From MySpace To Vogue: How I Manifested My Dream Life With A Fake Bio

Confessions of a teenage blogger (and manifestation queen)

A fatal flaw when it comes to manifesting? Taking it so damn seriously, when really the most successful manifestations come about from the act of PLAY.

Many of my very best manifestation techniques have come about from my early childhood — things I did just because they seemed fun, that then (miraculously) lead to fantastic results.

This technique is so simple that it’s absolutely laughable. All it requires is imagination and big ol’ cajones. (I know you’ve already got those!) And yet, it’s one of the most effective ones I know!

I invented this back when I was a teenager, hand-coding my own websites (yes, newsflash, I was a big geek). I had dozens of websites over the years, ranging from journals that specialized in oversharing to terrible poetry and more. (We shudder to think.)

When I was creating these websites, my favorite part was always — always — the “about” page.

The bio.

The profile.

I loved it because it was an opportunity to refine and define yourself. To reinvent yourself as you saw fit. And as you can imagine, for a girl living in a town of 100,000 people, at the bottom of the world, all I wanted was a much larger life than I was presently living.

LiveJournal (RIP!) really served this idea up on a platter. I took it and absolutely ran with it. On your LiveJournal profile, you’d write a blurb about yourself, as well as curate a list of hyperlinked interests. And while most people would list their interests as fascinating things like “coffee, music, travel”, I seized upon the chance to make my list really weird and wonderful. My list of interests would include things like “girls wearing bunny heads”, “sexy gnomes”, “picnic enthusiasts” and the like.

In fact, here’s a screenshot of my MySpace profile from 2007, where the same idea carried over…

(I was also really into baby pink with turquoise. An underrated color combo! Time to bring it back?!)

That was all fun and good, an exercise in expanding the imagination, a way of mentally curating your own aesthetic. It was a way of drawing the parameters of your own universe, and staking out some turf.

The blurb section, though, is where it truly popped off: an opportunity to be wild, ferocious, fearless.

In this space, you could weave a fantastical tale about yourself. And as a young whippersnapper with ambition and a penchant for drama and exaggeration (I was once a teenage goth who wore a CAPE for God’s sake), I thought it only fitting to go big… Or go home.

Sadly, I don’t have any screenshots of anything earlier than 2007. But this is what it said on my aforementioned MySpace page… The year after I had founded my blog, galadarling.com.

“Les enfants terribles”?! Dramatique, non? Gosh, I love her. What a little cutie.

Now, you might be saying, “Great, Gala, thanks for the trip down memory lane… Can you get to the POINT please?”

Oh come now, impatient one! I’m painting a picture! And I’m getting there!

(Drumroll, please…)

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How To Use Your About Page To Manifest Your Future

Your average “bio” — whether it’s on your own domain, a blurb on a PDF one-sheet, or just a few bulletpoints on a Linktree — contains a one-liner, some stats, and career highlights.