Manifesting outcomes or Stumbling on happiness?

Published in Living Now Magazine April 2017

Free will or destiny? Self-directed manifestation or flow? Self-reliance or praying to the Gods? Which camp do you fit into? Does it depend on what mood you’re in and/or how things are going in your life? Martin Seligman the father of the positive psychology movement says the difference between pessimists and optimists is how they describe life events to themselves. When good things happen, an optimist takes the credit but a pessimist doesn’t. When bad things happen though a pessimist takes the blame whilst an optimist blames external factors. So, are you a manifester when good or bad things happen to you? And do you jump camps when the opposite happens? And above all – where’s the balance? and how does it all tie into life happiness?

Research says ¹ – oh yes, where would we be without objective research – that setting goals doesn’t necessarily work and that, goal setting may actually be counterproductive – strike one for manifestation! In the Harvard Business Review report ² ‘Goals Go…