Why Smart People Struggle to Manifest | Lewis Howes
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Why might being smart hinder your ability to manifest?
If manifestation is not working for you, if you feel like you've been working hard every single day to create the life of your dreams, and for whatever reason, it's not working, it might be because you're too smart. Now, let me get back onto this in a second. Sometimes when we overthink, when we overanalyze, when we over-try, we block the opportunities for abundance. We block the opportunities for things to happen naturally, organically. We block the flow of synchronicities, of people allowing people to bring things to us, for doors to open up to new ideas to emerge. We block these things. Seriously, the people who struggle with creating their dream lives, the most, the people who struggle with manifesting effortlessly the most are often the ones who think the most as well.
And there is one small shift that they're missing. It changes everything when you start to make this shift. And I know this because I've been stuck in that pattern in the past at once myself as well. I was learning, I was analyzing, I was over explaining, I was trying to figure it all out all at once. obsessing about it and it was just like there's too much happening in my brain. And after interviewing some of the most successful people in the world, I started to notice something different. They don't approach manifestation or creating the life of their dreams the way most people do. And once I discovered this difference, I couldn't unsee it. So in this video, I'm going to break down the five shifts that
that are keeping smart people like yourself stuck and how to fix each one so you can finally create what you want in your life. You can finally start to use the tool of manifestation to work for you instead of against you. So let's start and break this down. Shift number one. is that you're stuck in your head. Why do smart people struggle with manifestation more than people that maybe aren't over analyzing their lives as much? Well, it's because they live in their head. They're living in their brain and they're thinking constantly. And they're thinking every step that could go wrong. That's typically what it is. They over-worry. They over-complain sometimes. They over-analyze. And they over-stress. And this stress blocks everything.
joy. It blocks the ability of you being in your energy, in your flow, in your body, in your freedom. So when you're constantly in your head, you're not in your freedom. You're not in your flow. And that's when genuine things start to come to you. When you overanalyze and you overquestion and you try to understand everything, it blocks your ability to manifest. Now, I'm a curious human being. I ask tons of questions. I always ask why, why, why? I piss probably so many people off because I'm constantly wanting to know why people do things the way they do them. But in the last 10 plus years of my life, it hasn't held me back from actually acting. Manifestation is not just about thinking. It's about how you show up.
Your energy does not lie. You can know exactly what you want and still not have it because you're not showing up as the person who has it. I love this quote by Ronna Byrne as she talks about this element that keeps so many people stuck in their manifestations. She says, one of the things that trips people up is they try too hard. The universe wants us to have everything and live a full life. It's not a battle or anything like that. And the question I get sometimes is why did you first realize you were living in your head instead of actually moving? And here's the thing. When you overanalyze, stress builds up. It becomes overwhelmed. It becomes a burnout. That's what life feels like. It feels like you're burning the candle on both ends.
You're trying to get up early and work hard. You're trying to work late. You're trying to be on and be perfect during the day. You're people pleasing people. Your energy is in work hard mode. Try to do the right things. It's not in freedom and in flow. And you've got to be shifting it. You know, sometimes I feel like being one of the dumbest people in every room I go in is an advantage to me because I don't feel.
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