For the longest time, there was this copy coach I admired.

Her emails and content were sharp and funny – the kind of writing that made me stop mid-scroll every time. I used to read them and think, one day, when my business has grown to the point where I can invest in working with her 1:1, I’m going to hire her! She felt like someone whose perspective would help me expand my own.

So when I finally got there and we started working together, I was thrilled. You know that feeling when something you’ve wanted for a long time is finally happening and you want to savor every moment of it? 

That was me. I remember going into one session full of energy, ready to ask her the question that had been on my mind: how do I grow my business beyond $10K months? Her response floored me. Why did I feel I needed more than $10K a month? Wasn’t that enough to live a full life?

I remember going completely still. I was too stunned to respond at the moment, and another part of me was already doing that thing where you second-guess your own reaction before you’ve even fully had it. Am I being ungrateful? Is she right? Should $10K feel like enough?

It wasn’t until later that I understood what had actually happened.

Her question was really her own internal ceiling speaking – her personal definition of “enough” – and she’d handed it to me wrapped in the language of care and practicality. The insidious thing about moments like this is how they arrive. There’s no warning, no sense that someone is placing a cap on your desires. It just feels like a trusted person telling you the truth.

That’s what makes it so important to recognize, especially when you look at it through the lens of manifesting a big, beautiful, bold desire.

When someone in a position of authority – someone you admire – is in your energy, your Manifesting Response System can absorb their beliefs without you even realizing it’s happened. There’s no filter. No moment where you consciously decide, “yes, I’ll take that belief on board.” It just seeps in, especially when you’re in a state of openness and trust. 

Immediately after that session, I did what I do whenever something feels off kilter… I used the Stop and Drop technique which I talk about in Manifest Anything You Want. I paused, placed my hands over my heart, took 1 Healing Breath of Clarity and asked: what do I need to know right now? The answer came back clear as day. Her “enough” was hers and not mine.

Your ability to manifest is responding to what’s living inside you so the question worth sitting with is: whose “enough” have you been running on?

I walked away from that coaching relationship soon after that session because I realized something that I’d like to share with you here – your “enough” gets to be as bold and expansive as your desire asks for. Nobody else gets to define it for you…not a coach, not a well-meaning friend, not someone whose work you admire. 

So go ahead and ask yourself – whose ceiling have you been living under and what are you ready to stop making yourself small about? The answer could be the difference between seeing your deepest desires manifest into your reality or watching them stay forever out of reach.

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