WITH ANDREA CRISP
“What I have realized in my own life, and what I am leading out of from here on out, is the understanding that I am guided by my own intuitive authority.”
You will only manifest into your reality what you expect to receive. So what are you truly expecting to manifest into your life and business?
Over the years I have set intentions for what I desired, I have chosen a word of the year -- I've pretty much done it all. And I have to say that I've had success doing that. But when I started to align my expectations with my desires absolutely everything changed for me.
Bob Proctor says this, "Develop a clear image of what you really want and get emotionally involved with that image. Then you can use your will power and persistence to get the results you truly want."
Today on 'The Couragecast', I'm going to share with you the magic of creating Intentions and setting your Expectations to receive what you truly desire.
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You will only manifest into your reality what you expect to receive. So let me ask you, what are you truly expecting to manifest into your life in business in 2023. Over the years, I have set expectations and intentions for what I desired. We've been chosen over the year, and I've pretty much done it all. And I have to say that I've had some success doing it. But when I started to align my expectations with my desires, absolutely, everything changed for me, Bob Proctor says this, develop a clear image of what you really want, and get emotionally involved with that image. Then you can use your willpower and persistence to get the results you truly want. Today on the courage cast, I'm going to share with you the magic of creating intentions, and then aligning them with your expectations to receive what you truly desire.
Are you ready to take courageous steps to create a life and business you love? Welcome to the Courage Cast. I'm Andrea Crisp, mindset coach, author and a multi passionate entrepreneur. For years, I was afraid to allow myself to shine. That was until I discovered that I could step into my own power, shift my mindset and take ownership of my destiny. Now I coach women across the globe who are ready to own their life and make a massive impact with a blend of practical and spiritual advice. My hope is that the courage cast empowers you to take brave steps in your own life and business.
Hello there, welcome to the Courage Cast and Happy New Year. It is when you're listening to this 2023. But today, as I'm recording this episode, it is actually December 30 2022. But you know what I have been alone for the past few days, just reflecting, just taking some time out for myself. And really, you know, just looking back at the year, and slowing things right down. Because I know how I finish the year is going to be how I start a new one. And I would encourage you that how you begin this new year is really going to set the tone for how it plays out in your life. And so today on the podcast, I'm going to talk to you about expectations. And I want to talk to you about setting intentions and aligning them with your expectations. And then I'm going to share with you some of the values that I am going to be focusing on personally in my life and in my business. And I hope that this really helps you to set the tone for your new year. So I hope you're excited. Grab a journal and a pen. And you might want to take some notes, you might just want to write your own reflections. And then I'm gonna leave you with a takeaway at the end of the podcast today so that you can implement this into your life.
So at the beginning of the podcast today, I shared with you a Bob Proctor, quote, I love Bob Proctor. I really do. It is such, it's so sad that he is no longer with us. If you have never heard of Bob Proctor, I would highly suggest that you google him, YouTube his videos is all the things that he does. Because quite honestly, I have learned more about mindset and your paradigm over the past year from Bob Proctor than I probably have, in pretty much all of my life. He is just so amazing. So one of the quotes that I shared the beginning is develop a clear image of what you really want, and get emotionally involved with that image. Then you can use your willpower and persistence to get the results you truly want. And when I first heard this quote, I didn't really understand it. I mean, I knew you know that I needed to have some sort of a visualization of what I want. I knew that I had to have some sort of a feeling to add to that.
But I wasn't really sure how all of that worked together. And that's really like the magic sauce. It really truly is and over the past year as I have been really diving into manifestation and under Standing what it means, and really kind of taking out the, you know, woowoo weirdness of the whole thing and understanding how it works scientifically how it works, with your subconscious mind, all of those things, I have really begun to understand how you can put these principles together. And the reason why I want to share this with you is because it is a game changer. It has changed my life, it has given me a clearer understanding to really call into my life, what I desire, and not only call into my life, but call into my business. And here's the thing, when I took a look back at the things I had manifested, or things that I had called into my reality, I noticed that what I was focusing on what I was placing my attention on, I called in actually came into being.
But what I did not realize was that I was actually using these principles in a way that I didn't want to be using them. So I had to actually take a look at how could I use them for good instead of using them in a way that was not really serving me. So I want to start the podcast today by asking you a question. What are you expecting this new year. So as I've been scrolling through social media, which is always always not a good idea, I have been reading that there's so many people who poopoo the idea of setting intentions or making goals for the year. And here's the thing, friend, I say to each his own, like really honestly, like you do your thing. But when it comes to expecting something to happen in your life, I want to be crystal clear in my own life, and in my own business, about what I desire, and then hold the expectation to receive that. So when I think about not setting expectations and intentions, and having no idea what I want, or aligning my expectations with that, that sounds completely ridiculous to me. Because if I don't have anything, then I should basically expect to receive a whole lot of nothing.
And so if you are listening to people who are like, you know, don't set an expectation, and bla bla bla bla bla, bla, honestly, friend, what are they receiving in their life, and here's, here's the thing, you're going to receive no matter what, but you're going to receive what you are focusing on, and what you're putting your attention towards. So I encourage you to be clear about that, to know exactly what it is that you desire, and what you are expecting to manifest into your life. And this year on the podcast in 2022, I talk a lot about setting intentions. And I talked about how that worked in my life and in my business. But this year, I want to focus a little bit differently. And I want to just really share with you how you can set intentions and also align them with your expectations. And this means for me personally, how I want to show up for myself, how I want to show up for my loved ones for my community, my clients, my business. And the importance for me of setting intentions for what I desire is really going to be what brings forth what I desire. And the expectations I have are going to be how that manifests into my life. So think of it this way. setting intentions for what you desire is really the important part of really getting crystal clear. But then you have to be in a posture of expectation.
Because if you don't really believe that it can happen for you, then it doesn't matter if you set an intention, because you have to have the expectation as well. So does this mean that everything is going to go the way you want it to go? And I've asked myself that question over and over again. Is this mean that when I set my intentions, and I align my expectations with my intentions, that I'm going to get everything I want exactly how I want Well, I am going to say probably an not. But here's the thing. It's not about the outcome. Now, I know that sounds very counterproductive to what I'm talking about. But it's really about the response that we are having to what happens in our lives. And knowing that the universe at God, source Divine is working on your behalf, to unfold what you desire into your life, and the way that it comes, the how that it manifests, is really not up to you. But you can set your desired intentions and your expectation to call that in. And so I encourage you, so whatever that looks like for you, when you're thinking about an intention for your life, maybe it's to make a certain amount of money to share. Or maybe it's to, you know, call in a love relationship into your life, perhaps it is just to show up in the world in a whole new way, or to experience healing and transformation in your life.
If that's your intention, be really clear about the intention, and then hold expectation for that to manifest. The how it gets there, when it gets there, the method it arrives, is really not up to you, you have to release that part of it, release that outcome, and just be available and open and responsive to it. Okay, so it's really all about your energy. And one of my clients I was talking to not long ago, we were talking about, you know, the energy of being frantic, or allowing, and you see this all of the time in the lives of people who you're around, maybe you're feeling yourself feels like, everything is just like, go, go, go. Like it's just like, all this energy is like bombarding you. I call that frantic energy. And when you're in this place of frantic energy, and you're just trying to make things happen, you're doing doing doing doing doing, it's not the posture of allowing, it's not the posture of receiving, it's not the posture of being available to what source desires to manifest into your life.
So if you find yourself in this place, where you feeling frantic, you're feeling like oh, my gosh, I just gotta get this done. versus kind of being chill and relaxed and be like, You know what, I am going to make room, I'm going to create space to allow this to happen in my life, then you're going to see a huge difference in calling in your intentions and expecting to receive them into your life. So that brings me to what I am focusing on in 2023. And so I told you that I would share with you what I am going to be focusing on. And over the past few months, in the end of 2022, I really started to focus on my values, and my identity in how I wanted to show up in my life and in my business. And what we often don't really take a look at is that we are showing up a certain way. And we do have certain values that we are committed to whether we know it or not. And those things may be working for us or they may be working against us. So I wanted to get really clear about my values, and being so crystal clear to call them in to action them in my life, and I wanted to share them with you. So that maybe this can also help you. And you might find that what you have been valuing is really not working for you. And is really not going to support what you want to call in this year. So I am actually going to leave out what I desire. I'm how they actually can even share that with you today. I know that's crazy, right?
Like you're not going to tell us what you really want out of 2023 I feel like that's for me right now. That is something that I need to really embody for myself before I go out and share that with you. But what I will share with you is the values that are going to get me to where I want to go. So the first one is all about, get ready for this because I love it. soulful structure. Right? sounds sexy, just even saying it. soulful structure. When I think about having soulful structure, it's almost like I lower my tone of voice to say it. It really means having a plan and a strategy that serves me. And my business and my desires really where I want to go. And being aware of the energy that I'm in and the energy that I'm carrying, and the energy that I'm around and creating a system that serves that. So just in full disclosure, in the past, I've often tried to do things out of my masculine energy. And this is like, if you want to think about his masculine energy, you can think of it more as doing energy.
But when I would do things, to do them, just because I felt like I needed to be productive, and like, knock things off the list. I actually felt really exhausted from that. And there were many, many times in my life, even before I was coaching, where I found myself really burnt out, in in a place where I was trying to do so many things, often to win the approval of others, often to you know, move forward in my life in some way to you know, gain attention for some reason. But needless to say, when I was in that doing energy, it was no, no, it was not good. So, then what I did was, I swung the pendulum all the way to the other side to my feminine energy, which is like, more of like that being energy. But what I ended up doing, there was a lot of sitting and waiting, because I really didn't know what to do in the feminine energy. I knew what to do in the masculine energy, the doing energy, because I knew how to be productive, I knew how to get shit done. But I had no idea what to do in my feminine energy, in my being energy. So that resulted in a lot of just sitting around and being frustrated. Because things were not happening. I was hoping to manifest things and they were not manifesting into my life. Because I had no idea what I was doing. I was just being in the feminine, or so I thought, which is probably not what I was actually doing anyways. So for me, looking at this new value, for me of having soulful structure means that I need to listen to my inner guidance, and then take aligned action from that every single day, every day of the year, always be listening, and then taking action.
And when I look at my business, when I look at the structure of my day, I really went into this industry, not only to make an impact in the lives of others, which I really wanted to do, but also because I knew I needed a sense of freedom in my own life, and autonomy in my own life. I didn't want to be told what to do anymore. I didn't want a boss. I didn't want the confines of a nine to five and having to show up somewhere all the time, I felt restricted by that. I felt like I wasn't myself like I couldn't be creative in that environment. And so for me, it was all about having freedom. But freedom wasn't really even serving me, even though that's what will they value us. Freedom was actually having me focus on this nebulous thing, having all this empty time and space. But when I think about taking aligned action in my life, when I think about really listening into my inner guidance to guide me to lead me to help me make decisions, and then when I know that a decision needs to be made to take action on it immediately.
Honestly, I feel like that is exactly what I need. I don't need freedom. I need soulful structure. I need a little bit of routine. I need a little bit of structure in my life, I need to take action, but I also need to do it from an intuitive guided place. So the very first value that I'm going to be focusing on this year to call in my intentions is going to be having so full structure. The second one which is equally as sexy, I will say, is intuitive authority. Okay. So it's a little bit like the other one in the sense that it's listening to my own inner guidance. But I spent the better part of this past year 2022, beginning to understand a little bit more of my human design. Now I am a generator to four sacral if you are a human design person, you will completely understand that, if you've never heard about human design your life you're like, Well, what the eff is that?
Okay, so go look it up human design generator to for sacral. So for me, learning that one of my highest really, ways of functioning in the world is listening, and being led by my intuition. And I could have probably told you that long before I knew about human design, however, was I living my life out of that? Absolutely not. I was like, I have intuition about certain things. But I really was not letting that being be a guiding principle in my life, or in my business. Nor was I showing up in that authority, and showing up in that understanding that my intuition is consistently leading and driving me forward. And what I was doing a hate even to admit, it was that I spent an ordinate amount of time looking outside of myself for the answers. Like that is a for real thing for me. I can literally tell you, I could list off examples of the amount of times where I looked to someone else for the answer for me, only to come to realize that my number one guiding principle in my life was my intuitive authority.
What I realized that I like literally shook me to my core, do you know how much I have invested in coaches and mentors to tell me what to do. And it wasn't that I didn't need the guidance, or didn't need to learn from them. Or it didn't even need to be in their energy, because I needed all of those things. But you know, what I didn't need, I did not need to look for them, or look to them for the answer, which is what I was doing. Oftentimes, I would hire a coach or a mentor or jump into a program, thinking that it was going to solve a problem for me, which is excellent marketing, by the way. Because that is exactly what coaches are doing. They're showing you the problem, and the solution that they have to your problem. And what I have realized in my own life, and what I am leading out of from here on out, is the understanding that I am guided by my own intuitive authority. And leaning into that self trust for me, is really about helping and empowering others to lead out of that for themselves. Can you even imagine what is possible for your life? When you trust yourself? Like when you legitimately make decisions, and know that you are in fucking control of them? Like, you know that you know that, you know, like there is no other.
I mean, like, honestly, I'm at a loss for words, when I think about it. Like we are looking so often to have someone tell us what to do. And yet, inside, we know what to do. Are we acting on that? Well, hello, we're not acting on that. We're waiting for someone to give us permission to give us the approval to anoint us and say go for it. You know, but imagine what is possible for your life for your business. If you trusted yourself. Okay, full stop. That value for me leaning into my intuitive authority, I can honestly say even just by, like talking about right now, it is going to propel me forward this year, it is going to be something that just literally launches me forward. And I can even feel it by talking about it. So I'm going to be focusing on my own intuitive authority, can I get an A man? Okay, number three, this one is probably going to be the hardest one for me to talk about. Because we're going to be talking about money, honey, we are going to be talking about money. And, you know, if you've listened to this podcast, for any length of time, that I talk about money, and I talk about my own struggles, financially, and how I have been on a journey, really, to shift my mindset around money, like I really have.
And I'll tell you, the ebbs and flows of this journey for me, have illuminated so many things in my life, and illuminated the stories I've believed, illuminated, what I have made things mean about myself and about my business. And I take a look back at this year. And I look at some of the things I heard people talk about in the coaching industry, and just in general, relating everything to money and to success being about money. And when I wasn't making the money that I really wanted to be making, I assumed I just was not successful. That was that. I was like, Well, I guess I'm a big fat failure. Because apparently, you got to be making a shit ton of money to be successful. And when I started to peel back those layers, and I started to really take a deeper look. And one of my mentors, Vanessa, who really helps me with money mindset, she really helped me see this. She was She basically said to me, she's like, Andrea, if you were making the kind of money you wanted, would you be doing what you're doing now? And I was like, Yeah, hell yeah, I would be doing exactly what I'm doing. Now.
I love what I'm doing now. She said, Well, then why do you feel as though you're not her now? Like, you're not successful now? And I was like, Well, I guess because I don't have the bank account to prove it. And quite honestly, that shook me to my core. And when when I was coming up with my value for this year, I wasn't really sure that this is what I wanted to choose, because it just felt so not me. So it is creating money in abundance. even say it didn't seem nearly as sexy as the other two things, right? Creating money, and abundance, like being a massive generator of money and abundance in my life. And when I first started thinking about that, like my first thought my first gut instinct feeling reaction was like, oh, no, I'm going to be one of those people. And then I had to, like, pull it back and be like, No, Andrea, when you really truly understand being in the energy of abundance, it is like being wrapped in a giant hug. It's intimate, it is real. And yet, we have kind of perverted the idea of money based on our perceptions, and based on the stories we've been told, and based on what we see.
And the thought of being someone who can create money in abundance, at first was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, definitely don't want to be that person. Because I don't want to be aligned with that. But what I didn't realize was that I didn't understand it. The truth of being the energy of money and abundance is generosity. This is this big, beautiful energy, where I become a channel where you become a channel to give and receive money and abundance, the value exchange for things that we're doing and how we are operating in the world. But even just out of generosity out of gifts, and my heart, like my deepest desire, is to be someone who creates abundance for other people in every way, in your purpose, in your relationships, in your business, in your life, in your mindset. That's exactly what I want to do. So what does that mean to me? How am I going to focus on creating money and abundance in my life? Wow. Okay, I had to get specific about my money goal for this year, which I have to say, full disclosure, I have never done because going back to the beginning of the podcast, if I was not expecting to receive it, then I was not going to call it into my life. So I was very nebulous about my money goals.
I was just like, I'm not even going to talk about him. But my friend, that is all changing here now. Now, even though I am not going to tell you what my money goal is. There are people who do know what my money goal is, and I am going to be honest and upfront with those individuals, to hold me in accountability to what I have put forth. Okay, so yes, I have a money goal for this year. But here's the thing and get ready. I'm not attaching to that money goal. Even though it's a goal, even though it's an intention, and even though I am in expectation of it. Instead, I am attaching to the feeling that I am manifesting that abundance and receiving all that comes with that it's not about a number. I mean, we say a number because we need to be specific about it. And if you're into human design, sometimes you manifest in different ways generators, especially to for generator manifest specifically. So for me, it really is important that I get specific about it, but not to the extent that I am thinking about it nonstop. And that I am so like crazy focused on it. Instead I am focused on what it brings me manifesting that into my life creating money and abundance in my life to the degree I desire is going to allow for me to experience and be generous in my life in a way that I have always, always dreamed of being and so I can honestly say to you my friend that you know here I am December 30 2022.
When you listen to it, it'll be the beginning of 2023 January. And I honestly can say I want to look back from a year from now and be in this exact place rejoicing like being like Holy fucking shit I manifested this i co created with source of the universe God has shown up in my life baby, and it has happened. And why do I know that? Because I really truly believe setting these values for me setting soulful structure really being so intuitively led to take action and really outworking what my gifts and abilities are. Standing in my intuitive authority Knowing that I show up as who I was created to be, and creating money and abundance in a way that not only lifts me, but lifts every person that I come in contact with. So when I think about what I am expecting, in 2023, you better believe I am expecting, bake. So I want to ask you, what are you expecting in this new year?
What are you going to value in your life? What are the three things that are going to propel you further than you have ever been? And my friend, do not listen to the people who are telling you to not lean into this. Because if you don't lean into what you truly what your soul is calling you towards, you may be standing here a year from now, thinking to yourself. If only I had done this, if only I had leaned into this more. So I want to encourage you take some time set aside some time to get so crystal clear on what that looks like for you. Now have say, I'm so excited because I am actually going to be walking my clients through this process this year. This is something I'm adding into my coaching, I am super, super excited about it. And if this sounds like something that you are ready to embrace in your life, like you are like, yes, Andrea, I want to move into expectation not only do I want to lift out of the limiting beliefs, and shift those beliefs and stand in a new story, and be the person I was created to be. But I want to shift my expectations. I want to call in and manifest what I desire in my life and in my business. I want it all to be an out flow of who I am. If that is you, then I encourage you to jump on a call with me. And let's get started creating what you desire in 2023. To really blow apart this year, to change it radically.
From now until basically into eternity because this is going to leave a legacy for you and for those you love. I'm going to leave the link in the show notes. But you can jump on a call with me andreacrisp.ca/schedule. And I would love to partner with you and really help you move this forward into the new year. Friend I'm excited about 2023 I am excited. I am jazzed up you can tell I have never been more excited about something in my whole entire life. So until next time, remember, you have everything you need to live bravely.
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