Vision, Inspiration and Purpose By Carmen Manastyrski Goebel
I’m a woman, daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. I’ve done many things and experienced so much, and yet still feel like I’ve only scratched the surface in this lifetime. One of the hats I wear is Visionary/ Confidence, Goal Setting Coach. “It W o r k s ! ” Ye p … . v i s i o n b o a r d i n g , d r e a m building and writing pen to paper all a c t l i ke a n e n e r g y m a n i f e s t a t i o n l a w of attraction. Let me tell you a story. My first experience was back in 1998. I had recently separated from my husband. I felt abandoned although that’s a story for another day... After healing I felt a yearning for companionship so I set pen to paper and started writing all the characteristics I was looking for in a man
53
Vision, Inspiration and Purpose
to date. I don’t remember how I came up with that idea to write down my thoughts but there was and is something to be said in the law of attraction. I can remember it still so vividly... I wanted tall, dark and handsome - I even put a height in.
I remember thinking I didn’t want a farmer but having come from a farming background was ok. I remember including things like “a great kisser” and cuddler. I kept making my list, and it filled the page. I remember putting in words that he wouldn’t be ashamed to hold my hand in public. I wrote lots of characteristics that I wanted my first husband to do and be like. Things that I yearned for. Things like that were important to me and back then I had the belief system that if a man was wealthy he wasn’t a sexy man in the bedroom. Now, I know that it’s not true, although because of that belief back then, I never put a value or anything of that sort in my vision board writing and it reflected from my words. I kid you not. Three months later I was at a bar with my girlfriend from work. We decided to go to
