How I Manifested a Rival Away

One of the things that I find so many people struggling with is ruminating on what they don’t want. It’s easy for negativity to get stuck in your head, and loop over and drive you crazy. And it happens to the best of us, nobody is perfect.

This happened to me a long time ago, when I was participating in a college club group.

The club was a rather large one at my college, and it focused on a topic I was incredibly passionate about. I was excited to be involved, and imagined myself participating and sometimes even leading the many outings and group activities the college club provided.

Lo and behold, shortly after joining, I was actually offered a leadership position in the club! I was soaring. The law of assumption/law of attraction was certainly working its magic. I happily accepted, and got the plans for my first club council meeting.

When I got to the first meeting, though, my gut kind of sank. While most of the council was friendly, open, and easy to work with, one person absolutely was not.

She was a new club council member, too, and had started only a few weeks before me. She was, frankly, a jerk. For the purpose of this post, we will call her Kathy.

Kathy was headstrong, rude, and condescending. She and I disagreed on a lot of things, but where I wanted to try to compromise and collaborate, she wanted to dominate and demean. There were multiple occasions where, during normal club meetings, I overheard her being nasty to club members. She even removed people from group activities to punish them for personal squabbles she had with them. It was rough.

I was shocked that she was even on the club council at all. It seemed that Kathy just had a lot of time on her hands, so she had plenty to commit to doing the administrative stuff that the council needed at the time, and that was why she was admitted. She was helping just enough to get away with being a bully.

I tried just fighting her mean-ness with kindness, by showing an example of the kind of council leader we should have. I tried to approach all the club members with empathy and do whatever I could to help with their problems and planning.

So, I did what I could for the club, and on a spiritual level did my best to do what I knew was right: trust that everything was going to work out in my favor.

But, at first, it seemed like things were getting worse.

I was so frustrated by Kathy’s presence, after overhearing her be mean to club members and after seeing the snarky and domineering way she acted during council meetings. I tried to trust, but I was a baby manifestor at the time, and frankly still human, at that.

I ended up having my schedule change at the place I worked at the time. Which meant that I had to step away from the club for several weeks to handle a new workload and make sure things were in good shape there while also maintaining my schoolwork.

I felt defeated, telling the other council leaders that I needed to step away from not just my leadership role, but also my regular club activities for possibly months. I didn’t want to step away. I wanted to continue being a council leader, and either have Kathy’s attitude change or see her leave instead. In my head, it felt like Kathy had “won.”

But I did what the universe guided me to do, and tried to hold on to the trust. Then, I put my focus on my work, and put the whole thing to rest.

Several weeks later, my situation at work was entirely sorted out. After a brief break to avoid burnout, I remembered the college club and reached out to my favorite council leader to see when I could come back.

I was at the very next council meeting.

As I walked through the doors I braced myself to endure Kathy’s comments and overall rudeness. But when I got to my first meeting back, Kathy wasn’t there.

After tackling a few things that needed to get done, I asked the rest of the club leaders if we needed to make some notes of the meeting for Kathy, and the room got quiet.

Turns out, Kathy had been expelled entirely in my absence. Not just from the club leadership, but from the college entirely.

Turns out she had gotten in trouble with the school after a number of students in and outside the club started making note of all the mean things she said or did, and signed a petition of some sort asking her to be removed from the club.

The school caught wind of it, and took it seriously. They expelled her for bullying only a week or two before I returned to my club duties.

In hindsight, I see that my absence was exactly what I wanted: to not have to deal with Kathy anymore. I’d had to leave so that I didn’t have to endure any more of her nonsense, and when I came back she was gone.

Remember that, while manifesting, trust is your best friend. It is the engine that allows your manifestation to move. The bridge of events might looks messy. It might even look like you failed, at first.

Neville Goddard said to persist. Persist through it all, and you will come out the other side with your desire in hand.