69: Micro Wins, Macro Life: The Manifestation Method That Actually Works

Most people think manifesting isn’t working. What’s actually missing is the feeling.

In this episode of Rooted & Rising, host Tara Mychelle breaks down the real mechanics of manifestation — and it’s not about vision boards or gratitude lists you check off on autopilot. It’s about feeling the energy of what you want as if it’s already done, and then training yourself to recognize the daily evidence that it’s already in motion.

Tara introduces the framework of micro wins and macro wins — and why the small moments in your day are not coincidences. They’re confirmation. They’re the universe showing you the track you’re on.

In this episode you’ll learn:
how to feel into a goal before it arrives, why your gratitude practice might be missing the most important ingredient, what micro wins are and how to start seeing them every day, how small daily evidence stacks into the macro life you’re building, and why manifestation is really just trained attention.

If you’ve ever said “manifesting doesn’t work for me” — this episode is for your answer. 

Transcript

Microwins And Manifestation Tease

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In today's episode, we are talking about microwinds, microwinds that lead to macrow winds, manifestation. Don't roll your eyes, manifestation works. But here we go. I want you to just tune in, take a listen, and here we go.

Welcome And Listener Gratitude

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Welcome to Rooted in Rising. I'm your host, Tara Michelle, intuitive guide storyteller, and fellow traveler on this wild path of becoming. This is a space for the soul led, for the ones unraveling old stories tending to their healing and rising, not perfectly, but powerfully into who they are here to be. Here we explore what it means to live with intention, to love with depth, and to trust that even the hard things are shaping us. I'll share pieces of my own journey, the cracks, the beauty, the breakthroughs, and invite voices who are walking this path too. Because I believe life isn't happening to us, it's happening for us. So come as you are, root in and rise up. And thank you. Truly thank you for being here. Welcome back to Rooted in Rising. I am your host, Tara Michelle, and I want to thank you so much for joining us. I'm glad you're here with us. And before I dive into today's show, I just want to take a second and say thank you. Genuinely thank you. Thank you for messages, your shares. Thank you for those that listen to the podcast. The fact that you keep showing up, it means everything to me. And I just want to say thank you. So grateful.

Situationship Series Recap

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So we just wrapped up the Situationship series. It was a replay as I was working through a lot of things in my life and uh needed to pull some old episodes to take over some time that I couldn't show up and be here for you. Um, but we replayed the Situationship series, and I hope you enjoyed it. Hope it landed for some of you as something that is near and dear to my heart. And I feel it's very important to share, you know, how to navigate and move through those spaces. And as a matter of fact, after this episode, I plan to do a little follow-up because I've had some other things shift and open up within my own life around situationships and how a particular situationship actually made a difference for my life and how that relationship has really taught me some very valuable things. So that will be coming in the coming episodes.

Moving Back To Biweekly Releases

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But let's get back into what I want to also share is that the Rooted in Rising podcast is actually making some changes. We are going to go back to an every other week episode instead of a weekly. My schedule has expanded in some really exciting ways, and I want to show up, you know, fully for you. I don't just want to throw out quantity, I want to throw out quality information. So we're gonna go back to an every other week uh schedule. But I do hope that you stay tuned in, keep subscribing, keep sharing it with your friends, and I will keep bringing what I can. And so now let's get into today's

Manifestation Beyond Checklists

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episode. Um, I'm gonna talk about manifesting. And I know it this is like a topic that everybody always talks about, right? Manifesting, manifesting, just manifest it. But as you know, if you those of you have listened, you know that I'm all about life is happening for you. And when you are at the helm of your life, when you claim your agency, when you take accountability and responsibility, it's up to you to create this life. You have the pen, you have the journal. This is your life. Create it. Okay. So I want to talk about it and I want to talk about how micro wins and macro wins actually make a difference. Here's what I want to offer today: manifesting does work, but it's not a vision board sitting on your wall that you look at once and then forget about. And it's not a gratitude list that you write every morning, like homework assignment. And I also want to preface I love gratitude lists. I actually really do. There's real power in acknowledging what's already good in your life, but here's what I've noticed for myself is sometimes gratitude lists become rote for me. It becomes something that I write just to check the box off. And I didn't necessarily feel what I was writing. You know, yes, am I grateful for clean water? Yes, am I grateful for a good night's sleep? 100%. Am I grateful for my son? You fucking bet. All of those things are real, they're valid, but there's no electricity in it if I'm just writing it down like a checklist. And that becomes a ritual without resonance and manifesting without feeling, that honestly, I mean, you could say that it's wishing, but it's not even wishing. It's just taking up space. So real manifestation, the kind that actually moves things requires us to feel it. It requires us to feel it as if it's already done, not pretend, not perform, but actually to feel it. So I'll give you an example from my own life.

A Real Goal You Can Feel

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Um I may have shared this. I've gone, you know, I've I've shift, I've shifted careers and I've gone, I've left the medical industry, I've gone back to real estate and I'm passionate about it. I love it. I work for a builder, I'm what's called a build-on-your lot consultant. I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely love it. Like I can't get enough of it. And I was actually, funny enough, in real estate 15 years ago prior to my son being born. And um I really miss it and I love it. I just, I love what we're doing. So the goal that I've created is I want to sell 16 homes and get them under cra contract between now and November. That's a big number, but it is it is what I would like. It's what I want to create. That's a real specific desired declaration. Now, what I have to practice is sitting in that feeling. What does it feel like to have done it? So if I were to sit in that feeling, I'd be like, oh my God, it's November. We did it. We did it. We got 16 houses under contract. We actually did it. I I cannot believe we did it. I can't believe I did it. I can't believe the team we came together, we crushed it. We were amazing. Oh my God. And I can see the contracting team. I see emails coming in from the contracting team. I see emails coming in from the purchasing team. I see emails going back and forth with contractors, with our contracting team, like all of it. And I can see it and I feel it. And I can't believe we did it. I can't believe we made it happen. Oh my God, we might even close another one for December. Oh my God, I can I can't even believe it's happening. This is real. Like I did this, I did this, I created this, we did it, I did it with my team, I did it with my managers. Oh my God, and my clients. I see their smiles and I see them signing on the dotted line, and I see their houses being built, and they're in the design center, and oh my God, I can't even believe it. That's me getting into that energy. Okay. You get into that energy, the relief, the excitement, the pride, the momentum. And what is the version of you feel like in that moment? And so you meditate on it, you let it become real before it becomes real outside of you. You let it become real inside of you. That's where the work is, that's where the work begins. But I sometimes think that people sometimes miss a step. And once you've

Noticing The Breadcrumb Micro Wins

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done that inner work, once you've turned the nervous system on to that frequency of what you want, you have to then go into your day and look for the evidence that it's actually happening. And that I feel is the piece that sometimes people miss. This is where micro wins come in. And this is what I call a microwin. A micro win is a small moment in your day that says you're on the right track. It's the universe leaving you this breadcrumb trail back to the very thing that you're calling in. And so how it might show up in my day is maybe um one of my managers emails me uh and sends me a lead. Maybe a couple realtors call me back that I've been calling to, you know, do some, do some deals with uh that same afternoon. Or maybe one of my clients sends me an email telling me how grateful they are for the support that we've provided and how uh, you know, the experience has been incredible. And maybe there might be doors that I've been knocking on that all of a sudden start to open. That's me recognizing those moments. They're not coincidences. I feel those are confirmation. And when you recognize them as such, when you actually pause and feel them instead of rushing past those moments, it's just like, oh, that's just part of my day. You stay in that frequency because you keep the energy alive and you build that momentum. And when I see those micro wins, I thank God. I say, thank you, God, thank you for that lead today. Thank you for those calls. Thank you for those responses. Thank you for a new client just calling me out of the blue and saying, okay, we're ready. Those are the micro wins, and those are the things that I get excited about. And yes, should I still do a daily gratitude list? Absolutely. But uh, but that that is part of the list. All those amazing wins that I had in the day.

A Micro Win That Confirmed Purpose

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And I'm gonna be honest, I actually was sitting with whether or not I wanted to keep this podcast going. Because the amount of work that I've got ahead of me and on my plate, I really had to look at are any of the things that I'm up to right now, do any of these things need to come off the plate so that I can put more focus into what I'm really excited about? And I just sat with that. I threw it out there, was talking to God, and I was like, okay, like I'm I'm feeling maxed and stretched. Is this something I want to continue doing? Let me really sit with this. And it just happened to be that that day I had a friend reach out to me and let me know that she's been listening to my podcasts. And it just happens to be that she's working on a neuroscience research paper. And one of the episodes that I was talking about spoke to her. And it was about the forest bathing and how it supports the nervous system and so forth. And in that same conversation, she was letting me know how she was sharing my podcast with another woman, and that woman would like to be a guest on my podcast. I saw those as microwin, microwin. And then all of a sudden, I had the inspiration to do a social media post that just came out very quickly, very easily, got it posted, another microwin. And I thought, okay, okay, that's the universe working for me, speaking to me, and letting me know that yes, this is something you keep going. Because yes, this is something that you love. And it's an opportunity to share whatever it is that you feel you need to share. It's an opportunity for my voice to be out there, and that's really what this started as is just an outlet for me to, you know, share wisdom or share breakthroughs, share breakdowns, and really share how life is happening for us, not to us, and that you get to be the

When Micro Wins Become Macro Wins

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hero of your journey. But let's get back to the microwinds and the macro winds. Okay. So I see these moments as the universe saying yes. And I know how to hear it now. I know how to pay attention to it now. Here's the thing about microwinds, they compound and you collect enough of them. And one day you book up and you're standing inside the macrowind that you were envisioning six months ago. And the microwins weren't just nice little moments. They were actually the architecture of that bigger thing that you were looking for. Some days you're going to be heavy on microwins, some days you might not have anything, but you have to keep looking for them. You look for it because it's out there. Some days you're going to get one big macrow win, and that's it. And both are valid. Both are movement towards that desire that you said you want. And what I've started doing, and what I want to invite you into is ending the day not just with your gratitude for the things like your children, your family, your friends, uh, clean water, good food, your health, but with the celebration of what moved that day, what evidence showed up that day that you were calling into motion? That practice feels different. It feels alive. It feels like you're in a conversation with life instead of just observing it. It feels possible, it creates miracles because those little microwinds are the miracles. Those are the miracles. And it creates that momentum and it keeps you focused on what you have versus what you don't

The Daily Practice And Farewell

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have. So today's invitation is simple. Pick one thing you genuinely desire, not what you think you should have, not what you think you want, but what you truly desire. What is it that you actually want? And then I want you to feel it. Really feel it. And tomorrow, I then want you to go into your day and start looking for the breadcrumbs. Notice the microwins. Celebrate them. Thank God, thank the universe, thank yourself, whatever it is that you say. Celebrate them. Write them down at night. Let them be the evidence. You know, you can even look at it, you can write them down and date it so you can see how many weeks or months or days did it did it take for me to create that very thing I set out to do. It's manifestation, it's not magic. It's just attention. It's just attention to that which you say you desire. It's choosing to see what's already moving toward you instead of fixating on what hasn't yet arrived. You're already in motion. Trust the track you're on, trust God, trust the universe. It is all happening for you right now, and it is coming to you now. So I want to say thank you all for being here with me this week. I love you. I will see you in two weeks. Keep rooting, keep rising, and I look forward to seeing you then. Have a blessed day. Thank you for rooting in and rising with me today. If something in this episode stirred something in you, take a breath, take what you need, and let the rest soften. Be sure to follow the show so you don't miss what's next. And if you feel called, share this episode or leave a review. It helps the space grow and reach others on the path. Until next time, may you walk with trust, speak with love, and rise in your own time. I'm so grateful you were here with us and thanks for being here. We'll see you on the next episode.