touched into what I desired and I wasn’t shaken by the change of events.
“Ok, Universe,” I said, “what do you have in mind for me and my children now?” Being on board with Gabby Bernstein and her well versed book and mantra “the universe has my back” I didn’t lose hope for even a moment.
I jumped right into, “Ok, what else could it be? what else could it be? what else could it be?”
By the next morning after hearing the news of losing out on the house, I started in on plan B, for me it was a start of looking for rentals. A couple days of this went by. I made a little list: South Eugene, a place with hard wood floors, a big kitchen to cook in. I sent out a couple emails even did a “wanted” posting. Waiting and staying in action in full 100% anticipation that the right house was out there for me and my children. I kept thinking in curiosity of what was “better” than the house on my vision board.
On about the 4th day, I set out to look and I took time to meditate before I went on the computer. Up until that day I’d been jumping online as soon as I woke up looking for what had posted since the night before. Reminder, *Note to self keep that first 30 minutes every day clear for meditative thought or writing … the phone, the computer full of messages, facebook updates or instagrams can wait. ! Life is a lot easier if you lead it and not just start your day in a reactive state.
“look for 2 bedrooms“…. I heard.
Boom, I jumped on my computer and reduced my search criteria to 2 bedrooms (I have 2 kids, a boy and a girl, of course I’d been looking for 3 bedrooms, why would I look for 2?). The first thing that popped up was this gorgeous dream house. I circled through the pictures. My heart racing that sweet pleasure pulse of excitement. This is it!! I felt. Exactly what I wanted. I didn’t even have to look at my previous list. I knew it had everything I had loved about my Ex-Father in law’s house and more…
- lots of windows
- gorgeous wood work
- a huge kitchen with a gas stove
- decks to enjoy the outside (there were 3)
- gorgeous well kept landscaped gardens
- trees surrounding the property
- located in Eugene, close to my EX so my kids could see their Dad more
- located in Eugene, which means I could get a break from city life
Even better than, and more fitting to what I had originally had had my heart set on. Wow. This manifestation of my heart’s desire had truly taken REAL LIFE FORM. What an awesome miracle and blessing. This house even had extra’s. A view of the sunset. It was tucked away on a quiet cul-de-sac. It was in South Eugene, close to the running trails. The house also has a meditative rose garden with a fountain. In addition to a fountain in the front yard that I could look at and hear while in the kitchen. Oh, I could go on and on. What a complete dream. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you Universe I have said over and over.
So please, I share this miracle story with you to encourage you that you too can manifest your heart’s desire.
Move past the excuses of not having the time… the money… the energy or all three!! And just sit with what you really desire, {AS IF} you already had complete access to what it took to get it.
Trust me I share this to remind you that I know how hard it is to Dream Big, when you’ve gone thru a trauma, disappointment, heartbreak, illness, etc of any kind. It’s hard to dream big when you have defaulted to survivor mode. If you are there, please don’t hesitate to schedule a call with me. There is something about really accessing what you really want, beyond your limited thinking, beyond where you can’t see past yourself to that bigger picture. That bigger picture that is waiting for you.
If you told me 90 days ago that I’d be moving into this gorgeous dream house on Sept 1, I would have FREAKED OUT!! No way I would have told you! How could that happen? But it DID !
Thank you for reading! Here’s to not forgetting your power !
In all love and gratitude.
Meredith K. Mills
Please message me at meredith.mills.lifecoach@gmail.com to share your dreams and manifesting miracles with me. To your great success and happiness.
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