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My Maui Manifestation
May 28, 2025
The law of attraction states you get what you think about.
I wish I could remember exactly when, but some time before 2007, I was in small bookstore, with my mom, in the Old Market in Omaha, Nebraska. An employee came up to us, kind of excitedly, and asked if she could show us something. She had a small TV on the check-out counter and she put in a DVD of The Secret.
This is it, this was the moment - life changed.
I remember my mom saying something like she already knew all of that stuff. Really? But I remember feeling YES! I knew it too! Somehow I knew that this was the way things worked. Don't ask me how. It's like it was dormant information becoming active again.
The employee told us that Oprah was going to do a show about the book, and that their store was somehow involved in getting it on air.
This meant that the book would be sold out soon. So we bought the book and the DVD.
Then I waited and waited and waited for it to be on the Oprah Show. I was so eager for The Secret to get out, I thought it would change the world.
We can all create the life that we want! How amazing! Surely, this will change everything!
I feel like it was at least a year or more before it finally aired. Yes, it blew up and the book sold millions of copies, but it was also rejected and highly criticized. Huh.
All of my life I wanted to be my own boss, like my dad. He was one of the only parents that always showed up to our high school volleyball games - because he could. Everyone else's parents had to work.
I always knew I wanted that freedom to decide what I get to do with my time. Like this is my number 1 priority in life.
So how could I be my own boss? My dad was a CPA. That was out of the question for me. I suck at math.
After I graduated from college in 2004, with a criminal justice degree, I applied for all kinds of jobs, for months, and the first one to offer me a position was a law office. I worked there for two and a half years.
Ok. Instead of working for lawyers, why don't I become a lawyer and have people work for me?
So, I went to law school. The competition to earn a seat at a law school in 2006, was about 40 applications per seat. I applied at dozens of schools and got rejected by all of them but 1 - who put me on their waitlist. I was offered a seat 3 days before school started - out of state.
Ok, so I uproot my life and move overnight. I'm in law school and I absolutely hate it and I'm in an incompatible relationship that I want out of. I'm stuck in misery. I'm in a life that I don't want and am in too deep and can't get out of.
I'm listening to Abraham-Hicks CD's all night every night on repeat. (Abraham was edited out of The Secret!) All I think about while in my confinement is Maui and freedom. Maui is my happy place and freedom is getting to decide what I do with my day.
I endure the suffering. All of it.
I graduate from law school. I stay in the relationship. I try and fail to pass to the bar exam for a year. I was working for an absolute psycho.
One day, over lunch, I told a friend that I was going to move to Maui. I said it in jest but when I said those words out loud something happened inside of me. I felt it. (Alignment?) It felt absolutely true. Like holy shit, I am going to move to Maui. Finally!
Then the idea (quiet impulse) came to me how I could do it. I could take out a bar study loan. So I did (action).
Then I went on Craigslist and rented a condo on the beach site unseen. I did everything you're not supposed to do and it worked! I made it. I packed 3 suitcases and shipped my car, that everybody told me to sell, and started living in Maui.
Ahhhhhhh!
Ok I did it. I'm living my dream. Now, how do I keep it???
I start applying for jobs immediately. It takes 3 months! I take the first job that I'm offered. I'm the only employee and my boss is horrible. I don't get paid enough to cover my rent let alone anything else. I quit after 3 months of constant stomach and body aches.
Your body never lies. It's a compass.
I am defeated and will likely have to leave, but then something unexpected happens. My dad tells me that he will help me stay. What? I didn't even know that was an option.
I did not grow up rich. We were solid middle class yes, but not rich.
At some point, when I was in high school, my dad started getting involved in different business opportunities. Some of them were successful and some of them weren't. Some of them lost him money for a decade. So, I had no idea that they had finally started to turn profitable enough that he could help me stay on Maui, right in the nick of time.
This bought me extra time and I have stressed myself out for years trying not to lose it, instead of realizing and appreciating that I have exactly what I was wanting and asking for back when I was suffering at my desk in law school.
This borrowed time on my dad's dime was not part of that vision. I always wanted to be independent. I wanted to be my own boss! Why? Because I wanted the freedom to decide what I do with my time.
Oooohhh I have tried in vain to become my own boss as a means to achieve my ultimate goal of freedom because it was the only way I knew how to obtain it.
There is so much shame and stigma living off your parents. So much so that I hide out. What's the first question anyone ever asks you? What do you do? I don't want to answer that I don't have a job. Why? Because they will hate me.
Maybe instead of avoiding humans, I should answer their question with - Do you know about the law of attraction? I used it to get my dream.
Maybe the change in my dad's business was the quickest and easiest way for the universe to deliver me freedom. Maybe it was orchestrating events behind the scene to make this work out. I'll never know.
This is why you can't copy other people's blueprints. You have your own blueprint. My how is not going to be the same as yours. It can't be. You just have to view another person's blueprint as proof that you can do it too. Whatever you want is possible and you have your own path to get there.
The blueprint is the Law of Attraction. Your thoughts become real. Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you focus upon most will become reality.
You will never know how the thing you desire is going to show up. The how is not your job. Just the what. What is it that you want? Hold the feeling of that thing that you want as is if you have it now, with no insistence of the how, and the means will work it self out in whatever way that it does.
If you insist on the how you're probably never going to get it. The universe knows the best and quickest way.
For example, I always assumed I'd have to win the lottery to move here. I bought tickets every single week from a state of desperation. That is such a limiting and narrow option considering how vast and complex the universe is. The how that came to me was one that I had never considered as an option. You can't conceive of your how. It's not in your ability to know.
It's daunting for an ant to cross the street. We are ants to the universe. It can pick us up and move pieces around with ease.
How are you thinking today?
Thought creates vibration. Your feelings indicate what your vibration is. Make thinking thoughts that feel good an exercise. As Abraham says, the rule of thumb has to be: “I’m going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.”
You want to keep your vibration high as long as you can. The highest vibration is joy. Look at pictures of baby animals or something that makes your heart sing for a quick and easy boost.
Are you focusing on the presence of what you want or it's absence? You get what you think about. Presence or absence.
Do you believe you can have what you want? You're not going to get something you don't believe you can have.
Are you discouraged or excited?
Are you acting on quiet impulses of inspiration? I didn't know that I was going to be writing this today. This morning, I was listening to a mediation and then acted on the impulse to tell my story. Was I writing this for you??
