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What Members Are Saying

“The Life Vision literally swept me off my feet and showed me exactly where I needed to change my direction and follow my inner compass.”

Rylee

“After a forty-five-year career… where I was essentially making the dreams of others come true, Vibration Fit is allowing me to finally do something that is truly making my personal dreams become a reality.”

Dennis

“I’m no longer surprised, I just know it’s coming. It’s not my responsibility to figure out the how.”

Barbara

“I noticed I am actually a lot more worthy, smart, unique and wealthy than I give myself credit for!”

Michele

“My whole life I’ve just been taught, just keep going, keep going, keep going… this was the first time… where I just felt the damn feeling.”

Misty

“If something comes up that is negative, it’s like, instead of a mountain, it’s just a little hill. You just kind of walk over it.”

Cindy

“I never felt like I fit in. But I fit in here.”

Lisa

Vibration Fit members, shared with permission

Wake Up & Create

Wake Up & Create

How to Wake Up from Autopilot and Create the Life You Choose

Jordan & Vanessa Buckingham

Vibration Fit

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Part One: Remember
  3. 1Vibrational Fitness
  4. 2The Emotional Feedback Loop
  5. 3The Journey to Conscious Allower
  6. Part Two: Choose
  7. 4The Life I Choose
  8. Part Three: Align
  9. 5Notice
  10. 6Shift
  11. 7Sustain
  12. 8Create
  13. 9Repeat
  14. Every Practice on One Page
  15. The 12 Categories
  16. Glossary
  17. Notes and Sources

Preface

We woke up to an empty refrigerator.

No milk. No eggs. The oatmeal we’d packed in bulk from America was finally gone. We were newlyweds, thousands of miles from home in Japan, and when we checked our bank account, we had $0.74. Not even enough to cover the fee at the ATM.

That was our rock bottom.

Everything in this book is what we learned on the way back up.

Bank accounts before and after: real screenshots

Imagine

Imagine a world where you look forward to every part of your day. Not just weekends, not just vacations, not someday after retirement. Every single day.

Imagine a world where you never worry about money. Where your body feels healthy and strong. Where love flows easily in your relationships. Where your career feels like a joyful expression of who you are.

Imagine a world where kindness is contagious. Where smiles ripple through every interaction. Where people lift each other higher instead of tearing one another down. Where success is celebrated, not envied.

Here’s the great paradox: nothing in the external world has to change for you to begin living this way. You can feel it now. And we believe that the moment you start living it on the inside, you begin to see it on the outside. Then one day you open your eyes and realize, Holy sh*t, I’m living the dream. I’m literally living what I once dreamed of.

The world doesn’t have to change. The way you see the world has to change for you to experience something new. The world shows up for you exactly how you expect it to.

We learned that the long way. We spent years creating everything we wanted. Then one morning, with almost all of it in our lives, we woke up feeling empty. That’s when we discovered the real game was never getting what we wanted. It was learning to enjoy our lives on the way there. That’s what this book is really about, because the purpose of life is joy.

Our Mission

Everything we do, every book, every piece of software we build and every post we share, is designed to do one thing: help you experience an emotional outcome NOW that’s above the Green Line and in harmony with the life you choose. Because emotional states attract the experiences that perpetuate emotional states.

Our mission is to fine-tune the process of conscious creation, together.

We do it with our Vibe Tribe. Every member brings their own experiences and their own tools. When something works for one of us, we build it into the platform so it can work for all of us.

We’re like one living organism. We thrive on each other’s wins, and we learn from each other’s wobbles. When a member has an unlock, everyone who’s walking through something similar gets to learn from it too. And as the tribe grows, the organism grows with it.

That’s how we all keep getting better at feeling good now.

And the ripple doesn’t stop at the tribe.

Abraham-Hicks says that about 5% of the humans on our planet are conscious: people who are aware of their creative power.

Together, we want to double that number.

Imagine what would happen if 10% of humanity walked this earth as conscious creators, people who take personal responsibility for how they feel. That’s one out of every ten people you meet. The ripple effect would transform the entire world.

The greatest value in the world is our happiness. Whenever you’re happy, you’re aligned. When you’re aligned, you have all of the answers, wit and influence. And when you have influence, you can influence other people into their own alignment. One person in alignment is more powerful than millions who are not.

Alignment means access. Access to intuition that gives you clarity for the next right step, to creativity and solutions you could never “think” your way into. Alignment is the feeling of being whole in the moment rather than hoping for happiness somewhere in the future.

Maybe, just maybe, we all get along a little better. Love a little more, hate a little less. Starting with ourselves.

If this book helps raise someone’s vibration by even the slightest bit, then every ounce of time and energy we’ve poured into it is worth it.

Why We Care

For years, we wondered, “Are we even worthy of teaching this?” We didn’t want to put a book or a program into the world until we had lived the results ourselves. Too many voices rush to teach what they’re still figuring out, and we never wanted to be that. We wanted congruence. Integrity. Proof.

That’s why we waited. We tested, stumbled, refined and systemized until conscious creation was no longer just an inspiring idea. It was our lived reality. Only then did we feel ready to share it. And maybe that’s why you’re here, holding this book now. Because you’re ready to step into your own proof.

A quick note on our voices: this book is written by both of us, so most of what you’ll read is “we.” When one of us tells a personal story, we’ll say who’s talking, like this. That voice lasts until the next section, and then it’s both of us again.

Vanessa here.

I was once a lost college student. I changed my major eight times because I couldn’t picture myself spending my life in a cubicle. The story I kept telling myself was that I didn’t know what I wanted, so I unconsciously created more of the same confusion. My passion for travel sparked a bigger question: how could I live a life full of freedom? Then I met Jordan, an entrepreneur traveling on his own terms. His joy, and his certainty that things always worked out for him, was magnetic. It lit the spark of my own spiritual journey.

When we came together, our paths collided into one great leap of faith. It was love at first sight, or first dance. We met at a country music hall. We got engaged within six months, married a little over a year after we met, packed up and pursued a business opportunity overseas. Instead of the dream life we envisioned, we found ourselves broke, six figures in debt, thousands of miles from home and unable to buy basic groceries.

That empty refrigerator morning is still vivid for me.

We felt defeated, like we didn’t deserve to sleep or even enjoy a sunset. We had worked so hard, and it felt like it was all for nothing.

Jordan here.

But rock bottom was also the turning point. We had a tough decision to make. We could file for bankruptcy and get normal jobs. Or we could fully commit to what we believed.

That’s when we stopped playing the vibrational hokey-pokey and fully committed to the principles we knew but had never fully lived. We became intolerant of any thought or story that wasn’t in harmony with freedom and abundance. We cut off negative self-talk. We aligned. And when we did, everything began to change.

At the heart of it, this is what we’re here to do: make conscious creation mainstream. We want to take it out of the clouds of woo-woo and bring it into your practical, everyday how-to.

This beautiful, high-vibe, joyful life already exists. You don’t have to wait for it to arrive. It’s not hidden. It’s not generations away in a new world. It’s right here, right now, ready for you to step into.

So let us ask you this: Are you ready to be the conscious creator of your own reality?

If so, keep going. These words are flowing here for you. You’re ready to wake up.

Part One

Remember

You’ll remember who you are and how creation works. Think of it as your warm-up.

Chapter 1

Vibrational Fitness

If you picked up this book hoping to learn how to manifest “all the things” so you can finally be happy, let us stop you right here.

This is not that kind of book.

There are plenty of books that promise that if you visualize harder, write your goals down a certain way, plead with God or the Universe, or meditate like a monk, you’ll finally get the stuff.

This isn’t one of them.

Here’s the truth underneath every one of those books: everything you think you want, you want because you believe you’ll feel better in the having of it.

So most of us wait. We put off feeling good until the bank account, the partner, the body or the business arrives.

Maybe you recognize yourself here:

These aren’t six separate problems. They’re what it looks like when you try to create the conditions that will finally give you permission to feel good.

You’re not broken. You’ve been waiting for the condition to create the feeling.

What if you started feeling it now, before anything changes?

This book isn’t about manifesting stuff. It’s about something much deeper.

It’s about developing what we call vibrational fitness.

Just like physical fitness is training your body to be strong, resilient and capable, vibrational fitness is training yourself to feel the way you want to feel. Not someday. Now.

When you’re vibrationally fit, you don’t just hope for good things to happen. You expect them.

You’re resilient when life gets bumpy. You recover faster when challenges come. You know how to return to the emotional states you choose, again and again, until they become your dominant way of being.

One of our members, Cindy, describes it like this: “If something comes up that is negative, it’s like, instead of a mountain, it’s just a little hill. You just kind of walk over it.”

And as your inner world changes, you’ll watch your outer world begin to change with it.

This isn’t a quick-fix manifestation hack. It’s getting vibrationally fit so you can enjoy your life as it is, while you steadily align with the life you choose. Again and again and again.

If you’re here because you want…

…then welcome home. You’re in the right place.

How This Book Works

Your training happens in three parts.

Part 1: Remember. You’ll remember who you are and how creation works. Think of it as your warm-up.

Part 2: Choose. You’ll get clear on the life you want and how you want to feel in it. This becomes your direction.

Part 3: Align. You’ll learn the practice: Notice how you feel, Shift to a better-feeling perspective, Sustain the momentum, Create from that feeling, and Repeat. This is your daily workout.

Every chapter ends with a five-minute practice. Don’t skip them. Reading about fitness never made anyone fit.

You’re not missing more information. You’re missing a practice.

Why Vibrational Fitness Matters

Most people live the same six months of their lives on repeat until they die. They never exit the rat race, never find true freedom, and never discover their own creative power.

Jordan here.

Vanessa and I refused to settle for that. By the time Vanessa was 30, we had already reinvented ourselves many times.

We’ve gone from six figures in the hole to multiple six figures in the bank. We’ve built businesses and made millions of dollars. We paid cash for a brand-new Honda Odyssey minivan. We bought our dream home in our dream location. We bring our whole family on vacations.

Most importantly, we created a lifestyle where we can both be fully present to raise our kids, while working mostly four-hour workweeks, or less.

We feel like we’ve struck gold. And we’re deeply grateful we created this life at such young ages.

But we also feel something more: a calling. Our souls are urging us to pass the conscious creation torch to you.

Because here’s the reality. If you don’t wake up to your power, you’ll keep sleepwalking through life as an unconscious creator, letting your circumstances decide how you feel.

But when you wake up, you start deciding. You choose what you want to create and how you want to feel, and you hold your focus there.

That’s the training we’re offering you in this book.

One Source, Many Names

All spiritual traditions point to the same universal energy.

A Christian might call it God or the Holy Spirit. A Catholic might call it the Holy Trinity. A scientist might call it consciousness and energy. A Buddhist might call it Ultimate Reality. A Muslim might call it Allah. A Hindu might call it Brahman.

What do you call it?

The bottom line is that there is a Source of all existence, and you are connected to it.

We’re not trying to compete with your religious beliefs or spiritual practices. Use whatever words feel true to you. We’ll mostly say Source, God or your Inner Being, and you can swap in your own.

Our message is simple: the divinity you’ve been searching for isn’t “out there.” It’s within you.

Vibrational fitness strengthens that connection.

The Magic of Creation

Vanessa here.

Have you ever cooked a delicious meal from scratch, built something beautiful with your own hands, or written something that came from your heart?

That sense of “I made this” is priceless. It carries a joy that consuming someone else’s creation never can.

Imagine if, as kids, our teachers had handed us coloring pages that were already colored in. No crayons. No markers. Just a picture to stare at and admire.

We would have missed the spark of pride and joy that comes from coloring something ourselves.

For moms, the feelings that surge through your body when you first meet your baby are unlike anything else. There are no words to accurately describe the fullness of experiencing yourself as a creator of life itself.

The same is true of things. My favorite pieces in our home aren’t the things we bought. They’re the things we made.

Jordan grew up woodworking with his Papa. He used those skills to build our kids a custom toy box, with two huge sliding doors that double as whiteboards and an inside built to fit their bins perfectly. Hearing our kids say “My daddy made this for me” means more than any piece of furniture we could ever buy.

My favorite art in our home is two large canvases of photos we took in Australia. When I see them, I don’t just see the image. I feel the memory.

Homemade gifts, handwritten cards, cookies made from scratch: creation carries energy. And energy is what makes something meaningful.

As writer Alex Mathers put it: “Humans were designed to create. This is why you get depressed when all you do is consume.”

Or as Jordan likes to say: no amount of consumption will fill the void of creation.

When you shift from passively consuming life to intentionally creating it, you align with your natural design. You feel alive. You feel purposeful. You feel like you’re doing exactly what you came here to do.

Why We Really Want What We Want

In today’s consumer world, most people don’t really know what they want. Marketers tell them what to want, and they buy what’s being sold.

But here’s what we’ve come to understand.

What you really want is to feel good. That’s it.

At first glance, it looks like we’re chasing things: cars, houses, job titles, relationships. But we don’t actually want the things. We want the feelings we believe those things will give us.

We don’t really want a number in a bank account. We want freedom, ease, options and security. We want to wake up without financial anxiety, say yes to experiences, and feel generous without fear.

We don’t really want the job title. We want to feel significant, creative and fulfilled, and to know that what we do matters.

We don’t really want the “perfect partner” just to fill the space beside us. We want to feel loved, seen, connected and safe.

We don’t really want a number on a scale. We want to feel vital, confident, strong and at home in our bodies.

So when you zoom out, it all comes down to this:

We don’t want the thing. We want the feeling we think the thing will bring.

And here’s the paradox. You don’t have to wait for the thing to arrive before you feel the feeling.

You can practice it now.

We learned that the hard way. In the next chapter, we’ll tell you about the year we got everything we ever wanted, and felt empty.

Why It Isn’t Instant (And That’s a Good Thing)

A lot of people think they want instant manifestation. “If thoughts become things, why can’t my things show up right now?”

But can you imagine if every thought you had turned into reality immediately?

The world would be chaos.

The buffer of time between a thought and its manifestation is a gift. It gives you space to decide what you want and practice feeling it before anything solidifies.

Only the thoughts you focus on consistently get to grow. The random, fleeting ones don’t get to run the show.

We like to think of it as a grace period, the Universe saying, “Take your time. Whatever you want to experience, think about it and feel it most often, and I’ll take it from there.”

Why We Fall Out of Shape

If vibrational fitness is alignment and consistency, then vibrational chaos is the opposite.

It’s a tug-of-war in your own mind. One moment you’re daydreaming about abundance, and the next you’re stressing about bills. One moment you’re imagining love, and the next you’re doubting you’ll ever find it.

Hope, doubt. Hope, doubt.

It’s like going to a restaurant and telling the waiter:

“I’d like a cheeseburger, please.”

“One cheeseburger, coming right up.”

“Actually, I probably shouldn’t have one.”

“…So do you want the cheeseburger or not?”

“Yes, I definitely want one. But it’s unlikely I’ll actually get it.”

At some point, the waiter is just confused.

That scattered back-and-forth is the number one thing that keeps people from living the life they say they want. And it’s not because you’re bad at this. Without a system, chaos is inevitable.

There are four main culprits. We’ve lived all four:

  1. Lack of clarity. Most of us were never taught how to define what we actually want. Looking only at what already is blocks the view of what could be. (Chapter 4, Choose.)
  2. Inconsistency. You get pumped up by a seminar or a book, then crash back into old habits, because nothing sustains the feeling. (Chapter 7, Sustain.)
  3. Environment. The people, places and triggers around you reinforce old patterns unless you choose a new environment on purpose. (Chapter 9, Repeat.)
  4. No accountability. Without a community or mentor, it’s easy to get pulled back into the way everyone else thinks. (Chapter 9, Repeat.)

For years, we bounced between clarity and chaos, alignment and doubt.

Until we realized it was a fitness problem.

Just like your body needs consistent workouts to stay strong, your emotional life needs consistent practice, a system and support.

That’s why we created Vibration Fit. It’s a gym for your vibration.

There’s a sign in our office that says “Create the things you wish existed.” So we did.

To be clear, Vibration Fit isn’t what built our life. Our software development business did that. Once it was running well, we wanted to bring something of our own directly to people, and we asked ourselves an honest question: if someone wanted to be where we are in every part of life, in our relationship, our bodies, our parenting and our freedom, what path would we hand them?

The answer wasn’t software. It was vibrational fitness.

Our earliest vision documents always said we’d build a life design business someday. After twenty years of living this, the technology finally caught up, and we could build the whole system so anyone who wants it can use it.

Vibration Fit is the app we built to put everything in this book into daily practice: your Life Vision, your Vision Board, your daily check-ins, and VIVA, your Vibrationally Intelligent Virtual Assistant, who guides you through all of it. That’s why every chapter ends with an “In the app” note. The book teaches the practice. The app is where you do your reps.

So let’s start training.

Your Five-Minute Practice

What Do You Really Want to Feel?

  1. Write down three things you want, big or small.
  2. Next to each one, write the feeling you believe it will give you: freedom, security, love, joy, peace.
  3. Circle the feeling that shows up most.
  4. Find one way to feel it right now, without anything changing. A memory, a song, a walk outside, a person you love.
  5. Feel it for 68 seconds. That’s your first rep. (Chapter 7 explains why 68.)

In the app: Every workout starts with a quick check-in on how you’re arriving today.

Chapter 2

The Emotional Feedback Loop

We had it all.

And we felt empty.

That’s not a sentence you expect to read in a book about conscious creation. But it might be the most important thing we learned.

The Year We Got Everything

Vanessa here.

There was one year when everything on our vision board showed up.

We paid cash for our minivan. We bought our house. We put a trampoline in the backyard for the kids.

More than 80% of what was on our vision board and in our Life Vision was in our life. It was in our bank account. It was in our driveway. Our names were on the title.

And one morning I woke up feeling empty.

I remember lying there thinking: We’ve talked about wanting all of this for years. Now it’s all here. And I just feel empty.

I wasn’t getting the emotional satisfaction I had always thought I would get.

That’s when it hit me.

The vision of the things was greater than the feeling of getting all of the things.

We had spent years practicing a feeling without noticing it: Someday I’ll be happy. When this happens. When I’m in the perfect circumstances.

We had been training ourselves to not be happy all along the way.

And here’s the news flash nobody tells you:

If you don’t practice feeling that way now, you’re not going to feel that way when you get there.

Don’t worry, we didn’t stay sad forever. We did a hard reset that took most of a year. We went back to the emotional satisfaction of our day-to-day moments. Then we rebuilt our vision, bigger than our life was at the time.

And everything got fun again.

That’s when we finally understood something Jordan says all the time now:

The vision is the gift.

What We Were Missing

Jordan here.

When The Secret came out, a lot of people heard “thoughts become things” and thought: Great. I’m going to go manifest all the stuff I think will make me happy.

We did a version of that too.

But the stuff was never the target. It was the by-product.

Here’s what we believe is the real creative engine of the universe, in one sentence:

Emotional states attract the conditions that perpetuate emotional states.

Read it again. Slowly.

However you dominantly feel, you’re drawn toward situations that keep you feeling that way.

Picture someone wealthy enough to fly on their own private jet. They climb aboard in a bad mood and spend the flight annoyed that the cheese is wrong. Again.

For most people, one ride on a private jet would be a story they’d tell for the rest of their life.

Same jet. Completely different experience.

The jet didn’t make anyone happy. The feeling they brought aboard decided the flight.

That’s why our target for you isn’t all the things you think will make you happy.

Our target for you is a beautiful emotional state.

Because you know what’s in harmony with a beautiful emotional state? Beautiful relationships. A body that feels vibrant. Abundance, with enough to pay your bills, do fun things, and have some left over.

We want to be honest with you about this part. The idea that emotional states attract our experiences is a spiritual belief we hold, not a law science has proven.

But you can observe the other half of it in your own life, starting today. How you feel changes what you notice, how you read what happens, how you treat people and what you choose. Ask anyone on that jet.

The Loop

Every human being is running the same loop, all day long.

THINK → FEEL → ACT → EXPERIENCE → THINK AGAIN

We call it the Emotional Feedback Loop.

You think a thought.

You feel something about it.

You act from that feeling.

You experience what that action brings.

Then you think about that experience, and the loop goes around again.

Here’s what it looks like on an ordinary morning.

An email from your boss lands at 7:12 a.m.: “Can we talk today?”

Think: I’m in trouble.

Feel: Dread.

Act: You’re short with your kids at breakfast. You sit in traffic replaying every mistake from last month.

Experience: A tense, heavy morning. Your kids are upset. You walk in braced for a fight.

Think again: Today is going to be terrible.

Around and around.

Now run the same morning again.

Same email. But this time you notice the dread, and you reach for a thought that feels a little better:

“I don’t know what it’s about yet. Whatever it is, I can handle it.”

Feel: A little relief.

Act: You laugh with your kids. You turn up the music on the drive.

Experience: A good morning. You walk in open and curious.

Think again: I’m okay. I’ve got this.

Nothing about the email changed.

The loop did.

Same email, two loops: below and above the Green Line

Everyone Is Creating

The loop isn’t something you turn on.

It isn’t an exercise you complete. It describes what’s already happening, every moment, for every person alive.

Everyone is the creator of their life experience. Some people are conscious of it, and some aren’t.

The difference isn’t whether creation is happening. It’s whether you know it’s happening.

An unconscious creator feels something uncomfortable and tries to fix it by changing the outside world. They change jobs, change cities, change partners.

We’ve watched it happen again and again: different places, different faces, same story.

A conscious creator treats the feeling as information. They know their emotional state is telling them something about their focus.

And they know they get to choose again.

The point of seeing the loop isn’t to analyze every negative thought you’ve ever had.

It’s to get really, really good at feeling better now.

Momentum Has a Direction

Jordan again.

I’m an engineer, so humor me for a minute.

Emotion has direction, and it has momentum.

We use something we call the Green Line to describe it. On the emotional scale, it sits between boredom and contentment. Above it, emotion feels good in your body. Below it, it starts to feel not so good. You already know both feelings. You feel them in your gut.

When you’re above the Green Line, even just a little, there’s a natural lift. A little contentment, a little hope, a little positive expectation tends to carry you higher.

It’s like holding a cork under water. Let go, and it rises on its own.

Below the Green Line, the pull runs the other way. You’ve heard it in everyday speech: “Those kinds of things don’t happen to me.” That one sentence is a whole loop, pointed down.

Vanessa puts it beautifully:

“Your non-physical self will never join you below the Green Line.”

The broader part of you, the part some people call Source or God or their Inner Being, is always above it. Always.

So every time you reach for a slightly better-feeling thought, you aren’t just cheering yourself up.

You’re moving back toward who you really are.

Where We Go From Here

If the loop is always running, the real question isn’t whether you’re creating.

It’s how.

The rest of this book is our answer: one practice, in five steps, and then you repeat it.

But first, let’s find out where you are on the path.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Map One Loop

  1. Pick one moment from this week that didn’t feel good.
  2. Write its loop: the thought, the feeling, the action and the experience.
  3. Circle the thought. That’s where the loop started.
  4. Write one thought that feels a little better. It doesn’t have to be the best thought, just a little better.
  5. Run the loop again from the new thought. How would the feeling, the action and the experience have changed?

In the app: Each check-in on Vibration Fit is the start of the loop. Capture the moment in your Journal, and VIVA, your personal guide, can help you find the better-feeling thought.

Chapter 3

The Journey to Conscious Allower

The Path You Didn’t Know You Were On

Part of the human experience is forgetting our divinity so that we can experience the freedom of choice. We can choose to remember who we really are, or we can continue living in the illusion of separation.

What many people don’t realize is that the journey of remembering is part of the soul’s path.

They think life is just happening to them. That they have good days and bad days. Lucky breaks and bad timing. That other people are messing things up for them.

But there is a path for us in these human bodies. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

This chapter is the path from “Life is happening to me” to “I am the creator of my own reality.”

We call it the Journey to Conscious Allower.

And here’s the wild part: most of us who wake up to conscious creation walk a similar path. Similar stages. Similar confusion. The same traps. We’ve seen it in ourselves. We’ve seen it in our members. We’ve seen it in almost every story of transformation.

Seven levels. Three traps. One destination: inner freedom.

Think of it as a map, not a ranking. You’ll probably recognize yourself on more than one rung.

  1. Unaware
  2. Aware
  3. Knowledge Seeker
  4. Spaghetti Practitioner
  5. Conscious Observer
  6. Conscious Creator
  7. Conscious Allower
Journey to Conscious Allower: seven levels, three traps

The three traps sit between them: the Buffet Trap, the Inconsistency Trap and the Happiness Trap. As you read, notice which level sounds most like you. You’ll use that at the end.

Level 1: Unaware

“I guess life just happens.”

This is where almost everyone starts. It’s also where about 95% of the world lives, according to Abraham-Hicks.

People here blame their mood on circumstances, luck or other people. They have no awareness that their thoughts shape their reality. They’re running on default programming. They’re still creating, every day. They just don’t know it.

Life feels random. When things go wrong, it’s bad luck. It’s other people. It’s the weather, the economy, the politics, the stock market. It’s just “how life is.”

You hit traffic and it ruins your whole day. You talk more about what you don’t want than what you do want. Your identity is reactive, not creative.

We know this level well, because we’ve both lived it.

The Terrifying Taxi That Changed Everything

Vanessa here.

I was 21 years old, and Jordan and I had just started dating.

Just weeks after meeting, we decided to spontaneously drive 27.5 hours straight from Texas to New York City for New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop. (Because why not scare your parents a little, eh?)

First night there, we hop in a taxi. Except it wasn’t really a taxi.

We drive maybe two blocks in heavy traffic and realize we could literally walk faster than this guy is moving. So after a few minutes, we respectfully tell him we’d like to just pay and get out.

He turns slightly and says, “That’ll be $100.”

Jordan and I look at each other like… what?

I reach for the door. Locked. I try again. Still locked.

Now my heart starts beating faster. I feel my cheeks getting flushed. He sees us trying to get out and calmly repeats, “$100.”

Jordan doesn’t panic. He just locks in. He looks at the driver through the rearview mirror and says, in a direct, commanding voice:

“We’ll give you $20. You’re going to unlock the doors… or I’m going to break your window.”

Silence.

Then: click.

The doors unlock. Jordan hands him the $20. We get out.

Whew. Crisis averted. Or so it seemed.

Ten steps later, my stomach drops. Oh my God… my phone.

Without thinking, I turn and run back. The door is still unlocked, thank God. I swing it open, grab my phone and say, “Thank you.” (Why I said thank you, I still don’t know. Maybe it was to the Universe.)

I shut the door for the last time, and we finally walk away.

Jordan says, “Wow… we got out of that safely. And for only $20. Everything always works out for me.”

Meanwhile I’m thinking, Well, that sucked. What a waste of $20.

And then, without even realizing what I was saying, these words came flying out of my mouth: “These things always happen to me.”

Jordan stops. Turns. Looks me dead in the eyes and asks, “Do you want these kinds of things to happen to you?”

I pause. “…No. Of course not.”

And then he says something that, at the time, didn’t even make sense, but ended up changing everything:

“Then never say that again.”

I just stand there in silence.

Up until that point, life felt unpredictable. Things happened: good, bad, random. But in that moment, a new idea entered. Wait… could what I say and think actually be connected to what I experience?

That moment didn’t give me all the answers. It didn’t instantly transform my life. But it cracked the door open to a whole new world that was waiting for me. It sparked my spiritual journey.

It moved me from Unaware to Aware.

Level 2: Aware

“There might be something to this…”

Now you’ve seen it. Maybe through a book, a podcast, a story. Maybe you hear about the Law of Attraction and something clicks. Suddenly your inner world feels like it could be connected to your outer world.

You start to think, “Maybe there’s a process behind this.” But you’re not doing anything with it yet. You’re watching. Observing. Collecting evidence.

You believe it works… for other people.

The First Trap: The Buffet Trap

Levels 2 to 4

This is where most people get stuck. And it looks like progress.

You’ve got crystals, sage, oracle cards, breathwork, meditations, podcasts, courses and books stacked everywhere. You’re doing all the things.

But here’s the problem: you don’t have a system. You’re sampling everything, but installing nothing. So it feels like you’re just one more technique away. But you never quite get there.

Not because you’re broken. Because the buffet never compounds.

Level 3: Knowledge Seeker

“I need to learn everything.”

This stage is exciting. You’re all in. Reading everything. Listening to everything. Talking to anyone who “gets it.” You binge Abraham-Hicks, Joe Dispenza, Neville Goddard. You feel alive with possibility on the inside, but life may not look much different yet on the outside.

We lived here. Hard.

At one point we were consuming nonstop content, buying courses and listening to audiobooks daily. And yet our bank account stayed at zero. We were intellectually rich and practically stuck.

Until one moment changed everything. Jordan looked at Vanessa and said, “At some point, you just have to do it.”

That’s the shift.

Level 4: Spaghetti Practitioner

“I’m trying everything.”

Now you’re in action. But it’s random. You meditate for a few days. Journal sometimes. Try a new technique. Drop it. Pick something else.

You’re throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. But there’s no consistency, no measurement and no feedback loop.

So when nothing “works,” you think, “Maybe this just doesn’t work for me.”

That’s when people quit.

The Second Trap: The Inconsistency Trap

This is where most people fall off. Because:

It’s not that the process doesn’t work. It’s that you didn’t stay in it long enough to see it work.

Level 5: Conscious Observer

“Oh… this is real.”

This is the breakthrough. The first time you clearly see an inner shift become an outer result.

Now it’s not theory. It’s evidence. Synchronicities, “coincidences,” flow. You think of a friend and they text. Your parents talk about vacationing in Costa Rica, and the first video that pops up on Instagram is someone jumping off waterfalls in a Costa Rican rainforest.

You connect the dots. It goes from “I hope this works” to “I know this works.”

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Level 6: Conscious Creator

“I can create what I want.”

Now you can reliably create. Your vision starts becoming your life. Your calendar matches your dreams.

You don’t react to circumstances or spiral as easily when challenges come. You choose your focus and reframe your perspective so you can feel good now.

You’re no longer hoping. You’re creating.

But right here, right when it feels like you “made it,” there’s one more trap.

The Third Trap: The Happiness Trap

“I got everything… why don’t I feel how I thought I would?”

This one surprises people. Because you think, “Once I have everything, I’ll feel amazing.”

Then you get there, and you still feel off sometimes. Frustrated sometimes. Not fully at peace.

We know this trap well. It’s the year from Chapter 2: everything on our vision board, and an empty feeling we couldn’t explain.

And it’s confusing, because now you know how to create. So you try to fix it by creating more. More money. More success. More perfection.

But here’s the truth: outer freedom does not guarantee inner freedom.

Level 7: Conscious Allower

“I don’t need anything to change to feel good.”

This is the destination. Not perfection. Freedom.

It may seem like Conscious Creator, someone who deliberately creates their reality, would be the top. But there’s one step higher. A Conscious Allower doesn’t just create on purpose. They release resistance. They stop efforting. They stop forcing. They stop living a someday life. They trust the flow and allow what they’ve already created to arrive in its own timing.

You stop needing control. You stop tying happiness to outcomes. You don’t need people to change to be happy. You stop managing everything to feel okay.

You still create. But now you create from overflow, not lack. Your peace is no longer conditional. You become a beacon of light.

And here’s the paradox: the more inner freedom you have, the more outer freedom expands. As we said in the Alignment Gym, where we first taught this path, “Your level of outer freedom scales in direct proportion to your level of inner freedom.”

So how do you become a Conscious Allower? You train allowing like a muscle, in three directions.

Allow yourself. You are where you are, and that’s okay. You can’t beat the drum of what’s wrong and expect to march into what’s right.

Allow others. Let people be wherever they are on their journey, without making it mean something about yours. If they’re negative, that doesn’t mean you have to be. When someone’s behavior gets to you, try one of ours: Every attack comes from a place of insecurity. Or: Interesting journey. There must be something in it for them. Or one we use all the time: No one operates inappropriately, given their model of the world.

Allow everything. Let what you want unfold without needing to control the who, what, when and where. Feel good now, regardless.

The Truth No One Tells You

You don’t climb this ladder once. You move up and down it, all the time.

Sometimes you’ll be a Spaghetti Practitioner in the morning, a Knowledge Seeker by lunchtime and a Conscious Observer by evening.

Jordan here.

One moment I’m allowing everything. The world’s amazing, everyone gets to be who they are. The next moment, some kid pushes my kid off the trampoline and I’m ready to fight. That’s real life. Fortunately, Vanessa pulls me back up, and I do the same for her.

The goal isn’t perfection. The goal is returning faster.

That’s what Part 3 of this book trains: Notice where you are, Shift to a better-feeling thought, and Sustain it long enough to climb back.

And here’s the best part: expansion is built into life itself. Every experience you have launches a new desire, and those desires naturally call you upward. You cannot live life without expanding. The only question is whether you’ll climb consciously, getting better at returning to feeling good, or unconsciously, with struggle and resistance, wondering why this isn’t working for you.

Why This Matters

Once you see this path, you stop making it personal. You realize you’re not broken. You’re not behind. You’re not doing it wrong.

You’re just on the path.

And now you have the map.

Final Thought

This journey ends in a place most people never expect. Not with more control. Not with more perfection. But with less resistance, and more allowing.

No matter where you are, there’s a rung above you pulling you higher. And if you’re holding this book, some part of you already feels that pull.

You’re here to wake up. To remember. To create. To allow.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Find Your Rung and Your Trap

  1. Find your rung. Read the seven levels again. Which one sounds most like you this week? Not your best day. Your typical day.
  2. Find your trap. Which one pulls at you most: the Buffet, the Inconsistency or the Happiness Trap?
  3. Write one sentence. “On a good day I’m a ___. When I wobble, I drop to ___.”
  4. Pick one move up. Buffet Trap: choose one practice and drop the rest for a week. Inconsistency Trap: pick a daily rep small enough that you won’t skip it. Happiness Trap: feel good about something you already have, before the next thing arrives.
  5. Feel the next rung for 68 seconds. Close your eyes and imagine one day lived from the level above yours. How do you feel?

In the app: Every check-in is a rep. Reps are how you get through the Inconsistency Trap: no reps, no proof. And each one is Level 5 work: noticing the link between how you feel and what you experience.

Part Two

Choose

You’ll get clear on the life you want and how you want to feel in it. This becomes your direction.

Chapter 4

The Life I Choose

Everything you think you want is, at some level, because you believe you will feel better in the having of it.

We said that in Chapter 1.

Now it’s time to do something with it.

Most people never actually choose their life. They react to it. The job chooses for them. The bank account chooses. Their parents’ expectations choose. The algorithm chooses.

This chapter is about choosing.

On purpose. In writing.

And there’s no better way to show you why it matters than to hand this part to Jordan.

The Document

Jordan here.

In my last year of college, I wrote a document.

I titled it The Life I Choose.

It ran 11 pages. It described the life I wanted to live and how I wanted to feel living it: my days, my work, my money, my relationships, my freedom.

It opened with a foreword. Here it is, exactly as I wrote it in 2011:

FORWARD

Every motivational work I have heard, read, or seen has mentioned in some form or another that writing out my life as I intend it to be is a crucial step in attaining my dream lifestyle. It makes sense. How should I expect to attract my dream lifestyle if I have never written down in detail what that would entail?

This work is intended to describe in detail the life that I now choose to experience. I know that this work already exists. I realize that I am merely bringing it into form.

I know that I am already experiencing the life that this work describes. I am choosing to bring it into form now because I am ready to experience the journey. I am ready to travel the road that brings this work to fruition in my life.

This work shall serve as my magnet, attracting the people, ideas, resources, strategies, events, and circumstances that allow its complete fulfillment. From the perspective of my conscious mind, this is what I believe I want. I hereby give the universe full permission to open all doors leading to the experience of this, my perfect lifestyle, or something even better.

Thank you in advance for the perfect unfolding of my life experience. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to be here and experience the life of my choosing.

Yes, I spelled it “forward.” I’m keeping it.

I didn’t fully understand what I was writing back then. But it was all in there.

I know that this work already exists. Long before any of it showed up, I was treating the life as already real, and bringing it into form.

From the perspective of my conscious mind, this is what I believe I want. Even back then, I knew my vision would be bigger than what I could see.

And my favorite part: “or something even better.” That phrase is still on our lips today. It’s how we hold every vision, with a clear picture and an open hand.

And here’s what wasn’t anywhere in those 11 pages: petroleum engineering.

Not one line.

Which was a little awkward, because petroleum engineering was my degree.

And I graduated with $75,000 in student debt.

So I did what you’re supposed to do. I took the engineering job.

On paper, it was the American dream. A six-figure salary. A 401(k). A brand-new house. A truck.

I’m a systems guy, so I built systems. I could get a month’s worth of work done in about four hours on a Monday morning. Then I’d spend the rest of the month sitting in an office or driving out to drilling rigs.

Golden handcuffs.

Here’s the thing about golden handcuffs.

Everyone around you can see the gold.

Nobody can see the handcuffs.

The people around me meant well. They saw a great job with great pay, and from where they stood, walking away from it made no sense.

But none of them had read my document.

I had.

And every time I held that job up against The Life I Choose, it didn’t match.

So I made a plan.

First, I would pay back every dollar of that $75,000.

Then I would leave.

That’s exactly what I did. I paid off all of my student debt. Then, in January 2015, I resigned.

Not everyone understood. From the outside, I was walking away from everything a person is supposed to want.

From the inside, staying meant putting the life I chose on the chopping block.

I knew that if I stayed, I’d be ashamed of myself. That version of me would look back at the version with the document and ask why I didn’t listen.

I didn’t want to yell at myself like that.

The Call

Still Jordan.

When I turned in my resignation letter, my whole family lost their minds.

Everyone had been very happy with me as a petroleum engineer, with the six-figure job, the truck and the status. And I walked away with barely a plan B. They didn’t see a path forward. They didn’t know how I was going to become who I am today.

I didn’t know exactly how either. But I knew that with a Life Vision guiding my decisions, I would get there.

One big idea kept me going: if I could match my income or beat it within five years, while owning my time and my location, it would all be worth it.

One day I got a call from one of the prominent members of my family. They said they were calling on behalf of everyone. People were really worried about me. I’d gone off the deep end a little, walking away from my engineering career after all those years of school.

I paused and thought about how to respond. Then I said, very plainly:

“I have a document called The Life I Choose. Most of you know I have it, but not a single one of you has read it. No one knows what I want my life to actually be, so no one is really qualified to tell me how to make my decisions.”

Then I said: “It’s hard enough to succeed even with support. It’s even harder without it. So tell everyone who isn’t in support of me living out my vision that I’ll happily change their names in my phone to Do Not Answer, until I’ve reached my destination and I’m living the life I choose.”

I wasn’t going to let people create resistance on my path that I didn’t need.

A few hours later, that same person sent me a message:

“I’m proud of you. I let people talk me out of my dreams my whole life. I’m so glad that you are sticking to yours.”

That call was my line in the sand. I was going this way, supported or not.

Within five years, I had passed my engineering income, with time and location freedom. More money than before, and a lot more freedom.

Because I had that document.

The Filter

Still Jordan.

That document became my filter.

My North Star.

Every decision got the same test: Is this in the document?

Not just career decisions. Everything.

More than once, I was in a relationship that didn’t match the love section of my vision. They were good people. But every time I held the relationship up to what I’d written, it didn’t fit. So I pivoted. And when the next one didn’t fit either, I pivoted again.

That’s not easy to do. Friends told me I should tone myself down to find someone more “normal.”

I decided I would rather be fully me and alone.

The love section didn’t describe a hair color or a height. It described a person: who she was, how she saw the world, and how we’d feel together.

I wrote her down in 2011, more than four years before I met her.

I didn’t settle.

Two weeks after I decided to be fully me and alone, I met Vanessa.

From I to We

Vanessa here.

When I finally read Jordan’s document, I laughed.

He had written in all kinds of things: cars, a house, a lifestyle. Some of it, he admitted, was there to impress the woman he hadn’t met yet.

I didn’t care about any of that.

But the love section? That was me. My personality, my heart, the way I see the world, written by someone who had never met me.

He likes to tell me, “You were the only thing in it that I nailed.”

Once we were together, most of his old document fell away. It had done its job.

So we started a new one.

The Life I Choose became The Life We Choose.

We wrote it together. We’ve rewritten it many times since, dating every version so we can look back and see how far we’ve come. It has guided our biggest decisions: where we live, how we work, how we raise our kids, how we spend our days.

We don’t just hope our way into our life.

We consciously create it. Together.

Attention Freedom

Jordan here.

When I read that first document today, I’m living most of it. Some of the specifics didn’t happen the way I wrote them. From the limited perspective of my conscious mind back then, they were the ultimate. Life found me cooler places.

My first vision said I’d make $500,000 a month. I pulled that number out of the air. I looked at people who seemed to have the freedom I wanted and guessed what they earned. But when I looked closer, most of them didn’t have that freedom either. They were on the road, running events, their attention spoken for most of the day.

Here’s what surprised me most. The life of my dreams didn’t take nearly as much money as I thought. Or as fancy a house, or as fancy a car, or as much sacrifice. I’d filled my vision with things I associated with freedom instead of freedom itself.

Freedom isn’t really about time or location. It’s about attention. Can you choose where your attention goes today? You can earn a fortune and still not own your attention.

Owning it is only half of it. Vanessa takes it further: once you own your attention, you have to point it somewhere that serves you. Plenty of people get the money and still wield their attention poorly. So every morning, the real question is the emotional outcome you’re after, because that feeling guides your thoughts, words, actions and experience of life.

Most people aren’t nearly as far from freedom as they think.

Your Life Vision Is an Emotional Destination

Here’s what Jordan’s document really was.

It wasn’t a wish list.

It was a description of how he wanted to feel, clear enough to hold anything up against.

That’s what a Life Vision is.

Not a collection of goals or a description of future circumstances, but an emotionally compelling expression of the life you choose.

We want financial abundance because we believe it will bring freedom, security and ease.

We want beautiful relationships because we believe they will bring love, connection and joy.

We want vibrant health because we believe it will bring energy, confidence and freedom.

So here’s the deeper opportunity: you don’t have to wait for the things to arrive to start practicing the feelings.

Your vision lets you imagine your life vividly enough to begin feeling it now.

Across the 12 areas of life we use at Vibration Fit, here are the feelings we invite you to practice:

Life categoryFeel it NOW
FunFeel Joyful NOW
HealthFeel Vibrant NOW
TravelFeel Free NOW
LoveFeel Adored NOW
FamilyFeel Loved NOW
SocialFeel Connected NOW
HomeFeel Peaceful NOW
WorkFeel Inspired NOW
MoneyFeel Abundant NOW
StuffFeel Prosperous NOW
GivingFeel Generous NOW
SpiritualityFeel Aligned NOW

These are invitations, not rules. Choose the feelings that are true for you.

Here’s what that can look like. Our member Michele and her brother had barely spoken since a fight a few years earlier. She wrote the relationship she wanted into her Life Vision: conversations that were open and easy, with communication flowing both ways.

Then that same brother called. He acknowledged how hard things had been, and he invited her to Thanksgiving dinner with her mother and daughter. “What a HUGE shift in my life today!!!” she wrote.

Start Fuzzy

If you’re thinking “I don’t even know what I want,” good.

That’s honest. And it’s where most people start.

You don’t need an 11-page document today.

You need one fuzzy sentence that starts with:

“Wouldn’t it be cool if…”

Clarity is like a target coming into focus. It starts blurry. The more you play with it, the sharper it gets.

If even that feels far away, start with a bridge:

“I want to know what I want.”

Say it until it feels true. One day you’ll catch yourself saying something new:

“I know exactly what I want.”

And if 12 categories feels like a lot, start with four:

Draw four boxes. In each one, write what would be cool. No filter, no “realistic.” Just cool.

And don’t worry about wanting too much. Your desires don’t compete with each other. You don’t have to choose between a thriving business and time with your family, or between health and wealth. You live in a both/and universe, not an either/or one.

When our kids see toys they love at the store, we don’t say, “That’s too much money.” We say, “Isn’t it fun to want things?” Because it is. Wanting is the fun part.

Find the Magic Spot

Here’s the magic balance of writing a Life Vision.

Get specific enough that it’s really fun to read. And if you start to feel resistance, go back to something more general.

You don’t want to feel resistance. But you do want as much detail as you can enjoy without feeling it. That’s the magic spot.

Jordan here.

I learned this one the hard way.

My first Life I Choose was fairly general. It left a lot of room for the universe to work. I wasn’t trying to dictate the specifics before I had them, and there was magic in that. When you stay general, you leave room for the universe to fill in the specifics.

Then things started to take shape, and I got really excited. So I wrote a new version. It went from 11 pages to 23.

That was good. But as I filled in specifics, some of them weren’t about what I wanted. They were about how it would come. I’d write that I would make the money through a certain vehicle, or reach a certain rank or position so I could make that money.

The more specific I got about the how, the more resistance I built into my vision. My beliefs about those hows were limited, and I found myself resisting the very things I wanted.

That experience, along with what we’ve learned from our teachers, is where this rule came from:

Get specific about what you want and why you want it. Leave the how to the universe.

Go into as much detail as feels fun, exciting and in harmony with you. If you start writing the how, and your beliefs about that path are shaky, you can end up resisting the dream itself.

There’s an easy test. Listen to your Life Vision. Is it fun?

It’s supposed to be. Yes, your vision is a document you make decisions with. But it’s also meant to be a joy to listen to. If you’re not enjoying it, you’ve probably gone too specific, or tried to spell out how it’s going to happen.

We saw the same thing happen with one of our members. He wanted to be more in harmony with abundance and bring more money in. But he admitted he hadn’t been listening to his vision much, and it didn’t feel in harmony with money at all.

He asked us to take a look. What we found was exactly what I used to do. His work and money sections were full of specifics about how the money would come, and those specifics had bled into other sections too. They narrowed the places money could come from. And he had limiting beliefs about those places.

When that happens, your beliefs about the how argue with what you want and why you want it.

So I told him to open Vision Update and give VIVA one instruction:

“I’ve gone too specific about how I make money. I want to be in harmony with abundance, and I want to remove every limitation I’ve placed on how the universe can deliver that abundance to me.”

With that one instruction, VIVA found several places in his document, not just in work and money, where he had moved from general into specifics about how it would happen.

He saved the new version and told us right away that it was amazing. He loved it. He was enjoying listening to his vision again.

A lot of this is feeling it out.

Sometimes we think we want something. We write it down. We activate it. And then we realize it doesn’t sound as fun as we thought it would.

Our member Barbara wrote a lake house into her vision, a place where her husband could fish. A couple of days after listening to it, she took it out. She realized she didn’t really want one.

Owning a property on a lake comes with taxes, upkeep and everything else. But visiting one? That could be fun. You get the experience without the upkeep, and you’re free to visit other places too.

Her fun category was full of friendship and adventure. That Sunday, friends came over to visit on their deck, which was also in her vision. The talk turned to vacations. Those friends were planning a trip to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, staying in a cabin on a lake to fish.

Would Barbara and her husband like to join them?

Of course they said yes.

You don’t always know what you want until you try it on. That’s one of the most fun parts of having a Life Vision. It’s constantly evolving, because you’re constantly growing.

That’s exactly why we built Vision Update into Vibration Fit. VIVA, your Vibrationally Intelligent Virtual Assistant, helps you fine-tune your vision as you grow: more specific as the details fill in, and more general where they haven’t yet.

Hold It Up to the Light

Once you’ve written something down, it becomes a compass.

North doesn’t tell you every turn. It tells you which way you’re facing.

So when a choice shows up, hold it up to your vision and ask one question:

Does this get me closer to, or further away from, the life I choose?

When our son Oliver started kindergarten, we gave it a real try. Our mantra was, “This is great for now. Let’s see how it goes.”

Then we held it up to our vision. Our document was full of travel, family time and adventure. What we were seeing was less family time and a little boy coming home stressed about coloring inside the lines.

It didn’t match.

So we chose differently. We chose to homeschool him for 1st grade and see how it goes.

That’s the power of having it written down. Without a vision, you just keep doing the next normal thing. With one, you have something to measure the normal thing against.

Protect It

A new vision is tender. It’s like an egg that hasn’t hatched yet.

And the world is full of people hungry for scrambled eggs. They’ll crack yours open before it ever gets the chance to become a chick.

Most of them love you. But remember what Jordan told his family on that phone call:

They haven’t read your document.

They aren’t qualified to vote on a life they can’t see.

If you find yourself in a story you didn’t write, somebody else wrote it for you.

Keep your vision somewhere sacred. Share it with people who are reaching for their own. Read it when the world gets loud.

You don’t need anyone’s permission to choose your life.

You just need to choose it.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Choose

  1. Pick one category that pulls at you right now.
  2. Write three sentences that start with “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”
  3. Name the feeling underneath them, and write it as “Feel ___ NOW.”
  4. Feel it for 68 seconds, right now, before anything changes.
  5. Pick one decision coming up this week and ask: closer to, or further from, the life I choose?

Going further: Write a foreword for your own vision, the way Jordan did in 2011. Say what the document is for, and that you’re ready for the journey. Give yourself permission to live it, “or something even better.”

The four squares: If 12 categories feels like a lot, start with four. Draw four boxes: Body, Money, Relationships and Career. In each one, finish “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” No filter, no “realistic.” Just cool. Then name the feeling underneath each one: “Feel ___ NOW.”

The four squares: Body, Money, Relationships, Career

In the app: VIVA, your personal guide, helps you write your Life Vision across all 12 categories, one conversation at a time, plus gives you a prefilled foreword and conclusion. Your Vision Board holds the images, and moves them to Actualized as they arrive.

You now have a direction.

But a vision only tells you where you’re going.

Your emotions tell you, moment by moment, whether you’re headed there.

That’s where we go next.

Part Three

Align

You’ll learn the practice: Notice how you feel, Shift to a better-feeling perspective, Sustain the momentum, Create from that feeling, and Repeat. This is your daily workout.

Chapter 5

Notice

You’ve chosen the life you want. You know how you want to feel in it.

Now comes the question that matters more than any other, in any moment of any day:

How do I feel right now?

This chapter is not about fixing anything.

It’s about noticing.

The Loneliest Day at Niagara Falls

Jordan here.

It was the fall of 2015, just weeks before I met Vanessa.

I was standing in front of Niagara Falls for the first time in my life.

One of the natural wonders of the world. The kind of place most people dream of seeing once.

You’d think you’d have to be happy standing there, right?

I had slept in my car the night before. I’d rolled in too late to get a hotel, and I was broke, so I wasn’t going to pay for four hours of sleep. It was freezing.

I had just come out of a pretty terrible relationship.

I remember setting up my tripod by myself. I didn’t even have anyone to take my picture.

And I remember the thought that kept running: I’m never going to have what I want. I wanted a family. I wanted kids. I had written Vanessa down years before. And there I was, alone again, with no one on the horizon.

It was one of the loneliest, saddest days of my life.

At Niagara Falls.

The falls didn’t make me sad.

The lens I was looking through did.

Sunset or Traffic

Vanessa here.

A friend and I were on our way to a comedy show in Tampa. We’d planned enough time for dinner and the show, but the traffic was horrific. We were a mile and a half from the arena, and the map said 45 minutes.

We were crawling over a bridge, with the water on one side and another bridge right beside us.

We both looked out the window at the exact same moment, and we both spoke at the exact same moment.

I said, “Wow, what a beautiful sunset.”

She said, “Oh my God, look at that traffic. How awful.”

Then she started laughing. She hadn’t even seen the sunset. She was so focused on the traffic, it wasn’t there for her.

Same bridge, same moment, same view.

Two completely different experiences.

Sunset or traffic: same bridge, two experiences

You’re Reacting to Your Lens

Jordan again.

I’ve done a lot of camera work, so here’s how I think about it.

There are two kinds of lenses. An adjustable lens lets you zoom in and out, so you can choose how much you see. A prime lens has one fixed view. To see anything differently, you’d have to move.

Most people have a prime lens installed on every area of their life, and they don’t even know it’s there.

They look at their health a certain way. Their money a certain way. Their love life a certain way. Every time, the same settings.

And they think the way they feel is about their circumstances.

It’s not.

You’re not reacting to life. You’re reacting to the lens you’ve chosen for that part of your life.

That goes for anything you can bring to mind: what’s happening right now, something from your past, or something you picture in the future. Each one comes through a lens.

Take fun. One lens says, “I don’t have time for fun. Adulting comes first.” Another says, “Fun is joyous fuel, not a reward.”

Same life. Same calendar. Two completely different ways of living it.

So here’s what’s really going on:

Your life isn’t necessarily showing you what’s true. It’s showing you what your lens is set to.

And you can feel which setting you’re on.

Above the Green Line, life feels aligned, open and clear.

Below it, life feels off, tight and tangled.

Vanessa here.

My lens fooled me once with our middle child. I’d been carrying a quiet story about her: It’s tough being the middle child. They don’t get as much attention.

One day she came into the garage crying and said, “No one was inside with me.”

What I heard was, “No one is listening to me.” My whole body reacted with guilt and pressure to fix it.

But that’s not what she said. She’d just noticed she was alone for a moment. My lens twisted her words to match the story I was already carrying about her.

What’s Active Now

Jordan here.

Abraham reminded me of something in the hot seat about relationships: others can only show you the marbles you have active in your own bag.

Think of every marble as an active vibration. Basically, the perspective you dominantly hold about a person. The marbles you keep active influence which version of that person you notice, anticipate and experience.

So why not hold people the way Source sees them? Look for the best in them. Appreciate who they really are. You feel better because you’re seeing them through Source’s eyes. And you create space for them to show you more of that version of themselves.

When I was still working as an engineer, I practiced this with my coworkers. I deliberately chose to see them in a positive light.

And something funny happened.

When someone was grumpy, I seemed to be out at a drilling rig. When they were happy, we’d cross paths at the office.

It felt like a beautiful rendezvous.

We call this What’s Active Now, or WAN, like a wide area network. It’s our reminder that what we’re actively thinking and feeling influences what we experience.

Sometimes you want to spend time with family or friends you love, but the schedules just won’t align. Then one day, everything falls into place, and you find yourselves in a similar vibration.

We’ve learned not to force things.

You don’t have to drag yourself below the Green Line to meet someone where they are. Let them be where they are. Let yourself be where you are. And trust that the right timing to connect will align.

There’s no amount of poor you can be that will make someone else abundant. No amount of sick you can be that will make someone else healthy.

It always comes back to your own alignment.

When you’re aligned, you don’t have to convince anyone to join you. You simply become a reminder of what’s available to them.

You light the path back to their own alignment by remembering who they really are.

Your Emotions Are Your Guidance

Here’s something most of us were never taught.

Your emotions aren’t random. They aren’t a weakness. They aren’t something to hide.

They’re guidance.

Every feeling tells you how your view of something compares with the way your Inner Being sees it. That’s the broader, loving part of you that always sees the bigger picture.

When you feel joy, appreciation, love or freedom, you’re seeing things the way that broader part of you sees them.

When you feel fear, frustration or powerlessness, you’re getting feedback. Your focus has drifted somewhere that part of you doesn’t go.

That’s why it can hurt just to look at what is. The infinite you has already expanded beyond it.

That’s all a bad feeling is. Feedback.

So please don’t mute it.

When you shove a feeling down, it’s like watching a movie with the sound off. You can see what’s happening, but you’re missing half the information.

This isn’t about pretending to be positive. If you feel horrible, you feel horrible. Call it what it is. Being honest with yourself is the first healthy step.

One small shift helps a lot. Say “I feel angry,” not “I am angry.” You’re not the emotion. You’re the one noticing it.

Jordan does this out loud with our kids. If he catches himself frustrated, he’ll say, “I feel angry right now. I’m working on focusing better.” Our kids are learning from it.

And if you ever find yourself at the very bottom, feeling hopeless and powerless, don’t judge yourself for it. The bottom of the emotional scale is just where a downward spiral naturally ends up. You didn’t fail. You followed a slope.

Above, On or Below?

In Chapter 2 we introduced the Green Line. On the emotional scale, it sits between boredom and contentment.

Here’s a fun bit of history. We hired a graphic designer to color-code the emotional scale for us. When it came back, the line between “this feels good” and “this doesn’t” happened to land on green.

We’ve been saying “Green Line” ever since.

Emotional Guidance Scale and the Green Line

The Emotional Guidance Scale, from the teachings of Abraham-Hicks, with the Green Line between boredom and contentment.

At any moment, you’re in one of three places:

The Green Line is guidance, not judgment.

It isn’t a test, and it isn’t a diagnosis. It certainly isn’t a demand to feel positive every second of your life.

Going below the Green Line is part of being human. We go there too.

We’re okay with you going below the Green Line.

We’re just not okay with you staying there.

When you notice you’re below it, ask yourself one honest question:

Do I want to feel like this next Wednesday?

If the answer is no, you’ve just found your reason to do something about it.

Three Questions for Your Lens

Every lens has three settings you can check: focus, zoom and aperture.

When something doesn’t feel good, ask about each one:

  1. Focus: What am I focused on?
  2. Zoom: Am I too close?
  3. Aperture: What am I not including?

Let’s run them on one of our own moments.

Years ago, we were in Redondo Beach visiting Jordan’s grandparents. We went down to the beach, and we were so broke that Jordan said, “I feel like I do not deserve to be here right now. I should be working.”

Beautiful beach. Beautiful view. And he was miserable.

Focus: money, and what was missing.

Zoom: way too close, fixed on that week’s bank balance.

Aperture: almost everything left out. The ocean. The grandparents he’d come to see. The fact that he was sitting on the sand next to the woman he had written down years before.

Nothing on that beach needed to change.

The lens did.

And here’s the good news. Your first reaction isn’t reality. It’s just the last lens you happened to be using.

You always get a second look.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Notice

Do this three times today: morning, midday and night.

  1. Pause and check in. Are you above, on or below the Green Line?
  2. Name it. Say “I feel ___,” not “I am ___.”
  3. Ask the three questions. What am I focused on? Am I too close? What am I not including?
  4. Don’t fix anything yet. Just notice. Thank the feeling for the information.
  5. Write one line about what you noticed.

In the app: Your Emotional Headquarters starts every check-in with where you are: above, on or below the Green Line. VIVA meets you there with a practice made for that moment - always with the intention to help you feel better now.

Noticing is the moment you wake up inside the loop.

You stop being carried by the feeling and start being guided by it.

But noticing is only the beginning.

Once you know you’re below the Green Line, what do you actually do?

That’s next.

Chapter 6

Shift

You noticed.

You’re below the Green Line.

Now what?

Most of us were taught to investigate. Why do I feel this way? Where did this come from? What happened when I was a kid? Whose fault is this?

It feels responsible. It feels like work.

But it’s a bottomless pit. Every thought you dig up has a thousand more lined up behind it.

So here’s the central practice of Vibration Fit:

Feel Better NOW.

Not after you solve the problem.

Not after you understand everything that went wrong.

Not after your circumstances improve.

Now.

You don’t have to solve the problem before you reach for relief.

The Hot Seat

Jordan here.

In the fall of 2026, Vanessa and I sailed out of Barcelona on an Abraham-Hicks cruise. There were about 800 people on board for the workshop. Over the trip, only about 40 were called up to the hot seat to talk with Abraham in front of everyone.

I’d been practicing these teachings for 20 years, and I’d never had a burning question.

But in one session, my hand just shot up. It was my left hand, the side Vanessa was sitting on. And Abraham pointed straight at me.

I went up those stairs like I’d scored a touchdown, yelling the whole way. And I still didn’t have a question.

So I sat down and started talking. I told them about the beautiful life we’d built. The partner I love. Our three wonderful kids. The businesses. Twenty years of practice. How grateful I was.

Then a question finally came out. It was about attention.

When I’m focused on the business, I feel a little guilty. Am I still a good dad? And when I’m with the kids, I feel like I’m neglecting the business.

Abraham pulled the Emotional Guidance Scale up on the screen and pointed near the bottom. Guilt is way down here. They said they didn’t feel me there. I was barely below the Green Line. It wasn’t guilt. It was overwhelm.

Then they started answering every open loop in my head, one by one, questions I hadn’t even put into words. It was like getting hit with an energy fire hose.

When I walked off the stage, I was high-fiving people and hugging strangers. Abraham told the room to just absorb that. Then they asked the audience, “When’s the last time you yodeled down the canyon like that?”

And once I was back in my seat, they gave me the last piece.

If you reach for an emotional outcome instead of a methodology, the overwhelm disappears. Instantly.

Here’s what I understand overwhelm to be now. It’s the belief that you have to close thirty open loops before you’re allowed to feel good.

So now, when I wake up, I ask one question: What’s the emotional outcome I’m after today?

A Vibrational Mess Needs a Vibrational Solution

Still Jordan.

In that same conversation, Abraham said they were about to share “the most powerful thing we’ve ever said unto all of the universe.”

I was sitting there thinking, Oh my God. Here it comes.

They said that so many people try to use their action to clean up the messes they’re making vibrationally.

Something clicked in my brain.

Here’s how I say it now:

A vibrational mess requires a vibrational solution.

Most of us try to fix with action what we created with focus. We work longer hours. We send the angry email. We rearrange the furniture, the schedule, the relationship.

Meanwhile, there’s a tornado of vibration following us around, and all that action comes from the same feeling that made the mess.

Take care of the vibration first, and a lot of the frantic action that leads to overwhelm turns out to be unnecessary.

Since that day, we’ve locked in more than ever. And we’re getting more done with less effort than we ever have.

The Question Was Hers

Vanessa here.

That morning, while Jordan went to get us coffee, I journaled the questions I’d ask Abraham if I ever got the chance. I never mentioned them to him.

When he sat back down beside me after the hot seat, I was in tears. I pointed at my journal.

He read it and said, “Oh my God. I asked your question.”

Word for word.

Then he said, “Thank you for having a question for us, because I didn’t have one!”

That’s conscious co-creation. We’re all so much more connected than we think. And beautiful things unfold when we follow our impulses and let ourselves be in flow.

Five Minutes to Get Your Weekend Back

Jordan again.

Not long ago, I got home on a Saturday from a business trip. All I wanted was a great weekend with my family.

On my desk was a letter from a debt collector.

Apparently, on a trip to Italy about a year and a half earlier, I’d driven down a street I wasn’t supposed to be on, in some little province. I can’t read Italian. I had no idea. Italy sold the ticket to a collection agency in the United States, and now here it was.

And I couldn’t call anyone until Monday.

Here’s the thing. There was a time in my life when a traffic ticket meant my whole net worth. There was a time when letters from debt collectors showed up in my mailbox regularly. Back then, a letter like this would have been devastating.

So the second I saw it, I felt that old feeling come right back. Oh my gosh. I just thought I was catching some momentum, and wham.

I had a choice. I could spend the whole weekend in that feeling, replaying what I’d do and who I’d call. Or I could do something about how I felt.

So I grabbed some paper. At the top I wrote:

I want to feel good about this situation.

Then I made three columns: thoughts that felt bad, thoughts that felt in the middle, and thoughts that felt good.

I didn’t argue with anything. I just wrote down each thought as it came and put it in the column it felt like.

The bad column filled up fast. What will this do to my credit score? I worked so hard to build it.

Then a middle thought came: I have more than enough money to handle this. That’s true, and it’s great. But it still had a sting: It’s not fair that I have to spend it. So it went in the middle.

I kept going.

Then this one came:

There’s somebody out there who can help me.

Someone at that collection agency. Someone at that office in Italy. I’m probably not the first American who didn’t know they broke some Italian traffic law. Someone out there has seen this before.

And I felt it shift. People are good. People like to help when they can. I have the resources to handle this. I just need to find the right person.

From there, I went all the way up to positive expectation. Then empowerment. Then I was actually happy about it.

For the rest of the weekend, whenever the subject came up in my mind, I went straight back to that thought.

It took less than five minutes.

Five minutes to get my whole weekend back.

Louder

Still Jordan.

Sometimes a better-feeling thought isn’t enough. Sometimes you have to win.

Years ago, I was at Vanessa’s mom’s house, feeling really defeated about money.

I went outside and walked around the driveway, saying our incantation in my head, over and over:

God’s wealth is circulating in our lives. His wealth cascades to us in avalanches of abundance. All of our needs, desires, and goals are met instantaneously by infinite intelligence. For we are one with God, and God is everything.

That day, saying it in my head wasn’t enough.

It was on like Donkey Kong. The battle was on.

So I started saying it out loud, in a normal voice, over and over.

Still not enough. It wasn’t overpowering what I was feeling.

So I decided: I am winning this right now. I am going to feel better about this.

And it got louder.

And louder.

Until I was screaming it at the top of my lungs, running in circles in the driveway like a crazy person.

God’s wealth is circulating in our lives…

Until I finally won.

I got so fully into it that there was no room left for the negative emotion. I embodied every word of it.

And in that moment, I remembered: this is the path. This is the work.

The work isn’t running out and taking action on every single thing I think I need to do to make money right now.

The work is getting into harmony with the abundance I already know is there for me. Stepping into that first.

Then taking action.

It was a really cool day.

That’s the difference between an incantation and a quiet affirmation. An affirmation is something you say. An incantation is something you embody, with your voice, your body and everything you’ve got, until the feeling wins.

That same incantation later became one of our songs, Avalanches of Abundance.

Ask a Better Question

You’ve probably tried affirmations.

And you’ve probably noticed the problem.

If you’re broke and you stand in the mirror saying “I am rich,” your brain argues with you. No, you’re not. Have you seen the bank account?

When a statement is too far from what you believe, your mind pushes back.

A question works differently.

Your brain is built to find evidence. Ask it a question, and it goes looking for answers.

We first learned this from Christie Marie Sheldon’s Unlimited Abundance audio program. She taught that it’s powerful to ask the universe questions.

So when we were broke, we didn’t stand around saying “We have $5,000 a month coming in.” We asked: “How, Universe, can we make $5,000 a month?”

We kept asking it, again and again. And it was powerful. A question opens your mind to solutions and lets the universe do its magic.

Years later, our friend Misty, a Vibration Fit member, took the idea further. In her book, Your Brain’s Bullshit Detector, she teaches her concept of SparkQueries: questions to the universe, written in a special way to activate what you want. She wanted an easy way to create SparkQueries around whatever was going on in her life, and she lovingly let us build them into Vibration Fit as a tool for every member.

Try questions like these:

You don’t need to believe the answer yet.

You just need to ask.

This Is Not My Permanent Address

Vanessa here.

When I catch myself thinking thoughts that don’t feel good, I picture them as a room. A physical room.

I recognize it. Oh, I know this place. I’ve been here before.

Then I tell myself: Just because I’m in this room right now doesn’t mean it defines me. And coming back here doesn’t make me any less. It just means I’m feeling a familiar feeling.

And then the line that changes everything:

This is not my permanent address.

I do not choose to perpetuate this.

Here’s what surprised me. Just noticing that I’m in the same old room is progress. Huge progress. The old me would have unpacked and moved in.

Now I sit on the couch in that room and remember that I have a choice.

I can open the door and walk out.

That’s what Jordan did with the three columns. He didn’t just leave the old room. He built a new one. There’s somebody out there who can help me became a room he could walk back into any time the subject came up.

Do that again and again, on subject after subject, and something wonderful happens.

You build so many above-the-Green-Line rooms that you start to feel like you live in a mansion of awesomeness.

Not my permanent address: the old room and the mansion

Our member Lisa does this with VIVA. She journaled what she called a definite wobble and had VIVA rewrite the story. “And all the sudden my phone starts ringing,” she told us. That same day, the help she needed showed up: someone to brush-hog her land, AC service right before a heat wave, and a working dryer.

$5,000 by Morning

Jordan here.

For years, we tried to make money happen. We took a lot of action. We consumed limitless information from personal development gurus and spiritual teachers.

Then one day I looked at Vanessa and said, “At some point, you just have to fuc*ing do it.”

So we stopped consuming all of it. We committed to one thing: aligning our vibration with abundance first, then taking inspired action from there. We stopped tolerating thoughts that made us feel bad about money.

That same money incantation, which we first learned from Tony Robbins, became our main tool. Any time a limiting money thought came into our heads, we replaced it with God’s wealth is circulating in our lives. We said it over and over and over again. I’d guess we said it thousands of times.

At the time, we were working in Japan. The country had just opened up its energy market, and we were helping customers switch to an American energy company as independent contractors. We were staying at a friend’s family home in the mountains near Mount Fuji to do some business.

And we were broke. We’d already been legally married back in Texas, but our big wedding in Cabo, with about 40 of our family and friends, was two weeks away. We had no idea how we were going to afford to attend our own wedding.

One night, as we lay on the floor to go to sleep, the negative money thoughts started coming in. So we said the incantation out loud together, over and over, as we drifted off.

The next morning, I opened my laptop to check my email. A few minutes later, I swore and slammed it shut.

“What happened?” Vanessa asked.

I opened it again. “We just got paid $5,000.”

A payment for a commercial building contract had landed in our account by mistake. It wasn’t really ours. When we reached out about it, the company said, “It’s fine. Don’t worry. We’ll just take it out of your future payments.”

The universe delivered $5,000 at exactly the right moment, two weeks before our wedding in Cabo.

Cabo wedding: on our vision board and actualized

And remember the question we’d been asking? “How, Universe, can we make $5,000 a month?”

Once we committed to not tolerating thoughts that produced negative emotion, everything sped up.

Would I Want a Mom Who Greeted Me Like This?

Vanessa here.

When Oliver was a baby, he’d wake up early, morning after morning, often after I’d barely slept.

I’d walk into his room with this heavy, icky energy. Why are you awake already? I’m so tired. There was even a little resentment in it.

One morning, I put myself in his crib.

I asked myself: Would I want a mom who greeted me every morning with this energy?

Of course not.

So from that morning on, I greeted him differently. “Wow, you’re awake! We’re starting a brand-new day!” with as much love and excitement as I could find.

The circumstances were exactly the same. Same baby, same hour, same amount of sleep.

Wayne Dyer really helped me shift my perspective on sleep. In his audio program How to Be a No-Limit Person, he talked about how we count the hours of sleep we’ll get and convince ourselves we’ll be exhausted the next day. So many of us wake up feeling fine, until we look at the clock, do the math and decide we’re tired. He shared a fascinating experiment where people lived underground without clocks or any sense of day or night. According to his account, they naturally slept just four to five hours at a time while feeling completely rested when they woke.

Jordan has a line about this I love: energy doesn’t only come from sleep. It also comes from the infinite part of who you are. That part of you didn’t need a nap to create an entire universe, and it’s available to you any time you decide to claim it.

Look, Mommy, I Happy

Still Vanessa.

Our kids are learning this too.

When Eloise, our two-year-old, is in the middle of a full-on toddler meltdown, we say, “Hey, baby, I understand you’re sad. Can you stop crying and choose happy?”

In the moment, she’s not always thrilled that we asked. But it’s incredible how many times, about five minutes later, she comes to find us: “Look, Mommy, I bopped. I happy.” (Bopped is how she says stopped.)

She knows she made that choice. And you can see how powerful it makes her feel.

We did the same with Adeline, our middle child, who’s five now. We didn’t have this tool yet when Oliver, our seven-year-old, was a baby. We’re learning as we go, like all parents and humans.

But it’s showing our kids something we wish we’d known much sooner: they have a choice in how they focus and in the perspective they pick. Happy is something they can choose.

The Next Rung

Here’s why we keep saying a little better.

You only have access to thoughts that are close to the one you’re already thinking. From despair, a joyful thought is out of reach. It just bounces off. But the next better-feeling thought is always within reach. From frustration, that might be pessimism. From pessimism, boredom. From boredom, contentment.

Vanessa compares it to playing chords on a guitar. Jump from a sad chord straight to a joyful one, and it clangs. Play them in progression, and it sounds like music.

Each rung might not look like progress from the outside. But you’ll feel the relief, and that’s how you know you’re climbing.

The next rung: one rung at a time

In the app, VIVA climbs with you one rung at a time with The Vibe I Choose Ladder.

Relief Comes in Many Forms

The three columns, the rooms and the questions are tools. But relief doesn’t have to be complicated.

Sometimes it means appreciating something that’s already working in your life.

Sometimes it means remembering a beautiful experience.

Sometimes it means imagining the life you choose.

Sometimes it means music (try streaming Vibration Fit music for a high-vibe option), going outside, laughing, resting, or focusing on something else entirely.

Jordan’s shortcut: Any time I’m looking for something to be grateful for, I just go outside.

And one of the fastest paths we know is laughter. Looking for a reason to laugh about something brings you right back to who you really are.

And sometimes relief means simply letting yourself feel what you feel, without fighting it, while you choose a kind next step. Sometimes the answer is just to feel.

None of this is about pretending. It’s not about suppressing what you feel or ignoring things that matter.

It’s about getting better and better at reaching for the next thought that feels a little better.

When You’re Already Above the Green Line: Amplify

Shift doesn’t only mean climbing out of a hole.

When you’re already feeling good, reach for even more.

Most people miss this. They feel great for a moment, then rush right past it.

Instead, lean in. Appreciate it. Enjoy it. Amplify it.

Vanessa loves a good rampage of appreciation, listing everything she loves, one thing after another. But it works best when you already feel decent. Try it from the bottom of a spiral, and your brain just rolls its eyes.

So save your amplifiers for when you’re already above the line, and use them to go higher.

Jordan does something else with good moments. He anchors them.

More than a decade ago, he was sitting on the giant grassy hill at Barton Springs in Austin. There was a warm breeze, sun on his skin, and cool water below. He was people-watching and feeling grateful just to be alive in a world where places like that exist.

He noticed every detail on purpose so he could rebuild that room in his mind any time he wanted.

That’s how you build the mansion: one room you love at a time.

The 90-Second Rule

When we finally stopped playing the vibrational hokey-pokey and committed to these principles, Jordan made himself a rule.

He wouldn’t let a bad-feeling thought run for more than about 90 seconds.

He didn’t make it a rule never to have one. That’s impossible. He just wouldn’t let one run.

He noticed. He reached for relief. He walked out of the room.

He did that for months.

The next year, areas of our life he had struggled with for years transformed.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Three Columns

  1. At the top of a page, write: “I want to feel good about this situation.”
  2. Make three columns: Below, Middle and Above.
  3. Write every thought that comes about the situation, in the column it feels like. Don’t argue with any of them. Just sort.
  4. Keep going until a thought lands in Above and you feel relief in your body.
  5. Circle that thought. That’s your new room. When the subject comes up again, go straight there.

If you’re already above the Green Line: write three things you love about this exact moment and why. Then stay with that feeling for 68 seconds.

In the app: When you’re having a wobble, VIVA walks you through it. Talk with VIVA about whatever’s happening and she can help you create a custom song, a story or a SparkQuery that helps you feel better now. Capture the wobble in your Journal, so you can see your rooms change over time.

One shift is a moment.

A thousand shifts is a life.

Next, we’ll show you how to turn the better-feeling moment into momentum, until feeling good is simply who you are.

Chapter 7

Sustain

Remember the Inconsistency Trap from Chapter 3? No reps, no proof. No proof, no belief. No belief, and you quit.

This chapter is about the reps.

At first, you might notice you’re below the Green Line only after spending hours there. With practice, you notice sooner. You reach for relief faster. You learn what brings you back.

And eventually, feeling good isn’t something you have to work at.

It’s just who you are.

But to understand how that happens, you first need to understand how you became who you are right now.

How You Became You

Every part of who you are started as a single thought.

We picture it like snow.

A thought is a snowflake. It’s tiny and unique. And like attracts like, so one snowflake draws in more like it.

A belief is a pile of snow. It’s just a thought you keep thinking.

A truth is a snowball. It’s a belief that’s been confirmed by something showing up in your life, then packed tighter every time you focus on it. This is the stage where you say, “Let me give you all the evidence for why this is true for me.”

Your identity is the snowman. It’s what we call the great I am, the sum of everything that follows those two words, stacked one snowball at a time.

Here’s how easily it happens.

Vanessa has one of her own. In college, she had a thought: I don’t know what I want.

She kept thinking it. She kept saying it.

The thought became a belief.

Then every time she changed her major, the belief got proof. Eight majors later, it was a truth.

And it became who she thought she was: a lost college student.

A snowflake became a snowman.

Snowflake to snowman: thought, belief, truth, identity

Here’s the good news. Most of your snowman serves you beautifully. There’s nothing about you that needs fixing.

The work is spotting the few snowballs that don’t belong, and rebuilding them.

It starts with the snowflakes.

Words Are Snowflakes

Jordan here.

When Vanessa and I were first trying to launch a business, we lived in Japan, high up in an apartment building. Money was tight. We had pennies in the bank.

But I was proud of one thing. Every month, we somehow made every payment. Sometimes cash would show up out of nowhere, just in time.

And I had a saying. I must have said it hundreds of times:

“Sliding into home, babe. Sliding into home.”

I thought it was gratitude. We always have just enough. Isn’t that great? The universe always provides.

Then one day we made a payment with pennies left in the account, and I said it again: “Just sliding into home.”

And I stopped. I was standing in my socks on our yellow wood floor.

Oh my God. I’m doing this to us.

I was the reason we were always sliding into home. I had been asking for “just enough” hundreds of times, and the universe kept saying yes.

I looked at Vanessa and said, “I will never say that again. From this moment on, we will be abundant. We will have more than enough.”

The old story didn’t vanish that day. But from then on, every time it tried to come back, I caught it and let it go.

There is no “just enough.”

Watch your snowflakes. Three kinds sneak in most often:

  1. Pushing it into the future. “Someday I’ll have…” keeps what you want forever in the future. Describe it as now.
  2. Negative talk dressed up as positive. “Just sliding into home” sounds grateful, but it’s still asking for just enough.
  3. Comparisons. “My new car is so much better than that old junker” keeps the old car active in your mind.

And here’s a rule we love: only speak in absolutes that serve you. “I’m always good under pressure.” “Things always work out for us.”

If you’re going to say “always,” make it count.

Vanessa here.

I found one of my own after we had Eloise. I’d picked up a line from other moms and made it mine: “I don’t get snuggles when I’m not nursing. This baby only uses me for my milk.”

And guess what? I didn’t get snuggles when I wasn’t nursing.

One day I realized I was creating that. So I changed my words to “I get lots and lots of snuggles, all the time.” She started snuggling me right away, like I was at a restaurant and her job was to bring me exactly what I ordered.

I even sang it to her, to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” I got that idea from Jordan’s mom, a musicologist who speaks about the power of music to change your emotional state.

There Is No Brake Pedal

So what happens when you spot a snowball that doesn’t serve you?

Most people try to slam on the brakes. Stop thinking that! I don’t want that!

Here’s the problem. In a car, you have a gas pedal, a steering wheel and a brake.

In the universe, there is no brake pedal.

You can steer, and you can apply energy. That’s it. When you shout no at something, you’re still giving it your focus, and focus is energy.

And some of these beliefs have been running for 10, 20, 40 years. You can’t pull a U-turn at 70 miles an hour.

So you do three things:

  1. Take your foot off the gas. Stop feeding the old thought. Notice it, and don’t follow it.
  2. Turn the wheel. Choose the direction you want: the new thought, the new story.
  3. Give it gas. Put your energy into the new direction, again and again.

You can’t just stop eating chocolate.

You have to start eating apples.

Sixty-Eight Seconds

Jordan again.

This is one of my favorite teachings. I first heard it from Abraham-Hicks, and once I practiced it, I found it was true.

When you hold a thought for about 17 seconds, another thought like it joins in.

Hold those for another 17 seconds, and another joins. Then another.

Four rounds of 17 seconds. That’s 68 seconds.

By then you’ve built so much energy around that thought that it’s like a radio tower with a homing beacon on top, broadcasting what you’re becoming.

Vanessa describes each 17-second round as a window. Each window opens onto a slightly better view than the last, with better thoughts and bigger pictures.

Think about what that means.

You’re never more than about 68 seconds away from a new vibrational direction.

Do it once, and you’ve felt it.

Do it every day, and it starts to become who you are.

Sixty-eight seconds windows: four rounds of 17 seconds

Put It on Repeat

The fastest way we know to get reps is to let something do the repeating for you.

That’s what we call Activate: you hear it, see it, speak it and feel it, over and over. We say activation, not meditation, because the point isn’t to empty your mind. It’s to fill it with the feeling of the life you choose.

Your Life Vision becomes audio, and you listen to it in the car, on a walk, falling asleep. A story about who you’re becoming plays on repeat until it simply becomes who you are.

Jordan here.

After my hot seat with Abraham, I woke up one morning in Morocco and asked, What’s the emotional outcome I’m after today?

A poem started coming to me.

A love poem. To myself.

I actually thought, Are you really about to write a love poem to yourself, dude?

I did. It came out as 14 stanzas, a conversation between me and the bigger part of me. I read it to Vanessa. Then I turned it into a story and recorded it in my own voice.

I love myself. I love myself.
And now, say, I love you.
I love myself. I love myself!
And I can feel it’s true.

Loving me just feels right.
It’s the path to feeling good.
Loving me just feels right.
Just like I know it should.

I love myself no matter what!
I just think I’m the best!
I love myself no matter what.
And give my mind a rest.

I love me. I let it be.
The love that’s there for me.
I love me. I let it be.
And that’s where I feel free.

I am enough. More than enough!
To receive all that I am.
I am enough. More than enough!
And can feel it when I am.

I am free. I am free!
To be all I can be.
I am free. I am free.
To feel the love for me.

I remember. I remember.
That ever-present love.
I remember. I remember.
It’s what I am made of.

I love myself. It feels so good!
To remember who I am.
I love myself. It feels so good!
I’m more than just a man.

I love you. Yes, it’s true!
I can send love too.
I love you. Yes, it’s true!
And you can feel it’s true.

Loving me feels so free.
It’s the easy thing to do.
Loving me feels so free.
It’s what I know you do.

I love me physically!
I know I’m really great.
I love me physically!
So much to appreciate.

I love my life! It’s beautiful!
I now take you along.
I love my life! It’s beautiful!
I can feel you really strong.

I am thankful. I am thankful!
To remember who I am.
I am thankful. I am thankful!
Love extended into man.

I love myself. I love myself!
And now I know it’s true.
I love myself. I love myself!
And now, say, I love you.

A couple of days later, I listened to it 30 times on repeat during a massage.

I’ve never felt anything like it. It was like wearing rose-colored glasses. Everywhere I looked, all I could see was beauty and goodness and love. I wanted to hug every human I met.

Anchors

Here’s what nobody tells you about momentum. Bad days still come.

The question is what happens to your progress when they do.

Picture a climber going up a cliff. Every few feet, they drive an anchor into the rock. When they slip, they don’t fall to the bottom. They fall to the last anchor.

That’s what your practice does. Every day you show up, you drive an anchor. A rough day doesn’t send you back to day one. The last 14, 28, 68, 142 days are anchored in.

And when it feels like nothing is changing, remember day 93 of a pregnancy.

On day 93, you can’t see much from the outside. But day 93 is necessary. Beautiful. Perfect.

Just because you’re not holding the baby yet doesn’t mean it isn’t growing.

Conscious creation is like a gym. It’s just about the reps.

Your Five-Minute Practice

68 Seconds

  1. Pick one thought you want to grow. Make it a little better than where you are now, not a leap you can’t believe.
  2. Set a timer for 68 seconds.
  3. Hold the thought for 17 seconds. Add details. How does it look, sound and feel?
  4. Let the next window open. For each 17-second round, let a slightly better thought join the last one.
  5. When the timer ends, write down the best thought you reached.

Then put it on repeat. Listen to your Vision Audio or a story once a day for the next seven days.

In the app: Your Life Vision becomes audio you can take anywhere, and any journal entry can become a story about who you’re becoming, recorded in your own voice. Your MAP (My Alignment Plan) tracks your activations so you can see your anchors add up.

You now know how to build momentum.

But momentum isn’t the finish line.

The point of feeling good is to live from that feeling.

That’s next.

Chapter 8

Create

Here’s where it all comes together.

You’ve chosen the life you want. You’ve learned to notice how you feel, to shift and to build momentum.

Now you live from that feeling.

You make decisions from it. You love people from it. You create, you act and you enjoy from it.

That’s the fifth step: Create.

And here’s what makes it different from almost everything you’ve been taught about getting what you want.

The action comes second.

Alignment First

Jordan here.

Our son Oliver has been really into Legos lately.

If you’ve ever played with Legos, you know the secret. When two pieces are lined up perfectly, they slide together easily. It’s satisfying. It feels good to build.

But take two tiny pieces that are just slightly off and try to push them together.

It’s never going to happen. It doesn’t matter how hard you push.

I watch Oliver get frustrated with those weird little pieces. “Daddy, can you help me with this one?”

And the answer is always the same: line them up first.

That’s how life works too.

Line them up first: aligned and misaligned bricks

Alignment first. Then apply the force.

Most of us were taught the opposite. Push harder. Grind. Hustle. Every hero has a backstory of struggle, so we assume struggle is the price.

But so many of those twenty-year struggle stories end the same way. One day, something lines up. And then everything clicks.

We’d rather start there.

Action taken from alignment feels completely different. It feels inspired. It feels fun. It works.

The Next Right Thing

Still Jordan.

You know our story. We were broke and in debt. We needed something new.

One day, Vanessa saw a video that asked one question: What are you good at that other people either don’t know how to do or don’t want to do?

I said, “I’m pretty good at making videos.”

She said, “I’m good at building websites. Do you think we could make a business out of that?”

I said, “We can try.”

A few phone calls later, I was sitting in a coffee shop with a friend who needed some video work. The job needed a drone, and I didn’t have one. I didn’t have money for one either.

So I said, “If you’ll give me the money to buy the drone I need for your job, I’ll buy it, and I’ll come do the job I promised.”

She pulled out her checkbook and wrote us a check for $1,250.

We carried that check back to our little Honda Fit and just sat there, staring at it and at each other.

Oh my God. It worked.

As my dad would say, I needed that money like a dead man needs a coffin.

That was the next right thing.

I was so excited about that drone. I shot footage of a ranch. We finished the job. Then she referred us to a friend who needed a simple website, and Vanessa built it.

One skill at a time, we kept adding tools to our belt, like Batman.

Here’s what I’ve learned. When you’re in harmony with what your Inner Being has lined up for you, the next right thing presents itself. And the action feels exciting.

If you asked me today to build a website for a stranger, I’d want to run. But back then? It was the most thrilling thing in the world.

Those skills, and that way of working, eventually led to the app you might be using right now. Before we let a single member into Vibration Fit, we had shipped new code about 1,400 times. Version after version. Not good enough. Not yet. You have to be a little relentless to ship version 1,401.

But when you’re aligned with what you’re building, relentless doesn’t feel like grinding.

It feels like fun.

Get into harmony. Then do the next right thing.

The Daily Paper

When we were starting our business, we were trying to become winners when we felt like losers. We needed a way to stay on track.

So we started every day by writing a paragraph of gratitude. We call it appreciation now, because it can be about anything in the moment: your shoes, a bird on the fence, the coffee in your hand. It puts you in alignment first.

Then we noticed a problem. We’d get to the end of a busy day and ask, “What did we even accomplish today?”

So we added the top three: the three aligned actions that, once done, make everything else easier. If we had no clients, the top three were about finding clients. If we had clients, it was finishing their work. For Vanessa, sometimes it was as simple as finally getting to the post office, because that errand was taking up space in her head.

Vanessa’s filter for the top three is a question she calls W.I.N.: What’s Important Now?

Then we noticed another problem.

We lived in Florida, and a whole month had gone by without us watching a single sunset.

So we added the fun promise: one fun thing you promise yourself today. Watch the sunset. Take the kids to the park. Drink a cup of tea without doing anything else.

That’s the Daily Paper. Appreciation, top three and a fun promise.

Our rule was simple: as long as we did the top three, we won the day.

Jordan says he’s 100% confident the Daily Paper is responsible for our first million dollars in business. He can look back at the actual papers that built our world.

Vanessa still has hundreds of them in a folder. Reading one is like visiting the person you were that day and seeing how far you’ve come.

And here’s the math. In 30 days, that’s 30 moments of appreciation and 90 aligned actions.

A compound effect of awesomeness.

Make It Fun

The fun promise isn’t a bonus. It’s the point.

The question we come back to most is simple: Is this fun?

And if it isn’t: How could I make this fun right now?

Vanessa here.

I tried it before a dentist appointment. I’ve never loved the dentist, so beforehand I kept asking, “How could I make this dentist appointment fun?”

I got the funniest hygienist I’d ever met, laughed through the whole thing and walked out early.

This isn’t about avoiding hard things. It’s about not labeling things as hard before you even begin.

The hardest part is convincing yourself it can be easy.

We say it all the time: follow the fun. We’re looking for ease and flow. If something isn’t flowing, it isn’t right yet. Step away, get aligned and come back when it flows.

Be It Now

Here’s one of our favorite shortcuts.

Don’t wait for the whole vision to arrive. Find a way to live a piece of it now.

When Italy was in our vision document, we didn’t just wait for the trip. We found Italian restaurants ten minutes from our house in Sarasota and sat there with the same coffee and the same food, soaking up the feeling.

Your brain starts noticing how much of your vision you can already touch.

We’ve traveled all over the world and have never been anywhere that didn’t have something cool within 60 miles. Meanwhile, most people sit scrolling their phones, thinking, Someday I’ll travel. Someday I’ll have a cool life.

How about today?

Pick one item from your vision. Find the version of it you can live this week.

It also works on beliefs. If you’ve believed for 20 years that you only swim in water above 80 degrees, you could repeat affirmations about cold water for months.

Or you could jump into a 68-degree pool.

Your mind updates instantly, because now it has proof.

Nothing gets you into the vibe faster than just being it.

Say Yes to the Nudge

When you’re aligned, inspiration shows up as nudges. A random idea. An invitation. A name that pops into your head.

Inspired action means saying yes to those nudges, fast.

Jordan decided to step into a new version of himself in his health. He got clear on a program and started executing. Then he got stuck. His home gym wasn’t enough.

So he started looking for alternatives. He found a great gym seven minutes from our house, one that hadn’t even existed a month earlier.

As he put it: “That’s conscious creation in a nutshell.” You decide who you’re becoming, and the path starts showing up.

You don’t have to map out every step. You’re not the universe. You just have to say yes to the next one.

The Plan Doesn’t Need Your Mood

One more thing about action.

The version of you who’s aligned, the one who feels clear and inspired and excited, is the one who writes the plan.

The version of you on a low day doesn’t get a vote.

When you write your Daily Paper from alignment and then follow it even on days you don’t feel like it, something powerful happens. Everything that has ever significantly changed our lives came from the compound effect of seemingly inconsequential actions, repeated consistently over time.

Alignment chooses the actions.

The actions build the life.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Your First Daily Paper

  1. Appreciation. Write one paragraph about anything you appreciate right now. Keep going until you feel it.
  2. Top three. Write the three aligned actions that, once done, would make everything else easier. Ask: What’s important now?
  3. Fun promise. Write one fun thing you promise yourself today, even something tiny.
  4. Do the top three. If you do them, you win the day.
  5. Keep it. Save every Daily Paper. Someday you’ll want to visit who you were.

In the app: The Daily Paper lives in Vibration Fit. Your MAP counts it toward Create, and your Journal is where you capture the inspired actions, synchronicities and wins that follow. When a vision item becomes real, move it to Actualized on your Vision Board.

You’ve now walked through four of the five steps.

Notice. Shift. Sustain. Create.

There’s just one left, and it’s the one that makes the rest work.

You come back.

Chapter 9

Repeat

The last step isn’t really a step.

It’s a decision you make again and again.

Come back.

Not because you failed. Not because you fell off. Just because that’s what the practice is.

The goal was never to finish a checklist. It’s to become more and more aware of how you feel, and better and better at choosing how you want to feel.

Remember what we said about the ladder in Chapter 3? You don’t climb it once. You move up and down it all the time.

The goal isn’t perfection.

The goal is returning faster.

Interesting How This Plays Out in Our Favor

Vanessa here.

Not long ago, we had a two-week stretch where it felt like one thing after another.

Right before a trip to Texas, the neighborhood kids were over and started slipping on our floor. We looked up and saw water pouring through the ceiling. Jordan had flushed our AC line, and we’d forgotten to put the cap back on. One little cap caused thousands of dollars of damage, and we had to leave the next day.

A day after we landed in Texas, we found out we’d been denied the homeschool scholarship we’d counted on, $8,700. I had logged in all summer and kept seeing “no action items.” It turned out there was a little box at the bottom of the page asking for a learning plan. Six checkboxes. We missed them, and there was nothing anyone could do.

Then, on the way to the airport, the car in front of us slammed on its brakes. We slammed on ours. And a truck behind us hit us hard on the highway.

Any one of those could have wrecked a week. A few years ago, those two weeks would have completely destroyed me.

But this time, I stepped back. And I saw how far we’d come.

We have a sign hanging on our wall: Everything always works out for us perfectly.

And when something hard happens, one of us might be upset, but the other one usually has their head on straight. That one says it out loud:

“It’s gonna be interesting to see how this plays out in our favor.”

It’s not denial. We still dealt with the ceiling, the phone calls and the police report.

It’s choosing what the event means.

Because it’s not the circumstance that brings the pain. It’s the meaning we give it.

And sometimes the meaning turns out to be a gift. That scholarship showed us an old habit of keeping score with money, where every dollar going out has to be matched by a dollar coming in from the same place. We traded it for a different picture: a river with endless tributaries.

We didn’t plan to learn that. We learned it because we asked how it would play out in our favor.

Every Dot Turns Into a Thank You

Jordan here.

I was talking with Vanessa’s brother recently, and I gave him a thought experiment.

Imagine someone comes to you and says, “You can change any one thing about your past. Anything you want. But it creates a 0.000000001% chance that you don’t end up where you are now.”

That means maybe I don’t end up with Vanessa. Maybe there’s no Oliver, Adeline and Eloise. Maybe not this home, this family, this life.

What would I change?

Nothing. I’m not even touching it.

I wouldn’t change what hat I wore to breakfast some Tuesday thirty years ago.

Here’s what happens when you build your life on purpose. You look back at a document you wrote years ago and realize you’re living it. Then you look back at every dot that led you there: the broke years, the loneliness at Niagara Falls, the empty refrigerator in Japan.

And every painful dot turns into a thank you.

Huh. That worked out. Being broke for a while was weird. But now I see how it played into me not being broke.

That’s why, when the next hard thing shows up, we can say with a straight face that it’s going to be interesting to see how this one plays out in our favor.

We’ve seen the dots connect too many times to believe anything else.

A few of those dots, straight off our vision board:

  • The $0.74 morning. The empty refrigerator from the start of this book, with over $100,000 in debt on top of it. We put a pretend $1,000,000 bill on our vision board. We went on to make our first million in our own business, from home.
  • Atrani. On a trip to the Amalfi Coast, we asked a waiter where the photo on our vision board was taken. “That’s Atrani,” he said. “One minute north of Amalfi.” We’d been staying about 12 minutes away the whole time, with no planning at all.
  • The house. While we were living in Japan, with no idea how anyone could ever afford a home, we put a photo of a house in Florida on our vision board. We moved to Florida in 2018 and rented condos while we looked at hundreds of homes. As the details filled in, Vanessa wrote a very specific letter to the Universe: how many rooms our home had, the purpose of each space, the kitchen, the backyard. I found it after we moved in and thought it was a gratitude letter for the house. Then I saw the date: two years before we bought it.
  • The van. A white Honda Odyssey Elite sat on our vision board for seven years, and on mine for more than a decade. When our old van’s check engine light came on one more time, we finally decided to go for it. We put a deposit on one in the exact colors we wanted, then walked back out to the old van. The light had gone off, as if it came on just long enough for us to decide. On March 23, 2022, we paid cash for our vision-board van.
Vision board dots: the bill, Atrani, the house and the van, actualized

Refresh the Vision

Coming back also means coming back to your vision.

In Chapter 2, we told you about the year we got everything on our vision board and felt empty. The fix was to write a new vision, bigger than the life we were living.

Here’s how Jordan puts it: “The moment that you arrive, you’ve grown beyond it.”

That’s not a problem. That’s expansion. Every experience you have gives birth to a new desire.

So your Life Vision isn’t a document you write once. It’s a living one. Date every version. Revisit it often. When something you wrote becomes real, celebrate it, then ask what’s next.

And hold every version the way Jordan wrote his first foreword in 2011:

This, or something even better.

You’re Not Meant to Do This Alone

Jordan again.

When I wrote my first vision coming out of college, almost nobody was on board with it. Everyone had an idea of who I was, and it wasn’t who I’d decided to be.

You read about that phone call in Chapter 4.

That’s normal. When you first write a vision, you might be the only one who believes in it.

And the world will have opinions. Who are you to think you could change your health like that? Don’t you know what you’ve been for the last twenty years? Who are you to write that down?

People don’t usually mean harm. But when someone climbs out of the bucket, the other crabs tend to pull them back in.

A lot of the time, people prefer the safety of the version of you they already know. The version they get to tell their friends about. The version that doesn’t challenge the version of themselves they’ve chosen to be.

So here’s my promise to everyone who writes a vision with us:

I am the protector of your vision. I will let no one talk you out of it.

That’s why we built the Vibe Tribe and the Alignment Gym. Vanessa calls it a sacred space for your happy place.

We wanted a place where your vision is not only protected by us, but supported and celebrated by every member of the tribe. We celebrate your wins. We walk with you through your wobbles. And we help you stay in harmony with the life you choose.

When you slip, the people around you are like an invisible net that catches you and says, “No, that’s not you. I see you. Get back up here.”

You don’t need everyone to understand your vision.

You just need a few people reaching for their own.

For us, the Vibe Tribe is a dream come true: a beautiful collective of conscious creators who support each other’s journeys and encourage each other every step of the way.

In a world of mostly normies, we have a conscious creation tribe.

Our member Lisa said it best: “I never felt like I fit in. But I fit in here.”

The Ripple

Here’s something we didn’t expect.

When you keep coming back, people notice.

They see your peace. Your results. The way you handle a hard week.

And one day someone asks, “What are you doing differently?”

That one question can move them from Unaware to Aware, the same way one question in a New York City taxi moved Vanessa.

You don’t have to convince anyone of anything. You just have to keep being the person you’re becoming.

We found that out from a member named Rylee, who sent us this in the middle of a breakup:

“I can’t help but credit both of you, Vanessa and Jordan, seriously. The Life Vision literally swept me off my feet right onto my ass and showed me exactly where I needed to change my direction and follow my inner compass. Over the course of this breakup, I can’t tell you how many times I thought about the two of you, your relationship with each other and how inspiring you are that served as a constant reminder to not settle for less than I deserve and to trust that my person is out there.”

We never told Rylee how to date. We just kept living the life we chose, and it reminded her to trust hers.

That’s how this spreads. One person at a time.

Remember our mission from the beginning of this book? If one in ten people walked this earth as a conscious creator, the ripple would change everything.

It starts with you coming back above the Green Line, again and again.

Your Five-Minute Practice

Your Return Ritual

Pick one time each week, the same day and the same time. Then:

  1. Check in. Above, on or below the Green Line?
  2. Reread one part of your Life Vision. Feel it for 68 seconds.
  3. Name one wobble from the week and say, “It’s gonna be interesting to see how this plays out in my favor.”
  4. Name one thing that actualized, even something small. Write it down.
  5. Choose one way to connect. Post in the Vibe Tribe, come to an Alignment Gym or share your vision with one person who’s reaching for their own.

In the app: Your MAP tracks what you practice under Capture, Activate, Create and Connect. But as we like to say, the goal isn’t to finish a checklist, and the real plan is to keep returning. Reminders help you show up. The Vibe Tribe and the weekly Alignment Gym are where you come back together.

This book will end.

The practice won’t.

Tomorrow morning you’ll wake up inside the loop again: thinking, feeling, acting, experiencing.

Only now, you know you’re the one choosing.

You’ll notice. You’ll shift. You’ll build a little more momentum. You’ll create from a better place than yesterday.

And when you slip, you’ll come back.

Again. And again. And again.

Until one day you realize that feeling good isn’t something you have to work at anymore.

It’s your normal.

Remember where we started? Imagine a world where you look forward to every part of your day.

That world doesn’t start when the money comes, or the job, or the person, or the body. 

It starts the moment you feel it.

So feel it now. Right here, before anything changes.

The things will come. But the feeling was never waiting on them.

It was waiting on you.

You’re awake now. Go create on purpose.

Feel Better NOW. Build Momentum. Live Above the Green Line.

With much love and gratitude,

Jordan & Vanessa

Family on the beach: the life we choose

The five of us, living the life we choose.

Every Practice on One Page

Each practice takes about five minutes. Do them in order the first time through. After that, come back to whichever one fits the moment you’re in.

You only have to remember once. After that, it’s one practice, every day: Notice, Shift, Sustain, Create, Repeat. Your Life I Choose (Chapter 4) sets the direction, and the five steps (Chapters 5 to 9) keep you aligned with it.

ChPracticeWhat you do
1What Do You Really Want to Feel?Write three things you want and the feeling behind each. Circle the feeling that repeats. Find one way to feel it now, and feel it for 68 seconds.
2Map One LoopPick one moment this week that didn’t feel good. Write its thought, feeling, action and experience. Circle the thought, write one that feels a little better, and run the loop again.
3Find Your Rung and Your TrapName the level that sounds like your typical day and the trap that pulls at you most. Pick one move up, and feel the next rung for 68 seconds.
4ChoosePick one category. Write three “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” sentences, name the feeling as “Feel ___ NOW,” and feel it for 68 seconds. Hold one decision this week up to the life you choose.
5NoticeThree times today: are you above, on or below the Green Line? Say “I feel ___.” Ask the three lens questions. Don’t fix anything. Write one line.
6Three ColumnsWrite “I want to feel good about this situation.” Sort every thought into Below, Middle and Above until one brings relief. Circle it. That’s your new room.
768 SecondsPick a thought a little better than where you are. Hold it for 17 seconds, then let a slightly better one join it, four times. Write down the best thought you reached. Then put it on repeat: listen to your Vision Audio or a story once a day for seven days.
8Your First Daily PaperWrite one paragraph of appreciation, your top three aligned actions and one fun promise. Do the top three and you win the day. Keep every paper.
9Your Return RitualSame time each week: check in, reread one part of your Life Vision, name one wobble and one thing that actualized, and choose one way to connect.

If you only have one minute: check in. Are you above, on or below the Green Line? Then reach for one thought that feels a little better.

The 12 Categories

Your Life Vision covers 12 areas of life. Each one comes with a feeling to practice now, before anything changes. These are invitations, not fixed emotional requirements. Each person chooses the emotional qualities that resonate with their own vision, so write your own word in the last column.

CategoryWhat it coversThe invitationYour word
FunHobbies and joyful activitiesFeel Joyful NOWFeel ______ NOW
HealthYour body, energy and well-beingFeel Vibrant NOWFeel ______ NOW
TravelPlaces to explore and adventuresFeel Free NOWFeel ______ NOW
LoveYour romantic relationshipFeel Adored NOWFeel ______ NOW
FamilyFamily relationships and lifeFeel Loved NOWFeel ______ NOW
SocialFriendships and connectionFeel Connected NOWFeel ______ NOW
HomeYour living space and surroundingsFeel Peaceful NOWFeel ______ NOW
WorkYour work and how you contributeFeel Inspired NOWFeel ______ NOW
MoneyIncome, wealth and how money flowsFeel Abundant NOWFeel ______ NOW
StuffThe things you own and enjoyFeel Prosperous NOWFeel ______ NOW
GivingContribution and legacyFeel Generous NOWFeel ______ NOW
SpiritualityYour connection to Source and your growthFeel Aligned NOWFeel ______ NOW

Here’s the foreword from Jordan’s first Life I Choose, written in 2011, so you have it close by when you write your own.

FORWARD

Every motivational work I have heard, read, or seen has mentioned in some form or another that writing out my life as I intend it to be is a crucial step in attaining my dream lifestyle. It makes sense. How should I expect to attract my dream lifestyle if I have never written down in detail what that would entail?

This work is intended to describe in detail the life that I now choose to experience. I know that this work already exists. I realize that I am merely bringing it into form.

I know that I am already experiencing the life that this work describes. I am choosing to bring it into form now because I am ready to experience the journey. I am ready to travel the road that brings this work to fruition in my life.

This work shall serve as my magnet, attracting the people, ideas, resources, strategies, events, and circumstances that allow its complete fulfillment. From the perspective of my conscious mind, this is what I believe I want. I hereby give the universe full permission to open all doors leading to the experience of this, my perfect lifestyle, or something even better.

Thank you in advance for the perfect unfolding of my life experience. I am truly grateful for the opportunity to be here and experience the life of my choosing.

Glossary

The words we use in this book, in plain language. Use your own words for any of them. What matters is the feeling, not the vocabulary.

TermWhat it meansCh
68 secondsHow long to hold a thought so it starts to build momentum: four rounds of 17 seconds, each a little better than the last.7
Above, on and below the Green LineAbove is aligned: joy, love, appreciation, freedom, the way you want to feel. Below is contrast: states that feel uncomfortable or restrictive. On the line is the in-between. The Green Line is guidance, not judgment.2
ActivateHear it, see it, speak it and feel it, over and over, until your mind is full of the feeling of the life you choose. Activation, not meditation.7
ActualizedA part of your vision that has become real. Feedback, not the finish line.8
AlignmentFeeling the way you want to feel, now, in harmony with your Inner Being.1
Alignment GymOur weekly live session, where members practice together.9
ChooseDecide the life you want to live and how you want to feel living it.4
Conscious AllowerThe seventh level. You don’t need anything to change to feel good.3
Conscious creatorSomeone who uses the Emotional Feedback Loop on purpose. An unconscious creator runs it by default. Everyone is creating either way.2
CreateAct from a good-feeling place, with inspired action.8
Daily PaperOne page a day: appreciation, your top three aligned actions and one fun promise.8
Emotional Feedback LoopThink, feel, act, experience, think again. It is always running, for everyone, because emotional states attract the conditions that perpetuate emotional states.2
Emotional HeadquartersWhere every check-in in the app starts: above, on or below the Green Line.5
Feel Better NOWThe central practice. You don’t have to solve the problem before you reach for relief.6
Inner Being / SourceThe broader, loving perspective of who you are. Call it God, Source, the Universe or your higher self.1
Life VisionYour written description of the life you choose, across 12 categories. Jordan’s first one was called The Life I Choose.4
MAP (My Alignment Plan)How you return to better-feeling states, again and again: Capture, Activate, Create and Connect. Not a checklist.9
MomentumEmotion builds on itself. The longer you stay with a feeling, above or below the line, the stronger it gets.2, 7
NoticeCheck in with how you feel and name it, without fixing anything yet.5
RepeatCome back to the practice, again and again. Returning faster is the whole game.9
RoomA familiar set of thoughts about one subject. You can choose which room you walk into.6
ShiftReach for a thought that feels a little better than the one you’re in.6
SparkQueryA question that sends your mind hunting for evidence of what you want.6
SustainHold a better-feeling thought long enough for it to build momentum.7
The three trapsThe Buffet Trap, the Inconsistency Trap and the Happiness Trap, the places people get stuck on the journey.3
Vibe TribeThe Vibration Fit community.9
Vibrational fitnessTraining yourself to feel the way you want to feel, now. It gets stronger with reps, like a muscle.1
Vision Audio and Future-Self StoriesRecordings of your vision and of who you’re becoming, to listen to until you feel them.7
Vision BoardThe images of your vision. Items move to Actualized as they arrive.4
VIVAYour Vibrationally Intelligent Virtual Assistant: the personal guide inside the Vibration Fit app.4
WobbleA moment below the Green Line. Not a failure, just information.6

Notes and Sources

The teachers and works we quote or draw on, chapter by chapter. Member stories and quotes come from the Vibration Fit community and are shared with permission.

Preface

Chapter 1: Vibrational Fitness

Chapter 3: The Journey to Conscious Allower

Chapter 5: Notice

Chapter 6: Shift

Chapter 7: Sustain

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