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Should I follow social media gurus’ money advice?

Paridhi Jain Money contributor October 7, 2025 — 11.44am Advertisement

I’ve been reading your articles on mindset and I wanted to know your thoughts on manifestation. I’m a pretty practical person. I’ve successfully built and sold a business before and am currently self-employed and make decent money. But I’ve been stuck at a specific income level for a while.

I feel like there must be some ‘mindset blocks’ holding me back and I’ve been trying the manifestation techniques you hear about on social media – like visualising my income goal, ‘acting as if’ I already have it, etc. I’ll admit I haven’t seen many results, so I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong or if it’s all nonsense.

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