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The big business of manifesting money

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  1. joplin
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    My spouse has a friend who got into this stuff. It's just "The Secret" repackaged. I think this quote really sums it up: Also, the wording of the whole movement is very squirrelly. I started my...

    My spouse has a friend who got into this stuff. It's just "The Secret" repackaged. I think this quote really sums it up:

    There is also, of course, no definitive proof that money manifestation even works. “If you’re just sending energy out, you’re not taking action to earn returns, to get your debt paid down, or to get your expenses under control,” says Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and cofounder of Ellevest, a digital finance platform for women. “You could also write out a plan for paying off your credit cards that would make you feel good,” she suggests. Or do something like renegotiate your cell phone bill, which costs nothing.

    Also, the wording of the whole movement is very squirrelly. I started my own business 20 years ago, and it ended up doing OK. Did I "manifest" the money I made from it? I "made it from nothing." I thought about what I wanted, then implemented my plan, and made money. It sounds like the same thing, but with no mysticism. (The funny thing is that I ended up selling off the IP for a very small sum, going to work for the man, and made a ton more money than I did running my own business. Go figure.)

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