Season 3 of Bridgerton is a manifestation success story

Yes, it's a fictional story, but you can still gain some inspiration and good feels when you're down. Obviously there are spoilers if you haven't seen it and you want to.

In S3 of Bridgerton, Penelope finally manifests the love of her life, Colin. She has loved him since they were kids and had to overcome a number of obstacles, from being friend zoned to Colin being engaged to another woman.

She doesn’t do this by being high vibe or perfectly resolute. She experiences a lot of doubts, pain, and insecurities about her prospects both in love and specifically with Colin, who in an earlier season vowed he would never court her.

However, she does have a very high self concept (outside of love). She knows who she is as a person - romantic, willful, and powerful in her secret writing gig as Lady Whistledown. The key is that she acts as this highest form of herself, even if the less certain part of her has doubts. Even in her darkest hour, when faced with potentially never having a husband, she denies a practical marriage proposal from a good man because it lacks love, and she wants a love marriage.

She could've lost everything at that moment. She may have been a spinster forever. She may have had to settle for a worse choice in the future. But this is the moment when Colin finally turns around and decides he wants to marry her.

She never gave up wanting him. She kept daydreaming and thinking about him. And she got him by being firm in her values and self.

Just believe that this could happen to you, because versions of this story do happen in real life.