On Purpose with Jay Shetty - 4 Simple Manifestation & Visualization Hacks to Help Achieve Your 2025 Goals

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

What’s one goal you want to manifest in 2025? What small step can you take today toward your goal? Today, Jay dives into the mindset and practices needed to manifest the life you truly desire in 2025. Picking up where last week’s strategies and habits left off, Jay explores the often-overlooked internal components of goal achievement—your mindset, subconscious programming, and visualization techniques. He begins by redefining the idea of manifestation, emphasizing the importance of understanding the deeper emotional drivers behind your goals. Whether it's confidence, safety, or self-esteem, Jay explains how aligning with these core desires rather than just material outcomes can unlock true abundance.  Jay also shares actionable steps for cultivating a manifestation mindset, starting with mastering those subconscious moments just before sleep and upon waking. By integrating affirmations during these times, you can rewire your thought patterns and reinforce your intentions. He introduces the “Rule of Your Most Repeated Thought,” explaining how consistent positive affirmations shape your reality over time. In this episode, you'll learn: How to Rewire Your Mind with Affirmations How to Visualize the Process, Not Just the Outcome How to Align Your Energy with Your Goals How to Avoid Distractions and Stay Focused on Your Target How to Surround Yourself with Positive Reinforcements You have everything you need to build the life you envision; it starts with belief and is fueled by consistent effort. Stay focused, stay inspired, and trust in the process—because the life you’re dreaming of is already waiting for you. Keep moving forward; you’ve got this! With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:20 Achieving Goals Need the Ability to Visualize 03:20 Step 1: Deeply Know Why You Want What You Want  05:53 Step 2: Master the Subconscious Moments 10:13 Step 3: You Will Manifest Your Most Repeated Thought 11:52 Step 4: Visualize the Process not the Result 15:08 Vision Boards, Verbal Boards 18:25 What’s Growing in Your Life? 21:07 How to Stop Living a Misaligned Life  23:15 Keep Books Open in Random Places 25:11 Write Things Down and Post it Around YouSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You don't just want that car, you want confidence that you think comes with that car. You don't want that home, you want safety that you believe comes with that home. You don't just want that business, you want the self-esteem that you believe comes from that business, building it. And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important that you also create a verbal board. A verbal board of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into. Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. Here we are, week two of the year and I really, really hope that you're feeling clear about your goals this year. I hope you're feeling clear about what you're trying to manifest this year.

Last week I gave you the hacks, the habits, the tools, the practices in order to make sure you achieve your goals. I gave you my tried and tested proven method. And today I want to give you that shift in your mindset. See, achieving your goals is both an external and an internal aspiration and method What I mean by that is externally you need the strategies the steps the habits the hacks the tools everything I gave you last week and what you need today is The mindset the internal belief system the ability visualize, to create from within your mind,

the power that exists within our mind is so underestimated and so underrated. And a lot of people will discard it as woo-woo or they'll discard it as esoteric or whatever it may be. But the truth is there's enough research now to prove that the power of the mind is unbelievable. And I think we watch people do incredible things every day, whether it's athletes, musicians, singers, performers. We have to recognize that the ability to stretch and build our minds to achieve unbelievable things exists within all of us.

And today I want to walk you through that manifestation mindset. If you are going to make this year the year that you attract what you deeply desire and want in life, then I want to help you get there through the right mindset. Sometimes you can get somewhere by pushing and sometimes you get somewhere by feeling pulled. I want you to have both inside your toolkit, right? I think we know we need to push forward. We need to work hard.

I'm not gonna sit here and say, hey, you'll just receive and you'll just attract. I don't believe in that and I don't think that's a healthy idea to have out there. At the same time, I know lots of people who keep pushing, but they never feel pulled by what they're building. So let's start with step one of the manifestation mindset. Step one is deeply know why you want what you want

and how are you going to use it to serve and improve the lives of others. This is such an important point that is often overstepped. We always make it about us. And just think about that for a second. When you make something about you and you alone, you've actually limited the energy. Manifestation is all about abundance. It's about creating beyond. It's about impacting beyond.

Peter Diamandis put it best. He said, I want to redefine the word billionaire to be someone who impacts a billion people. That's really what someone's doing. When someone creates something large, big, humongous, they've done it because they've affected a lot of people. They've directly or indirectly improved the lives or affected the lives of lots of people and therefore the size of their success is equivalent to the size of the problem they've solved.

If our only way is to solve our problem, which by the way in the beginning survival is totally fine as a method of manifestation but if we can extend it a little bit further for it to be about improving the lives of others for it to be about representing and creating an impact for it to be about service incredible things can happen so think about it are you trying to change the life of your kids? Are you trying to change the life of your partner or your parents? Are you trying to change the life of your community? Are you trying to inspire future generations? It's not that you think you're that big.

It's not that you think you're that important. It's that you know you're being driven by more than just numbers and data. I think so many people give up on their goals because their only motivation is to do it for themselves. And their only motivation is to provide for a limited capacity. But if we truly want to align with abundance, we also have to think abundantly. Now, how do we do this? Step number two is mastering the subconscious moments.

There are two times of the day where we're most in our subconscious. That state between being awake and being asleep. Notice how when you're just about to fall asleep, maybe having a conversation with someone, you're talking to someone and you can still hear your voice, but you can hear it get quieter and then slowly it turns off or in the morning when you wake up and you allow yourself to just settle for a few moments. You haven't fully opened your eyes, you haven't grabbed for your phone yet,

you know you're awake and you're not fully asleep. These two times of the day are such a powerful time to manifest. Because what we're doing is we're planting ideas deep in our subconscious that then have the ability to grow fruits and bear fruits as they grow throughout the day. So what I've been practicing for a few years now is that in these subconscious moments, I will implant my affirmations and so I will affirm the mindset I want to live by. I am living a life of service and impact. I'm doing it because I believe that everyone deserves the tools. And I am so grateful to have the opportunity to share it with billions of people across the world.

When you use those moments, what happens is that cynical doubtful part of you is a bit quieter. That part of you that's always challenging, maybe even having negative self-talk towards your ideas is a little bit more silenced. And you have the ability almost to sneak past that cynical guard and plant that thought. And all you have to do is just stop yourself from reaching for your phone for that 30 seconds to one minute. Have three affirmations that you've rehearsed, that you know off by heart,

that you remember to say just in that moment. And hey, by the way, when you first start this, you're gonna get it wrong. You're gonna reach for your phone. And what I want you to do is just let go of your phone and maybe even make it the background of your phone. Make your three affirmations the background of your phone. So you see them, put your phone down, close your eyes again and read them to yourself.

I am followed by whatever it is that you wish to be, that you wish to become. Now what does this do? It's not magic in the sense that all of a sudden you wake up and the thing you asked for is there. That's not magic in the sense that all of a sudden you wake up and the thing you asked for is there. That's not how manifestation works. What we're doing is we're training our subconscious that is already being pulled towards a negativity bias. That's already being distracted by everything else that's going wrong. Right? What we find for a lot of us is we want to solve the easiest issue

even if it's not the deepest issue. Right? You want to solve the problem that makes you feel like you're busy as opposed to solve the problem that actually makes your life easy. It's really interesting. And our mind does the same thing. It rushes towards the things we can solve and make us feel productive, even though the thing we're actually trying to solve is something we're ignoring. And in these subconscious moments you get to rewire that.

You get to rewire your attention, your energy and your focus subconsciously towards the things that really matter, towards the things that you want to be immersed in. If you say that in the morning, I promise you, when it gets to midday, you'll still be thinking of it subconsciously and you'll actually make the right decision. If you repeat, I am happy, I'm healthy and I'm healing, you will make choices that day to be happier, to be healthier, to be healing.

But when the mindset we wake up with is, oh God, I'm just so tired. I'm just exhausted. I just, I wish I didn't have to go to work today. Now that's what you're feeling throughout the day. I call it the rule of your most repeated thought. You will manifest your most repeated thought. You can even monitor. This is step three, what are your most

repeated words to someone if someone says hey what are you excited about for this year and your answer is oh I don't know really I haven't really thought about it and you keep saying that what ends up happening you keep saying it and you keep thinking it and you keep believing it. What we say, we think, we believe. What we think, we say it and then believe it. Our beliefs are based on what we think and say consistently and repeatedly. Your most repeated thought becomes your reality.

The thought that you say the most, the thought that you say the most, the thought that you think the most, is the thought that you will believe the most. And some of the things we've said to ourselves for weeks, months, years and decades define our trajectory without us even knowing. We have to shift at a subconscious level to transform our reality.

I know you can do this. I believe you can do this. And when you repeat these affirmations and these thoughts, I want you to mean it in your mind. I want you to feel it in your heart and I want you to believe it in your body. It's really key. in these some conscious times, you're actually able to do that. Mean it in your mind, believe it in your body, and feel it in your heart. Hey, I'm Jacquees Thomas,

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podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Step four, visualize the process, not the result. I'll explain what I mean. If I ever say to someone, hey, close your eyes and visualize who you want to be, where you want to be. We often visualize the podium, not the process. We visualize winning, not training. You visualize achieving, not building. You visualize the ending, not the starting. If you want manifestation to work for you, if you want to attract the life that you truly desire,

it's about visualizing the process, not perfection. So many of us waste so much time and energy focused on what it will look like when we get there. And while it's important to feel that in our body, it's more important to also train ourselves to visualize the process. Waking up early, meditating, working on our health, building that skill. What does that look like because that's the life we have to live We have to visualize the life we have to live in order to get to the place we want to be and It's the life that we live that makes us great enough. That's what greatness is greatness is not achieving the Trophy or winning the award or getting top of the list that's not greatness greatness is the discipline you developed greatness is

the energy you harnessed greatness is the effort you put in greatness is the skills you learned the iterations you made the improvements and changes you worked hard to deliver on. That's greatness. So visualize that process. I would program when I lived in the monastery what I wanted my thoughts to be in the morning. I see it as coding. At night, I would code my mind to say,

I will wake up fresh, healthy, energized, and enthusiastic to meditate. And whenever I would do that and set that intention at night, I saw that it programmed and coded my mind to wake up with that in the morning. And if I decided to skip that, I could force myself to feel that in the morning, but it was so much easier to code that the night before. You set your alarm the night before to wake you up the morning, but it was so much easier to code that the night before. You set your alarm the night before to wake you up the next morning.

You don't set it when you want to wake up. You set your intention, you set your coding, you set your energy the night before. Visualize the process, visualize yourself doing the hard things, visualize yourself strengthening your body, lifting those weights, going on that run, starting that podcast, recording an episode. Visualize the parts that are the hard parts, because those are the parts that your life will be made up of.

Visualize the discomfort, not the comfort, because that's what your life will be made up of. Visualize the hard, not the comfort, because that's what your life will be made up of. Visualize the hard, not the easy, because that's what your mind and heart and life will be made up of. Now, when we talk about visualization, people often talk about vision boards. I'm a big fan of vision boards. Why? Because again, we're giving data to the mind. Why? Because again, we're giving data to the mind. When I was growing up, I remember my wall was covered in lyrics, posters of rappers,

music, lines from interviews. It was surrounded. I was fully immersed by musicians, lyricists, poets. I would stick up all that stuff with tack on my wall. My mom, it drove her crazy because it would ruin the wallpaper or the paint or whatever she had under it, but I loved it. And what happened, that was my life. Everything that I said sounded lyrical.

Everything that I felt affected me. Everything I listened to was transforming my life. That's what vision boards are. They're not an activity you do for two hours and then just stick it up there. into was transforming my life. That's what vision boards are. They're not an activity you do for two hours and then just stick it up there. It's something that allows you to immerse and it's also picking things that really motivate you. I think sometimes we do a vision board very theoretically, but does that specific thing, does that specific feeling mean something to you?

specific thing, does that specific feeling mean something to you? And if it is just a thing, a material thing, we have to realize what does it stand for, what am I really looking for? Because sometimes you're not really wanting that car, you're wanting confidence, you're not really wanting that home, you're wanting safety. Let's think about that for a second. You don't just want that car. You want confidence that you think comes with that car. You don't want that home.

You want safety that you believe comes with that home. You don't just want that business. You want the self-esteem that you believe comes from that business, building it. And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important that you also create a verbal board. A verbal board of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into. This is the biggest mistake people make with vision boards. They only have things. And then when they get the thing, they're unhappy.

And when they don't get the thing, they're unhappy. But when you recognize that that thing represented a deeper feeling that you were craving, that you were chasing, that you were pursuing, that becomes a worthy pursuit. Pursuing confidence is greater than pursuing the car and the car will come anyway. Pursuing safety is greater than pursuing that home and the home will come anyway. Pursuing joy and abundance will attract more than pursuing a material thing that may look like it stands for that.

As much as you pursue and have a vision board, have a verbal board of emotions, an emotional vocabulary that you're pursuing. Our purpose in life is to pursue that vocabulary, is to pursue those emotions, is to pursue those feelings and figure out where they come from and where they arise. The next step as you're manifesting is you have to ask yourself, what's multiplying in my life? So what's going well? Because you need to zone into that. I think a lot of the time we only focus on what's going wrong. And when you only focus on what's going wrong, you're not able to double down on what's going well. So first start with what's multiplying in my life, what's cascading, what's just growing in my life and doing extremely, extremely well. And then what's actually

needing to be subtracted from my life? And then what do I need to edit in my life? One of the things I love, which I learned about through speaking to some of my friends who are therapists is the 777 method. The 777 method involves writing down what you are trying to manifest seven times in the morning and seven times at night for seven days in a row. Again, what are we doing here?

What we're doing is we're programming your mind to be focused. We're programming your energy to be directed. I speak to so many people who say, Jay, I want to start a podcast. I want to start a business. And when I say to them, well, what have you been reading about for the last seven days? They go politics. I go, got it.

All right, well, that doesn't align. There isn't alignment there. Someone will say to me, Jay, I really want to write a book. And I go, great. What have you been reading recently? What have you been learning about recently? And they say, oh, I've just been watching the football.

And I go, okay, well, that doesn't align. Gandhi said it best. He said that you experience harmony when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in alignment. And I think a lot of us are misaligned. And so I want you to really reflect on how are you spending your free time?

Is your free time, does it sound like the life you wanna live? When your free time, does it sound like the life you want to live? When your free time becomes immersed in the life you want to live, your non-free time becomes that life. And so you want to practice. You actually want to build that skill. You want to build that life that you so want to live in that free 30 minutes you have per day rather than say I really want to do that,

but that's not what I'm focused on. I really want to build that, but that's not where my energy is. And I think so many of us are living a misaligned life, and that's actually what's causing our challenges. Our stress and challenges are not created because we don't have good intentions, we don't have goals, we don't have good intentions, we don't have goals,

we don't have clear ideas. It's because our energy and our focus are misaligned and distracted. You can't attract the life you want if you live a distracted life. You can't create alignment You can't create alignment if you're living a misaligned life. If your energy is all over the place and your focus is dispersed, it won't suddenly shift into feeling like an arrow. It just doesn't work that way. Right? It doesn't work that way. If you're shooting lots of arrows or if you're looking everywhere, like let's say you're saying, this is how

it actually goes. You're saying, I want this arrow to hit the bullseye. I want it to hit that red dot in the middle. But I'm actually looking around at the leaves. I'm looking around at the trees. I'm looking around the person over there who's kicking a soccer ball around, football. I'm looking over that side because someone's playing with their child. I'm looking over that, you know, it's like, but my energy is so distracted. How can I attract that goal? And then by the way, when you take the shot, you miss the target. Every ounce of our being has to be focused and fixated on that target.

And you'll say, well, Jay, how can I? Because I have so many other responsibilities and you're right, you do. And you have to do all those responsibilities, but at the same time, you're thinking about that target. You're thinking about how what you're learning here applies to that target. You're not seeing it as a space of friction

like these things are against each other. You're actually saying, if I solve that target, I'll actually be better at all these things I'm distracted by. Right? I'll actually make better decisions. I was saying this to a friend recently, where he was trying to solve something for his family and he's also trying to build his business. And I said, well, if you build that business, you'd be able to solve that problem for your family. But while you think you're trying to solve the problem for your family, you're actually just creating longer term issues

because you're not solving the root of the problem. Often if you look at a tree, you can try and spray the leaves, you can take care of the branches, but if we're not watering and nourishing the roots, it's not going to survive. One of my other favorite methods is keeping books open in random places. A book near my bedside table, which is all about sleep. A book on my office table, which is all about creativity.

A book in my living room, which is all about community and relationships. Even if you read one paragraph while you're walking through that room, I promise you it's enough. I've spent years reading, you know, trying to read a book a day, trying to read a book a week. It's been amazing. I've learned a lot. But that's just not practical for most people. But if you just read one paragraph a day, one line a day, here's the thing. You can read a whole book and it won't change your life until you live one line a day. Here's the thing. You can read a whole book and it won't change your life

until you live one line. Read one line of a book and try to live it. Then read the next line and try to live it. Not only will this make you want to read the next line, it will make you realize how powerful every line is. And you won't just understand it, you'll have realized how knowledge can transform your

life because you applied it. Read study apply. Read study apply. Read study apply. Read study apply. Apply what you're reading. Keep books open in random places. Read one line. I promise you, if you keep them open on a page, your eyes will be drawn to it rather than this idea of, well, I'm scrolling on my phone, walking through this

place, books on a shelf, haven't opened it, don't know what the first page is about, right? You keep putting it off. This is how manifestation works. You're surrounding yourself in that space with the energy that you want it to have. Remember, as I said in Think Like A Monk, location has energy, time has memory. And the final step I want to share with you today is write things down on Post-It notes near your mirror, your bedside and on your laptop. Those affirmations, those belief systems, the ideas, they have to be around you so that your subconscious is just absorbing them like a sponge. Our subconscious is like a child, it absorbs whatever atmosphere it's in.

And what ends up happening is we often say, oh when I'm at home that's when I get immersed, when I'm at home, that's when I get immersed, but when I'm at work, I'm not there. We want to stay connected and rooted to that energy at all times throughout the day. I really hope, actually, I know this will help you manifest the life that you desire. If you practice these principles, share them with me on Instagram, on TikTok,

share your clips, share your stories. I want to see what you're learning, how you're growing this year. I'm with you all the way. I'm with you all the way. I'm rooting for you. I'm forever in your corner. We're building this together. 2025 is your year.

This is the year. On purpose is going to help you there. I'm going to help you get there. Stay committed, stay connected here and I'll be back. Thank you so much. If you love this episode, you will also love my interview with Charles Duhigg on how to hack your brain, change any habit effortlessly and the secret to making better decisions.