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Kathleen Cameron, entrepreneur, author, and coach, discusses the transformative impact of manifestation and how changing your mindset can help you live a life of meaning.

Tell us about yourself:
I’m a registered nurse by background. At the peak of my nursing career, I was working as a director in health-care administration, but I felt like there was more for me. I kept seeing these women entrepreneurs who were running a business while still being home with their kids, and here I was, commuting for an hour and sitting in meetings all day. So I decided to start a digital marketing company and began developing my social media and branding myself. And that company grew so much that I was able to quit my nursing career in June 2019.

Then in September of that year, I learned about manifestation from Bob Proctor, who I believe is one of the all-time greatest teachers on human potential. He taught me about the law of attraction, which states that your thoughts tangibly impact the people and opportunities your energy attracts. I began to write down things I wanted—and, amazingly, they would happen. For instance, I noted that I desired to be a best-selling author, and then somebody asked me to write a chapter in a book. I did, and the book became a bestseller. After that, my life just exploded and my business doubled.

I soon began talking about what I learned from Proctor on social media; from there, everything naturally switched over to teaching others about manifestation. And the more I taught it, the more I embodied it. In January 2020, I launched my coaching business, Diamond Academy Coaching Inc., generating a million dollars in revenue within seven months. We did 3.3 million total in that first year, and now four years in, we’re approaching 30 million. I’ve also gone on to write two books of my own, Becoming the One and The Best of Yourself, which just came out in January.

What is manifestation?
Manifestation is all about becoming aware of a version of yourself that has always existed but that you probably just haven’t experienced yet. This involves considering what kind of life you want. What experiences do you yearn for? What are you putting on your vision board? As you work to answer those questions, you have to think about who you need to be in order to manifest those dreams. I help people figure out what their ideal life is, and then they do the personal growth and development required to make it a reality. Such a permanent change has the power to transform someone’s entire life, which is something I think everyone can benefit from experiencing.

What are some ways of manifesting your ideal life?
A lot of manifestation is transforming your personal identity, specifically the way you think about yourself. That narrative has a profound impact on the actions you take. If you change your perspective of yourself for the good, you will begin to see your life differently as well. And the more identity work you do, the more transformation you’ll experience in all areas of your life. In fact, you will actually physically start to manifest positive effects like better relationships, more money, success, and business growth, and even improved health.

One key component of this is embodiment. It’s not enough to just read about manifestation—you must put it into practice. In The Best of Yourself, I end each chapter with a journal prompt to challenge people to live what they’re reading. The act of journaling can help you embody the information you’re taking in and start to know it through experience.

I’ve found that the things we value will often grow as a result of us giving them a loving energy—and vice versa. If a client expressed any disappointment or frustration about their business or job, for example, I’d advise them to stop judging it by what they’re unhappy with and instead look at how much they’ve gained from it. How has it grown over the years? What successes have they already had? What are they thankful for about it today? When they look at their situation with love, they can then begin to manifest and attract even more good things they can be grateful for.

How can others begin to change their perspectives?
It’s really about finding yourself first: who you are, what brings you joy, what you’re good at, and what you’re passionate about. When you do that, you may end up finding your life’s true meaning. For instance, I have a client who’s a real estate agent, meaning she helps people buy and sell houses. And for years, that’s exactly what she said she did. But then the other day, she reached out to me and told me that she’d found her meaning—to help make peoples’ dreams come true. She said that a house is often the number one thing on someone’s vision board, and when their current home no longer fits their dreams, she assists them in finding a new one that does. The thing is, this meaning and purpose were always there for her; she just wasn’t aware of them.

Instead of trying to find the meaning of life in the grand sense, I think we have to find the specific meaning of our individual lives. For me, it’s teaching people and supporting them in their own ascensions. Discovering this meaning added a whole facet of enjoyment, pleasure, and power to my life that I’d never had before. Without it, I had questioned what all of it was for, and now I have something to hold on to. My meaning has given me a passion. It’s given me a purpose. And when times get tough, it’s allowed me to hang on, have hope, and keep moving forward.

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TAKE ACTION:
Write down one or two dreams for yourself and your business, and determine how changing your perspective may help you achieve them.