It was the 1930s. My grandmother Claire Fortin was the youngest of twelve and needed to get a job to help support the family after she graduated from eighth grade. “When my mother set my mind to something, it was done,” my own mother shared with me.

Claire decided she was going to work at the textile mill near her home in Lowell, Massachusetts. So, she dressed in her finest shift dress and heels, walked half a mile, and presented herself to the supervisor there. “I need a job,” she told him. The supervisor responded that they were not hiring. “Well, I’ll be back tomorrow then,” she said. “You don’t have to come back - we’re not hiring,” the supervisor replied. And before she left, she said, “That’s okay, I’ll come back tomorrow.”

Every single day for 30 days my grandmother returned to the textile mill in her dress and heels and had the same exact conversation with that supervisor. Until the one day when he gave her the job. 

You might think that’s just a story about someone who was determined - which my grandmother was - but it’s more than that; it’s an example of manifestation at its finest. It exemplifies the key components needed to manifest someone, something, or some experience into your life. Some of these key factors that my grandmother exhibited was that she had decided the job was hers,  she acted as if she already had it by dressing the part, she took consistent inspired action, she persevered over time, and she believed that the job was hers even when the world told her otherwise. But there’s a bit more to manifestation than that.

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