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 Works!” Yep…. vision boarding, dream building and writing pen to paper all act like an energy manifestation law 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 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 a different town because she was actively looking for a man to date. I on the other hand went along for the ride and the booze. Hahaha. I didn’t have to drive. I met my now husband Lynn. We sorta knew who each other was from being in the cattle business and in 4-h as kids.

He kissed me and I gave him my business card to call me. Once he called me and came over for coffee we hit it off and the rest is history. My story isn’t that unusual or even how it manifested.

However the fact that I wrote it all down and literally all the traits are in him is the brilliant part.

We’ve been together for 22 years and married for 19. He’s helped me raise my children and cares for us all. He is kind and funny. He is quite the storyteller and even though I’ve heard it for what seems a hundred times, it warms my heart knowing he is my favorite person. He gets me and doesn’t try to clip my wings, he lets me soar.

Many of you have heard of vision-boarding and some of you have even done it a time or two but have you stuck to it? Made a vision board every six months? I have manifested things as quickly as I’ve put them up and have also manifested things that have taken 15 years. The point is if it’s really important keep it on your vision board. You never know how each vision is going to manifest itself. Another thing that I love to do in my online vision class is to evaluate what you want in every area of your life. It’s what makes for a balance in life.

Have you ever heard that you must align yourself with what you want?

It’s true!! When you are feeling happy your energy is good and you're attracting good things. When you're feeling unhealthy and miserable your energy doesn’t match what you want so then it doesn’t manifest. That's the most simplistic way I can say it. The trick is to be happy! Turn water into wine.

Telling you this story has inspired me... It recharges me to continue writing the books that are still in my mind. Pen to paper I say.

Have a blessed month and be grateful for everything you see, hear, smell, touch and taste. You never know what’s right around the next corner!