Manifesting, creating, and living the life you want is like gardening.

And even if you’re not a big gardening fan, just hang with me here for a moment…

To do your garden, you've got to plan: what it is, how do you want to lay it out, what are the plants, where do you want to stick them, what order do they go in, what do they need, right?

You do all this planning first, and then you prepare the soil, pull out all the weeds, and put in the dirt, compost, even cow manure that you want.

Once you’ve done all that and amended the soil, you plant all the seeds, water, and fertilize.

But it doesn’t end there. You keep weeding and watering and fertilizing on repeat, repeat, repeat, right?

And you do this over and over again until you get results: the flowers, the vegetables, the fruit you want. The outcome you want.

Manifesting is no different. It takes the effort. It takes the work. It takes the practice and deliberate planning and intentionality.

But what most people do is just plant all the seeds, and then they water and fertilize. They forget to weed. They forget to amend the soil. They forget to dig out all the rocks and cruddy soil that's in the way. They forget to continue to pull out the weeds that keep coming back over time. And this is what it's like in your own life, too.

Just like weeds, if you don't take care of the baggage, the heavy stories, the garbage, the negativity that you're carrying around, they’ll just keep coming back. These things are the weeds in your mind and energy. All of that negativity is competing with and choking out all those beautiful little seeds that you planted with the intention that they sprout into the manifestations and gorgeous life you want.

But unless you deadhead, weed out, and get rid of the old so the new can grow and thrive without the competition of all that negativity taking over its space, then you’re going to have a challenging time creating what you want in life.

And this is one of the reasons that you don’t yet have the results you want, see a lot coming to fruition, or have much to show for all of those affirmations you say or manifestation seeds you’ve planted.

Because are you really tending to every need of your garden? Where do you need to do some weeding and soil amending?