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

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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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Review - Roger Hamilton - Wink and Grow Rich

Oh, this is a great little creating wealth fable. This is the second time I have listened to it. It is the third such story that I've read or heard in the last week or so. Roger Hamilton is pretty popular amongst many of the people that I've been fortunate enough to study with and follow over recent months. His Wealth Dynamics personal survey is good stuff too. Available here.

The basic premise is that you follow a 9 year old as he asks other people where he lives about how they became wealthy. He has to battle against his father's ideas and thoughts, as do many of us. You follow him as he begins to understand and grow his vision and what it really takes to become wealthy.

As the introduction states. The story is behind the actually story. I didn't hear any language patterns or embedded commands, yet the metaphor is great. I learnt more from this second listening than I did from the first time that is for sure. I wonder what will happen if I listen to it another 5 or 10 times, is is subtly implied.

This perfectly compliments the other stories that I've heard recently. It details things that the others miss or skim over i.e. leverage, working for money and investing your time for money, missed opportunity.

One thing I really liked was that the hard copy book actually contains drawings and pictures. Roger et al. have put the images on-line for you to actually view. You don't have to listen to a description and guess about the diagram or drawing as you often do with other books. Some of the pictures are quite detailed and require several viewings to fully grasp what has been drawn and is being said by the pictures.

This little story can be heard very quickly, yet the information is potentially powerful, if you hear the story behind the story.

This is why you'll most likely have to listen to or read it multiple times. I will certainly have to. I'm sure I missed one or two pieces.

The World is waiting, anticipating..

If there are another fables worth checking out, let me know please, thanks.

Happy Travels

Hard Copy is available at Amazon, here.
Audio version can be found at Audible, here.

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p.s. A few days later, I was walking in the sunshine, trying to figure something out, when I heard myself say, ask a better question. Just as is stated in the above book.

Review - George S. Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon

This book is similar to The Instant Millionaire in that it is a fable about how to become wealthy. You follow the story of various people about in the legendary The city of Babylon.

It is a great little read. The actually book, although a fable is a great 'how to'. I actually think it needs to be read more than once. Again like SOGR. You'll miss many things or just think, that was nice.

I took a much greater interest in it, the second time around. The advice offered is simple, yet timeless and classic. Just quell the internal demons and follow the advice.

Again the story raises questions that are asked and answered by the fable. I think it is worthwhile read, which unlike, The Instant Millionaire, it has a very clear path for you to follow, yet it is not as heavy in exercises etc. as some 'official' how to courses.

For examople, it details how to handle peole that magically appear when you have come into wealth. It details a very simple, yet profound way to pay off your debts and continue into prosperity

Of your earned income -

10% is yours to keep and 'jingle' in your pocket
70% is what you live off and use to clothe, eat and live
20% you use to pay off all your debts.

It details that you must contact all your creditors (people you owe money to) and tell them what you are doing. You'll find that many if not all will accept your agreement. If you want more money in the future, it helps if you can show that you pay back your debts.

Without realising it I did something very similar to this when I cleared all my debts from university in record time. Now I wonder why I stopped.

The audio version is available here . I really like the audio version. Who ever is the narrate I thought was brilliant. He really bought the fable to life.

Happy Travels

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