Go chase your dream

The secret to living your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams. This is the main focus of Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams, a book on a “life of joy unbounded” authored by Mike Dooley, which challenges you to stretch your consciousness, beliefs and knowledge so you can be led to better self-awareness. It underscores the truth that you are boundless and commanding, a fun, loving creation of the universe that has the power over your thoughts and the control on how to form and sharpen them.

“Blood, sweat and tears aren’t what it takes to see your dreams come true. What you need are imagination, belief and expectation that can lead you into meaningful action, circumstances and ‘coincidences’ that make the expression of a dream foreseeable,” Dooley says. This isn’t wishful thinking, but the way things have always been in time and space. You don’t need more degrees, more connections, or more lucky breaks. You just have to understand the beliefs and ideas that diviners have championed since the beginning of time  beliefs that have nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with the truth about who you are, why you’re here, and the logic and magic that you possess and dispense.

Your dreams are yours by design. You have them for various reasons, not the least of which is to make them come true. Your dreams are what are meant to be. You just have to do your part. You will experience difficulty when you don’t fully understand what your part is, or the processes to fulfill them. With clear understanding however, you’ll find that nothing could be easier than the things and activities you have been used to.

As a person with a dream, you make your own realities, your own providence. You stray from the beaten path, so you see what others can’t. You’re at your best when you eliminate structure. You can go boldly where no brain has ever gone before. You’re a catalyst and a spark plug. You’re capable of great leaps of childlike faith, and you hurtle through time and space on wings of imagination. Your challenge, though, as a dreamer is how to get others to listen and understand your visions, and if you help others see and touch your vision, you will enhance your own chances of success. You have tremendous people-oriented skills, and you can use them to your advantage. You are able to process information from several different sources simultaneously.   

Dooley’s lessons start with faith  in the universe, in the strength of your emotions, and in the people that provide enthusiastic help when you need it. Pick these principles up and make your dreams come true.

• Fall in love with the universe. It is step number if you want to change the world, and the same holds true if you want to change yourself.

• Love yourself. These are the two most important words that allow you to maximize the health, harmony and happiness in your life.

• Great love begets greater love. You might have felt at some point in your life that the price of giving great love is risking that it won’t be returned. Not until you understand and accept that great love is always returned, and with interest.

• Feeling vulnerable is a given when you are starting out. It is a natural emotion. After all, it may seem that you have much to lose. But take note that never again, at any other point in the same journey, will you have so much to gain.

• Fear no more. Don’t let the dazzling heights you aspire to scare you from getting started. After all, few could climb Mt. Everest or dive the deepest sea tomorrow, though virtually all could begin preparing.

• The only way to get what you really want is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to what your heart says.

• Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, the beasts, and the mountains before you are part of the plan. They are stepping-stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than you expected. So don’t let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches. You must prepare for its docking, and make space in your life for its gifts. Otherwise, just as quickly, it will quietly slip back out to sea.

• You begin your journeys as a nobody. This is the commonality you have with best-selling authors, world-class athletes, business tycoons, famous singers and dancers and other celebrated stars and personalities. Most of them started as “nobodies” and because of persistence and hard work, they became “somebodies.”

• Your big idea is your ticket to fame and fortune. Just how much time do you spend thinking really, really big? You have to have major, major concepts that can connect to people with clarity, relevance, interest and simplicity. A greatly staged big idea turns your thoughts into a moving, tantalizing, and compelling piece of material, which like a huge swordfish, jumps out from a sea of wannabes. And when you get noticed, distinction and the riches that go with it will not be far behind.

• Those who torment you, harass you, puzzle you, or upset you are teachers. Not because they’re wise and nurturing, but because you seek to become better because of the anguish, harassment, bewilderment and trouble they created for you.

• You have everything. Use it well. Unlimited air to breathe, ample lights to help you see, music to hear, books to read, stars to dream by, trees to gaze at, floors to dance on, friends to cavort with, enemies to befriend, strangers to meet, forests to walk through, beaches to comb, rocks to scale, rains to cleanse you, seas to sail, and animals to comfort and guard you. Admittedly, there’s more of it than you could ever, ever, ever use.

• There is always something to be truly happy about. And if you have the audacity to find it and the courage to make it your focus, in spite of the countless temptations to dwell upon problems that don’t really exist, you will have learned well. Before you know it, your life has transformed, and all things have been added unto you.

• Life’s about doing, being and becoming. It’s not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It’s about the choices you’ve just made, and the ones you’re about to make, it’s about the things you choose to say today. It’s about what you’re going to do after you read this principle. Choice is a powerful notion. Its definition has been polluted in recent years, wrapped up in contentious battles over issues that make one choose between two extremes, where all things are argued in stark black and white. You must have learned, and have probably discovered by now, that almost everything in life is painted in shades of gray.

• What you give is what you receive. Whether it’s a commendation, affection, condemnation, money, time, influence, chastisement, space, sorrow, laughter, need, pain, or pleasure  the more of it that you give, the more of it you will receive.

• Nothing is ever too much. It is always better to give too much, pay too much, and love too much, as opposed to not give, pay or love enough. But then, since everything comes back to us, can there ever be too much?

Dream on, but better yet go chase your dream!

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