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how to be the luckiest girl

Hi Slayers!!!!

Welcome or welcome back to the Office Slayers— your no BS guide to being the hottest and most confident version of yourself at work.

If you’re subscribed to this newsletter, there is no doubt in my mind that you have ambitious hopes and dreams and you are definitely going to make them come true.

Today’s edition: LUCKY GIRL SYNDROME

Aka how to manifest everything you could ever want in the whole wide world.

Before we break down Lucky Girl Syndrome, some proof:

I’ve literally manifested every single job I’ve ever had. Little story time:

2020ish

In the middle of Covid when I was doing nothing all day and sad that I had to move home from college in the middle of the year, I had this thought:

I can see myself having a cute little marketing job. Guess I have to apply to things that ask for 0 experience 🤠 

And sure enough, a mini marketing agency loved my millennial pink Canva resume. There I was making $8 an hour from my childhood bedroom.

2021

But, of course, there came a time when I learned all I could in that role...so I set my sights on the Morning Brew Student Ambassador Program. I remember filling out this application and having this thought:

It would be so cool if I could work for Morning Brew one day. Maybe after I graduate I could do something for them.

My MB Student Ambassadorship helped me get an actual internship as a Reader Engagement Associate (really fancy way of saying I was answering emails for 12 hours a week).

2022

But an overly ambitious girl can only answer emails for so long! It was time for the big leagues.

I would be spending the Spring 2022 semester in NYC as part of a school-sponsored program. In preparation for this semester, I remember having the thought:

I want to stay at Morning Brew but do more 

As luck ( 😉 ) would have it, I got an invite to work on Morning Brew’s branded content team! So exciting and cool and definitely the ✨more✨ I was looking for.

(still) 2022

As my time in NYC and my fully remote internship was coming to an end, I was getting ready to head back to good ol’ Austin, TX. I remember having this thought on one of my last days at the Brew:

I wish I could intern somewhere that had an office in Austin.

Sure enough, the stars aligned in my favor, and I found myself at Workweek with the help of the B2B media gods and some amazing people (Hi Manny!)

2023

And finally, as my time at Workweek came to a close, I was on the struggle bus in the job market. Then I was thinking:

Would be pretty slay if I could do organic social tbh.

And I’m sooo lucky to be able to say that I’m resident social media girlie at beehiiv, the best newsletter platform in the world! The thing that’s powering Office Slayers every single week!

Okay and???? Didn’t seem like you were really manifesting that???

True (sorta). Those “thoughts” above were just ones I had in passing. Yet, they still count as manifestations.

At the core of manifesting specific things is an ongoing belief that things always work out for you in the best way, better than you could ever imagine.

And that, my friends, is the whole idea of Lucky Girl Syndrome:

It’s believing you are the luckiest girl in the world, and every thought and action (with varying levels of intention) are all little pieces of the puzzle contributing to your future self’s material benefit.

While I’m a huge proponent of straightforward and strongly-worded affirmations, another essential part of manifesting is being able to detach.

Your passing thoughts still contribute to the reality you make. You wouldn’t be having these thoughts if they weren’t attached to dreams that are meant to come true.

When you have a thought about wanting something, and you have that gut feeling that you really want it, here’s what to do:

  • Think your thought, girl

    • “I can see myself having and fully embodying this thing”

  • Trust that it’ll happen

    • “It just makes sense that I’ll have this…I don’t know how or I don’t know when but I know why I want this”

  • Take some aligned action!!!!!!!!!

Thinking it’s possible = 50% of the battle

Doing actual things in real life to make it happen = the other 50% of the battle

That’s it from me today! Can’t wait for all of us to grow into the hottest slayest most confident most beautiful-brilliant-hilarious-radiant versions of ourselves.

See you Wednesday ;)

Bella Rose