Why does it take so long to manifest something into my life that I have always wanted? The reason why it takes so long to manifest something into your life that you've always wanted is because your power to create has been squandered into maintaining your very busy mind. Your focus and attention has been weakened by useless thinking that never stops. For now, the way to manifest something into your life that you always wanted is a little hard. It is not impossible, but we do need to do visualization exercises over and over until the desired object is manifest in our life. Later, when we have become highly advanced spiritual beings, what we desire can be manifested more quickly. Our focus becomes laser sharp and the time lag between what we desire and the appearance of this object is substantially shortened. In fact we can evolve to a stage where our power to manifest is almost instantaneous. But at this stage, we start to look beyond the material universe for fulfillment because we have found it within.