A manifestation list is a powerful tool for creating the kind of life you like. Working with the law of attraction and other spiritual tools for greater abundance in all areas of your life can be very rewarding. Writing is powerful magic and the act of writing in your own hand focuses your mental, spiritual, and emotional energy.

The method I’ve outlined below combines a few manifestation techniques that all work independently on their own:

• Present-tense phrasing of intentions

• Finding your core motivation

• Future-pacing, remembering from the future

• Tapping into emotional energy

Before you begin, here are a two tips on phrasing the items on your list:

Be specific, but leave the Universe a place to work and provide you what you want.

You can literally manifest anything you want any time you want, but our unconscious mind has certain blocks regarding what is possible. You want to make things easier for yourself. Instead of, “I own a two-story, eight-bedroom, yellow house on Johnson street,” try, “I live in an eight-bedroom house in a place I love.”

This gives your creative divine power some wriggle room.

State your intentions in the present tense

Spiritually speaking, time very loose, and you may feel disconnected when you state things in the future tense. Also, you want to avoid using words like “want” which is another word for lack. Creating the sense that you already have what you intend to manifest is a real key from the law of attraction.

Instead of, “ I will have a red car,” a better choice is, “I have a red car,” or even, “I now allow myself to have a red car.” This locks you into the idea that you are a creator and that everything you desire is yours just by allowing it.

1. Make a quick list of everything you’d like to show up in your life. Write everything down in free form, write quickly, and don’t censor.

2. Go back and group the list items into themes - body, mind, spirit - wealth, love, personal development. Whatever makes sense to you.

3. Look through the items in each group and see what themes emerge. For example, let’s say you are like to manifest a new house, you want to live near the ocean, you’d like to start a family. There is a theme here, perhaps, about nesting, finding a place, etc.

4. See if you can narrow your freeform list by thinking about each thing and ranking them, eliminate what seems unimportant to you.

5. Re-write your list in a more organized fashion - perhaps using the grouping from before and make each item clearer. Eliminate any unnecessary words to get to the core of each thing on this list. Make a list on the left-hand side of a sheet of paper and draw two columns to the write.

6. Spend five to ten minutes with each item on your manifestation list, and in the second column, write “so that I______.” For example: In column one, say that I have the phrase “I live in a beautiful house by the ocean,” in column two, I might write “so that I can experience the beauty and fresh air.” Make sure this is something that really speaks to you; this is the answer to the question of why. You may also discover that you want to re-write the original item.

7. Spend a few minutes with each item, and in column three, write, “Now that I have that, I fell _______.” Imagine that it’s in the future and you already live in that house by the ocean, and you are enjoying the beauty and the fresh air. Picture it with all your senses as if you remember it already having happened. Now write down the emotions you feel now that you already have the thing you have manifested.

If you want, you can rewrite your manifestation list, combining all three columns into a flowing list.

“I live in a beautiful house by the ocean where I enjoy the beauty and fresh air, and I feel free, happy, and delighted.

You can spend time daily with your manifestation list, or you can choose one item per day to focus on. Read the magic phrase you’ve written and imagine already having the thing you’re manifesting. Imagine you are remembering receiving it and feel how you would feel when that happens.