Speaker 1: Manifestation doesn't work when you're waiting for signs instead of
Speaker 1: building systems. It doesn't work if you want change but
Speaker 1: refuse to change. It doesn't work when you speak the
Speaker 1: affirmation but live the opposite. Manifestation doesn't work if your
Speaker 1: belief expires the moment things get uncomfortable, And it doesn't
Speaker 1: work when you expect the universe to do what discipline
Speaker 1: is meant to do. Manifestation works when you match intention
Speaker 1: with infrastructure. The number one health and wellness podcast, Jay
Speaker 1: Shetty Jay Sheddy. Hey everyone, it's Jay Shedy, your host
Speaker 1: of On Purpose. Welcome back to the podcast. Make sure
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Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about how to manifest all of
Speaker 1: your dreams coming true in twenty twenty six, the masterclass
Speaker 1: on turning Goals into Reality. Now, I want to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. We've all started a new year with
Speaker 1: big goals. This is the year I'm finally going to
Speaker 1: start that business. This is the year I'm going to
Speaker 1: lose the weight. This is the year I'm finally going
Speaker 1: to launch that podcast. Every January, people make goals new body,
Speaker 1: new job, new business, new life, new you, and by
Speaker 1: February most of them are gone. But get this, only
Speaker 1: one percent said they lasted for eleven or twelve months.
Speaker 1: Not because you don't care, but because the dreams we
Speaker 1: build are built on excitement, not systems. Real manifestation isn't
Speaker 1: wishing and waiting, it's wiring. You don't attract what you want.
Speaker 1: You attract what you build a system for, and that
Speaker 1: requires a plan that rewires your mind, your motions, your
Speaker 1: habits to match your vision. So in this episode, we're
Speaker 1: not going to talk about luck. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about alignment, the psychology and strategy behind turning your vision
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six into visible results. Twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: won't be your best year because you wish harder. It
Speaker 1: will be your best year because you align deeper. Step
Speaker 1: number one, end before you begin, let go of the
Speaker 1: year that's still living in your head. We all love beginnings,
Speaker 1: but beginnings don't work unless you properly end. You finished
Speaker 1: a year of school, you start the next one. You
Speaker 1: end a relationship, you start another one. Beginnings don't work
Speaker 1: unless you properly end. Most of us start a new
Speaker 1: year without ever ending the last one. We rush into
Speaker 1: January full of plans and resolutions, but part of us
Speaker 1: is still carrying the weight of what didn't happen last year.
Speaker 1: The goals we missed, the relationship that ended, the business
Speaker 1: that didn't take off, the version of ourselves we thought
Speaker 1: we'd be by now. And so we're technically in a
Speaker 1: new year, but emotionally we're still stuck in the last one.
Speaker 1: When you don't consciously end a year, it lingers. It
Speaker 1: shows up in subtle ways. You hesitate to dream because
Speaker 1: you don't trust yourself to follow through. You avoid risks
Speaker 1: because last time it hurt you too much. You start over,
Speaker 1: but secretly believe you're already behind. That's what it means
Speaker 1: to have a year still living in your head. It
Speaker 1: keeps whispering old stories into new seasons. Before you decide
Speaker 1: what you want this year, you need to ask what
Speaker 1: am I done? Carrying? Every new goal struggles to take
Speaker 1: root because we haven't released what's been draining us, the resentment,
Speaker 1: the guilt, the habit that keeps looping. Psychologists call this
Speaker 1: cognitive closure, the act of finishing, and in emotional story,
Speaker 1: So your brain can focus on a new one. So
Speaker 1: take a minute tonight and finish this sentence in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, I finally stopped X. You'll be amazed how
Speaker 1: freeing that is. You can even create a small ritual,
Speaker 1: write down what you're ready to release on paper, burn it,
Speaker 1: bury it, or tear it up. Say thank you for
Speaker 1: what you taught me. I don't need to carry you anymore.
Speaker 1: That moment of symbolic closure signals to your nervous system
Speaker 1: were done here. It gives your energy somewhere new to go.
Speaker 1: Letting go of the year that's still living in your
Speaker 1: head doesn't mean erasing the past. It means reclaiming your
Speaker 1: capacity to begin again. You can't step fully into what's
Speaker 1: next if you're still holding hands with what's over. You
Speaker 1: can't start your year strong if you never ended the
Speaker 1: last one. You can buy the planners, set the goals,
Speaker 1: peat the affirmations, But if part of you is still
Speaker 1: carrying last year's disappointments, fears or unfinished stories, you're not
Speaker 1: starting fresh. You're starting crowded. Because the truth is, new
Speaker 1: beginnings don't start on January first. They start the moment
Speaker 1: you stop dragging old energy into new opportunities. The second
Speaker 1: step is choose a word, not a goal, because goals change,
Speaker 1: but energy is constant. Resolutions fade because they're rigid. A
Speaker 1: word gives you direction without pressure. If your goal is
Speaker 1: to start a business, your word might be build. If
Speaker 1: your goal is to lose weight, your word might be discipline.
Speaker 1: If your dream is to launch a podcast, it might
Speaker 1: be voice. That single word acts as a psychological anchor.
Speaker 1: A twenty nineteen Stanford study found that people who frame
Speaker 1: their goals around identity based words I am becoming focused
Speaker 1: instead of tasks I will focus was sixty five percent
Speaker 1: more likely to stay consistent. So before setting your plan,
Speaker 1: set your energy, your word becomes your compass. You can
Speaker 1: then say, does this choice align with who I'm becoming
Speaker 1: or with who I'm done being? I realized, though, when
Speaker 1: I stopped obsessing over goals and started focusing on growth,
Speaker 1: I actually reached my goals faster because growth made me better, stronger, smarter.
Speaker 1: When you chase goals, you measure distance. When you chase growth,
Speaker 1: you build momentum. Goals are external. They live on your calendar,
Speaker 1: your to do list, your vision board. Growth is internal,
Speaker 1: It lives in your mindset. Your habits, your character. Most
Speaker 1: people focus on the finish line and forget the training.
Speaker 1: They're on the promotion, the body, the launch, but they
Speaker 1: skipped the process that creates it. That's why step number
Speaker 1: three is create a system, not a wish Listure is
Speaker 1: the real secret behind success. Every dream is two parts
Speaker 1: intention and infrastructure. You can't manifest a podcast without a
Speaker 1: recording schedule. You can't build a business without product testing.
Speaker 1: You can't get fit without consistent sleep and nutrition. James
Speaker 1: Clear's research shows that you don't rise to the level
Speaker 1: of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.
Speaker 1: If you want to start a business, create a thirty
Speaker 1: minute daily idea lab where you brainstorm, test, and learn
Speaker 1: something new about your industry. If you want to lose weight,
Speaker 1: don't aim for perfection, aim for consistency. Start with three
Speaker 1: workouts a week and track progress, not perfection. You want
Speaker 1: to launch a podcast, record one five minutes solo episode
Speaker 1: per week. Make it a ritual, not a result. Manifestation
Speaker 1: only works when your calendar matches your calling. Manifestation doesn't
Speaker 1: work when you're asking for some your habits contradict. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work if you only visualize the outcome but avoid
Speaker 1: the process. Manifestation doesn't work when you're waiting for signs
Speaker 1: instead of building systems. It doesn't work if you want
Speaker 1: change but refuse to change. It doesn't work when you
Speaker 1: speak the affirmation but live the opposite. Manifestation doesn't work
Speaker 1: if your belief expires the moment things get uncomfortable, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't work when you expect the universe to do
Speaker 1: what discipline is meant to do. It doesn't work if
Speaker 1: you're manifesting from fear, not faith, trying to control instead
Speaker 1: of create. Manifestation works when you match intention with infrastructure.
Speaker 1: Step number four upgrade your environment, because discipline is easier
Speaker 1: when you don't fight your surroundings. If you're trying to
Speaker 1: get off sugar, but every snack in your cupboard is
Speaker 1: full of sugar, you're now testing yourself. If you want
Speaker 1: to get off sodas, but your refrigerator is full of sodas,
Speaker 1: you're now testing yourself. If you want to work out,
Speaker 1: but you haven't found the right gym that's easy to
Speaker 1: get to, or the right workout plan, you're testing yourself.
Speaker 1: We don't fail because we don't care. We fail because
Speaker 1: we're constantly testing ourselves. We're making things harder. We're making
Speaker 1: it harder to feel motivated. We're making it harder to
Speaker 1: stick to our boundaries. We're making it harder to stick
Speaker 1: to our own rules. Behavioral science shows that forty five
Speaker 1: percent of our actions are habitual and triggered by environment,
Speaker 1: not motiv Follow this one thing and you'll reach your goal.
Speaker 1: If your goal is to eat better, start with your kitchen.
Speaker 1: If your goal is to focus, put away your phone.
Speaker 1: If your goal is to save money, start with your
Speaker 1: spending triggers. If your goal is to build confidence, start
Speaker 1: with your self talk. If your goal is to find love,
Speaker 1: start with your boundaries. If your goal is to grow
Speaker 1: your business, start with your calendar. If your goal is
Speaker 1: to heal, start with your habits. If your goal is
Speaker 1: to be happier, start with your attention. Because change doesn't
Speaker 1: begin with a goal, it begins with your environment. You
Speaker 1: don't need more willpower, you need fewer friction points. Success
Speaker 1: isn't about trying harder, it's about designing smarter. If your
Speaker 1: environment is full of noise, you'll forget what your own
Speaker 1: voice sounds like. If your environment is filled with clutter,
Speaker 1: your mind will mirror the mess If your environment is
Speaker 1: built on carechaos, peace will always feel like a luxury.
Speaker 1: If your environment is full of doubt, confidence won't survive there.
Speaker 1: If your environment is small, your vision will start to
Speaker 1: shrink to fit it. If your environment is lifeless, your
Speaker 1: motivation will follow. There's a reason why the phrase you
Speaker 1: are a product of your environment is so well known,
Speaker 1: because it's true. If you're surrounded by books, you'll read books.
Speaker 1: If you're surrounded by screens, you'll be distracted. That's how
Speaker 1: it works, that's how the brain works. And then you're
Speaker 1: forcing yourself, pushing yourself, driving yourself, and which maybe you
Speaker 1: will do for three days if you're lucky, maybe three
Speaker 1: weeks if you're really lucky, but you're always working against yourself.
Speaker 1: Step number five, break the all or nothing cycle. Instead
Speaker 1: of asking did I fail? Ask what can I learn?
Speaker 1: Instead of starting over, pick up from where you left off.
Speaker 1: Progress is built in the messy middle, not the perfect start.
Speaker 1: If you can't stand to be bad at something first,
Speaker 1: you'll never be great at anything. If you keep editing
Speaker 1: your ideas before you express them, the world will never
Speaker 1: hear your voice. If you measure your worth by how
Speaker 1: few mistakes you make, you'll always feel like a failure.
Speaker 1: If you only celebrate the finished product, you'll miss the
Speaker 1: beauty of the process. If you chase flawless, you lose authentic.
Speaker 1: If you chase approval, you lose momentum. Because the truth,
Speaker 1: perfectionism doesn't make you better, It makes you stuck. It's
Speaker 1: fear dressed up as high standards. Step number six, Use
Speaker 1: emotional visualization. See it, feel it, embody it. Most people
Speaker 1: visualize success like a movie, the money, the followers, the applause,
Speaker 1: but the brain doesn't respond to images response to emotion.
Speaker 1: Studies from the University of Chicago show that visualizing the process,
Speaker 1: not just the outcome, increases success rates by forty two percent.
Speaker 1: So if you want to start that business, picture the
Speaker 1: early mornings, the uncertainty, and the excitement. If you want
Speaker 1: to lose weight, imagine how it feels to walk into
Speaker 1: the gym proud, not intimidated. If you want to launch
Speaker 1: your podcast, feel what it's like to hit publish for
Speaker 1: the first time. Nervous but excited emotion turns fantasy into preparation.
Speaker 1: Close your eyes, see it, feel it, believe it. See
Speaker 1: the version of you who already has what you want.
Speaker 1: See them waking up calm, focused and proud. See them
Speaker 1: doing the things you keep postponing. See them making the
Speaker 1: hard choices easily, see them walking into rooms they once
Speaker 1: felt unworthy of. See them speaking with clarity, creating with confidence,
Speaker 1: living with purpose. Feel what it's like to be them.
Speaker 1: Feel the peace in their breath, Feel the strength in
Speaker 1: their posture, Feel the ease in their decisions, Feel the
Speaker 1: gratitude they wake up with before anything happens. You don't
Speaker 1: have to chase this version of you. You're remembering them.
Speaker 1: You're returning to them. You're becoming them. One choice, one breath,
Speaker 1: one act of belief at a time, because every time
Speaker 1: you imagine it with feeling, your brain builds evidence that
Speaker 1: it's real. Every time you see it clearly, your body
Speaker 1: starts preparing to live it. See it until it feels familiar,
Speaker 1: feel it until it feels safe, Believe it until it
Speaker 1: feels inevitable. You reprogram your mind by seeing yourself doing
Speaker 1: the hard things and then going out and doing them.
Speaker 1: Step number seven. Work with resistance, not against it, because
Speaker 1: fear is feedback, not failure. Every big goal triggers resistance.
Speaker 1: That's not the universe blocking you. That's your nervous system
Speaker 1: protecting you. Neuroscience calls this prediction error. The brain resists
Speaker 1: anything unfamiliar, even if it's good for you. So instead
Speaker 1: of saying why do I feel scared, say of course
Speaker 1: I do. This is new. Then act anyway. Courage isn't
Speaker 1: the absence of fear. It's moving while it shakes. You
Speaker 1: think successful people are not scared. The truth is they're
Speaker 1: doing what they do while being scared. You think they're
Speaker 1: not nervous. They're doing what they do while they're nervous.
Speaker 1: You think they don't experience anxiety. They're experiencing anxiety while
Speaker 1: they're doing the thing that you love watching them do.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. You work with it, not against it,
Speaker 1: because if you keep fighting it, it just gets stronger
Speaker 1: and bigger and takes over. Step number eight, build public accountability.
Speaker 1: Make your goals collaborative with your friends and competitive with
Speaker 1: the people you really love. A Harvard Business review found
Speaker 1: that people who shared their goals with this supportive community.
Speaker 1: That's an important word. It's not about sharing your goals
Speaker 1: with everyone on the internet. A supportive community are seventy
Speaker 1: six percent more likely to achieve them. Tell a friend
Speaker 1: post your progress in a private group, join a challenge.
Speaker 1: We don't need more private promises to ourselves, and we
Speaker 1: don't need more public performance to others. This isn't about
Speaker 1: tell everyone on Instagram, and it isn't just about live
Speaker 1: with it on your own. We need shared momentum. Isolation
Speaker 1: keeps you stuck. Accountability pulls you forward. So you want
Speaker 1: to be accountable, but to the right group of people.
Speaker 1: If you tell too many people, too many people will
Speaker 1: shut you down. Right if you say I want to
Speaker 1: start a business, someone's going to say I don't think
Speaker 1: your idea is that good. Someone else is going to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend tried a business. It failed. Someone else will say, yeah,
Speaker 1: give it a go, see how it goes. That's not helpful.
Speaker 1: If you're around a group of entrepreneurs, they'll ask you questions.
Speaker 1: I'll say, Okay, what's your business about? Okay, what's your plan? Okay?
Speaker 1: How are you going to find customers? That's the kind
Speaker 1: of community you want to be around. The problem is
Speaker 1: we tell friends and family members who have no idea
Speaker 1: what we're doing, as opposed to telling people who actually
Speaker 1: have the expertise and insight and joining those groups and
Speaker 1: communities are meeting people is a really, really powerful thing
Speaker 1: you can do for yourself. Step number nine, Use gratitude
Speaker 1: as fuel, not fluff, because motivation fades, but appreciation sustains.
Speaker 1: Gratitude isn't just a nice feeling, it's a neurological hack.
Speaker 1: When you track progress, even small wins, you release dopamine,
Speaker 1: the brain's reward chemical. That's why celebrating each step keeps
Speaker 1: you consistent long after excitement fades. Start your days not
Speaker 1: with what's missing, but with what's moving. You realize you're
Speaker 1: not waiting for your dream life, You're already living pieces
Speaker 1: of it. Because number ten is becoming the kind of
Speaker 1: person your dream requires. Identity is the ultimate manifestation to
Speaker 1: You can't create a twenty twenty six version of your
Speaker 1: life with the twenty twenty four version of your beliefs.
Speaker 1: So instead of asking what do I want, ask yourself
Speaker 1: who am I willing to become. The person who starts
Speaker 1: a business acts like a founder before the business exists.
Speaker 1: The person who launches the podcast speaks like a creator
Speaker 1: before the audience appears. Identity drives action, and when you
Speaker 1: act like the person who already has what you want,
Speaker 1: your brain starts catching up twenty twenty six won't magically
Speaker 1: change your life, but you can. The universe doesn't respond
Speaker 1: to wishful thinking. It responds to clear energy and consistent action.
Speaker 1: So this year, don't just set goals, design your systems,
Speaker 1: choose your word, align your identity, and remember intention and infrastructure.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. I hope you have
Speaker 1: an amazing twenty twenty six. I'm wishing you all the best.
Speaker 1: Make sure you subscribe to on Purpose to never miss
Speaker 1: an episode. I'll be guiding you through the year, and
Speaker 1: remember I'm forever in your corner and always rooting for you.
Speaker 1: If you love this episode, you'll enjoy my interview with
Speaker 1: doctor Daniel Ahman on how to change your life by
Speaker 1: changing your brain.
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