Review - Mike Dooley - Manifesting Change: It Couldn’t Be Easier"

I'm a great fan of Mike and his Notes from the Universe daily emails.

Some of these quick daily messages are real gems. I've several plaster on my laptop desktop. I'll often send them off to my friends, some that I think they would appreciate.

This is the 3rd of Mike's audio series that I've listened to. It is actually two recordings of the same or very similar material. It is actually a very clever idea. One that is often employed, it seems by IMers. Present the same material, yet in a variety of formats.

One set is a live recording whilst Mike was on his world tour. The other is a studio officially recorded version. Both offer much the same material, yet it is good to hear it again, so quickly. You'll certainly learn more things by listening to the material twice.

The material is about 'how to get what you want'. What separates this from much of the material out there is

1. Mike's personal experience with the 'law of attraction'. He has manifested things to a extent that is well worth aspiring to.
   
2. TUTs are used extensively. They back up what he is teaching, in very simple yet in many profound ways.
3. His starting point is HAPPINESS. Not the materials or trappings or even things that you would put on your vision board etc.

This final point for me was quite a shock. Or at least I struggled with it. My vision board is chockablock full of things, that I am manifesting.

I already have my dream car. (I have seen the upgrades too!). Yet, I adore my car. Yes, it brings me great joy and happiness when I driving it, or somebody is sat in the passenger seat, next to me, roof down and the sun is shining. I even like it just sat in the drive way.

Only this weekend, I heard the best comment ever spoken by a young child about my car. Thankfully a wonderful friend was sat in the passenger seat next to me and heard it too. I wasn't dreaming it. Just wait until the child see the upgrade! It made up until that point my weekend.

Anyway. I digress. I wanted my car, and got it! Oh did it come about via many strange paths. Things happened in weird and wonderful ways. That only now do I understand where part of my solidification...YES..this is the car I want. Stories for another day!

Mike doesn't say don't go for those items. Yet it is actually the happiness and joy that those items and people bring you that you are really after. I've heard it before. Yet, I really struggle with...go for the happiness..... The items, by getting them, bring me the or much happiness. Once I have them, my happiness and joy go into over drive.

Happy Travels

A

Review - Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

This is another book from Randy Gage's list. It is the third Ayn Rand book I have heard in the past few months.

Amazon says about the book :

On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.

Luckily I heard much of it whilst I was driving to a friend's house. Being told a story is still one of life's great pleasures for me.

The audio recording is almost 30 hours long.

Like all of Ayn's fictional work. It asks questions of the listener or reader. Or am I just becoming more introspective these days?

I think this book is perfect if you have a vision, want or goal. The story follows Howard Roark. For me, he has a single goal, vision, that he holds onto with unshakeable faith and determination, despite all that is thrown or not as the case maybe in his direction.

If you have others telling you, NO, why, forget it. This may just be the story for you.

Happy Travels

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