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tips and tricks that are keeping us feeling motivated. Hi everyone. I'm Maho, designer, podcaster,

and author of Break the Good Girl myth, and you're listening to Ignited Motivation.

Today I'm going to speak to you about something I'm very passionate about why the popular manifestation trend we all love so much in the self-help and personal growth world, why that manifestation

trend can be misleading. So many of us practice manifestation work, which is the belief that through

intention we can attract abundance and opportunity to ourselves. But many of us who are practicing

this work are focusing too much on effortless attraction and

flow and are forgetting about taking smart action towards our dreams.

Manifestation, which is the act of turning a dream into reality, is a fundamentally

creative process. And think about it. Creativity is both passive and active.

It's passive in that we wait to receive insight, inspiration, intuitive hits,

signs from the universe. But it's also active in that we work with materials, people and our

environment. We make actual things, put them out there, and in that we work with materials, people and our environment, we make actual things, put them out

there, and in that process, discover what we truly want, and come into dialogue with the universe.

In other words, we co-design with the universe. As someone who has studied design thinking,

and as a designer, I know this in my bones,

everything is created through prototyping, iteration, and refinement.

So if you've been told that all you need to do is some subconscious reprogramming through

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