Of course it is!

But if you want it or try to accumulate it out of fear, it will elude you. Whereas, if you love it and the freedom it offers, it will beat a path to your door.

Everything is spirit.

There’s nothing wrong with aspiring to the freedom money can give you, or, for that matter, aspiring to possess money itself.

The notion that people with money aren’t spiritual is simply not a “rule.” Just look at what you can do with lots of money:

• Is it unspiritual to have raised $10 million, so that you could give $2 million to a charity serving the hungry? Isn’t this spreading the wealth and the love?
• What if you used your money to set up college scholarships for your children and grandchildren? Or to take them on international trips to witness firsthand different cultures around the planet?
• Or to create a business and employ people while accumulating wealth for your family?
• Or, after a great run of 5, 10, or 20 years as an investor-entrepreneur, to incorporate your own nonprofit organization that brings technology, computers, and the Internet to underdeveloped parts of the world?

Not that you even have to give anything away; there’s nothing wrong with making money just because doing so makes you happy.

These are freedoms that only money offers. Not that wonderful things can’t also be done without money, and, of course, you can definitely be happy without it!

It’s your life, your prerogative to pursue abundance or not.

Either way, it’s time to clear up the notion that material wealth is somehow not spiritual.

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Here are 9 ideas to try (choose ONE of them or all of them – and see what unfolds):

1: Dream! Define your desired end result, your desired abundant lifestyle!

This is what you already tell your children: “Dream, because dreams do come true!” And it’s because you instinctively know it’s true. Thoughts become things. So, it’s incumbent upon you to start dreaming again, and because it matters to you, specifically about abundance.

Imagine the nuances of a life lived in luxury. Make a list of details about the house and where it’s going to be and the roof it’s going to have and whether or not you’ve got a view of the woods or a lake or the mountains—get into the specifics. List, list, list, list! Define abundance in your terms.

Not how you’re going to create it, but what your life will be like after you have it. Where are you going to go? Who are you going to go there with? What’s going to be your first new hobby? What will be your next dream?

2: Visualize daily.

It’s the least you can do to get the most. If you understand that thoughts become things, this exercise gives you the opportunity to deliberately choose and think the kind of thoughts you’d like to physically manifest in the world. Give yourself a few minutes every day to think thoughts of living in abundance, as if you already had it.

3: Create vision boards, scrapbooks, post quotes up around your home.

Another way to steer your wandering imagination to the kind of “things” or circumstances you’d like to physically experience in your life: put pictures on your refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, in your purse, in your wallet, in your car.

This is just feeding the fire of thoughts becoming things. These props will remind you constantly of “who you really are,” as represented by your collection of photos and quotes.

4: Until you know what to do, master what’s before you.

What’s the alternative? Quit your job and wait? Until you know what you’re going to do, and you can do it, keep your day job. Not forever! Not to settle for less! But because quitting, to do nothing, would be most unproductive. And if you don’t know what to do, quitting to do something else you’re uncertain about would be similarly pointless. If you’re not sure what else to do, keep doing what you’re doing, but do it better.

5: Do the obvious, constantly trying new things.

If you’re at a loss for what exactly to do next, maybe because you’re out of work or just starting up something brand new, consider doing what your peers, others in your shoes, do. It matters far less what you do than that you do it, just so you’re doing something that makes some logical and intuitive sense to you regarding moving toward abundance.

The greatest way to spark new opportunities and possibilities in your life, including those for abundance, is to be constantly trying new and different things. The more you do, the more the Universe can do for you.

6: Align your beliefs with abundance.

1. Name as many beliefs as you can that would support you and your dreams, and then…

2. behave, in some small way, daily if possible, as if those beliefs were actually yours.

So, for abundance, the kind of beliefs that would support you might be:

• there’s enough for everyone
• money is pure spirit and can be a noble value for one’s time and energy
• your thoughts become things
• you having “yours” will help others get “theirs”
• having money will help you support your favorite charities
• everything you touch turns to gold, you are always surrounded by wealth and abundance
• you are a money magnet

Make your list, add to it often, weigh each item in your thoughts again and again until you see their validity and truth. Speak them, claim them, and act as if they are yours.

7: See everything you do as a stepping-stone to greatness.

Perspectives rule, and you always get to choose what yours will be. It’s not settling for less when you go to a job that’s not your dream job if you choose to see it as a stepping-stone to “better,” to see it as temporary, to see it as enabling the Universe to reach you in ways it couldn’t otherwise. This perspective alone will change how you feel each day, improving the opportunities that will, indeed, be drawn to you.

8: For direction, consider all you like and love.

Too many people want to be the next version of their favorite rock star, business icon, or sports hero—instead of just being the best version of themselves. You have what no one else has, you feel what no one else feels, and you can dream of things that no one else can dream of—seize this!

It’s why “God” chose to be you. You are sacred! Necessary! Loved! Be you! And since abundance can come from literally any vocation, as you can readily see the world over, choose among the vocations that resonate with you and make you excited to be alive.

9: Go! Start! Now! Today!

Something to understand from the mechanics we’ve already reviewed for bringing about life changes is that: If you want change, you have to physically go first.

So, if you want to live in greater abundance:

How will you change? And when will you start?

These are two questions that deserve your immediate attention. Remember, knowing the truth is never enough to change your life; you must act on it.

BIG Love,

   Mike

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AS A BOY

I remember, as all kids must, being asked, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” As long as you have an answer (mine was “fireman, policeman, astronaut”), everybody’s happy.

When you don’t have an answer, no matter your age, 7 or 70, it’s as if alarm bells sound: “Oh, Mike doesn’t know what he’s going to be when he grows up. Mike, don’t you know you can be anything? Anything you want?”

That’s the problem! Too many choices. Along with the implication you could choose wrong! Every year the world changes so much. Wouldn’t it be a travesty, we reason, if we choose poorly? What if next year the internet goes in a new direction, making our career path crystal clear. Maybe we should just wait and see what happens…

AS A MAN

Despite my fun answers as a boy, I grew up to become a certified public accountant, which, of course, was my choice, and frankly was a great thing for six years… until I wanted more. Not knowing what that “more” would be, I decided to force the answer by quitting my job at Price Waterhouse without knowing what was next.

Suddenly, the funk was on. I was 29 years old, without the self-confidence that came with working for a prestigious global firm and struggling to define myself to the world. For a long time, I wondered if I had just made the biggest mistake of my life, leaving a salary that in today’s dollars would be six figures.

For months, unemployed, I snooped around for business opportunities, looking into franchises, attending fairs and tradeshows, and reading Fortune, Forbes, and similar magazines for inspiration. Nothing turned up.

Meanwhile, my brother had several freelance jobs working at Universal Studios in film production, and was simultaneously receiving monthly royalty payments of over $1,000 for T-shirt designs he had created back in art school!

Fortunately, while I was green with envy, my mom had a vision, and she urged, nagged, and begged us to start our own T-shirt company: “Mike, you’re the accountant. Andy, you’re the designer, and I’ll join you doing whatever I can to help!”

I couldn’t really argue with her. Humbled, desperate, and in a fear-induced paralysis, I remember getting on my knees and praying before bed at night, “Dear God…”

After a wickedly slow start, our little T-shirt company had a great run (selling over a million T-shirts!). By the tenth year, as trends were declining, we liquidated to avoid going out of business. Ugh! What happened? I’m almost 40 years old, and I have no career momentum? I’m starting over again… and I don’t even know what I’m starting? 

People talk about seeing no light at the end of the tunnel. I had no tunnel. I did have, however, enough money to coast for two years… but my mortgage was many times larger than my savings. So, I worried and wondered if the best of my life was behind me, with seemingly nothing in front of me.

I’d wonder: What did I do that I shouldn’t have done, that could have avoided this seeming catastrophe in my life? Or what didn’t I do that I should have done, that could have avoided this nightmare? I remember thinking: Maybe this is the way my life was supposed to go (as if some things were predetermined, not).

Humbled, desperate, and once again in a fear-induced paralysis, I remember getting on my knees and praying before bed at night, “Dear God… I have no idea how I’ve created the mess I’m in, but I know what I want! I want enough money to not worry about losing my home (and then some).

I want to have a rocking career, although I have no idea what that might be. I want to live the rest of my life surrounded by friends and laughter. And I want to start traveling again, internationally, please.” 

Those were my wishes: 

1. Wealth and abundance 
2. Creative, fulfilling work 
3. Friends and laughter, and 
4. Traveling internationally, again 

I most distinctly remember punctuating that prayer with a rather abrupt, if not annoyed, “You figure it out!” Not that I was angry at God. I was angry at myself for feeling so helpless.

LO AND BEHOLD, A MASTER PLAN EMERGED 

Do you notice a common trait among my four desires? They’re generally stated! Not that I had any idea of what I was doing at the time. It most certainly wasn’t because I was clever. I was desperate and scared, having micromanaged the heck out of everything up until then, which at the time had seemed the most effective way to live deliberately.

I had already worn all the hats that seemed to suit me, but they no longer fit! I couldn’t think of what else to ask “God” for, in terms of details, so by accident, not knowing any better, at the end of my micromanaging rope, I got general! (Now I know, focusing on the “big picture” is step one).

In the days and weeks that followed my nightly bedside prayers, I instinctively knew (as do we all) that I had to maintain some sense of optimism and buoyancy. How might one do this?

Vision boards! Reading favorite empowering books kept on my nightstand! Creative visualization! Fun pictures stuck on my refrigerator! Using affirmations! (Now I know, maintaining optimism and buoyancy is step two).

In those same days and weeks, I also instinctively knew (as do we all) that if I wanted my life to change, I had to show up in the world and take action. Get out of the house. Doing anything is better than doing nothing.

I asked friends and acquaintances for help and guidance, knocked on doors, turned over stones, and rustled the bushes. (Now I know, showing up and taking action is step three).

I had a lot of sucky paths to consider, I guess we all do. But my least sucky paths were as follows: 

1. Go back into the corporate world 
   I polished off my accountant’s résumé and started sending it out, which soon made it clear that nobody wanted to hire me… probably because I didn’t want to be hired.
   
2. Dabble with creative writing 
   I started sending out Monday Morning Motivators to the small list of email addresses I had from the T-shirt business, which eventually evolved into today’s Notes from the Universe—sent to more than 1 million subscribers.
   
3. Become a webmaster 
   I created a website, designed my own “Ask Mike” section featuring questions I asked myself and answered, created some free e-cards, etc. and over the years, it evolved and grew into what it is now.
   
4. Explore becoming a professional speaker 
   I joined Toastmasters, spoke for free at Rotary Clubs and Unity Churches, and eventually decided to launch my own “World Tour”—traveling wherever I wanted and telling people about it through the Notes.

To spare you the long and winding story, the steps above led me to record my first audio program, Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams, which has been a perennial best-seller since its release in 2001 (more than 250,000 CDs sold), and in 2009 the book edition was published, which debuted at #7 on the New York Times best-seller list.

The upward spiral has taken my breath away!

I’m now published by Hay House; I’ve spoken in 34 countries, on 6 continents, before hundreds of thousands of people; sent more than 1 billion Notes from the Universe; appeared in the bestselling book and DVD The Secret; authored 14 books (two of which are NY Times bestsellers) published in 25 languages. And perhaps, most incredibly, a few years ago, I finally got married and became a first-time dad. 

Whether you want to kick-start a new career, turn your passions into your livelihood, find your bliss, quit your day job, or create more joy and freedom in your daily life, you can do it (I did!) 

You are adored!  

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Speaking negatively still gives the Universe marching orders. Of course, there’s a place, a teeny, tiny place, to convey thoughts of your predicament or circumstances to a therapist, coach, or best friend when you need to express how you’re feeling so that those feelings can be allowed to move on and be replaced. 

Yet choose your listeners well, because often even well-intended commiseration such as, “Ain’t it awful… life’s not fair… can you believe this?” commands every element, all of the forces of nature, to perpetuate your situation through acts of serendipity and coincidence.

On the “plane of manifestation” you cannot say things, anything, without influencing the circumstances you will experience next.

Statements like, “Lo and behold, I met another guy who treated me like dirt,” “Another person ripped me off,” or, “I met another liar” explicitly tells the Universe that this is the kind of world you live in and it replies—with circumstances and manifestations—essentially saying, “Roger, got ya’. More of the same coming right up!”

Even self-deprecating humor should be abandoned, unless you’re a paid comedian. It may be good for a momentary chuckle, but is it worth the price?

How many times have you heard someone say, “I just had a senior moment”? Even said in jest, it’s still what the Universe is going to respond to if you say it enough times, because the more you say it the more you’ll believe it! 

Here’s what’s important to remember:

1. Choose words that spark positive change.

Right now you can start saying things like:

• I’ve got all the time in the world.
• I’m surrounded by wealth and abundance.
• Everything I touch turns to gold.
• I love public speaking.
• I never get jet lag.
• I always have exactly the right thing to say at the right time to the right person.
• I’m always in the right place at the right time.
• My life is so easy.
• I know what I’m going to do today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life. I have total clarity, total certainty.

And of course, there’s my personal favorite, I’m so-o-o-o-o photogenic! I can’t take a bad picture!

Today’s manifestations came from yesterday’s thoughts, words, and actions. Tomorrow’s manifestations will begin taking shape based on what we think, say, and do today.

We are all mid-journey here in time and space; our lives are a work in progress, yet to pick any day of that journey and use it to define “who we are” is like reading a novel halfway through and then writing a book review on it. 

Of course, I’m not suggesting you tell everyone about this “reality” or how you now see yourself. Choose words that suit the company you’re in. But among friends who get this stuff, and to yourself, let your words reflect the celebration of creation that your life is. 

2. Express gratitude to the Universe.

When you express gratitude or say “thank you” to the Universe or your greater self, what you’re actually saying is synonymous with, “I have received.”

This is true when you give thanks for what you already have and when you give thanks for what you desire as if you already had it—health, friends, wealth, abundance. This is super-powerful!

You’re going beyond the end result: you’re putting out the emotion to the Universe. And the only way the Universe can manifest that emotion—that gratitude—back to you is to manage circumstances, people, and players in your life that will yield the gratitude you first sent out.

Knowing this helps us to be careful about our list of desires. If you express your desires in terms of, “I want, I want,” you’re also implying and stating to the Universe, “I don’t have, I don’t have.” Not what you want to perpetuate!

So, when you’re expressing your desires for change, the best way to do so is through expressions of gratitude—thanking the Universe in advance for the things that are on your wish list and already on their way, while at the same time appreciating what you already have.

Not because the Universe is passing judgment, waiting to see if you were thankful for the last lot of goodies it sent you before it will give you more, but because you live on the “plane of manifestation,” an un-judging plane, and whatever you put out there must come back; and if it’s gratitude for having received, then you must receive. 

Here’s are three ways you can practice this:

1. Positive THOUGHT exercise:

Write a brief script for a scenario that you could visualize, which can be a starting point for a five-to ten-minute visualization. Let there be a number of elements included that imply success and happiness.

When this script is complete, visualize it, once a day, until it gets boring, and then create a new script to visualize. 

2. Positive WORD exercise:

Create a palette for future use by making a list of things you can say about yourself, as if you were already the person living the life of your dreams. For example:

I am…

• surrounded by friends and laughter
• always in the right place at the right time
• happier than I’ve ever been before
• a magnet to opportunity…

I love…

• how easy my life is
• that my life understandings give me peace
• where I live
• the person I have become
• my amazing home…

Make these lists long, and keep in mind that they aren’t phrases to recite once and then forget. Ideally, they’ll become part of your daily speech, naturally evolving to become more comprehensive and reflective of your ever-evolving preferences and manifestations.

3. Positive ACTION exercise:

List small acts of faith you can now perform in the coming days, weeks, and months, both to prepare for the inevitable arrival of your dream manifestations and as if your dreams have already come true.

Later, of course, do them! Perhaps assigning yourself to do one per day. 

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Material things all the more so because they’ve been thought about and believed in so much that they’ve shown up!

The notion that people with money aren’t spiritual is simply not a “rule.” Just look at what you could do with lots of money.

• Is it unspiritual to have raised $10 million, so that you could give $2 million to a charity serving the hungry?
• What if you used your money to set up college scholarships for your children and grandchildren?
• Or to take them on international trips to witness firsthand different cultures around the planet?
• Or to create a business and employ people while accumulating wealth for your family?
• Or, after a great run of 5, 10, or 20 years as an investor-entrepreneur, to incorporate your own nonprofit organization that brings technology, computers, and the Internet to underdeveloped parts of the world?

Not that you even have to give anything away. There’s nothing wrong with making tons of money just because doing so makes you happy.

These are freedoms that only money offers. Not that wonderful things can’t also be done without money, and, of course, you can definitely be happy without it. It’s your life, your prerogative to pursue abundance or not. Either way, it’s time to clear up the notion that material wealth is somehow not spiritual. 

Here are 21 steps to help you open the floodgates of abundance in your life:

Step 1: Dream! Define your desired end result (your desired abundant lifestyle).

Thoughts become things. So it’s incumbent upon you to start dreaming. Make a list of details about whatever you’re dreaming about—get into the specifics. List, list, list, list! Define abundance in your terms. Not how you’re going to create it, but what your life will be like after you have it.

Step 2: Visualize daily.

Give yourself a few minutes every day to think thoughts of living the life of your wildest dreams, as if you’re already living it.

Step 3: Create vision boards, scrapbooks, post quotes up around your home.

Another way to steer your wandering imagination to the kind of “things” or circumstances you’d like to physically experience in your life: put pictures on your refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, in your purse, in your wallet, in your car. This is just feeding the fire of thoughts becoming things. 

Step 4: Until you know what to do, master what’s before you.

What’s the alternative? Quit your job and wait? Until you know what you’re going to do and you can do it, keep your day job. Not forever. Not to settle for less. But because quitting, to do nothing, would be most unproductive. And since you don’t know what to do, quitting to do something else you’re uncertain about would be similarly pointless. 

Under your circumstances, to be clear, not only should you stay put, but you should master what’s before you. In other words, keep doing what you’re doing, but do it better. This is how to free yourself from it. 

Step 5: Do the obvious, constantly try new things.

The greatest way to spark new opportunities and possibilities in your life, including those for abundance, is to be constantly trying new and different things. The more you do, the more the Universe can do for you.

Step 6: Align your beliefs with abundance.

Name as many beliefs as you can that would support you and your dreams, and then behave, in some small way, daily if possible, as if those beliefs were actually yours.

Step 7: See everything you do as a stepping-stone to greatness.

Perspectives rule, and you always get to choose what yours will be. It’s not settling for less when you go to a job that’s not your dream job if you choose to see it as a stepping-stone to “better,” to see it as temporary, to see it as enabling the Universe to reach you in ways it couldn’t otherwise. 

Step 8: For direction, consider all you like and love.

Too many people want to be the next version of their favorite rock star, business icon, or sports hero—instead of just being the best version of themselves. You have what no one else has, you feel what no one else feels, and you can dream of things that no one else can dream of—seize this! 

Step 9: Go! Start! Now! Today!

If you want change, you have to physically take action.

Step 10: Don’t attach to details or insist upon cursed “hows” or “whos.”

In all things, let the Universe connect the dots, manage the details. By all means, visualize your desired details as they fit into the mosaic of your abundant, rocking life, but do not insist upon the details, only upon your rocking life. Visualize the details to get you excited about your end results, not to be your end results. You thereby allow room for “even better.”

Step 11: Get a little logical.

Getting a little logical, or even a little practical, is an excellent way to stir up life’s magic. With logic you can map out or deduce where your next opportunity may lie, you can go to these hot spots, you can calculate which stone to turn over, you can judge which door to knock upon. 

Step 12: Face fears as they arise.

Fear is a tool for revealing you had a chink in your armor that you didn’t even know you had, which can now be filled in, buffed down, and made to shine. 

Step 13: Playfully prepare the way for your inevitable “arrival.”

Get ready now! Whatever it is you’ve ordered, prepare the way. Have a celebration party. Get the new business cards. Do stuff for its arrival, because it’s coming! Even if you can’t afford “new furniture” right now, can you afford the “pillow set”? Buy it, make this demonstration, act as if you know you can soon buy the matching “sofa and chairs.” 

Step 14: Do not judge your progress, or seeming lack thereof, with your physical senses alone.

Your physical senses cannot see the magic and miracles lining up behind the curtains of time and space. You have to complete the journey, and actually arrive, in order to know the system didn’t fail you. Then and only then do all the miracles become apparent. 

Step 15: Constantly ask for help, guidance, and ideas.

Ask anybody and everybody who’s ever achieved as you now dream of achieving for help. Don’t be afraid. Don’t think it’s beneath you. 

Step 16: Constantly offer help, guidance, and ideas.

Similarly, be there for others. This is not to evoke the sympathy and appreciation of “God.” There’s no such judgmental entity “out there.” 

Don’t be helpful to impress anybody; do it because when you help somebody else, particularly with something you would like help on, you get to be the one who makes a difference in the world, and as a mighty perk, through helping others, you’ll suddenly see yourself in a brand-new light and far more objectively. 

Step 17: Surround yourself with like-minded people, and if you can, for the purpose of these steps, wealthier people.

Their viewpoints, perspectives, and conversations will help align your thoughts and beliefs with those that portray the possession of abundance as “normal.” Fear not, however; if you don’t have such connections, you will not be handicapped. 

Step 18: Understand you were born to succeed.

You are here to play and succeed, joyfully and lovingly, in time and space, without limit. 

Step 19: Rest, play, take time off.

These steps are not about working longer and harder. They’re about being wiser during whatever time you give to creating abundance while living a balanced life.

Step 20: Be exceedingly fair and aggressively responsible.

To be fair and responsible in society is to realize that you are all truly One, that everybody is doing their best, life is more than fair, you are powerful, and through cooperation, all win… and so you shall. 

Step 21: Celebrate often.

As you send out joy, your life draws in joy, and the reasons for your joy will multiply. Celebrate that you have what you have, and celebrate in advance for what’s coming, materially and ethereally.

BIG Love,
     Mike

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1. A Transition Filtered by Your Beliefs
There’s an abrupt disconnect, of course, that comes from leaving behind all things time and space and learning to maneuver in the unseen. The nature of this transition depends entirely on the beliefs of the dearly departed at the time of transition, because their beliefs and thoughts carry over to their new environments.

Even there, thoughts become things, only they become things bigger and faster, arranged to match the expectations of new arrivals, often in the twinkling of an eye.

2. The Welcoming Committees Arrive
Harps, angels, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna, and lots more deities, saints, and whatnot all have energy fragments (not as crude as it sounds) on standby for the constant flow of new arrivals who will be welcomed, scolded, praised, or celebrated in any number of ways based upon the deceased’s anticipated and believed-in scenarios.

Elaborate “sets” can be seen floating in cloud settings, golden gates are “assembled,” gardens of Eden are manifested, fiery dens are ignited—whatever. Remember: in illusionary dimensions such as time and space and the afterlife, these “saviors” can be in an unlimited number of “places” at the same “time.”

Welcoming committees also include, when appropriate, a cadre of deceased loved ones and those whose lives were affected by the deceased’s life and choices. They all take on the physical form and age that pleased them the most as they gather to welcome and assure newcomers that they have indeed survived and arrived somewhere wonderful.

3. An Experience of Limitlessness
Time is not an issue; the party can last “weeks.” Space is not an issue; everything seems to exist just for you. Kind of like on earth, if you’ve noticed.

Communication is done mostly through a suddenly remembered form of telepathy, which will feel as natural to you as shaking hands once did. Travel is accomplished by willing yourself to wherever you want to go. Friends are found the same way. Thought connects all, is all.

You’ll also be thrilled to see that you, too, have taken on the physical form from your life that pleased you the most and that all aches and pains have vanished—and you’ll quickly learn how to change even further. “Limitless” has a new meaning for the deceased.

4. Loving Guides Appear
Loving guides soon appear, glowing, radiant, and joyful. They orient you and answer your questions. They teach you. Remind you. Love you. Show you. Everything becomes clearer.

You remember the hopes and intentions of your recent life and why you chose it. You re-view play by play all that happened. You see how things lined up or didn’t, and why. You’re awed by your power,

5. Absolute Knowing of “God”
There may be a personage representing “God,” if you manifested such upon your arrival, given your beliefs and expectations. However, as things become clearer, your need for this disappears, and you are left to contemplate the wonder of existence and the miracle of your presence, eventually grasping that God is All, always, everywhere at once, not human but “alive” within you, and that no symbol, shape, or figure could ever come close.

As your sense of acceptance and awe grows, so do your confidence and joy, and the more anxious you become to move into new adventures with those you love and who love you. Options are shown to you and weighed.

You can choose to stay as long as you like in this new, more pliable world of illusions, but you can see that you are there only because of your earlier presence in the denser time-and-space jungles and that you have much more to learn. This lighter, more ethereal version of the jungles exists solely as a place to refresh, cleanse, and regroup.

Ultimately, all of your experiences within these illusions meld into all that you ever hoped to attain: all that God ever hoped to attain by being you, at which point pathways for moving beyond the illusions appear.

6. Resting, Rehabilitating, and Dreaming
But best of all, perhaps, at least for now, all of this means that your dearly beloveds who’ve already transitioned did not die. Rather, they’re resting, rehabilitating, and “dreaming” in a rather spectacular “place.”

They’re now among friends and guides, and should you permit them, they’ll be at your big homecoming celebration, laughing, crying joyfully, teasing you, even as they sometimes do right now, in the unseen and just over your shoulder . . .

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The key is to first understand the mechanics of reality and then choose to take charge of your life. This means being aware of your thoughts, words, and actions, while consciously choosing language and an attitude that support your success. 

It also means putting yourself in a position to receive all the good fortune available to you. Once you prepare yourself and open the floodgates wide, good things will flow into your life. 

Here are 21 ways to claim your dreams and your destiny, now: (if you want to dive deeper and create lasting momentum, join the 21-DAY Change-One-Thing Adventure, starting January 7, 2025!) 

1. Step onto your path. 
   Follow your heart. Be true to yourself, and ask yourself often what it is you want to be doing, as opposed to what it is you should be doing.
   
2. Make balanced choices. 
   Use your head. But use it wisely. Let there be a mix of logic and heart in all you do.
   
3. See what’s possible. 
   Call upon the power of your imagination to see your dreams as real, viable, and already a reality.
   
4. Take one step at a time. 
   Take baby steps. The secret here is that while baby steps may not carry you a long distance, they stir up magic and opportunities along the way. (This is exactly what the 21-DAY Change-One-Thing Adventure is designed to help you do—turn baby steps into big transformations.)
   
5. Get ready for success. 
   Prepare the way for your inevitable success. Not just for the obvious reasons, but for the optimism, anticipation, and expectation such preparation invokes. This sends a message out into the world around you that will literally summon the resources you need to complete your journey.
   
6. Face your fears. 
   Don’t be afraid to go where you’ve never gone. Once you’ve committed and set your course, previously invisible “lions and tigers and bears” will suddenly emerge onto the scene. 
    
   This is by design—we are lured by our dreams to face our challenges. By doing this we grow and become more of what we are meant to be. It is important to remember, you and your dream are bigger than your fears.
   
   
7. Fake it until you make it.
   Splurge, celebrate, and “buy those red shoes you have always wanted.” Pretend. Act as if. Indulge to the degree you can. Not only is this fun for obvious reasons, but it helps to re-circuit your thinking into that of “having arrived,” instead of feeling like your life is perpetually on hold.  
   
   This new thinking will help install new beliefs and support new behaviors that literally bring about miracles.
   
   
8. Circulate and show up in the world.
   Get out more. Be a part of the world. Network. Dance life’s dance. Life’s already good. You just have to get out there and see it for yourself. When we “show up,” life rolls out a red carpet of possibilities and opportunities.
   
   
9. Reclaim your power.
   Cast no blame or fault. Don’t look for someone else to pin your problems on. Accepting responsibility for your life puts you on the fast track to claiming your power.
   
   
10. Take stock of your life.
    Appreciate everything you already have. You’ve done well for yourself, and by seeing this now you’ll not only begin to savor your accomplishments, you’ll also be reminded of your capabilities.
    
    
11. Be the change.
    You know the saying “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Give thanks for everything you will one day have, as if it is already yours. It’s well-established by mainstream science that the mind helps us create what we want in life by visualizing and imagining it already exists.
    
    
12. Give it to yourself.
    Love who you already are. Even if you seek to understand your weaknesses, seek and value your strengths. See what’s already good; let your confidence be bolstered. Then, not only will your so-called weaknesses be seen in perspective, but the love affair you have with yourself can begin, and your sense of worthiness for all you desire will be seeded.
    
    
13. Judge not.
    Don’t judge your progress with your physical senses alone. The mechanics of making dreams come true exist far beyond what we can physically detect, so just because you can’t see the wonderful serendipities, coincidences, and people who are all being lined up to further your desires, doesn’t mean they’re not there!
    
    Don’t assume a dream won’t come true just because it hasn’t yet.
    
    
14. Lend a hand.
    Help others to achieve their dreams. Lending a hand to others is both a good deed and a way to stay connected to the actions involved with success. Also, it gets you out, thinking, moving and grooving, making friends and having fun, all while radically improving your own chances of living with wild success.
    
    
15. Learn to be happy before your dreams come true.
    This is the greatest secret of happiness. There will always be things you want in your life that you do not yet have. The trick, then, is seeing this and learning to be happy “in the pursuit,” rather than indefinitely putting off happiness until you’ve reached a goal. And remember, every time you do make a dream come true, you can start working on a new one.
    
    
16. Tune in to you.
    Honor your preferences. You are one-of-a-kind, and so are the things that thrill you. What makes one person happy may have little to do with what makes another happy. Tune in to what you like and be unaffected with what others prefer for themselves—or what others prefer for you.
    
    
17. Keep your door open.
    It is literally impossible to know where your next great break will come from or to predict the new “partner” who will be your greatest helper and ally, yet they will come and they do exist.
    
    If you believe success can only come through a specific path or person, you will unwittingly eliminate all other possibilities. Eliminate stress by surrendering to the highest good. Leaving the door open can invite new possibilities.
    
    
18. Be playful and practice success.
    Practice becoming who you are meant to be. Speak among your very closest friends as if you’ve already “been there, done that.” Thoughts become things. By thinking and speaking thoughts that imply you’ve already been successful, you create the mold for that very success.
    
    
19. Focus on what is most important.
    Don’t get stuck on unimportant details or trying to control the way success comes your way. Visualizing your dreams coming true is an important tool for creating a new reality, but trying to control every detail of your dream come true will drive you crazy. Ease up on the rules, definitions, and details, and let life surprise you.
    
    
20. Be your own best friend.
    Be gentle on yourself. Friends coach, care, and inspire. Enemies detract, destabilize, and set back. Happily, you get to choose which you’ll be to yourself.
    
    
21. Go!
    Live your dreams today to any degree that you can. Nothing shouts out louder to the world (and to yourself), “Here I come, ready or not!” than the conscious decision to begin joyfully living, here and now. Don’t put off, for even one more day, the dreams you can now live.
    
    Give yourself the three-day weekend, leave work early for the matinee movie, or throw the dinner party you’ve wanted to be invited to, and watch the magic unfold. 
    

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Visualization is a practice of focusing your mind upon the end result you want to create. This allows you to “put yourself in the picture” and imagine what the end result will be like before you get there. It’s a powerful manifestation tool that’s been proven to help people achieve their goals and create change. 

I visualize nearly every day (and have for the past 40 years). These are the 9 guidelines I follow. They’re not rules. You can come up with your own, but these work for me and I’ve got some rationale behind each one that I’ll share…

1. Once a day is all that’s necessary.

You don’t need to do it more. With one serious shot, you’ve created enough of an impression to convey the dream to the Universe. Let it go. Get back to the present moment. Take weekends off if you like. Such is the leniency of life’s magic.

2. No longer than 4 minutes at a time.

If you try to visualize longer, you’ll invariably begin daydreaming and then getting angry with yourself for losing focus. Then you might start labeling yourself with adult ADHD and begin believing you can’t visualize. You can. It’s simple. Give it just a few minutes each day.

3. Ritualize it.

Make a daily routine of it, like you do for brushing your teeth. In advance, choose the following: the time of day, the specific room in the house, a chair in that room. You’ll be far more likely to stick with a ritualized practice than trying to visualize whenever you think of it and can spare the time.

4. Imagine every conceivable detail.

Sights, sounds, colors, textures, aromas. Make it as vivid as possible in your mind. The more details you conjure, the more believable it will be; and the more believable it is, the more emotion you will feel; and the more emotion you feel, the faster the manifestation.

5. Feel it.

Throughout each session, get into a space of joy. Fake it if you have to. Imagine hearing congratulations from friends and strangers. Smile ear to ear. Feel yourself bursting with the happiness you anticipate. Imagine the absolute happiest time of your life, so far, and replicate that feeling. You don’t have to know why you’re so happy; just allow yourself to feel it! It’s joy you’re after anyway, which is life’s ultimate end result.

6. Script it in advance.

A minute or so before you begin visualizing, decide upon a scenario you’ll imagine moving through. Decide where you’ll be, who with, doing what, when, why, etc. For example, you might be pushing a grocery cart through a parking lot looking for your gorgeous new car. After you load it with your grocery bags, you’re off to your new office space to see if the package from your publisher arrived. Yes! Your new book translated into Swahili was delivered at 9:29 a.m. You show it off to your co-workers before leaving for the local high school, where you will give a talk on entrepreneurship. By scripting it in advance, you may feel more engaged and be less likely to daydream.

7. Put yourself in the picture.

Imagine yourself inside each image, experiencing all the details you’re visualizing: seen from your eyes, heard from your ears, felt in your heart. This is your life, this is right now, this is happening to you. Let it be your hands on the steering wheel of your dreamed-of car. Your palm in someone else’s palm as you walk side by side together down the beach. Your toes in the sand.

8. Dwell from the end result or beyond.

Visualize your life as it will be after your dream comes true. It’s already done. You’re already celebrating. Everything is amazing, better than you imagined it would be. Now, what are your new dreams, your new priorities, your new challenges? This perspective implies you’ve hit a total home run. That everything worked out. That you did it (not that you are doing it). Imagine your life a week, a month, or a year after the dream has come true. The only way this perspective could ever come to pass is if the dream has come to pass… and so it shall, with the freedom you’ve left to Divine Intelligence to find the shortest, fastest, most harmonious way (maybe even in ways you haven’t thought of).

9. Get physical when visualizing.

Really! This is just an extension of Guideline 5, which is worthy of the extra attention. As you sit there and imagine that your dream has already come true… physically celebrate! Wave your palms, pump your fists, wipe imaginary tears from your eyes. Perhaps stand up and do a little happy dance. Belt out a few “Whoohoos!” Why? To ramp-up your energy into an elevated, emotional place of ecstasy. It won’t matter if you’re “faking it.” Feel it! The rate at which your “thoughts become things” is all about the emotion you attach to those thoughts. Joy is pure “rocket fuel” for manifestations.

What are you visualizing for your life? Love, adventure, prosperity, peace? These 21 guided visualizations will help to get you there.

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An hour before heading over to the Bagdad Theatre, I went for a walk to shake off some pre-event jitters. In the twilight, I came across a homeless woman, sitting cross-legged on the sidewalk, head down in a book, reading by streetlight.

She didn’t look up (phew!) so I kept on walking… haunted by Kahlil Gibran’s words in The Prophet, “It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked…” I wrestled with what to do for two blocks… before going back to offer her the only bill I had, a $20.

She lit up, yet to my surprise, I saw in her eyes that this homeless woman was actually a homeless girl, no more than 18.

Speechless, I feigned a smile and walked away, while the voice in my head shouted out, as if pleading:

“You don’t have to live like this! You are powerful! You have options!”

Now, to each their own, and perhaps her choices made her happier than I will ever know for myself, but I couldn’t help thinking:

“She hasn’t yet been reached, she doesn’t know of life’s beauty and our power…”

I suddenly realized that most people have not been reached…

By the time I returned home, I hatched a plan: Create a simple program based on my new book that I’d deliver in shelters, prisons, and to anyone who would have me, completely free. If I found traction, I’d make the program replicable and teach those interested how to do the same.

Today, 12 years later, there are thousands of Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainers (IPPIES!) in 42 countries… delivering this program to friends and family, in jails and halfway houses, and some are taking it to more affluent audiences for a fee (royalty free for life). Others have used the material to start or augment life coaching careers.

Every one of us has found that “We teach best what we most need to learn!” (Richard Bach, Illusions)

The joy of serving others is the real deal.

Click here to learn how you can help us reach those who haven’t been reached.

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Are some silly and embarrassing? Yes.

Is living the life you dream of worth it? Hell, yes.

1. Write a blueprint for your life.

Write down (or I suppose you could draw/paint if you’re so inclined) a narration depicting the amazing, clarifying, and happy events that are soon to unfold in your life. Don’t write things like, “I hope” or “I want.” Instead, confidently go into future-mode and reminisce by writing things like, “I did” or “I went.”

The point is to show yourself how things might go, not how they will go—there shouldn’t be any “insistence” that things will go exactly as you write. Simply review what you’ve written from time to time for inspiration or to charge yourself up before you visualize. You’ll find, particularly if you’ve been feeling low, that this exercise stirs hope and creates new possibilities for manifestations in your life.

2. Write a letter to the Universe.

Write a letter to the Universe expressing your feelings of love and gratitude for the way your life is going and has gone. Tell yourself about your amazing successes, the dreams of yours that have come true, what you did to achieve them, how your life looks now, etc.

Write this letter as if all of your current dreams have already been reached. If your wiser, future self has a deeper understanding about life, a greater sense of peace and happiness, a clearer vision of what’s important, be sure to include that as well.

3. Write yourself love letters and checks from admirers, friends, and businesses.

This one is as fun as it sounds. In my visualization scrapbook, I used to have a picture of a beautiful woman from a magazine advertisement for a Hawaiian resort. She didn’t know it, but we were having a passionate love affair. During the creation of my audio program, Infinite Possibilities, I was promising myself to go to Hawaii as my reward, and preferably with someone like her.

Similarly, long before I was ever published, I’d write myself letters from publishers, who, as you might imagine, were crazy-happy to have found me and loved my writings.

Something else I did: I called the provided toll-free number of my lender to get the payoff amount of my home mortgage. I acted as if I could pay mine off. They gave me the exact amount, to the penny, and as a further demonstration, I wrote the check, envelope, and stamped it. (I did not mail it—given my account balance, doing so would have been illegal.) But I remember thinking, Yes! I’m going be that person one day!

4. Digitally modify images and photos.

I thought the suggested cover Simon & Schuster sent me for Infinite Possibilities was a bit lackluster (not really—it just lacked some key elements). So, with some art software, I set out to improve it.

I added: “New York Times Bestseller! 52 weeks!” I emblazoned across the top: “Seven million copies sold,” “As seen on Oprah and Larry King Live,” “Now in 25 languages,” which is a number that “coincidentally” matches how many foreign languages I’m now published in.

I printed my manipulated cover and plastered it on the walls and doors around my home. If you’re not good with digital manipulation, scissors and glue work just fine.

5. Fill in a mock calendar.

Find a calendar or planner and fill the days and months with wonderful events, trips, parties, dates, and adventures that you want to create for yourself in the year ahead. This is a fun way to get creative and envision new things unfolding in your life. After you’ve filled in the days, hang it up to remind yourself of the exciting things you’re going to create and experience in the year ahead. 

6. Have pretend talks with family and friends.

This activity requires a friend, on the phone or in person, who understands your way of seeing the world. If no friend is available, try it with an imaginary friend or your own reflection in the mirror. The goal is for the two (or more) of you to celebrate as if your present dreams have already come true. Speak about your dreams in the past or present tense.

If you go first, speak about the success of your own dreams, and then congratulate your friend(s) on their successes. After you’ve spoken for a few minutes, then allow your friend(s) to do the same, speaking of their own dreams coming true, and then speaking of your successes. Get into the elaborate details of all the expected and unexpected consequences that have come from the successes in each of your lives.

7. Scrapbooks and vision boards.

Make a scrapbook or vision board. These are awesome tools, because they steer your thinking toward end results representing the life of your dreams, bypassing the “cursed hows.” And then, those thoughts, when acted upon, will become things. Vision boards, scrapbooks, pictures on the refrigerator, and similar visual tools are used to spark the process of envisioning.

8. Overpay your revolving credit, car, and mortgage payments.

Never pay “the minimum,” which would be like calling the lender and saying, “Oh, hey, this is Mike Dooley. I was just wondering… what is the absolute least, to the penny, that I could pay this month, without getting in big trouble?” That’s not the energy you want to put out there on the “plain of manifestation.” What would it say about your belief in the avalanches of abundance now rushing toward you? Not much.

Instead, here’s a trick: round up to the next dollar. If you owe $352.16, pay $353, because you’re not the kind of person who pays the minimum, ever again. The day will come when it’s not pennies. It will be dollars, and then hundreds of dollars, and then tens of thousands. And eventually, the day will come when you don’t have those debts anymore.

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