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Money is your energy…
Submitted by: Aries De Guzman
PhilippinesDesigner and wardrobe stylist.
I am a plus size designer and wardrobe stylist. My family never approved because they thought that I should just be focusing more on a career that I actually graduated from. I have finished Humanities, Political Economics, and Business Economics (yes, I know, so far from fashion, right?). But I must say that fashion is my passion… she is my love. She is my instrument in fulfilling my purpose on this earth, which is to make people fall in love with themselves and see how beautiful they really are. So, despite the lack of background, I have followed it.
They kept on telling me how I would fail and how all businesses fail in the first year. Don’t get me wrong, my first fashion line failed completely, but I did not give up. I still went on and opened my second fashion line, now for plus size only. So, the difference this time is that I am going to use The Secret to help me realize and manifest my dreams.
My father and other people, when they knew about it, they kept on telling me how foolish I was for doing this. This actually encouraged me to do it more because, in my heart, if I was able to do my way and it succeeded, IT WOULD BE MORE GRAND and FULFILLING.
So, every day I would focus on the good things that I wanted to happen. When things do not go my way, I feel more excited because it means that it will happen at the right moment and at the right time OR EVEN SOMETHING BIGGER AND BETTER than what I have envisioned will happen.
It went on until the launching. There was even a time that we no longer had money for the production of the line, but surprisingly, money just pours in (liquidation of the old business, people paying up for debts that they owe me that I have already forgotten, and so on).
Soon enough, the production for the fashion line launching was done, and here I am nervous about it. We are a new brand. We are a plus size line. We did not do enough preparation. We had few fans on Facebook, so on and so forth… so many things were not prepared. HOWEVER, in my heart, I have envisioned that things will become spectacular.
So when we set the small bazaar up in one of the top malls in the Philippines, I took time in the dressing room to meditate and feel good. I was thinking and feeling from top to bottom in my heart, what it would feel like to sell, sell, sell the whole two days!!! What it would feel like if I held in my hand more than the break-even point. I felt happy about it and felt as if I was already holding the money!!! It was such an uplifting and amazing feeling. In my mind, I was soooo happy having those things already.
So the launch happened, and guess what? We sold most of the clothes already! Customers were coming in non-stop! A fashion critic from America loved our designs, and we were noticed by another top mall in the country and offered us a space with a good contract! I was sooo loving it! But it does not stop there. So I was thinking in myself, oh boy, if this can work at that rate, what more in the next one? So for the next bazaar, we had the launching of the second half of the Holiday Collection. I was only aiming for Php 16,000 for this bazaar.
I did what I did the last time. I went to the fitting room and did a meditation. I felt and envisioned what I wanted to happen at that day, and tell you what… it did not happen how I envisioned it, IT WAS WAAAAAYYYY BETTER!!! When the Bazaar opened, THE CUSTOMERS WERE SO NUMEROUS THEY HAD TO FORM A LINE OUTSIDE MY BOOTH! It was extremely curious because most of these people were just passers by and did not even know about our brand. The bazaar was so packed that I no longer had time to sit down and rest! Many clothes were sold out in sizes and I was so happy about it! What’s even more great was that… IT WAS JUST THE FIRST DAY!!!
If you should know, we did not have Php 16,000.00 that day… WE HAD Php 20,000.00!!! Amazing!!! In total after the two day bazaar, we had Php 34,000.00! It was amazing! And our Facebook page has never been more popular! Every day more and more people are adding us on Facebook and visiting our website!
I have realized that in the end, money is really your energy! If you can think it… if you can feel it… if you can believe it… THEN IT’S YOURS!
Lots of Love,
Aries